text: [Themes: Horror, horror, Lovecraftian, female protagonist]
  
  > Look around
  This high-ceilinged chamber is dimly lit by dusty beams that filter down from far above. The walls and floor are of rough-hewn, gray blocks of stone. The room's only furnishing is a very large, heavily built throne of the same gray stone. The throne stands in the center of the room. Its square-cut seat, arms, and back look so very uncomfortable that it's hard to believe anybody would ever have sat on it willingly, and the coating of dust that covers the throne and the floor, though somewhat scuffed, suggests that nobody has come here in a very long time.
  
  So far overhead that the details are almost lost to view, a carved frieze runs around the walls in a horizontal strip.
  
  The only exit is back to the west.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > go south
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from north to south here. There are no side exits.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > Go east
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the east end. The only way you can go is back to the west.
  
  An ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > go west
  The monkey follows you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > go north
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from north to south here. Another passage leads away to the west.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > go to the west
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > go north
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the north end. The only way you can go is back to the south.
  
  An ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the north end. The only way you can go is back to the south.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > go to the south
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > go to the east
  The monkey follows you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from north to south here. Another passage leads away to the west.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Go north
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The stone tunnel turns from the south to the west here.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > go west
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the west end. The only way you can go is back to the east.
  
  An ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > Go east
  The monkey follows you.
  
  The stone tunnel turns from the south to the west here.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from north to south here. Another passage leads away to the west.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the north.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > Go west
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The stone tunnel terminates here against a solid block of stone that stretches from floor to ceiling at the west end. The only way you can go is back to the east.
  
  An ugly figure of red stone stands here. It's about as tall as your waist, and one stubby arm is outstretched, as if it were frozen in the act of grasping with its claws.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > go to the east
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > go south
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Go upward
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors, but the slim silver bridge that was here before seems to have vanished, leaving you no way to cross the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey follows you.
  
  This large room, which smells cloyingly of incense, is luxuriously furnished in an style that you'd probably be able to identify if you hadn't been daydreaming so much during World History. Possibly it's Aztec, Mayan, Incan, or even Egyptian. Straw mats hang from the walls, painted with elaborate designs in red and black. A heavy cabinet stands against the east wall. The bronze door is to the south, and daylight spills through an open archway to the north.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > turn the wooden circle to the jaguar
  You rotate the circle so that the jaguar is beneath the point of the arrow.
  
  > turn it to the sun
  You rotate the circle so that the sun is beneath the point of the arrow.
  
  > turn it to the snake
  You rotate the circle so that the rattlesnake is beneath the point of the arrow.
  
  > turn it to dagger
  You rotate the circle so that the dagger is beneath the point of the arrow.
  
  > turn it to the jug
  You rotate the circle so that the tilted jug is beneath the point of the arrow.
  
  > turn it to jaguar
  You rotate the circle so that the jaguar is beneath the point of the arrow. Within the cabinet you hear a heavy click.
  
  > open the cabinet
  There are no obvious handles on the front panel, but when you press in on it and then release the pressure, it springs out at one side, allowing you to insert your fingers into the narrow aperture and swing the door open.
  
  Hanging from a hook in the cabinet is a heavy golden cape. At the bottom of the cabinet lies a golden helmet with a high crest. And leaning in the corner of the cabinet is a long wooden staff.
  
  > look at the cape
  The cape is intricately woven in a pattern red and gold thread, into which are sewn rectangular metal plates that have the gleam of polished brass.
  
  > examine the helmet
  The helmet gleams like gold, or possibly brass. It has a high crest, sidepieces that shield the wearer's cheeks, and a leather chinstrap to hold it in place.
  
  > look at the staff
  The staff is a straight piece of polished dark wood nearly six feet long and about an inch in diameter. The head of the staff broadens and flattens slightly, and is curved forward, giving the staff somewhat the look of an upside-down capital 'J' from which most of the curved part has been broken off. It's not broken, however. It looks quite well cared for, if such a thing can be said of a stick.
  
  > TAKE CAPE, HELMET, STAFF
  golden cape: Your hands are too full to hold the golden cape.
  
  golden helmet: Your hands are too full to hold the golden helmet.
  
  wooden staff: Your hands are too full to hold the wooden staff.
  
  > take mat
  Your hands are too full to hold the rolled-up straw mat.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying a poker and a wooden staff, and you're wearing your clothes, a stone bracelet, a golden cape, and a golden helmet.
  
