Juhana Leinonen

Chapter Lens

The lens is a familiar thing. The lens can be operational, hidden, unreachable, reachable or salvaged. The lens is operational. "A thick lens lies under the loudspeaker[if the lens is unreachable], just out of reach[end if]." The description is "The lens is thick and round. It looks like it came from the Hubble."

Understand "lense" as the lens.

Check looking through the lens:

say "The world looks distorted through the lens. And huge." instead.

Instead of examining the unreachable lens:

say "The lens bounces slightly whenever the speaker plays a bass beat, but not enough to make it move significantly.";

Instead of examining the unreachable lens when techno is the current selection of the jukebox:

say "The bass-heavy techno makes the lens bounce whenever the speaker plays a bass beat, but the music isn't loud enough to make it move any closer to your reach.";

Instead of taking the unreachable lens:

say "You can't quite reach far enough under the speaker to get the lens."

After taking the reachable lens:

now the lens is salvaged;

say "You reach under the speaker and grab the lens.";

award 1 point for "salvaging the lens";

remove the hints from Norbert;

change the hint list of the lens to the table of found lens hints;

change the hint list of the tag to the table of found lens hints;

change the hint list of the sweater to the table of found lens hints.

Instead of showing the lens to Norbert when "tag" has inspired us:

say "'I found your missing lens, Norbert.'[paragraph break]His eyes light up. 'Oh! Oh, thank you! I've been looking everywhere!' He takes the lens, snaps it into the frames and attaches it with a piece of white tape. 'Thanks, Jen,' he says and prances off.";

remove Norbert from play;

remove the lens from play;

award 1 point for "returning the lens".

Instead of showing the lens to Norbert:

say "That's a nice thing to do, but the lens could be useful yet."

Instead of putting the lens on something:

clarify "looking at [the second noun] through [the lens]";

try looking at the second noun through the lens.

Instead of putting the lens under the speaker:

say "You just took it from there!"

The hint list of the lens is the table of lens hints.

Table of Lens hints

hint

"A lens from Norbert's glasses is missing. You should find it."

"Search everything to find it."

"The lens rolled under the speaker in the artist hangout."

"Unfortunately it's too far away to reach."

"You don't have anything long enough to reach at the lens."

"You could make the lens move by other means."

"The lens is under a loudspeaker, right?"

"How about making the music work for you."

"The right kind of music could shake the ground and nudge the lens towards you."

"What kind of music has a lot of bass?"

"Try playing techno on the jukebox."

"If that doesn't work, you need more power."

"Have you found a way to turn up the volume yet?"

"Search the jukebox to find the volume knob."

"Turn the volume up and switch the music to techno, and the lens should bounce at your reach."

Table of found lens hints

hint

"You have the lens now. Lenses can be used to make small things bigger."

"Look at the sweater tag through the lens."

"Now that you can read the tag through the lens, you need to find more light."

"Clubs create atmosphere by having dim lights. There's only one place where the light is sufficient enough."

"You wouldn't suspect the place where you find the sufficient light would be the right one if you only looked at its name."

"You need to go to the dark corner."

"Put the sweater on the brightly lit table and try reading the tag with the lens again."

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