text: [Themes: Fantasy, snow storm]
  
  > Go east
  The walls here are made of a mixture of stone and steel. The room
  is completely dominated by a large metal vault whose door is almost the entire east wall. Light illuminates this room, but you can't tell where it is coming from. You can exit back to the long tunnel to the west. You can enter the open vault door to the east.
  You see a big pan here.
  
  > Go east
  You are inside the vault. The interior is about 10 x 10 feet, and
  all of the walls are made of dull grey steel. You are very sure that nothing gets in or out of here when the vault door is closed. The room appears bare for its size. The vault door is to the west.
  
  Sitting forlornly on the floor, lost in the emptiness of the vault, is a single red gem.
  
  > examine the gem
  This brilliant red gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly warm to the touch.
  
  > get the gem
  [Your score just went up by 1 point.]
  You've already got your hands full.
  
  > drop the letter
  Which letter do you mean, the handwritten letter, or the typed letter?
  
  > Both
  handwritten letter: Dropped.
  typed letter: Dropped.
  
  > get the gem
  [Your score just went up by 1 point.]
  Taken.
  
  > go west
  The walls here are made of a mixture of stone and steel. The room
  is completely dominated by a large metal vault whose door is almost the entire east wall. Light illuminates this room, but you can't tell where it is coming from. You can exit back to the long tunnel to the west. You can enter the open vault door to the east.
  You see a big pan, a handwritten letter, and a typed letter here.
  
  > examine the gem
  This brilliant red gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly warm to the touch.
  
  > drop all
  flashlight: Dropped.
  crystal card: Dropped.
  picture: Dropped.
  modem: Dropped.
  book: Dropped.
  board: Dropped.
  thin rod: Dropped.
  slip of paper: Dropped.
  red gem: Dropped.
  
  > jump over the pit
  You back up about a dozen feet, and with a loud exhale you start on a dead-sprint straight at the pit. You leap into the air at its edge, straining for the edge on the other side. You immediately know you're not going to make it.
  
  *** WHACK ***
  
  Your body smacks the side of the pit, and you claw at the edge, just barely in your grasp. Your scrambling hands find some loose stone tiles and dig in. With an effort much-aided by terror, you pull yourself up over the edge, and worm your way to the safety of the floor beyond. You DO NOT want to try that again.
  
  It's pitch black.
  
  > jump over the pit
  You back up about a dozen feet, and with a loud exhale you start on a dead-sprint straight at the pit. You leap into the air at its edge, straining for the edge on the other side. You immediately know you're not going to make it.
  
  *** WHACK ***
  
  Your body smacks the side of the pit, and you claw at the edge, just barely in your grasp. Your scrambling hands find some loose stone tiles and dig in. With an effort much-aided by terror, you pull yourself up over the edge, and worm your way to the safety of the floor beyond. You DO NOT want to try that again.
  
  Long Tunnel (4)
  This is a long tunnel leading north and south. It is tiled with carefully-crafted stone. Your way to the north appears to be blocked by a deep pit, but there is a side corridor leading west.
  
  > go west
  You are on a small ledge (barely big enough to hold you) looking out over a huge cavern. The floor of the cavern (if there is one) lies so far down that you cannot see it, while the ceiling is about 40 feet above you. You can return to the long tunnel to the east.
  
  To the west, hanging by a chain from the ceiling, is a large wooden disk. The chain is attached to the center of the disk, which looks to be about 5 feet wide. You think that you could probably jump to the disk from here. It's not nearly as long a distance to have to jump as the pit was.
  
  > examine the disk
  You've already seen all of the disk that you can make out from here.
  
  > go to the west
  You back up a bit in order to get some speed, and take off running towards the disk at your best sprint. At the edge of the ledge, you leap out into the cavern towards the disk. You make it fairly easily, but the disk tilts sickeningly as you land on it. You begin a mad scramble towards the chain as gravity tries to slide you off the edge. Many frightening seconds later, your hands grasp the chain and you pull yourself to the center of the disk. Whew!
  
  You are precariously standing on a wooden disk, hanging suspended
  from the cavern ceiling by a chain. You cannot see the floor of the cavern. To both the east and west, you can see ledges in the middle of the cavern walls. The problem is, although it was easy to jump *to* the disk, you don't have enough room for a running start to jump *off* the disk.
  
  > Swing
  (the disk)
  Using your own body, you begin swinging the disk from east to west. After about a minute, you've got quite an arc going.
  
  The disk swings to the east.
  
  > wait
  Time passes...
  
  The disk is swinging to the west, but is in a neutral position.
  
  > wait awhile
  Time passes...
  