  > go to the south
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > go east
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  Though paved in polished marble and enclosed on all sides, this large square room is open to the sky above. Aside from some low benches, also of marble, that surround a shallow, square pool of water in the center of the room, it's unfurnished. There's a high arched doorway to the north, a row of lower arches on the east, a tunnel entrance to the west, and a square-cut doorway to the south.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > go north
  The monkey follows you.
  
  The vaulted ceiling of this huge room is at least fifty feet above you. A double row of fat pillars lines the east and west walls. The pillars can't very well be real gold (can they?), but they look like gold. You tread lightly, yet your footsteps echo.
  
  At the north end of the room stands a huge and hideous black statue. It's at least twenty feet tall, and looks almost exactly like the little statuettes you've seen at Eternal Springs - so much like them that looking at it makes your mouth dry and your hands cold. Before the statue is a polished cube of black stone six feet high.
  
  The high arched doorway that leads back to the courtyard is to the south. There's also a passage to the north, but to reach it you'll have to pass quite close to the hideous statue.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > Go upwards
  The ceiling appears to be quite solid.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind. You sidle carefully past the statue.
  
  This dimly lit passage runs from north to south. Although the passage is narrow, it's also quite high-ceilinged. To the north you hear a susurrus of sifting, skittering sounds.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > go to the north
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  You are standing on a stone ledge, perhaps six feet square, at the south side of a broad but low-ceilinged chamber. Behind you, to the south, is the open doorway that leads back to the temple. The floor of this chamber, which stretches away to the north, appears to be of sand. And not ordinary sand, either. As you watch, the sand shifts and seethes and ripples in a treacherous, dusty, incessant way.
  
  But that isn't the worst of it. Scampering and skittering across the sand are dozens of shockingly large and alert-looking scorpions. At the moment the scorpions are paying no special attention to you, but you have a strong suspicion that if you were to venture out across the sand, they would soon notice you and not take kindly to your presence. Even if the sand provided safe footing (and obviously it doesn't), crossing the chamber would be extremely hazardous.
  
  Arrayed around three sides of the chamber are dozens - no, hundreds - of low pedestals of white stone. On each pedestal sits a large and beautiful red jewel. The jewels throb in slow, hypnotic rhythms, filling the room with undulating red light.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > examine the scorpions
  The scorpions prance and dance across the shifting sand. Even the small ones are as large as lobsters. Their claws wave and snap, and their stingers arch and jab the air.
  
  > look at the sand
  The sand looks to be quite dry, but it moves restlessly, like water. The scorpions appear to be able to walk on it, but they can't weigh much.
  
  > look at the jewels
  Each jewel sits serenely on its low white pedestal. Some of them are perfect spheres, others are many-faceted. All of them are throbbing with light, each pulsing in its own slow, hypnotic rhythm.
  
  > touch the jewels
  The pulsing jewels are too far away to touch.
  
  > examine the pedestals
  The pedestals appear to be of stone, but they're such a pure white that they appear almost to be glowing with their own light. On each pedestal sits a large and beautiful red jewel. Some of the jewels are perfect spheres, others are many-faceted. All of them are throbbing in slow, hypnotic rhythms, filling the room with undulating red light.
  
  > talk to the jewels
  None of the jewels are within reach. To get to the nearest of them you'd have to cross at least twenty feet of scorpion-infested sand.
  
  > point to the jewels
  You point at the jewels, and the monkey looks at you in perplexity, as if he'd like to help but doesn't understand what you have in mind. Maybe the difficulty is that there are so many jewels. He has no way of telling them apart.
  
  > look
  You are standing on a stone ledge, perhaps six feet square, at the south side of a broad but low-ceilinged chamber. Behind you, to the south, is the open doorway that leads back to the temple. The floor of this chamber, which stretches away to the north, appears to be of sand. And not ordinary sand, either. As you watch, the sand shifts and seethes and ripples in a treacherous, dusty, incessant way.
  
  But that isn't the worst of it. Scampering and skittering across the sand are dozens of shockingly large and alert-looking scorpions. At the moment the scorpions are paying no special attention to you, but you have a strong suspicion that if you were to venture out across the sand, they would soon notice you and not take kindly to your presence. Even if the sand provided safe footing (and obviously it doesn't), crossing the chamber would be extremely hazardous.
  
  Arrayed around three sides of the chamber are dozens - no, hundreds - of low pedestals of white stone. On each pedestal sits a large and beautiful red jewel. The jewels throb in slow, hypnotic rhythms, filling the room with undulating red light.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > go to the south
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  This dimly lit passage runs from north to south. Although the passage is narrow, it's also quite high-ceilinged. To the north you hear a susurrus of sifting, skittering sounds.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The vaulted ceiling of this huge room is at least fifty feet above you. A double row of fat pillars lines the east and west walls. The pillars can't very well be real gold (can they?), but they look like gold. You tread lightly, yet your footsteps echo.
  
