[Lower Shaft] You are in a small square room which is at the bottom of a long shaft. To the east is a passageway and to the northeast a very narrow passage. In the shaft can be seen a heavy iron chain. At the end of the chain is a basket.
The basket contains:
A small pile of coal.
A torch.
A screwdriver.
Woohoo! It worked!
>take coal from basket, take torch from basket, take screwdriver from basket
Taken.
>east
[Machine Room] You are in a large room which seems to be air conditioned. In one corner there is a machine (?) which is shaped somewhat like a clothes dryer. On the "panel" there is a switch which is labeled in an obscure dialect of Swahili. Fortunately, I know this dialect, and the label translates to START. The switch does not appear to be manipulable by any human hand (unless the fingers are about 1/16 by 1/4 inch). On the front of the machine is a large lid, which is closed.
Hmmm...an underground room that is air conditioned, contains something that looks like a clothes dryer and has a switch that needs a tool. Sounds like fun.
>open lid
The lid opens.
Gotta use this coal for something…let’s try in here.
>put coal in machine
Done.
>close lid
The lid closes.
Let’s see…what is 1/16 by 1/4 inch? Perhaps our trusty "flat-blade", "slot-head", "straight", "flat", "flat-tip" or as I like to put it, "flat-head" screwdriver will fit in there.
>turn switch with screwdriver
The machine comes to life (figuratively) with a dazzling display of colored lights and bizarre noises. After a few moments, the excitement fades.
Sounds like the clothes washer at the laundromat where I first saw Penny, where many of our conversations took place, and where my slide into evil began. But enough about me.
>open lid
The lid opens.
>look in machine
The machine contains:
A huge diamond.
Neat. The transformation of carbon to diamond is a process that requires millions of years to complete and takes place 90 to 100 miles below the earth's surface when carbon, probably pure graphite, is exposed to temperatures exceeding 2,000°F and pressure that is 50 times greater than what exists on the surface of the earth. Who knew you could just pop coal into a machine and it would do the rest?
>take diamond
Taken.
>nw
Lower Shaft
At the end of the chain is a basket.
What goes down must go back up.
>put all in basket
Done.
Okay, time for us to boogie.
>ne
Timber Room
Take whatever you left here, presuming the Thief didn't pick up the treasures already.
>take lamp, etc.
Taken.
>north
Ladder Bottom
>up
Ladder Top
>up
Coal Mine #4
>east
Coal Mine #1
>east
Wooden Tunnel
>south
Shaft Room
>raise basket
The basket is raised to the top of the shaft.
The basket contains:
A huge diamond.
A torch.
A screwdriver.
>take diamond, take torch, take screwdriver
>turn off lamp
The lamp is now off.
>west
Mine Entrance
>south
Slide Room
Wheeeeeeeeeee!!
>down
Cellar
>up
Living Room
>put treasures in case
>drop all
>save
Saved.
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