Start of a transcript of JIGSAW An Interactive History Copyright (c) 1995 by Graham Nelson Release 3 / Serial number 951129 / Inform v1600 Library 6/1 Standard interpreter 1.1 Interpreter 1 Version C / Library serial number 951024 >open door It seems to be locked. >kick door It only seemed to be stuck, after all - the wood had warped and expanded in the damp atmosphere, jamming it in the frame. It's open now. >out Faded Landing The hotel landing was designed to resemble an opulent Parisian staircase of the 1870s, but time, neglect, misunderstanding and poor taste have made the result more like a brothel. At least the bathroom door (northeast) is slightly concealed. Right where the portrait of the Empress Eugenie ought logically to be, there instead hangs a framed photograph of a handsome young Arab. At the foot of the off-red stairs, a half-dozen Egyptian soldiers in not much of a uniform are standing around, gesticulating and chattering to each other. There's enough hostility to make your presence seem ill-advised. >x photograph "President Gamal A. Nasser", it would appear. >x soldiers The words "testosterone" and "pride" come to mind. So does "armed". >d The Egyptian soldiers do not look like pleasant company this evening. Are you perhaps under house arrest? >x stairs You can't see any such thing. >get photograph You carefully lift the photograph off its hook. >ne Indescribable Bathroom (No, really.) A portion of rancid soap, like horrid yellow butter-fat, rests in something... best not described. >look Indescribable Bathroom (No, really.) A portion of rancid soap, like horrid yellow butter-fat, rests in something... best not described. >x soap Don't. >get soap (putting the berliner into the canvas rucksack to make room) Taken (with extreme reluctance). >sw Faded Landing The hotel landing was designed to resemble an opulent Parisian staircase of the 1870s, but time, neglect, misunderstanding and poor taste have made the result more like a brothel. At least the bathroom door (northeast) is slightly concealed. At the foot of the off-red stairs, a half-dozen Egyptian soldiers in not much of a uniform are standing around, gesticulating and chattering to each other. There's enough hostility to make your presence seem ill-advised. >e The other bedrooms really are locked. >s Eastern Hotel Room A sweaty, mouldering hotel room in a third-rate establishment. A three-bladed fan lazily pushes the air about, to little effect. Cockroaches crawl along the edges of the floor, but at least shutters are provided to keep out the mosquitos. There's a door in the northern wall. The management have done their best to provide you with the English papers, in as much as the latest edition of the "Eagle" comic is laid out on the dresser. The door stands open. >close door The wood has warped too much to get back into the frame. >open window You give the damp-warped wood a good hard push, and the shutters burst open onto a sultry Egyptian sunset. The red sun is suspended timelessly against the sparse fields and low concrete buildings, glinting off the motorcycles and open-topped cars. Below the window, a river runs north-south, the banks running parallel and about seventy yards wide. A few small local barges ply up and down. In the far distance are beautiful trees against the skyline. The mosquito whines, gratingly. >shake mosquito powder You give the box a good shake, sneezing as the horrid powder scatters into the air. >close window You close the shutters in a vain attempt to keep the whine of mosquitos outside. The mosquito batters against the window, trying to escape. >catch mosquito with soap You manage to snare to mosquito onto the rancid soap. Not the most aesthetically pleasant act of today. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >sketch mosquito (the winged mosquito) You sketch in a picture of the winged mosquito. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >squish mosquito That's not a verb I recognise. >kill mosquito Which do you mean, the winged mosquito or the box of mosquito powder? >winged You kill the helpless mosquito. >undo Eastern Hotel Room [Previous turn undone.] >x mosquito Which do you mean, the winged mosquito or the box of mosquito powder? >winged You can't get a close look at it. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >i You are carrying: a bar of rancid soap with added mosquito a photograph of Nasser a delivered note a Cyrillic-lettered key a basket-weave purse (which is open but empty) a cloth cap (being worn) a sparkler (providing light) a canvas rucksack (which is open) a berliner wheels III and I a spent cartridge a RZ-ROV gadget a beige folder a Geiger counter Rukl's "Atlas of the Moon" a British Army officer's uniform a wooden broom a cargo capsule (which is empty) a gnomon Waldo a mandolin a box of mosquito powder a Sixth Officer's jacket Place Names of Carolina a green cap a Richard's anemometer a paper dart a madeleine cake Black's Kaldecki detector a second note from Black a first aid box (which is closed) the 1911 Boy's Book of the Sea a curious device the Victorian ormolu clock Emily's sketch book a charcoal pencil three keys: a little key a elegant key a tagged key an intercept a travel permit a checklist a chit signed by Lenin a handwritten invitation card a White Star Line scribbled-on towel a folded note a white party ticket three newspapers: a crumpled newspaper an historic edition of Pravda Le Figaro The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >take mosquito Which do you mean, the winged mosquito or the box of mosquito powder? >winged I don't suppose the winged mosquito would care for that. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >n Faded Landing The hotel landing was designed to resemble an opulent Parisian staircase of the 1870s, but time, neglect, misunderstanding and poor taste have made the result more like a brothel. At least the bathroom door (northeast) is slightly concealed. At the foot of the off-red stairs, a half-dozen Egyptian soldiers in not much of a uniform are standing around, gesticulating and chattering to each other. There's enough hostility to make your presence seem ill-advised. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >give mosquito to soldiers Which do you mean, the winged mosquito or the box of mosquito powder? >winged (first taking the winged mosquito) I don't suppose the winged mosquito would care for that. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >give soap to soldiers They're at the foot of the staircase, and with any luck will remain so. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >show photograph to soldiers They're at the foot of the staircase, and with any luck will remain so. The mosquito twitches pathetically on the soap. >save Ok. >