  At the north end of the room stands a huge and hideous black statue. It's at least twenty feet tall, and looks almost exactly like the little statuettes you've seen at Eternal Springs - so much like them that looking at it makes your mouth dry and your hands cold. Before the statue is a polished cube of black stone six feet high.
  
  The high arched doorway that leads back to the courtyard is to the south. There's also a passage to the north, but to reach it you'll have to pass quite close to the hideous statue.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  Though paved in polished marble and enclosed on all sides, this large square room is open to the sky above. Aside from some low benches, also of marble, that surround a shallow, square pool of water in the center of the room, it's unfurnished. There's a high arched doorway to the north, a row of lower arches on the east, a tunnel entrance to the west, and a square-cut doorway to the south.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Drink water
  You glance at the shallow pool and instantly dismiss it as unimportant.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > go west
  You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, to the sumptuously decorated chamber; south, to opposite the doorway; and east, back to the wide courtyard.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors, but the slim silver bridge that was here before seems to have vanished, leaving you no way to cross the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > Go west
  You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, back to the T-shaped junction; south, to the guard room; and down.
  
  > look at Channel
  The chasm is deep and wide. Looking down into it, you can't see the bottom, but faint sounds echoing up from far below suggest that it's not actually bottomless. The sides are certainly too steep to climb, though.
  
  > Wave staff
  As you wave the staff, a low hum emanates from a couple of footrest-sized blocks at the edge of the chasm. A band of light leaps out across the abyss, and in a moment the shimmering silver bridge is restored!
  
  > go to the east
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > go north
  You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead back to the south, east, and west.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > Go west
  The monkey follows you.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors. A slim silver bridge crosses the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > go north
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  This large room, which smells cloyingly of incense, is luxuriously furnished in an style that you'd probably be able to identify if you hadn't been daydreaming so much during World History. Possibly it's Aztec, Mayan, Incan, or even Egyptian. Straw mats hang from the walls, painted with elaborate designs in red and black. A heavy cabinet stands against the east wall. The bronze door is to the south, and daylight spills through an open archway to the north.
  
  You see a rolled-up straw mat and a poker here.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > remove helmet
  As you start to slip the helmet from your head, you can feel the wooden staff writhe restlessly and muscularly beneath your hand. Alarmed, you set the helmet back in place.
  
  > remove the cape
  As you start to slip the cape from your shoulders, you can feel the wooden staff start to writhe restlessly and muscularly beneath your hand. Alarmed, you pull the cape back around you.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying a wooden staff and a rolled-up straw mat, and you're wearing your clothes, a stone bracelet, a golden cape, and a golden helmet.
  
  > take the poker
  Your hands are too full to hold the poker.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > go to the west
  You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, back to the sumptuously decorated chamber; south, to opposite the doorway; and east, to the wide courtyard.
  
  > go south
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors. A slim silver bridge crosses the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > go west
  Showing up at Eternal Springs with stuff that obviously came from here (wherever "here" is) and probably belongs to someone important - someone Beauregard Phelps surely knows - would be a big mistake. After a moment's thought, you decide it would be a lot safer to leave what you found in the cabinet in the Sumptuous Chamber behind.
  
  > go east
  The monkey goes down onto all fours to keep up with you.
  
  The walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey follows you.
  
  The stone tunnel extends from east to west here. Another passage leads away to the south.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  The walls of this tunnel are of rough-hewn, square-cut dark gray stone. The ceiling is high, and the walls seem to press close, as the tunnel itself is not wide. The air is cooler here than in the upper passage, and smells a bit dank. A narrow stairway ascends to the west, and the tunnel extends away into the gloom to the north and east.
  
  The monkey is crouching at your feet.
  
  > go to the west
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors. A slim silver bridge crosses the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > go north
  Seeing you leave, the little monkey scuttles after you. When you pause, he looks up at you expectantly.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey is standing close by.
  
  > Go north
  The monkey arrives on your heels.
  
  This large room, which smells cloyingly of incense, is luxuriously furnished in an style that you'd probably be able to identify if you hadn't been daydreaming so much during World History. Possibly it's Aztec, Mayan, Incan, or even Egyptian. Straw mats hang from the walls, painted with elaborate designs in red and black. A heavy cabinet stands against the east wall. The bronze door is to the south, and daylight spills through an open archway to the north.
  
