text: [Themes: Casual Simulation, orphans, orphanage, children, simulation]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.
  
  Agatha, Mildred, Gretchen, Bart, Gavin, Bub, Cheyenne, Cob and Jim are housed here.
  
  A pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.
  
  In one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales.
  
  > Go north
  This ward is the home of children aged between six and twelve. A series of oddly-shaped rooms produced by ill-considered renovations, it's difficult to heat, the lighting is bad and there are far too many blind corners and hideaways. The Junior House lies south and the Senior north.
  
  The room is ankle-deep in raw sewage.
  
  A pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.
  
  Dorinda and Prudence are housed here.
  
  Some ancient tricycles are littered about the place.
  
  > assign all to the sewage
  You assign Prudence and Dorinda to raw sewage.
  
  > Go north
  Here reside the oldest children, aged roughly twelve to fifteen. The largest, best-lit and airiest of the wards, its walls are decorated with inspiring murals. The Middle House lies to the south.
  
  A pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.
  
  Randy is housed here.
  
  The room is ankle-deep in raw sewage, in which Hunter frolics with bleach, bucket and mop.
  
  > assign all to the sewage
  You assign Randy and Hunter to raw sewage.
  
  > Status
  Gretchen   abysmal      mediocre     poor         poor
  Randy      mediocre     bad          poor         mediocre
  Cheyenne   poor         mediocre     poor         poor
  Hunter     bad          adequate     poor         bad
  Bart       poor         awful        bad          poor
  Agatha     bad          bad          poor         poor
  Bub        bad          awful        poor         bad
  Prudence   poor         bad          bad          poor
  Gavin      poor         mediocre     poor         mediocre
  Mildred    abysmal      awful        poor         mediocre
  Dorinda    bad          bad          bad          mediocre
  Cob        bad          poor         bad          mediocre
  
  > go south
  This ward is the home of children aged between six and twelve. A series of oddly-shaped rooms produced by ill-considered renovations, it's difficult to heat, the lighting is bad and there are far too many blind corners and hideaways. The Junior House lies south and the Senior north.
  
  Some ancient tricycles are littered about the place.
  
  A pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.
  
  The room is ankle-deep in raw sewage, in which Dorinda and Prudence frolic with bleach, bucket and mop.
  
  > scrub dorinda
  You seize Dorinda, delouse her scalp with carbolic acid, and make her dedicate a few hours to shining her shoes. This accomplished, you deliver a short lecture on the spiritual and bacterial dangers of filthiness. Hopefully the lesson is learned; her looks are now poor.
  
  > go to the south
  Here are housed the younger children, from the age of weaning to about six years old. Formerly a lumber-room, its ceilings are oppressively low. The Middle House is to the north.
  
  A pack of savage Ruritanian Mastiffs patrol the grounds.
  
  In one corner, piled up into a small mountain, are the many volumes of Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales.
  
  Agatha, Mildred, Gretchen, Bart, Gavin, Bub, Cheyenne, Cob and Jim are housed here.
  
  > Discipline mildred
  You apply some well-deserved discipline to Mildred Chollop. Her discipline is now bad.
  
  > Discipline gretchen
  You apply some well-deserved discipline to Gretchen Bloch. Her discipline is now abysmal.
  
  > Discipline bub
  You apply some well-deserved discipline to Bub Grady. His discipline is now bad.
  
  > Discipline agatha
  Enough for today: there are regulations about excessive corporal punishment. Besides, if you thrash every child continually, they'll grow leathery and insensate.
  
  > ring bell
  The raw sewage has weakened Hunter Blair's morale, which is now awful. Polychromatic Lung's Fairy Tales has improved Bart Button's morale, which is now mediocre.
  
  You receive a government stipend of 130 for the feeding and care of your orphans; and pay out 39 coins on necessary care and maintenance, most of it going on food.
  Your profligate meal plans have borne fruit: Mildred Chollop and Cob Froome have gained vigour, and Bart Button and Cob Froome have improved their morale.
  
  A generous patron, impressed by Randy Potts's work ethic, has offered him employment as a swineherd. For your success as an educator, the Government awards you a bonus of 35 coins.
  
  Gavin Nash has grown up a little, and been transferred to the Middle House.
  
  A new orphan, Ray Cotter, has been entrusted to your care and is now housed in the Junior House.
  
  > look at the catalogue
  A respected specialist catering to the orphan management trade, Fobberfish of Hackney provides a wide variety of goods at virtually affordable rates. Bowing to the decadence of the age, this once-respectable publication now features many vain luxuries that you can safely ignore, such as fair-trade gruel, artisanal wildflower soap, and smallpox vaccines. The few items of real utility have been circled in red pen:
  
  The Box (300 coins)
  Atherton's Ergonomic Treadmill (400 coins)
  My First Delousing Bath (350 coins)
  Spinal Corrective Corsets (450 coins)
  Dr. Pranger's Lithium Water (700 coins)
  triple-barred windows (350 coins)
  The Harvest of Sin (700 coins)
  
  > read about Sin
  (in Fobberfish of Hackney's catalogue):
  Much-beloved Christian artist Stowey Downard's previous works include Chartists: Vanguard of Lucifer, Whorish Shame and
  the fifty-panel series Christ's Vengeance. Now he has been
  inspired to create his most morally instructive work yet, The
  Harvest of Sin, a series of 35 anatomical diagrams depicting the shocking consequences of pre-marital flirting. Highly scientific lithographs illuminate the diseased body's foulness in unflinching detail, and may be depended upon to foster a healthsome disgust of the sexual acts. Do not, in moral timorousness, shrink from letting your child know where sin must lead: order The Harvest of Sin
  today.
  
  > read about Bath
  (in Fobberfish of Hackney's catalogue):
  My First Delousing Bath introduces the young child to the painful, demeaning concept of personal hygiene. With regular use, it is guaranteed to remove all but the most deeply-embedded skin parasites.
  
  > Status
  Jim        poor         poor         poor         poor
  Gretchen   abysmal      mediocre     bad          poor
  Cheyenne   poor         mediocre     mediocre     poor
  Hunter     poor         adequate     poor         bad
  Bart       poor         bad          bad          mediocre
  Agatha     poor         bad          poor         poor
  Bub        poor         abysmal      poor         awful
  Prudence   bad          awful        bad          mediocre
  Gavin      poor         mediocre     poor         poor
  Mildred    bad          abysmal      bad          poor
  Dorinda    awful        poor         mediocre     mediocre
  Cob        poor         poor         poor         mediocre
  
  > buy Box
  You reluctantly part with 300 coins, mail in your order, and in due course receive delivery of The Box.