  The disk swings to the west.
  
  > go west
  As the disk reaches the point closest to the west ledge, you make your leap! No problem! You land with a thud that takes your breath away for a few seconds, but you are safe and sound.
  
  You are on a small ledge (barely big enough to hold you) looking out over a huge cavern. The floor of the cavern (if there is one) lies so far down that you cannot see it, while the ceiling is about 40 feet above you. The ledge leads a short distance into the cavern wall and immediately turns south.
  
  To the east, hanging by a chain from the ceiling, is a large wooden disk. The chain is attached to the center of the disk, which looks to be about 5 feet wide. The disk is a little farther away from here than it was from the east ledge; although you could jump to it from here, you don't know if you could stay on it when you got there or not.
  
  The disk comes to rest.
  
  > go to the south
  You have entered a grotto made entirely of some type of gleaming green-tinted crystal. The crystal achieves the effect of appearing both natural and crafted. Floors, ceiling, and walls all smoothly blend together. The light from your flashlight is reflected back to you both from the direction you are pointing it and from other parts of the room, as gleams of green light seem to travel through the crystal to emerge elsewhere.
  
  The overall effect is quite beautiful.
  
  To the north, the crystal turns to stone and turns immediately east.
  An opening in the crystal leads south.
  
  > examine the card
  This card is about the size of a playing card. It is made out of some type of gleaming crystal, and is green in color.
  
  > Rub card
  As you rub the card, its color changes to green.
  
  > Go south
  Long Tunnel (3)
  The long tunnel continues to lead both north and south. The carefully-crafted stone tile appears to be a darker grey here. Your way to the south appears to be blocked by a deep pit, but there is a side corridor leading off to the east.
  You see a picture, a modem, a book, a board, a thin rod, a slip of paper, and a red gem here.
  
  > get all
  picture: Taken.
  modem: Taken.
  book: Taken.
  board: Taken.
  thin rod: Taken.
  slip of paper: Taken.
  red gem: Taken.
  
  > Rub card
  As you rub the card, its color changes to green.
  
  > go to the south
  A small rather non-descript grey-stone cavern, this location does
  have one thing that makes it distinct: an ornate archway leading south. You can see the green crystal grotto to the north.
  There is a small, fierce guardian creature blocking your way to the south. For some reason, the name 'goblin' pops into your head.
  
  The goblin charges you, but you dodge aside.
  
  > examine the goblin
  The goblin is a little smaller than you are, but it appears very fierce. Small tusks protrude from its pig-like face, and razor-sharp talons spring from its hands. The goblin appears to be wearing a large lead key around its neck.
  
  The goblin snarls at you like a mad dog.
  
  > Attack goblin
  (with the board)
  You ram the end of the board into the goblin's stomach, knocking it back several feet. It looks hurt, but also more than a little furious.
  
  The goblin charges you, but you dodge aside.
  
  > continue
  Holding the board like a baseball bat, you crack the goblin upside the head. A lead key (previously unseen) flies from a chain around the goblin's neck. While the goblin staggers back dazed, you take advantage of the situation and crack it in the head again. This time you hear a sickening snap, and it drops to the ground dead.
  
  > look at key
  The key is about two inches long and pretty thick for a key. It is made of lead; this puzzles you as you would expect a key to be made of a stronger metal.
  
  > examine the archway
  The archway is made entirely of marble. It leads south.
  
  > Go north
  You have entered a grotto made entirely of some type of gleaming green-tinted crystal. The crystal achieves the effect of appearing both natural and crafted. Floors, ceiling, and walls all smoothly blend together. The light from your flashlight is reflected back to you both from the direction you are pointing it and from other parts of the room, as gleams of green light seem to travel through the crystal to emerge elsewhere.
  
  The overall effect is quite beautiful.
  
  To the north, the crystal turns to stone and turns immediately east.
  An opening in the crystal leads south.
  
  > Inventory
  You have a flashlight (providing light), a crystal card, a picture, a modem, a book, a board, a thin rod, a slip of paper, and a red gem.
  The flashlight seems to contain a battery.
  
  > Go south
  A small rather non-descript grey-stone cavern, this location does
  have one thing that makes it distinct: an ornate archway leading south. You can see the green crystal grotto to the north.
  You see a dead goblin and a lead key here.
  
  > look at goblin
  It's definitely dead, apparently from a cracked skull. Its pig-like face still holds an expression of anger and stupidity.
  
  > go to the south
  This tiny room is made entirely of smooth, polished marble. The
  only feature is a small marble pedestal in the southern portion of the room. It appears to be firmly attached to the floor, or perhaps even a part of it. The only exit is north.
  Sitting on the marble pedestal is a blue gem.
  
