MESSAGE 500 [[short-cut message]]
The door of the small brick building is closed.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 499 [[short-cut message]]
The door swings open.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 498 [[short-cut message]]
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 1 [disrespect]
Disrespect to a Prefect. Take one black mark.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 2 [max black marks]
Uh Oh.  You have #VAR5# black marks.  You are very bad.  I will have
to punish you.  Take off all your clothes.  Oh, that's good. You are a very
nice specimen.  Now let me take them with me over here behind these rocks
while I get into something cool and comfortable.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 3 [dragon eats]
A dragon walks in.  He says, "Oh, Boy, a naked young maiden for me.  Oh,
you're no maiden.  Oh, well, I'll eat you anyway."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 497 [[short-cut message]]
KRIKKK!!!!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 4 [break arm]
You be unable to continue this game.  I have been obliged to break your arm.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 496 [[short-cut message]]
They are a completely useless ring of keys for Part 2.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 5 [Now you should know better than that.]
Now you should know better than that. I'm sure you have had school dinners
before. It has the effect they usually have on humans. You die.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 6 [water taste]
It is slightly metallic tasting but otherwise not bad. Your thirst is quenched.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 495 [[short-cut message]]
The bull won't let you.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 7 [too wet]
No. It is far too wet underfoot.  You'll catch your death and them who'll
get the blame?  Me, that's who.  Not you.  You'll be happily dead.  I'll
have to explain it to the SPCA.  In a word, NO.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 494 [[short-cut message]]
The bull roars out: "Are you still there?"
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 493 [[short-cut message]]
WELL, GO AWAY!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 8 [gullible]
The bull believes your outrageous lie and stops guarding the gully.

It is a GULLY-BULL.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 492 [[short-cut message]]
                 B O O O O M M M ! ! !
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 9 [abominible]
                     B O O O O M M M M ! ! !
The bull eats the bomb and promptly explodes in a most inelegant manner.

It is A BOMB IN A BULL.

But enough of this old bull.  What do you want to do now?
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 491 [[short-cut message]]
BOOOOIIIIINNNNGGGGGG!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 10 [kick door1]
It is a very stout door but shows some signs of giving under your attack.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 11 [kick door2]
You hear cracking and splintering sounds - it is definitely giving way.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 12 [kick door3]
A lavatory attendent apprehends you for damaging public property.  The
magistrate bends you over to keep the peace and stay away from the caves
area.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 13 [try wellie door]
You try the door but the mechanism seems to have caught on the outside.

A similar thing once occured to three old ladies of my acquaintance.

END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 490 [[short-cut message]]
Yippee! Now we're getting to the really good bits.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 14 [Move magically]
There is a weird sensation and suddenly...
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 15 [nothing happens]
Nothing happens.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 489 [[short-cut message]]
It's dark here. You might fall into a sploosh-hole.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 488 [[short-cut message]]
Sploosh
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 487 [[short-cut message]]
He says: "No way, chappie!  Only if you can pay the price."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 486 [[short-cut message]]
The fence examines it closely and says:
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 16 [fence mess1]
"Kinda worn. I can let you 'ave a thou' on it."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 17 [fence mess2]
"Don't see many o' those about nowadays. I'll take it."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 18 [fence mess3]
"'Ere you are. Robbin' myself I am."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 19 [fence mess4]
"'Ard to get rid o' these, but since you're a good supplier, I'll do it."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 20 [fence mess5]
"Luvly! I know just the suck...er, customer what'll take this."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 21 [fence mess6]
"Yus, I think I can take that off yer 'ands for yer."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 22 [zx81 mess]
A splindly balding creature with a neat ginger beard and spectacles emerges
from the gloom.

He throws something which lodges in the wall with a sickening thud, then
rushes off cackling wildly.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 23 [eat sorbet wall]
Fine vintage for Chateau Yguem.  For sorbet YIK! Actually it's volcanic
rock. Don't you dare spit it out in my presence.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 485 [[short-cut message]]
Oops. The mouse ate it.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 484 [[short-cut message]]
Apparently he eats anything.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 24 [no rod]
The bird says, "No rod, huh? I can see you've played this game before."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 483 [[short-cut message]]
RRRRRAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 25 [Tony Bridge]
In a puff of stage smoke a Bridge appears on the other side of the chasm.
It is Tony Bridge.

He says: "What you need is the 16 32."

