All text will now be saved to the script file. Type UNSCRIPT at any time to discontinue scripting. >restore Restored. Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >i You are carrying: a perfect blue crystal an old pillowcase a library book a car key a garage door opener a #2 pencil a tourist map a crowbar a divining rod a can of WD-40 a paper napkin a can-opener a shovel a machete a biology book a bad shingle a cannonball the time machine manual a Herring detector a package a screwdriver a frisbee a rare book >put all in package perfect blue crystal: Done. old pillowcase: Done. biology book: Done. bad shingle: Done. cannonball: Done. time machine manual: Done. Herring detector: Done. package: You can't put the package in itself! screwdriver: Done. frisbee: Done. rare book: Done. >l Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >x window It's tantalizingly out of reach, but if you leap for it, you might just make it. >x view I don't see any view here. >l Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >jump You are too high up in the tree. If you jump you'll break your ankle. >jump for window I don't recognize that sentence. >jump to window You make your leap of faith. Your hands find a firm grip on the sill and you pull yourself in. Unfortunately, you drop all of your possessions in the process. Attic This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in. Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink insulation laid out in between. A thick brass pipe passes up from the floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling. Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls. A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were open, but it's closed. The only exit is the little window you came in. [ Your score just went up by 10 points. ] >x pipe It's sturdy, all right. >x boxes In the cardboard boxes you see a blue pencil and a desk lamp. >get pencil, lamp blue pencil: Taken. desk lamp: Taken. >x lamp This old desk lamp seems to be missing its power cord. It would fit right in with the other junk in the garage. >x bulb I don't see any bulb here. >climb pipe The pipe is not suitable for climbing. >pull pipe Pulling the pipe doesn't have any effect. >x boards I don't see any boards here. >l Attic This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in. Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink insulation laid out in between. A thick brass pipe passes up from the floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling. Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls. A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were open, but it's closed. The only exit is the little window you came in. >x insulation Which insulation do you mean, the pink insulation, or the pink insulation? >any pink insulation: The insulation is made of pink fiberglass. >x ceiling I don't see any ceiling here. >search boxes There's nothing in the cardboard boxes. >get boxes They're fixed in place. >[cardboard?] I don't understand the punctuation "[". >x ladder I see nothing special about the closed hatch ladder. >get ladder It's fixed in place. >move it You can't move the hatch ladder. >open it You can't open the hatch ladder from inside the attic. You have to pull it open from below. >push it You can't push open the hatch ladder from inside the attic. You have to pull it open from below. >jump on it You throw all common sense to the winds and jump forcefully onto the hatch ladder. Fortunately, it barely moves. You could have twisted your ankle or possibly broken your neck. >[yay!] I don't understand the punctuation "[". >l Attic This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in. Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink insulation laid out in between. A thick brass pipe passes up from the floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling. Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls. A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were open, but it's closed. The only exit is the little window you came in. >stand You're already standing! >sit What do you want to sit on? >hatch You carefully shift your weight onto the hatch ladder. It remains fixed in place. >jump The tree is too far away to risk leaping back. If you jump you'll break your ankle. >stand on hatch You carefully shift your weight onto the hatch ladder. Nothing happens, and you step off again, thanking yourself that your stupidity wasn't rewarded by having the hatch spring open, sending you tumbling down, most likely breaking your neck in the process. >x spring I don't see any spring here. >x window Out the window you see the tree and the ground far below. >out There is nowhere to go in that direction. >s The tree is too far away to risk jumping back to. >d You're too high up to jump down from here. You'll have to find safe way to climb down to the ground. >restore Restored. Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >d Mid-way up tree You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet. A strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk. You can climb even farther up from here, or back down to the ground. You see a thick rope (tied to a tire swing and to a strong branch) here. >untie rope You untie the branch from the rope, and the rope and tire fall to the ground with a thunk. >d South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. You see a thick rope (tied to a tire) and a tire here. >get rope (first untying the rope from the tire) You untie the rope from the tire. You've already got your hands full. >i You are carrying: a perfect blue crystal an old pillowcase a library book a car key a garage door opener a #2 pencil a tourist map a crowbar a divining rod a can of WD-40 a paper napkin a can-opener a shovel a machete a biology book a bad shingle a cannonball the time machine manual a Herring detector a package a screwdriver a frisbee a rare book >put all in package perfect blue crystal: Done. old pillowcase: Done. biology book: Done. bad shingle: Done. cannonball: Done. time machine manual: Done. Herring detector: Done. package: You can't put the package in itself! screwdriver: Done. frisbee: Done. rare book: Done. >get rope Taken. >u Mid-way up tree You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet. A strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk. You can climb even farther up from here, or back down to the ground. >u Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >throw rope at window You take aim and heave the thick rope into the window. It disappears inside. >throw all in window You can't use 'all' with that verb. >throw package in window You take and and heave the package at the window. It misses by a mile and falls to the ground. >undo (Undoing one command) Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >jump to window You make your leap of faith. Your hands find a firm grip on the sill and you pull yourself in. Unfortunately, you drop all of your possessions in the process. Attic This is a little attic space, barely tall enough for you to stand in. Thick boards run in parallel lines along the floor, with pink insulation laid out in between. A thick brass pipe passes up from the floor next to the window and continues up through the ceiling. Cardboard packing boxes of various sizes are stacked along the walls. A folded-up ladder attached to a hatch would lead down if it were open, but it's closed. The only exit is the little window you came in. You see a thick rope here. [ Your score just went up by 10 points. ] >get rope Taken. >tie rope to pipe You tie the rope to the pipe. >put rope in window You throw the free end of the rope out the window. It doesn't reach all the way down to the ground. >search boxes In the cardboard boxes you see a blue pencil and a desk lamp. >get blue, lamp blue pencil: Taken. desk lamp: Taken. >out There is nowhere to go in that direction. >d (down the rope) You shimmy down the rope. After a few feet, your hands lose their grip and you plummet. The ground breaks your fall, and quite nearly your ankle. South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. You see a tire and a package here. The package seems to contain a perfect blue crystal, an old pillowcase, a biology book, a bad shingle, a cannonball, the time machine manual, a Herring detector, a screwdriver, a frisbee, and a rare book. >get all tiny window: It's too far away. wall: It's fixed in place. beautiful tree: It's fixed in place. tire: Taken. package: Taken. >use herring on tire Not a red herring. >sw Path in the woods This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think. A well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak trees. A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so the path does an abrupt curve around it. The path leads northeast to your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest. >sw Clearing The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here. Moonlight streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above. The ground is hard and flat and clean. Your footpath leaves the clearing to the northeast, heading back to the house. You see a time machine here. The hinged compartment seems to contain a hot meatball sandwich. Sitting on the time machine platform is a wheelbarrow. >enter machine Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform. >set dial to 2 Okay, it's now turned to 2. >push button You push the big red button. Click! The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven. A dull orange light envelops you. The world around you spins into a wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ... Clearing The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here. Light streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above. The ground is hard and flat and clean. You can hear the busy noise of construction work nearby, coming through the woods from the northeast. You see a time machine here. The hinged compartment seems to contain a hot meatball sandwich. Sitting on the time machine platform is a wheelbarrow. >get sandwich Taken. >ne (first getting off the platform) Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform. Woods The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of cedar and live oak trees. A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way. A construction site is to the northeast, and a clearing is visible to the southwest. >ne South of house You are standing on what will be the south side of your house. The house is currently under construction. The wooden frame has gone up, but apart from that, there's not much to see. The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. A little bare path made by you just now leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around the house to the northwest and northeast. To the east is a dirt road leading to town. You see a sapling here. A nervous kid slouches by, looking like it's his first day on the job. A trio of men with puffy faces and scruffy chest hair stride past, telling dirty jokes. A beefy blond man waddles past, blowing his nose ferociously into the sleeve of his shirt. >n Inside house You finally step into your house. Not much of a victory, given the circumstances. Just a lot of planks and rafters. A temporary work ladder is nailed into the structure, and leads up to the second floor. Someone yells, "Fifteen! Fifteen, everybody!" Someone yells back, "You got that right!" A young woman with a pile of floor tiles rushes past, crying, "Who ordered these?" A guy clambers down from above and yells, "Let's eat!". >u Second floor The description 'second floor' is misleading, because the floor up here isn't actually finished, so watch your step. From up here you see a nice view of the town square down the road. There is a fancy blueprint of the house sitting on a temporary workdesk. The only exit is down. Sitting on the workdesk is a blueprint. The architect is here. Someone rushes up to you, looks you up and down, and then shakes his head and runs off. A man with round spectacles stares at the sky and predicts rain. A wiry lad from the electrical crew says, "We need to wait for the plumbers." >give sandwich to architect He says, "Why, thank you! This will just hit the spot with some coffee. I'll be right back." He clambers down the ladder and heads north out of sight. [ Your score just went up by 5 