  > get the gem
  [Your score just went up by 1 point.]
  Taken.
  
  > examine it
  This brilliant blue gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly cool to the touch.
  
  > examine the pedestal
  The pedestal is made entirely of marble. It appears to be firmly attached to the floor, possibly even a part of it. There's nothing on the marble pedestal.
  
  > go to the north
  A small rather non-descript grey-stone cavern, this location does
  have one thing that makes it distinct: an ornate archway leading south. You can see the green crystal grotto to the north.
  You see a dead goblin here.
  
  > Go north
  You have entered a grotto made entirely of some type of gleaming green-tinted crystal. The crystal achieves the effect of appearing both natural and crafted. Floors, ceiling, and walls all smoothly blend together. The light from your flashlight is reflected back to you both from the direction you are pointing it and from other parts of the room, as gleams of green light seem to travel through the crystal to emerge elsewhere.
  
  The overall effect is quite beautiful.
  
  To the north, the crystal turns to stone and turns immediately east.
  An opening in the crystal leads south.
  You see a modem, a slip of paper, and a book here.
  
  > Go north
  You are on a small ledge (barely big enough to hold you) looking out over a huge cavern. The floor of the cavern (if there is one) lies so far down that you cannot see it, while the ceiling is about 40 feet above you. The ledge leads a short distance into the cavern wall and immediately turns south.
  
  To the east, hanging by a chain from the ceiling, is a large wooden disk. The chain is attached to the center of the disk, which looks to be about 5 feet wide. The disk is a little farther away from here than it was from the east ledge; although you could jump to it from here, you don't know if you could stay on it when you got there or not.
  
  > Go east
  The disk is a little farther away from the West Ledge as it is from the East Ledge. You know that you could jump to it, but after the way it tilted last time, the thought of making a longer jump kind of worries you. If you want to jump to the disk from here, you'll have to tell me so explicitly by saying 'jump'.
  
  > jump
  You back up a bit in order to get some speed, and take off running towards the disk at your best sprint. At the edge of the ledge, you leap out into the cavern towards the disk. You make it fairly easily, but the disk tilts sickeningly as you land on it. You don't have as good of a position as you have had before, and after a few moments of mad scrambling, you slide off the disk to begin a long plummet to the cavern floors below.
  
  > examine the gem
  Which gem do you mean, the red gem, or the blue gem?
  
  > Blue
  This brilliant blue gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly cool to the touch.
  
  > Go east
  This room, tiled with the same stone as the long tunnel, smells a
  bit dank. Moisture must get in here somewhere. The room appears to be a cell block, mainly because there are jail cells with entrances on the northern, eastern, and southern walls. The exit is to the west.
  
  The northern and southern cells are individually filled up by something massive.
  
  > Go north
  The northern cell is completely filled with ice. You can't enter it.
  
  > Melt northern ice
  What are you going to do? Breathe on it?
  
  > throw the red gem at it
  You miss.
  
  > drop all except card and the flashlight
  picture: Dropped.
  board: Dropped.
  thin rod: Dropped.
  lead key: Dropped.
  blue gem: Dropped.
  red gem: Dropped.
  
  > jump over the pit
  You back up about a dozen feet, and with a loud exhale you start on a dead-sprint straight at the pit. You leap into the air at its edge, straining for the edge on the other side. You immediately know you're not going to make it.
  
  > get all
  picture: Taken.
  board: Taken.
  thin rod: Taken.
  lead key: Taken.
  blue gem: Taken.
  red gem: Taken.
  
  > jump
  (the pit)
  You back up about a dozen feet, and with a loud exhale you start on a dead-sprint straight at the pit. You leap into the air at its edge, straining for the edge on the other side. You immediately know you're not going to make it.
  
  *** WHACK ***
  
  Your body smacks the side of the pit, and you claw at the edge, just barely in your grasp. Your scrambling hands find some loose stone tiles and dig in. With an effort much-aided by terror, you pull yourself up over the edge, and worm your way to the safety of the floor beyond. You DO NOT want to try that again.
  
  Long Tunnel (4)
  This is a long tunnel leading north and south. It is tiled with carefully-crafted stone. Your way to the north appears to be blocked by a deep pit, but there is a side corridor leading west.
  
  > Go south
  You have entered a grotto made entirely of some type of gleaming blue-tinted crystal. The crystal achieves the effect of appearing both natural and crafted. Floors, ceiling, and walls all smoothly blend together. The light from your flashlight is reflected back to you both from the direction you are pointing it and from other parts of the room, as gleams of blue light seem to travel through the crystal to emerge elsewhere.
  
