text: > Look around
  The darkness in this space feels different than simply the absence of light - both weaker and stronger, somehow. You can still perceive yourself and what you're carrying, but a foot or so away from you the darkness seems palpable, almost alive. You do sense an exit above you, though.
  
  > examine the darkness
  The darkness surrounding you feels like more than just the absence of light.
  
  > touch it
  You've got to be kidding.
  
  > go to the south
  As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself.
  
  This space is made of some spongy gray matter. You can see an inscription here, and you can go north to the Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, and west to the Great Hall, or up to the manifestation of one from this space. Now that the space has taken on a complete shape, you can also see a passage leading down to Darkness.
  
  > South
  You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...
  
  This appears to be the head librarian's office in the Great Library of Alexandria. Scrolls litter the floor. The main part of the library is north of you, and a side room lies to the south.
  
  You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here.
  
  > Go north
  As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself.
  
  > Go east
  You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...
  
  On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note.
  
  > look at the buttons
  There are five buttons hidden in the geometric designs: a circular button, a button in the shape of two juxtaposed parentheses, a triangular button, a square button, and a pentagonal button.
  
  > go east
  This is a small, nondescript room to the east of the study. Its walls are plain and unadorned.
  
  In the center of the room is a large wooden chest.
  
  You can also see a cube here.
  
  > look at the cube
  This featureless cube has six sides, each of which is in the shape of a square. The cube is about one cubic foot in volume.
  
  > get it
  You take the cube. It is just a cube, but there's something about it that holds your attention. You feel you understand three-dimensional solid geometry a little better.
  
  [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate
  that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one
  point.]
  
  > examine the chest
  (x+1)⁴. It also has a set of five dials embedded in its
  lid.
  It appears each dial can be set to an integer between 0 and 9.
  
  The first dial has x⁴ marked below it. The first dial is
  set
  to 0.
  
  The second dial has x³ marked below it. The second dial is
  set to 0.
  
  The third dial has x² marked below it. The third dial is set
  to 0.
  
  The fourth dial has x¹ marked below it. The fourth dial is
  set to 0.
  
  The fifth dial has x⁰ marked below it. The fifth dial is
  set
  to 0.
  
  The chest is currently closed.
  
  > set the first dial to 1
  You set the first dial to 1.
  
  > set second to 1
  You set the second dial to 1.
  
  > set the third to 1
  You set the third dial to 1.
  
  > set the fourth to 1
  You set the fourth dial to 1.
  
  > Set fifth to 1
  You set the fifth dial to 1.
  
  > Open chest
  You can't get the chest open. It appears to be locked.
  
  > look at the chest
  (x+1)^4. It also has a set of five dials embedded in its
  lid. It appears each dial can be set to an integer between 0 and 9.
  
  The first dial has x^4 marked below it. The first dial is
  set to 1.
  
  The second dial has x^3 marked below it. The second dial is
  set to 1.
  
  The third dial has x^2 marked below it. The third dial is
  set to 1.
  
  The fourth dial has x^2 marked below it. The fourth dial is
  set to 1.
  
  The fifth dial has x^0 marked below it. The fifth dial is
  set to 1.
  
  The chest is currently closed.
  
  > set second to 4
  You set the second dial to 4.
  
  > set the third to 6
  You set the third dial to 6.
  
  > set fourth to 4
  You set the fourth dial to 4. The lid of the chest gives a
  click.
  
  [Your understanding of Algebra has increased. You estimate that
  your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by four
  points.]
  
  > Open chest
  You open the large wooden chest, revealing The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
  
  > look at Book
  Which do you mean, The Compendious Book on Calculation by
  Completion and Balancing, Elements, or your math book?
  
  > examine compendious
  This is a copy of al-Khwarizmi's Compendious Book on Calculation
  by Completion and Balancing, or, more simply, Algebra.
  
  > read the Algebra
  This is a copy of al-Khwarizmi's Compendious Book on Calculation
  
  Balancing contains far too much material to read through.
  
  > get it
  (putting the old coin into the set to make room)
  Taken.
  
  > go to the west
  On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note.
  
  > Go west
  As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. The space around you seems to fold in on itself.
  
  > Go west
  You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in...
  
  On the long table is a pile of old coins.
  
  The Count is here, looking rather bored.
  
  > Go west
  The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count I would be grateful!"
  
  > Go south
  The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count I would be grateful!"
  
  A large bronze box lies on the side table.
  
  The Countess is here, fiddling disgruntledly with the bronze box.
  
  > Examine box
  This bronze box has several knobs and small wheels on it. It appears to be a primitive mechanical calculator.
  
  > look up the calculator
  (in your math book)
  That topic is not listed in the index.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and
  Balancing
  a cube
  some exhaustion sandals
  a tetrahedron
  an octahedron
  a set (no longer empty)
  an old coin
  a square root
  Elements
  a scribbled scroll
  your math book