text: [Themes: Slice of life, Mystery, house setting]
  
  > Go down
  You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in the...
  
  The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto the stairs.
  
  A door stands open in the north wall.
  
  > look up ALBERT in the programme
  "ALBERT HARDCASTLE, uncle of the groom, is a famous sociologist and keen golfer. He wishes his brother would join the twentieth century and stop fussing so much over female vicars."
  
  > Go east
  You stride off down the corridor towards the east, passing a few rooms where hideous relatives pace up and down within. They are best avoided, you think, so you don't stop until you reach the...
  
  The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There are also less interesting rooms to the east and south.
  
  > Go north
  This room offers refuge from the tastelessness that seems to prevail around the rest of the house. Framed pictures of famous film actresses, Garland, Dietrich, Midler and Streisand in particular, hang proudly on the sky-blue walls, alongside two extra-large pink and red ribbons. The abundance of style extends to the curtains, the most attractive you have ever seen. If only the rest of the house, to the south, had been decorated as well as this.
  
  Deborah, the bride, sits on her bed flicking through an old issue of Cooee! magazine.
  
  > ask Deborah about the wedding
  "Sorry, haven't you heard? The wedding's off. The lovely groom's done a bunk."
  
  > ask Deborah about Malcolm
  "Who's he? Never heard of him." Her tone betrays a vein of bitterness.
  
  > ask Deborah,  to go south
  You haven't solved the mystery yet. You shouldn't drag Deborah away from her room until you have the answers.
  
  > give the cooee to you
  Much as you love pouring through the pages of the quality journal that is Cooee!! magazine, you'd better put such pleasures to one side for the time being and do something about this wedding.
  
  > Go south
  The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There are also less interesting rooms to the east and south.
  
  > Go east
  You are surprised how different this room is to all the others in the house - bland white walls and bare floorboards give it the 'recently added extension' look, which isn't appropriate. Cardboard boxes full of junk have been dumped in a corner. There is nowhere to go from here but out west to the landing.
  
  You can see a plastic supermarket bag (which is empty) here.
  
  > Drop guide
  Dropped.
  
  > take the bag
  Taken.
  
  > take Guide
  (putting the wedding programme into the plastic supermarket bag to make room)
  Taken.
  
  > Examine boxes
  You briefly examine one of the more interesting boxes, full of useless but interesting-looking junk. After a brief look through, you decide that there's nothing worth holding onto here.
  
  > Go south
  This room is quite small and cramped, with the single bed in the corner taking up most of the room. Definitely not a place for cat-swinging; indeed, you can't see any cat hairs on the thick rug of a carpet. A wardrobe has been squeezed into the room as well, and by the look of it (and the smell of it), one of the Aunts is taking up this room.
  
  > open the wardrobe
  You open the wardrobe.
  
  > look in it
  The wardrobe is empty.
  
  > examine the bed
  The bed is quite tall and narrow compared to yours, and has been made neatly. You are not sure about the mickey mouse sheets, though.
  
  > look under it
  You dislodge a letter which appeared to be stuck to the bottom of the bed.
  
  > take letter
  (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make room)
  Taken.
  
  > read it
  This is a love letter from Malcolm to Deborah. You blush at some of the vivid imagery used, and decide not to read all of it. Maybe he stuck it under that bed when he visited the house on one occasion, hoping Deborah would find it.
  
  > enter the wardrobe
  You get into the wardrobe.
  
  > Close wardrobe
  Much as you like dark and confined spaces, you decide that sorting out this wedding is more important than getting stuck in a wardrobe.
  
  > search the wardrobe
  The wardrobe is empty.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a letter
  a Battlebase episode guide
  a plastic supermarket bag
  a small brass key
  a wedding programme
  
  > Exit
  You step proudly out of the wardrobe, wondering briefly if there are any banners nearby that you can wave.
  
  > go west
  The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto the stairs.
  
  A door stands open in the north wall.
  
  > Go west
  In an attempt to steer clear of people you have no intention of meeting, you hurry past a number of open doorways, finally reaching the...
  
  The west end of the landing ends here with a small window which enables you to look out on the tiled pathway and the gardens outside. The bathroom door lies north, and another (closed) door prevents you from going south.
  
  > look at the window
  You gaze out of the window at the huge garden, its distant border marked by a row of imposing trees. The marquee for the reception will be erected here soon, assuming it hasn't already been cancelled.
  
  > open the bathroom door
  You try the handle, but the door is locked from the inside it seems.
  
  > go to the south
  The door is locked. You try knocking, but there is no answer, and besides, you get the impression that you are barking up the wrong tree here.
  
  > unlock the door with the key
  (first taking the small brass key)
  (putting the Battlebase episode guide into the plastic supermarket bag to make room)
  That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
  
  > knock on the bathroom door
  A man's voice shouts from within, "Go away, I'm sulking!".
  
  > ask the bathroom door about the wedding
  "Go away, I'm sulking!" Amazing, a talking door.
  
  > look up sulky the door in the programme
  Nothing in the programme about that.
  
  > put the programmer under the door
  (first taking the wedding programme)
  (putting the letter into the plastic supermarket bag to make room)
  You can't put the wedding programme under the bathroom door.
  
  > Unlock south
  What do you want to unlock the south wall with?