Welcome to the Oz Interactive Fiction system.

Every turn, you will be asked what you want to do by
printing a prompt:

PLAYER>

You type what you want to do to the prompt and hit return.  Your
action will take place in the world, if possible.  Meanwhile, all
of the other individuals in the world will also be doing things.
You will be able to see and hear everything around you.

The part of the system that understands your commands is both 
smart and dumb.  It knows a lot of words, and can understand
some sophisticated English.  However, it sometimes can't 
can't understand something which seems simple.  The best
way to communicate is to use standard, simple English sentences.

Here are some examples of some useful commands and how to type them:


1. Examining your surroundings:

PLAYER> look around
Tells you what is around you. "l" is an abbreviation.

PLAYER> inventory
Tells you what you are carrying. "i" is an abbreviation.

PLAYER> examine the candlestick
Gives you a closer look at the candlestick.

Here is an example of the parsers sophistication.  Suppose there
are two candlesticks, one on a table and one you are carrying.
You can examine either one by specifying where it is:

PLAYER> examine the candlestick in me
PLAYER> examine the candlestick on the table


2. Getting around:

PLAYER> go north (south, up, down, etc)
Lets you walk to the north.  "n" is an abbreviation.

PLAYER> go to the kitchen
Lets you walk to the kitchen, if you can see it.

PLAYER> go through the front door
Lets you walk through the front door.


3. Doing things:

In general, you can only act upon things that you can see and reach.
Many actions have been defined on all sorts of objects.  Here are 
few examples of some common actions.  Many more have been defined.
Of course, many haven't.

PLAYER> take the melon
Gets you the melon.

PLAYER> eat the melon
Takes a bite of the melon.

PLAYER> drop the melon
Lets go of the melon.

PLAYER> throw the melon in me at joe
Throws the melon that you are holding at Joe, the person.
He may not react, if he is stupid.  Many people in the
Oz world fall into this category.

PLAYER> show the melon to joe
A nicer form of interaction.

PLAYER> give the melon to joe
Joe may then take it from you.


4. Communicating:

Speech is the usual form of communication, though sometimes
actions speak louder than words.  Here is how to talk:

PLAYER> say `How are you?' 
Says the words to nobody in particular.

PLAYER> say `How are you?' to joe
Says the words to Joe in particular.

PLAYER> joe: How are you?
is a shortcut to say the words to Joe.



5. When things don't work right:

If you aren't satisfied by what happens in the world, we
encourage you tell us so that we can change the system.
For this, we have a gripe facility.  Just type:

PLAYER> gripe

and then you can enter your gripe or comment.  We do read them
and take them seriously, so please help us out.  Anything from
specific complaints to sweeping comments are useful to us.