Unfortunately he is wearing wellies and you cannot see his footnotes.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 482 [[short-cut message]]
Only directions or LEFT, RIGHT, or FIRE work here.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 26 [edge of screen]
YOU RAN OUT OF SCREEN.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 27 [you moved]
YOU HAVE MOVED $VERB$.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 481 [[short-cut message]]
ZZZAPPP!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 480 [[short-cut message]]
KERBLANG! ANOTHER GREENSKIN BITES THE DUST!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 479 [[short-cut message]]
MISSED
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 478 [[short-cut message]]
CONGRATULATIONS! You have defeated Alien Invaders.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 477 [[short-cut message]]
KERBLOOT! YOUR SHIP IS DESTLOYED!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 476 [[short-cut message]]
PLAY, PLAYER 1
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 28 [locked in with invaders]
As you enter the room, the door slides ominously shut behind you.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 29 [cheers mess 1]
The sound of tumultous applause roars forth from the can.

The little songbird appears, bowing and blowing kisses.

You close the can.

END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 30 [python mess]
"Thank you, thank you!" says the little bird. "And for my next little
number..."

Suddenly she spots the snake and attacks it. In an astounding flurry she
sends it to that great flying circus in the sky.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 31 [python won't let]
The ferocious creature will not let you go that way.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 475 [[short-cut message]]
BUGSY - ya wanna stay healthy, ya buy it.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 32 [dirty crack message]
No. This is a family game.  Don't you start getting into any dirty cracks.

Oh well, you can go in if you must, but I'm staying outside.

END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 474 [[short-cut message]]
Well, I hope you enjoyed it.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 33 [Bad taste and a BROAD HINT!]
This is not only a fresh example of bad taste but also a BROAD HINT!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 34 [A green goblin takes the goblet]
A green goblin with vermilion spots runs out from behind the curtain, takes
the goblet, drops it back on the floor, and runs behind the curtain again.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 35 [A filing-clerk takes the parser]
A parsimonious filing-clerk runs out from behind the curtain, takes the
parser, drops it on the floor, and runs behind the curtain again.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 36 [The troll crunches some cornflakes]
The troll takes a family-size cornflakes packet from his breast pocket and
begins to crunch them.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 473 [[short-cut message]]
The troll drops a cornflakes packet.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 37 [The pellet blossoms into an angular lady]
The pellet blossoms into an angular lady who sprouts the following foliage:
"While it is perhaps tempting to compare Morone's 'Blank Canvas' with
'Unpainted Canvas' by Cretine, nothing could be more misleading.  While
Cretine sees a pure white proto-landscape of limitless possibilities,
Morone is representing the existential void which confronts us all when the
superficial pretenses of civilized life are stripped away.  It is necessary
to remember that Cretine's work is a virgin canvas while Morone's is
actually a Rembrant scrubbed clean with turpentine in order to fully
confront..." etc.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 472 [[short-cut message]]
                         B O O O O O M M M M ! ! !
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 39 [SOPHISTICATED PARSER overheats and explodes]
Overloaded by the excessive and indigestible verbal input, the SOPHISTICATED
PARSER overheats and explodes, vaporizing the troll and the art critic.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 40 [Rule 137(b)]
Rule 137(b):  The player may not examine the utility belt until part 2.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 471 [[short-cut message]]
The engines roar into life.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 41 [batcar mess 1]
The rock face slides silently aside to reveal a long narrow tunnel.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 42 [batcar mess 2]
The powerful headlights suddenly lance down the tunnel, showing it to be
much longer than you had thought.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 43 [batcar mess 3]
The machine plunges down the tunnel, devouring mile after incredible mile
of die-straight underground freeway.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 44 [batman left]
THAT MAN has completed his task and left without you.
You have lost your only chance of returning to the caves.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 45 [THAT MAN returns looking much relieved.]
THAT MAN returns looking much relieved.

The return journey begins.