points. ] There is a crashing noise and some amount of furor and muttered oaths from the construction crew. Someone shouts, "Nobody move! Wait, everyone get out of the way! I said, get out of the way!" A fat man jumps up and down and makes 'bibble-brrrrrr' noises with his mouth. Oddly, nobody seems to care. >draw secret door on blueprint with blue pencil There are words after your command that I couldn't use. >draw secret What do you want to engrave on it on? >blueprint (with the blue pencil) You put the blue pencil to the blueprint and sketch a quick hidden passage on the south side of the house. You make a note that it is to be a secret entrance. The architect will probably get the point when he sees it, provided he doesn't blow his stack when he sees that you've tampered with his work. The lunchtime whistle blows shrilly. All of the workers cry, "LUNCH!" They drop what they're doing and gather north of the house to start eating. >x blueprint It's a lovely floor plan, rendered impeccably with blue pencil. The name of the architect is stenciled in the top corner. >read name "Peter H. Mayhew -- Architect!" >z Time passes... The architect returns, nursing a hot cup of coffee. He immediately gets back to work. Seconds later, he does a blurbling spit-take with his coffee. "What's this? What's this?" he says, peering at the blueprint. He gets up from his desk and walks over to you. "Normally," he says, "I would be furious if anyone tampered with my blueprint while I was away. In fact, I find the circumstances of my getting up to leave to be suspiciously contrived. However! In this case, I'll make a very grand exception!" He pulls you back over to the desk and sits down. He puts his finger on your addition. "A secret door! A secret passage!" He grins broadly. "You don't know how long I've wanted to create something like this. People don't want creativity, they want the same old thing every time. Do you know I once got a failing grade on an architecture school project for putting in secret passages? My instructor was this strict old biddy who didn't see the point of it." "Now, we don't have much room in the floor plan to acommodate anything but a narrow little hallway, but perhaps it'd be good enough to be at least an entrance, and perhaps a small storage area. What do you think? You should at least be able to enter the master bedroom through there. I'm going to have to give some thought to the secret mechanism that will open it. Oh, what fun! Thank you. Really." He shakes your hand and gets to work, scribbling little notes to himself. >give tile to architect Those aren't important. The architect looks up, grimaces, but goes back to work. He says, "Oh sure. They get a lunch break. They always get a lunch break. But me? Do I get one? Noooo..." >give bad to architect He takes the bad shingle and then looks at it with alarm. "Oh my goodness! This is the type of shingle we were planning to use, but it's obvious that we need to use something of better quality. I'll make sure to talk to the roofers about this." [ Your score just went up by 4 points. ] >d Inside house You finally step into your house. Not much of a victory, given the circumstances. Just a lot of planks and rafters. A temporary work ladder is nailed into the structure, and leads up to the second floor. >s South of house You are standing on what will be the south side of your house. The house is currently under construction. The wooden frame has gone up, but apart from that, there's not much to see. The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. A little bare path made by you just now leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around the house to the northwest and northeast. To the east is a dirt road leading to town. You see a sapling here. >sw Woods The smell of freshly-sawed wood wafts through this natural grove of cedar and live oak trees. A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way. A construction site is to the northeast, and a clearing is visible to the southwest. >sw Clearing The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here. Light streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above. The ground is hard and flat and clean. You can see a construction site through the woods to the northeast. You see a time machine here. Sitting on the time machine platform is a wheelbarrow. >enter machine Okay, you're now standing on the time machine platform. >set dial to 4 Okay, it's now turned to 4. >push button You push the big red button. Click! The time machine vibrates and heats up like a toaster oven. A bright blue light envelops you. The world around you spins into a wild vortex that suddenly vanishes, leaving you to find yourself in a ... Clearing The woods part in a marvelous natural clearing here. Moonlight streams prettily through the canopy of leaves above. The ground is hard and flat and clean. Your footpath leaves the clearing to the northeast, heading back to the house. You see a time machine here. Sitting on the time machine platform is a wheelbarrow. >ne (first getting off the platform) Okay, you're no longer on the time machine platform. Path in the woods This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think. A well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak trees. A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so the path does an abrupt curve around it. The path leads northeast to your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest. >ne South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. >x wall You always thought that the wall on this side of the house would make a great place to hide a secret door. Perhaps the architect came through. >push it Pushing the wall doesn't do anything. >touch it The wall feels like a wall. >feel it The wall feels like a wall. >look under it There's nothing under the wall. >search wall You find nothing of interest. >open wall You can't find the secret door to open it. There must be some kind of secret switch. >u Mid-way up tree You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet. A strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk. You can climb even farther up from here, or back down to the ground. >u