text: [Themes: gender-neutral protagonist, adventure]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  This space contains some kind of swirling, ethereal fog that is affecting your ability to think clearly. You can make enough sense of this space to know that there is an exit above you to Gray Matter, Level Two, as well as exits north, south, east, and west.
  
  > Go north
  You make your way north through the fog. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...
  
  The pleasant smell of fresh hay mingles with the less pleasant smells of farm animals here. The barn opens outside to the south.
  
  A farmer is here, staring thoughtfully at a pile of wood.
  
  > examine wood
  It's just a pile of wood to you, but it must mean something to the farmer.
  
  > examine farmer
  The farmer is wearing blue overalls and a wide-brimmed hat.
  
  > greet the farmer
  "Hi," you say, and the farmer turns to look at you. "Howdy," he responds. "What are you doing?" you ask.
  
  He says, "Well, I was just thinking about the water barrel I'm going to make out of this wood. I'm trying to decide whether it should be short and fat or tall and skinny."
  
  "Why does it matter?" you ask.
  
  "Well, I'd like it to hold as much water as possible. Does a short, wider barrel hold more water? Or does a tall and thin one? Or would it be better to make the barrel somewhere in between? Oh, and the barrel will have a lid.
  
  "I've got this far," he says, pulling a thin card and a pencil from an inside pocket of his overalls. He scribbles an equation on the card, puts the pencil back in his overalls, and hands the card to you. "If you take the equation on this card and plug the radius of the barrel in for x, the value of y will tell you the resulting
  volume of the barrel."
  
  You take the card. "Don't you need this?" you ask.
  
  "No," he says. "The card was junk mail - part of a promotion for some theme park. And I've got the equation memorized, too."
  
  > look at the card
  This small, very thin card reads "Farmer's Problem: y =
  50x - Pi*x^3." You remember that y
  represents the volume of the barrel the farmer is trying to build, while x represents the radius.
  
  > go to the south
  Before you can leave, you hear what sounds like a cowbell ringing.
  The farmer grimaces. "Bessie's probably got herself tangled in the barbed wire again," he says. "I ought to go check on her."
  
  Just then, a dog comes running into the barn, barking excitedly.
  "Yes, I heard," the farmer says to the dog. "I'm going."
  
  He turns to you. "If you can figure out the best solution to my barrel problem, I would be much obliged. I need to go help Bessie now, but Pennings here can bring me anything with the solution on it."
  
  The farmer strides out of the barn.
  
  > look at the dog
  Pennings is a Welsh Corgi. He wags his tail happily but expectantly when he sees you looking at him; he seems to want you to give him something.
  
  > Pet dog
  Pennings licks your face happily.
  
  > go west
  You make your way west through the fog. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...
  
  With its ornate central stone fountain, this can only be the great court of Trinity College, Cambridge. From here you can visit the chapel to the north or the college hall to the west. The main gate of Trinity College lies east.
  
  > examine the fountain
  This ornate stone fountain in the center of the court is its most prominent feature. The fountain is currently dry.
  
  > go north
  You stand in the magnificent chapel of Trinity College. You make a mental note to visit this place sometime when you're truly awake. The exit is to the south.
  
  At the west end of the chapel stands a statue of Isaac Newton.
  
  A beam of light shines through a window and forms a circle on the floor.
  
  > look at the statue
  This statue in white marble depicts Newton holding a prism as he gazes upward.
  
  Prelude, describing this very statue:
  
  "The antechapel where the statue stood
  Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
  The marble index of a mind for ever
  Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
  
  Wait - did Newton just wink at you?
  
  > examine the prism
  The prism, like the rest of the statue, is made of marble. The ambient light in the chapel seems to play across the surface of the prism.
  
  > Examine beam
  This beam of light shines through a window and forms a circle on the floor.
  
  > examine the circle
  The light in the circle seems to sparkle.
  
  > Go west
  You walk into the middle of a lecture on mathematics. The atmosphere feels a bit tense.
  
  The speaker glares briefly at you as you enter, and you - somewhat sheepishly - step back into the shadows against the wall.
  
  The speaker continues. "And so, as I was saying, the calculus of Newton does not rest on a logical foundation! Newton claims that the fluxion of x^2 is 2x, but one cannot have the
  "infinitely small quantity" he uses in the calculation equal to zero in one place and not equal to zero in another!"
  You hear several "Boo" shouts from the audience. "Go back to Oxford, Berkeley!" says one mathematician. "But calculus works!" yells a physicist.
  "I repeat myself," replies Berkeley. "A quantity cannot be simultaneously equal to zero and not equal to zero. As Newton himself says, 'The minutest errors are not to be neglected in mathematics!'"
  
  You can feel the audience's anger level rising, as Berkeley quotes Newton in his attack on Newton's calculus.
  Then, after a tense few moments, a man in the front row storms the podium. The shocked look on Berkeley's face is visible from your place against the wall. Berkeley slowly backs away from the podium. Emboldened, several other audience members join the first man. Berkeley turns and runs out of the room. The rest of the audience rises and chases after him.