"I'm sorry for the delay," apologises THAT MAN.  "I was called away on a
foolish false alarm."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 470 [[short-cut message]]
A newsboy cries "Jester escapes!  Read all about it!"
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 469 [[short-cut message]]
A newsboy cries "Daring robbery! Read all about it!"
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 468 [[short-cut message]]
A newsboy cries "Daring robbery! Jester captured! Read all about it!"
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 467 [[short-cut message]]
It'll cost you a guid, guv'ner.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 46 [The newsboy doesn't act as if anything happened]
The newsboy doesn't even act as if anything happened.  Apparently this sort
of thing happens to him all the time.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 466 [[short-cut message]]
You're not carrying one.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 47 [The Jester showed up at the Art Gallery]
The lead story is about how The Jester showed up at the Art Gallery and
stole several of its prized paintings.  It also tells how the Caped
Crusader tried to capture him and was foiled by another of The Jester's
tricks.  It says The Jester is still on the loose with the Caped Crusader hot
on his trail.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 48 [The lead story is about how The Jester]
The lead story is about how The Jester showed up at the Art Gallery and stole
several of its prized paintings.  It also tells how the Caped Crusader tried
to capture him and was helped by a mysterious stranger who has since vanished.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 49 [get arrested]
Amid a chaos of alarms and sirens you attempt to leave with the $noun$.
Suddenly the room darkens as a grim bat-like figure swoops in through the
skylight.

At first you think it is a bird - or perhaps a plane - but as the handcuffs
close over your wrists you realize it is none other than...

                                 THE END
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 50 [THE JESTER strips the gallery]
Suddenly a shriek of inhuman laughter rends the air and a terrible figure
appears.  Green hair, chalk-white face and ruby mouth set forever in a
demented grin.  Howling with malevolent mirth, THE JESTER strips the
gallery of its most priceless paintings.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 51 [Is the worst yet to come?]
The room darkens as THAT MAN swoops through the skylight.  His silken
THAT-ROPE snakes toward THE JESTER.  But the villian activates his REPELLO
FORCE-FIELD, causing the rope to loop back, ensnaring its owner.

THAT MAN is trapped by his own rope.

THE JESTER is escaping.

Is the worst yet to come?
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 52 [THE JESTER escapes.]
THE JESTER escapes.  THAT MAN, untangling himself, sets off in pursuit.
You have lost your only chance of returning to the caves.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 53 [As the gas escapes, THAT MAN begins to laugh]
As the gas escapes, THAT MAN begins to laugh, but THE JESTER who is always
laughing, now collapses in helpless paroxysms, kicking his legs in the air.
THAT MAN slaps the bracelets on him and takes his haul - one Picasso and
two recent works by Ferdinand Fink.  The choice is typical of THE JESTER's
grotesquely twisted aesthetic sense.

"Here, take these," says THAT MAN. "The city is better off without them."

"I'll take you back to the caves."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 54 ["One moment," says THAT MAN.]
"One moment," says THAT MAN.  "I just have to visit THAT PLACE before our
journey."

The caped figure disappears into a small brick building.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 55 [You uncover something in the bubbles]
As you sort through the bubbles you uncover something buried beneath them.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 56 [The gas makes you giggle.]
The gas makes you giggle.  As this is a serious adventure you close it up
again.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 57 [infirmary kick]
Though you might land about here.

Lucky thing these nurses wear soft-soled shoes, what?
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 58 [le chat noir kick]
Well, your clothes are rather grubby.

I don't think the boot-mark makes any noticable difference.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 59 [bank kick]
Here, let me help you up.
Those sedentary desk jobs.  She hardly got you beyond the steps.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 465 [[short-cut message]]
Here, let me help you up.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 60 ["Where is your ticket?"]
"Where is your ticket?"

A neat young librarian wearing round spectacles and a pencil skirt propels
you gently out of the door with just the slightest touch of her stiletto
heel.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 464 [[short-cut message]]
size ten, I'd guess.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 463 [[short-cut message]]
Here, let me help you up.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 462 [[short-cut message]]
I said the directions will not work until you do a SAVE.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 61 [A drip falls on your hand.]
An eerie green mist drifts across your path.  A drip falls on your hand.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 62 [The razor-spiked ceiling of the cave is descending]
Suddenly you realize that the razor-spiked ceiling of the cave is descending
slowly but inexorably toward you.  You try to run but what had seemed a simple
nylon carpet incapable of harming anything except good taste now turns out to
be a living thing-or rather a writhing mass of living things twining
themselves about your ankles and crushing... crushing... while above you the
glistening red death-spikes move closer with every passing second...
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 63 [Alright!  Break it up!]
Alright!  Break it up!

This is a Colossal Caves spoof, not, a B-grade horror movie.  Can't a girl
take five minutes to get down a rope in a ladylike way without you third-form
idiots messing everything up?

Cynthia! Turn off the green mist machine - do you know how much that stuff
costs?  Susan!  Put that ketchup back in the kitchen! Julia! Get out of that
living carpet costume.