  You see a poker here.
  
  The monkey looks up at you expectantly.
  
  > put the cape in the cabinet
  (first trying to take off the golden cape)
  Your hands are too full to hold the golden cape.
  
  > put the cape in cabinet
  (first taking off the golden cape)
  Done.
  
  > put the helmet in the cabinet
  (first taking off the golden helmet)
  Done.
  
  > take mat and the poker
  rolled-up straw mat: Taken.
  poker: Taken.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying a rolled-up straw mat and a poker, and you're wearing your clothes and a stone bracelet.
  
  > go south
  The monkey scampers beside you.
  
  The stone tunnel continues south (along the channel) and turns to the east here. A square of daylight can be glimpsed at the end of the east branch. A bronze door set in an ornate frame of carved stone is to the north.
  
  The monkey goes off to take a quick look around, but soon returns.
  
  > go to the west
  You can't go that way. Obvious exits lead north, back to the sumptuously decorated chamber; south, to opposite the doorway; and east, to the wide courtyard.
  
  > Go south
  The monkey trails faithfully along behind.
  
  A broad passageway runs north and south here, flanked on the west by a square-cut channel of unguessable depth. Directly across the channel, to the west from where you're standing, is an open doorway through which can be glimpsed the cheerfully torchlit room of seven doors. A slim silver bridge crosses the channel. On the east side of the passageway is a narrow opening, beyond which a stairway leads down into the gloom.
  
  The monkey is still with you.
  
  > go west
  You step lightly and carefully across the narrow silver bridge.
  
  A square-cut channel, too broad to jump and seemingly bottomless (though in the dim light it's hard to be certain) stretches from north to south here. Spanning it is a narrow ribbon of silver, barely wide enough to walk on. The ribbon shimmers slightly, as if it's made of oily light. The walls of close-fitting gray stone were obviously made by human hands - or at least, by hands of some sort.
  
  An open doorway leads west, and the silver bridge affords a slightly vertiginous path to the east.
  
  > go west
  This broad circular chamber is low-ceilinged and torchlit. The air of heavy stillness gives you the feeling that you're deep inside a building, or perhaps underground. The circumference of the room is lined by massive stone slabs like the one through which you arrived. Though the room itself is disorienting, not to mention that in a place like this your sense of direction is a little hazy, you're fairly sure you arrived through the slab to the southwest.
  
  Other slabs are to the west, northwest, and so on. Each of them is carved with intricate and indecipherable designs. The eighth exit is an open doorway directly to the east.
  
  > go to the southwest
  You must open the southwest stone slab first.
  
  > open the sw slab
  As your fingers brush the ridged design on the slab, lights begin to course up and down through the stone channels on the surface. At the same moment, a deep grinding rumble emanates from within the slab. You step backward and watch as the slab pivots to the side, creating a narrow opening through which you can pass. Beyond the opening you can glimpse the comforting hominess of Beauregard Phelps's bedroom.
  
  > put the mat in grate
  The rolled-up straw mat is too large to fit through the opening.
  
  > open the mat
  You unroll the mat, revealing the skeleton.
  
  > put the skeleton in grate
  (first taking the skeleton)
  The skeleton is not something that can be put through the grate.
  
  The ligaments holding the skeleton's larger bones together are starting to stretch like rubber bands.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying a poker, and you're wearing your clothes and a stone bracelet.
  
  > go east
  This narrow, windowless room is lit only by the daylight that spills through the open doorway to the west, which leads back to the bedroom. A narrow table stands against the north wall, and at the foot of the table, in the east wall, a metal grate is set in the baseboard.
  
  In the east wall, where you might ordinarily expect to see a door to another room, is a massive slab of stone, both broader and higher than a door. In the upper center of the slab is a circular carving.
  
  You see a rolled-up straw mat here. On the shallow table are a purple-eyed figurine and a curved dagger.
  
  > take the skeleton
  Taken.
  
  The ligaments holding the skeleton's larger bones together are starting to stretch like rubber bands.
  
  > put it on the table
  The skeleton is too large for the shallow table.
  
  A finger bone drops off of the skeleton's hand. No, carrying it around like this just isn't going to work.
  
  > wait a while
  Time passes...
  
  The skull sags sideways onto your shoulder, giving you a nasty start. On close inspection, you find that the skull is awfully close to dropping free of the backbone.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes...
  
  Another finger bone drops and bounces. If you want to do anything with the skeleton, you're going to have to figure out a safe way to carry it. Either that or find a good book on human anatomy and a really big tube of glue.