  The overall effect is quite beautiful.
  
  To the north, the crystal slowly turns into some type of grey stone and becomes a tunnel. A doorway cut right out of the crystal leads south.
  
  > Go south
  This small cavern appears completely natural. The rock is very
  rough, and stalactites hang from the ceiling. To the north there is an exit laced with gleaming blue crystal. To the south, the cavern opens up into a much larger cavern, with a drop-off that leads down farther than you can see. Spanning the vast emptiness of the large cavern is a bridge that appears to be made entirely of ice. A chill comes from that direction.
  A red tinted devil stands casually against the cavern wall here. He appears to be ignoring you.
  
  > look at the devil
  The devil is about your size, and mostly human in appearance. The only thing that gives him away are two small horns protruding from his head and a slight reddish tint to his skin. Quite a handsome fellow actually. He is leaning casually against the cavern wall.
  
  > ask the devil about the devil
  "Well, I'm *a* devil, but not *the* devil. But I am due for a promotion. And I'm better than him anyway."
  
  > attack the devil
  What do you want to attack it with?
  
  > ask the devil about the task
  "Glad you asked. Hmmmm....".
  
  The devil produces a small leather bag from the folds of his clothes and throws it at your feet.
  
  "That's a magic bag that can hold as much of anything that you can fit into the opening. You take it, fill it full of all of the sins, and bring it back to me. If you've got all of the sins in there, and nothing but sin, I'll let you by. BUT - if you have anything in there that isn't a sin, or you don't have them all, I get your soul."
  
  The devil flashes you a quick smile.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point.]
  
  > examine the bag
  This small leather bag smells faintly of sulphur. You can sense power emanating from it. There's nothing in the small bag.
  
  > Go north
  Long Tunnel (4)
  This is a long tunnel leading north and south. It is tiled with carefully-crafted stone. Your way to the north appears to be blocked by a deep pit, but there is a side corridor leading west.
  
  > go west
  You are on a small ledge (barely big enough to hold you) looking out over a huge cavern. The floor of the cavern (if there is one) lies so far down that you cannot see it, while the ceiling is about 40 feet above you. You can return to the long tunnel to the east.
  
  To the west, hanging by a chain from the ceiling, is a large wooden disk. The chain is attached to the center of the disk, which looks to be about 5 feet wide. You think that you could probably jump to the disk from here. It's not nearly as long a distance to have to jump as the pit was.
  
  > go to the west
  You back up a bit in order to get some speed, and take off running towards the disk at your best sprint. At the edge of the ledge, you leap out into the cavern towards the disk. You make it fairly easily, but the disk tilts sickeningly as you land on it. You begin a mad scramble towards the chain as gravity tries to slide you off the edge. Many frightening seconds later, your hands grasp the chain and you pull yourself to the center of the disk. Whew!
  
  You are precariously standing on a wooden disk, hanging suspended
  from the cavern ceiling by a chain. You cannot see the floor of the cavern. To both the east and west, you can see ledges in the middle of the cavern walls. The problem is, although it was easy to jump *to* the disk, you don't have enough room for a running start to jump *off* the disk.
  
  > Swing
  (the disk)
  Using your own body, you begin swinging the disk from east to west. After about a minute, you've got quite an arc going.
  
  The disk swings to the east.
  
  > wait
  Time passes...
  
  The disk is swinging to the west, but is in a neutral position.
  
  > wait awhile
  Time passes...
  
  The disk swings to the west.
  
  > enter the bag
  I don't know how to enter the small bag.
  
  The disk comes to rest.
  
  > Go west
  It would be pure suicide to try to jump to the west ledge.
  
  > Go west
  (the disk)
  Using your own body, you begin swinging the disk from east to west. After about a minute, you've got quite an arc going.
  
  The disk swings to the east.
  
  Time passes...
  
  The disk is swinging to the west, but is in a neutral position.
  
  Time passes...
  
  The disk swings to the west.
  
  As the disk reaches the point closest to the west ledge, you make your leap! No problem! You land with a thud that takes your breath away for a few seconds, but you are safe and sound.
  
  You are on a small ledge (barely big enough to hold you) looking out over a huge cavern. The floor of the cavern (if there is one) lies so far down that you cannot see it, while the ceiling is about 40 feet above you. The ledge leads a short distance into the cavern wall and immediately turns south.
  
  To the east, hanging by a chain from the ceiling, is a large wooden disk. The chain is attached to the center of the disk, which looks to be about 5 feet wide. The disk is a little farther away from here than it was from the east ledge; although you could jump to it from here, you don't know if you could stay on it when you got there or not.
  