I'm surprised at you, taking advantage of a half-witted player like that.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 64 [Let's take it from the top.]
Alright.  Back to your places everyone, let's take it from the top.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 65 [A large white rabbit appears]
A large white rabbit appears and hops away west muttering to himself "Oh,
my ears and whiskers, I'm late! I'm late!"

There. That's much nicer, isn't it?
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 461 [[short-cut message]]
This time around you discover a little door you had not noticed.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 66 [You come upon a little three-legged table]
Suddenly you come upon a little three-legged table all made of solid glass.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 67 [It is chained to the wall.]
It is chained to the wall.  They obviously get your type here too.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 68 [The door opens into a small passage]
The door opens into a small passage not larger than a rabbit hole, leading
into a beautiful garden.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 460 [[short-cut message]]
You can't get thru that little door!!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 69 [pod pops open]
One of the pods on the belt pops open...
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 70 [ok]
O.K.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 71 [You seem to have cut your hand.]
The chain is cut.

Oh, my.  You seem to have cut your hand.  It is bleeding pretty bad.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 459 [[short-cut message]]
You have lost a LOT of blood.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 458 [[short-cut message]]
You pass out from loss of blood.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 72 [You are now about twelve inches high.]
The first thing you notice is that the ground is a lot closer and the ceiling
is a lot further away.  This is because you are lying on your back singing
"Nellie Dean" in a powerful but rather slurred voice.  Next your acute sense
of smell brings a more distressing fact to your attention - your feet are
rather closer to your nose.  This is because you are now about twelve inches
high.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 457 [[short-cut message]]
You fall over...
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 73 [rabbit desc 1]
A rabbit hops by crying: "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"
It is tall and thin.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 74 [rabbit desc 2]
A rabbit hops by crying: "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"
It is giggling stupidly in between the words.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 75 [rabbit desc 3]
A rabbit hops by crying: "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"
It is short and fat.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 76 [rabbit desc 4]
A rabbit hops by crying: "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!"
It is very shy and continually looking behind it as if for encouragement.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 77 [The rabbit easily eludes your reeling grasp]
The rabbit easily eludes your reeling grasp and splots you between the eyes
with a pellet of ink-soaked blotting paper.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 78 [It looks very big for a rabbit]
It looks very big for a rabbit.  Of course that may be because you are very
small for a person.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 79 [Let an expert take over.]
Oh, get away from the keyboard.  You're obviously not in condition to play
this game.  Let an expert take over.

GET RABBIT

Trixie deftly seizes a rabbit by the tail and yanks it, squealing and
kicking into the air.

EXAMINE RABBIT

Trixie examines the rabbit very thoroughly, but not very gently, beginning
by pulling off its skin, which not only produces an ear-splitting squeal of
indignation, but also reveals a small, freckly schoolgirl, very red in the
face and splattered all over with paint.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 80 [Just as I thought.]
Just as I thought.

The first form trying to get in on the act.

Now listen carefully, 'cause I'm only going to say this once.  The next
person to start messing up this game is going to end up at the bottom of
the little stream in a concrete gymslip.

Now let's get back to the start of part 2.

And if we're not in the right game this time...

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 81 [crawl around]
You crawl around in some boring old passages. Eventually you find that...
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 82 [A parrot squacks "Pieces of product!"]
A parrot flies in squacking: "Pieces of product! Pieces of product!"  It
stares at you.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 456 [[short-cut message]]
The parrot flew out of the room.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 83 [The parrot squacks some nautical bad language]
The parrot squacks some nautical bad language and flies from your grasp.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 84 [You drop the vase carelessly to the floor.]
You drop the vase carelessly to the floor.  Luckily it is as tough as old
boots.  It bounces a few times before coming to rest in a corner.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 85 [I wouldn't if I were you.]
I wouldn't if I were you.  It is very ripe and smells it.  You will get VERY
sick.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 455 [[short-cut message]]
Okay honey, you asked for it
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 454 [[short-cut message]]
Now you're going to get it
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 86 [SPLOTT!!!]
SPLOTT!!!

