Broad Lawn Bowler Hats and Baby Geese An Interactive Fiction Release 1 / Serial number 150512 / Inform 7 build 6M22 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) SD Broad Lawn A sort of fun fair has been set up on this broad lawn, with the House as a backdrop: it's an attempt to give local children something to do during the bank holiday. In typical fashion, everyone is doing a very good job of ignoring the House itself, despite its swarthy roofline and dozens of blacked-out windows. > > Broad Lawn (Testing.) >[1] scenes Scene 'Entire Game' playing (for 0 mins now) (Scene monitoring now switched on. Type "scenes off" to switch it off again.) >[2] n Gazebo The gazebo is sometimes used for bands, but at the moment has been appropriated for the distribution of lemonade. >[3] z Time passes. [Scene 'Clown Performance' begins] >[4] z Time passes. A clown with a purple polka-dot bowler hat strides into the vicinity and begins to juggle baby geese. >[5] look Gazebo The gazebo is sometimes used for bands, but at the moment has been appropriated for the distribution of lemonade. A clown wearing a purple polka-dot bowler hat stands nearby. While the clown juggles, the baby geese visibly grow older and larger. The clown becomes unnerved. >[6] x geese Three or four. Or five. It's hard to count. In an attempt to resolve the problem, the clown reverses the direction of his juggling. The geese revert to goslings. >[7] s Better to stay here for the moment and find out what is going to happen next. The goslings become smaller and smaller until the clown is juggling goose eggs. >[8] x geese You can't see any such thing. >[9] x eggs A blur, really. The clown throws all the eggs into the air at once and catches them in the bowler hat. He takes a bow; the audience applauds. As a final gesture, he upends his hat to release a perfectly cooked omelet. [Scene 'Clown Performance' ends] [Scene 'Free Time' begins] >[10] z Time passes. >[11] s Broad Lawn A sort of fun fair has been set up on this broad lawn, with the House as a backdrop: it's an attempt to give local children something to do during the bank holiday. In typical fashion, everyone is doing a very good job of ignoring the House itself, despite its swarthy roofline and dozens of blacked-out windows. > >