  The disk comes to rest.
  
  > go to the south
  Long Tunnel (1)
  This is a long tunnel leading north and south. It has definitely
  been purposefully made, being tiled with crafted stone. It looks like something that would have been created centuries ago. You can see the Red Crystal Grotto to the north, and a side corridor leads off to the east.
  
  Long Tunnel (2)
  The long tunnel continues to lead north and south. The same tiling
  is present here as in the rest of the tunnel. A side corridor leads off to the west.
  
  Long Tunnel (3)
  The long tunnel continues to lead both north and south. The carefully-crafted stone tile appears to be a darker grey here. Your way to the south appears to be blocked by a deep pit, but there is a side corridor leading off to the east.
  You see a picture, a modem, a book, a board, a thin rod, a slip of paper, and a red gem here.
  
  > get all
  picture: Taken.
  modem: Taken.
  book: Taken.
  board: Taken.
  thin rod: Taken.
  slip of paper: Taken.
  red gem: You've already got your hands full.
  
  > put the picture in the bag
  Done.
  
  > take all
  red gem: Taken.
  
  > Go east
  You are inside the vault. The interior is about 10 x 10 feet, and
  all of the walls are made of dull grey steel. You are very sure that nothing gets in or out of here when the vault door is closed. The room appears bare for its size. The vault door is to the west.
  
  > get the pan
  big pan: You've already got your hands full.
  handwritten letter: You've already got your hands full.
  typed letter: You've already got your hands full.
  
  You've already got your hands full.
  
  > Oops bag
  picture: The picture is already in the small bag!
  small bag: You can't put the small bag in itself!
  modem: Done.
  book: Done.
  board: Done.
  thin rod: Done.
  slip of paper: Done.
  red gem: Done.
  
  > get all
  handwritten letter: Taken.
  typed letter: Taken.
  
  > put the letters in the bag
  handwritten letter: Done.
  typed letter: Done.
  
  > examine picture
  This is a picture of a rather lusty-looking girl. She must be very important to John, for him to have left the picture all mixed in with his important clothes like that.
  
  > look at the typed letter
  It appears to be a letter to John from his landlord telling him that his rent is going up. The landlord sounds really greedy.
  
  > examine the handwritten letter
  It appears to be a letter from John to his landlord. It seems to display a lot of anger.
  
  > Examine book
  The book appears to be a diary, probably John's. You're not going to read it are you?
  
  > read book
  The diary goes on about mundane personal matters, as diaries are wont to do, for quite some time. A recurring theme seems to be how envious John is of people who are out "living life". This puzzles you a bit, since John has done more crazy shit than any 10 people you know, with the possible exception of some of his psycho friends.
  
  The last couple of pages are really strange. Apparently a few days ago, a hole opened in John's basement due to some water damage. John has been having dreams about a "Fire Witch" and an "Ice Wizard" that live down this hole. Here's the part that's really weird: he thinks the dreams are real. The ice wizard has imprisoned the fire witch, and John seems almost obsessed with freeing her. He also talks about a "magic crystal card" that the fire witch gave him in a dream. By rubbing it and saying the "magic word" necken-sway, John thinks that he can find the fire witch. He talks about the card as if he actually has it in his possession.
  
  Obviously, years of heavy drinking have finally destroyed his mind.
  
  The diary goes on about mundane personal matters, as diaries are wont to do, for quite some time. A recurring theme seems to be how envious John is of people who are out "living life". This puzzles you a bit, since John has done more crazy shit than any 10 people you know, with the possible exception of some of his psycho friends.
  
  The last couple of pages are really strange. Apparently a few days ago, a hole opened in John's basement due to some water damage. John has been having dreams about a "Fire Witch" and an "Ice Wizard" that live down this hole. Here's the part that's really weird: he thinks the dreams are real. The ice wizard has imprisoned the fire witch, and John seems almost obsessed with freeing her. He also talks about a "magic crystal card" that the fire witch gave him in a dream. By rubbing it and saying the "magic word" necken-sway, John thinks that he can find the fire witch. He talks about the card as if he actually has it in his possession.
  
  Obviously, years of heavy drinking have finally destroyed his mind.
  
  > examine the board
  This is a 2x4 board. It appears very sturdy.
  
  > examine the card
  This card is about the size of a playing card. It is made out of some type of gleaming crystal, and is red in color.
  
  > look in the bag
  This small leather bag smells faintly of sulphur. You can sense power emanating from it. In the small bag you see a picture, a modem, a book, a board, a thin rod, a slip of paper, a red gem, a big pan, a handwritten letter, and a typed letter.