There you go, squire.  Fresh (well, not fresh exactly) from the land of the
Eyefull Tower, one well-matured faceful of soft, ripe, pungent Camembert.  The
best, Twelve dollars an ounce in the Chat Noir.  Wipe it off with respect,
kid.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 87 [You climb into the waiting maw of the triffid]
You climb up the branches into the waiting maw of the triffid!  What a sucker!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 453 [[short-cut message]]
...however, it makes the plant feel even iller.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 88 [weedkiller message]
A cloud of noxious gas squirts from it making you feel quite ill.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 89 [The sledgehammer turns into a fine powder]
The dehydrated sledgehammer has turned into a fine powder drifting into a
pile on the floor.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 90 [bridge vanished]
The bony bridge vanished!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 452 [[short-cut message]]
Oh, wow, like I mean Zarjaz, man.  Now bug off and let me play it.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 451 [[short-cut message]]
Nothing happens
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 450 [[short-cut message]]
The record explodes, taking you with it.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 94 [ka foom]
ka-ba-foooooom!!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 449 [[short-cut message]]
The belt whirrs and clicks but nothing happens.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 96 [He throws you a small glittering object]
The giant drinks the bicarbonate and burps more gently.  "Tanks," he says.
"Yer a proper gent.  'Ere, cop this as a token of me happreciation."  He
throws you a small glittering object which you neatly fail to catch.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 97 [You jemmy the clam like a professional.]
You jemmy the clam like a professional.  You see a pearl and realize that it
must actually have been an oyster.  Then you see a flight of stairs leading
down inside it and realize that it is not an oyster either but a trap door.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 98 [The pirate eats the food greedily]
The pirate eats the food greedily without washing his hands or even looking
at it.  He has never been to school, or he would know better.  The food has
the effect that school dinners always have on human beings.  "ARRRGGHH!  I'm
poisoned!" he yells and dies instantly.  That'll learn him.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 448 [[short-cut message]]
The pirate won't let you.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 447 [[short-cut message]]
The pirate says: Yo ho ho!
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 446 [[short-cut message]]
I wouldn't try it. Looks as if he might bite.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 99 [The wombat hollers "WOMBAT HO!"]
The wombat hollers "WOMBAT HO!" and leaps at you.  Its teeth are bared, its
eyes blaze.  It looks like Swotpot Sally Parker when you look over her
shoulder in the end-of-term math test.  Fortunately it is prevented from
reaching you by the chain.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 100 [A ferret massacres the wombat]
A blue-nosed ferret leaps out and massacres the wombat with contemptous ease.
It then returns to the chest and shuts the lid with a meaningful bang.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 101 [A blue-nosed ferret attacks you]
A blue-nosed ferret leaps out of the chest and instantly attacks you.  You
scream as chunks of flesh are torn from your body.  You lose conciousness.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 445 [[short-cut message]]
Something you are carrying will not allow you to squeeze through.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 444 [[short-cut message]]
Something you are carrying will not allow you to squeeze through.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 443 [[short-cut message]]
A hard, heavy object bounces off your head.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 102 [You carefully stain annd varnish the dresser]
You carefully stain annd varnish the dresser, slowly revealing its true
character which has been hidden by the Polystrippa.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 103 [You drop the ming vase]
You drop the ming vase and it falls into the softest pillow in the world.
Unfortunately, it is so soft that it falls deep, deep, deep into the
cushion.  It soon comes out of the cushion and goes high, high, high
into the air.  As it drops to the ground it breaks into a million pieces.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 442 [[short-cut message]]
Suddenly a burly policeman arrives.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 441 [[short-cut message]]
The Fence disappears.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 104 [Maximum score message]

                              MAXIMUM SCORE

Congratters!  You can't be as dim as you look.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 105 ["Many thanks, Miss Trinian"]
"'Ello, 'ello, 'ello.  So this is where you've bin stashing the loot, is it?
'Ad our eye on you for some time, we 'ave."

"Many thanks, Miss Trinian.  This is the third dangerous villian you've
'elped us to happrehend this week."
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 106 [You have won the game.]
You have won the game.

You are the smartest spelunker in the Scrubbs.

                                 THE END

END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 107 [You stumble over a rock]
As you move closer to look at it, you stumble over a rock and hit a peculiar
shaped rock in the wall.  Suddenly the whole room goes dark and all the
noises, etc. stop.
END_MESSAGE

MESSAGE 108 [What a disappointment.]
All of a sudden it comes to you what the word in the smoke meant.  The whole
view is a farce.  It is being somehow projected on the wall and the other
sounds, smells, etc. are all coming from cracks in the room.  Someone went to
a lot of trouble to set this up, but it's all a fake.  What a disappointment.
END_MESSAGE

