text: [Themes: Lovecraft, Lovecraftian]
  
  > look around
  Bridge (Daniel Stelzer and Jemma Briggeman)
  You are standing on a bridge spanning east to west in the middle of an echoing cavern. In the center of the bridge is a large loathsome sculpture constructed of pipes that climb up to a cauldron filled with an eerily glowing green moss, the only light source in the room. Beneath your feet you can hear the crashing of the river below. Ahead of you, to your horror, there are slats missing on the bridge - you'll never make it across without replacing them.
  
  One end of a rope is tied around a beam of the bridge; the other end is attached to the strange metallic object in your arms.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a moldy, waterlogged journal
  a small, rectangular battery
  an antique locket (being worn and closed)
  The Dollmaker's Journal
  a repaired page
  a trolley schedule
  a trolley pass (being worn)
  Twin Hearts Between the Planes
  a pamphlet of home listings
  a Jansport backpack (being worn and open)
  a hidden pocket (open but empty)
  a key pocket (open but empty)
  a book pocket (open)
  a postcard of Big Ben
  the diary of Phyllis Cragne
  The Modern Girl's Divination Handbook -- Volume Three
  a side pocket (open but empty)
  a trash pocket (open but empty)
  a backpack features guide
  a book list
  a library card
  Peter's jacket
  a faint chill (haunting you)
  a cast iron spire
  a waterproof flashlight
  a giant milkweed leaf (being worn as a mask)
  a pull-string doll
  a glass jar containing an insect
  a half-full styrofoam coffee cup
  a familiar gold wristwatch
  a brass winding key
  You are also carrying the strange claw-shaped metal trap and the rope attached to it. Its menacing jaw glints in the inhuman gloom.
  
  > throw the claw at the sculpture
  (first taking the rope)
  That's fixed in place.
  
  > About you
  You're having a hell of a day, but you're determined to keep moving forward. Despite the burning in your limbs and the fact that you could really do with a drink right now, you're still (miraculously) in one piece.
  
  > pull the string
  The doll intones: "Guard against the pillars! Green is the color of poison and untamed growth! Stone means that which is older than human history!"
  
  > examine the pillars
  Two monolithic pillars form the entrance to the bridge. Their oily green-black stone appears to be carved with hieroglyphics unknown to you, consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopi, crustaceans, molluscs, whales, and the like. Several characters obviously represented marine things which are unknown to the modern world. You shudder and tear your eyes away.
  
  > examine the slats
  The calcareous slats that form the walkway feel strangely light underfoot; as though hollowed out and filled with air. In the gaps between, you can see the churning water below, stare too long and you are sure to become nauseous. Each platform stretches your legs as you move from one to the next; your foot nearly slips and you cry out as you fling yourself forward so as not to fall.
  
  The taut cords that give the structure its shape appear to be woven in some complex pale plait that elongates and contracts with a slither as you step across.
  
  > examine sculpture
  A labyrinthine network of pipes form the base of the structure, climbing up to a wide, shallow cauldron filled with luminescent green moss. Some crack in the ceiling allows a steady drip of pallid liquid to fall on the moss and it pulses with light in time with the regular falling of the fluid. At the bottom of the sculpture, one of the pipes flows into a circular pool of liquid. Beside the pool, there is a brazier filled with some manner of desiccated organic material.
  
  > climb it
  With a little difficulty, you manage to haul your way up the sculpture until you are about halfway up. From here, you can see a strange outline under the water.
  
  > look at the outline
  The outline of some strange formation under the water catches your eye. Bleached white and unmoving - perhaps a skeleton?
  
  > drop the claw
  You let the rope fall in an untidy coil back onto the bridge.
  
  [If you meant to throw it over the side, try THROW ROPE INTO WATER]
  
  > throw the rope into the water
  You loop the rope around your hands, placing the strange metal contraption on the wall of the bridge. Giving the nameless apparatus a hard shove, you send it tumbling over the edge into the water. You could climb down the rope now, if you wanted to.
  
  > stand
  You get off the protrusion.
  
  Bridge (Daniel Stelzer and Jemma Briggeman)
  You are standing on a bridge spanning east to west in the middle of an echoing cavern. In the center of the bridge is a large diabolical sculpture constructed of pipes that climb up to a cauldron filled with an eerily glowing green moss, the only light source in the room. Beneath your feet you can hear the crashing of the river below. Ahead of you, to your horror, there are slats missing on the bridge - you'll never make it across without replacing them.
  
  You peer beneath the sickly, putrid green colour of the river. Strange... From here it almost looks as if you can see the outline of something, just visible under the water.
  
  A rope trails from the post of the bridge off into the turbulent water.
  
  > climb the rope
  You gingerly tighten your hands around the fraying fibres and lower yourself until you are just above the water.
  
  Bridge (hanging underneath) (Daniel Stelzer and Jemma Briggeman)
  You are hanging precariously under the monstrous structure. The frayed rope digs into your palms painfully, but the deafening crash of the water beneath you keeps you clinging on for now.
  
  Hanging from the stone is something similar in form, if not in texture, to a abnormal bat.
  
  There is some strange semi-aquatic weed growing upside-down from the bottom of the bridge, a mesmerizing hybrid of what seems to be a mushroom and a coral.
  
  A rope runs from the bridge above you down into the water below.
  
  You'll need to specify whether you want to go up or down.
  
  > examine the bat
  While the creature has the same chiropteran features as a common bat, its "wings" are the color of rotting meat and have a phlegmatic glutinous texture. As you strain your eyes to examine the menacing fauna, it begins to nibble on the strange weed. It opens its mouth in a yawn and you see the creature's tongue coated with a thin film of pale brown powder. After a few moments it gives a gesture approximately equatable to a sneeze before letting go of its perch and dropping into the water like a stone.
  
  > examine the bat
  The bat has disappeared beneath the waves, making further zoological study impossible.
  
  > look at the moss
  It is too high above you to see clearly from here, but something in the cauldron seems to flare up with each drop of liquid, filling the area with a flickering green light.
  
  > examine the weed
  A type of flora or perhaps fungi unfamiliar to you. The orange myceloid root structure apparently anchoring it to the bridge is reminiscent of a mushroom, but the pale, calcified protrusions that extend downwards appear akin to bleached coral, branching out in an almost bronchial form.
  
  > eat the weed
  It is a bit too far away to get your mouth to it, though you could reach out and touch it.
  
  > touch it
  The cauldron is too far away to reach, but the same liquid seems to flow down through the pipes into the shallow pool.
  
  > take the weed
  Your fingers brush against the infernal coral hybrid and are now covered in some strange powder. If the organism is truly analogous to a fungal specimen, you suppose, perhaps, these are its spores.
  
  > look at the spores
  Your fingers are coated with pale, brown dust expelled from the congealed weed growing under the bridge.
  
  > eat the spores
  Cautiously, you extend your tongue and lick the powder off your fingertips. It tastes like a foaming combination of salt and earth. Almost immediately you begin to choke, the sensation of something germinating rapidly within the walls of your throat. Whatever it is seems to be sucking all the moisture from your windpipe as it grows exponentially, its branching structure blocking the air from entering your lungs.
  
  Your mouth and throat feel horribly dry. You cough painfully.