Treetop You're as high in the tree as your weight will let you climb. The view from here is incredible. The window in the side of the house is right in front of you to the north. >jump to window Not a chance. You're lucky you made it the first time. >d Mid-way up tree You are mid-way up the tree, which extends up another 15 feet. A strong branch here extends horizontally from the trunk. You can climb even farther up from here, or back down to the ground. >d South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. >climb rope I don't see any rope here. >x rope I don't see any rope here. >jump You leap. It feels good to exercise your legs. >sw Path in the woods This little spot is one of your favorite places to sit and think. A well-trod path winds through a natural grove of cedar and live oak trees. A large rock juts up out of the ground right in your way, so the path does an abrupt curve around it. The path leads northeast to your house, and a clearing is visible to the southwest. >x rock The rock is a five foot grey boulder, almost egg-shaped, a single piece of heavy, textured granite. Polished smooth over time, a wedge shape sheared from the top ages ago provides a comfortable place to sit. >sit on rock You sit down on top of the rock. It is very serene and peaceful. >out You get off the rock. There is nowhere to go in that direction. >ne South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. >nw Behind house The back of your house is pretty non-descript, except for some really nice trees that make up for the lack of landscaping in the front. The spout of your drainpipe comes down here from the roof. A gravel path extends northeast and southeast. >x drainpipe I see nothing special about the drainpipe. >x wall I don't see any wall here. >ne North of house The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door. The garage door is open. A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the house. The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to the front of the house and southwest to the back. >s In the garage This room is a total mess. No wonder you keep your car in the driveway. Sure enough, it took a long time to sort through the junk in here, and you have found everything including the kitchen sink, and there still doesn't seem to have been much point to it. There is a garage door button on the wall. A closed door to the south leads into your house through the kitchen. The only other exit is the way you came in, which is open. You see an opener button, a wasp nest, a moose head trophy, a beat-up mattress, the kitchen sink, a deflated soccer ball, a broken tire pump, and a 2x4 plank here. >push button You push the wall opener button. Click. The garage door smoothly glides shut. >x door Which door do you mean, the garage door, or the back door? >garage It's closed. >push button You push the wall opener button. Click. The garage door smoothly glides open. >n North of house The north side of your house is dominated by your garage door. The garage door is open. A scaled stone wall runs up the side of the house. The driveway extends east, and a small path leads southeast to the front of the house and southwest to the back. >se Front of house This is the front of your house. A couple of stones laying about make up your half-hearted attempt at landscaping. Your driveway is to the northeast. A small path leads northwest and southwest. The front door stands invitingly to the west. You see a doormat here. >x mat It's a bulky rectangular mat made out of thatched brown fibers. It reads, "Welcome." >move it There's nothing under the doormat. It would be a good place to put your spare house key, if only you knew where it was. >x stones Just a couple of cold grey stones sitting in the soft dirt. >move stones There's nothing else under the landscaping stones. >x door It's solid wood, a real beauty, with the best lock money can buy. You always considered it to be nicely inviting. Until now. >x wal I don't know the word "wal". >x wall I don't see any wall here. >sw South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. >x tree It's a whopper! >x ground It lies beneath you. >search it You search along the ground near the base of the wall. After a few passes, your hand moves across a flat area, about four inches across. It has been colored and textured to look like the ground, but it feels different to the touch. This must be the switch. >push switch Pushing the secret switch doesn't do anything. >pull it Pulling the secret switch doesn't have any effect. >turn it Turning the secret switch doesn't have any effect. >switch switch I don't know how to switch the secret switch. >x switch It looks amazingly like nothing in particular at all. >touch it The secret switch feels like a secret switch. >l South of house The ground slopes down slightly here, and the wall of the house looms an extra story high because of it. There is a tiny window high in the wall, about 30 feet up. There is a rope dangling from the window. A little path made by you on your many daily walks leads southwest into the woods. You can walk around your house to the northwest and northeast. A beautiful, leafy tree is growing here next to the house, right where you always thought it should. >x switch It looks amazingly like nothing in particular at all. >push switch Pushing the secret switch doesn't do anything. >click switch I don't know the word "click". >toggle switch I don't know the word "toggle". >kick it Kicking things is more likely to hurt your foot than help your situation. >hit it I don't know how to attack the secret switch. >turn switch Turning the secret switch doesn't have any effect. >pull it Pulling the secret switch doesn't have any effect. >push it Pushing the secret switch doesn't do anything. >flip switch I don't know how to flip the secret switch. >learn how to flip the secret switch I don't know the word "learn". >flip the flipping switch already I don't know the word "flipping". >save Saved. >quit In a total of 487 turns, you have achieved a score of 99 points out of a possible 151, which means you are an experienced adventurer. Do you really want to quit? (YES or NO) > y Thank you for playing First Things First.