OPENING THE SECRET COMPARTMENT

--- LIVING ROOM (back half) -----

s (to Living Room, front half)
e (to Dining Room by west end of table)
ne (to Dining Room by china cabinet)
n (to Kitchen)
w (to Phone Booth)

--- PHONE BOOTH,  in the pantry -----

press "4" (Phone Booth goes to second floor.)
e (to Landing)
n (to Short Hall)

--- SHORT HALL -----

knock

>> The penguins get into the Phone Booth.
s (to Landing)
w (to Phone Booth)

--- PHONE BOOTH, by the second floor landing -----

press "7"
press "1" (Phone Booth goes to zoo.)

---- PHONE BOOTH, at the zoo entrance -----

e (to Zoo Entrance)
e (to Zoo Center)
e (to East Exhibit)

--- EAST EXHIBIT -----

>> The rhinoceros snorts at you and wiggles his ears.  Your 
>> headphones translate for you.  Ionesco tells you a joke about a 
>> man who walks into a bar carrying a tiny piano player.  The 
>> tiny musician had been given to the man by djinni from a
>>  golden lamp, but the man tells the bartender that he thinks the 
>> djinni must have been hard of hearing. 

>>"How so?" asks the bartender. 

>>The man replies, "Well, you didn't think I actually asked the 
>>djinni for a ten inch pianist, did you?" 

>>The fish in the headphones explain to you that rhinoceroses
>> always wiggle their ears when they tell the punchline of a joke, 
>> it's sort of a tradition left over from their days in Vaudeville.   

wiggle ears

>> You wiggle your ears.  A ten-inch violinist appears out of thin 
>> air.  He takes a look around and decides that there is nothing 
>> interesting for him to do here.  Then he disappears.   

w (to Zoo Center)
w (to Zoo Entrance)
w (to Phone Booth)

--- PHONE BOOTH, at the zoo entrance -----

press "9" (Phone Booth goes back to pantry.)
press "7"
press "4" (Phone Booth goes to WalMart Parking Lot)

--- PHONE BOOTH, in the WalMart parking lot -----

e (to Parking Lot)
n (to Store)

--- FIRST LEVEL -----

clap (Elevator opens.)
n (to Eleveator)
press circle (Elevator goes to Fourth Level.)

--- FOURTH LEVEL -----

x painting

>> Among other things, the painting makes you think about a
>> ten-inch violinist.

wiggle ears

>> A ten-inch violinist appears out of thin air.  He takes one look 
>> at the painting and then clucks his tongue at you. 

>> "It's elementary, my dear Watson," he says to you. "I'd be glad 
>> to explain it to you but there isn't any flower vase here."  Then 
>> the violinist wraps his cape about his shoulders and disappears.   

n (to Elevator)
press square (Elevator goes to First Level)
s (to First Level)
s (to Parking Lot)
w (to Phone Booth)

--- PHONE BOOTH, in the WalMart parking lot -----

You press "9".  (Phone Booth goes back to pantry.)

--- PHONE BOOTH, in the pantry -----

e (to Kitchen)

--- KITCHEN -----.   

take tulip
s (to Dining Room by china cabinet)
sw (to Dining Room by west end of table)
w (to Living Room, front half)
n (to Living Room, back half)
w (to Dance Studio)
d (to Tunnel, south end)
n (to Tunnel, north end)
open door
u (to Gazebo)

--- GAZEBO -----

pick tulip
pick tulip
pick tulip
pick tulip
pick tulip
pick tulip
open door
d (to Tunnel, north end)
s (to Tunnel, south end)
u (to Dance Studio)
e (to Living Room, back half)
s (to Living Room, front half)
e (to Dining Room by west end of table)
ne (to Dining Room by china cabinet)
n to Kitchen
e (to Outside Back Door)
n (to By Raspberry Bush)
nw (to By Flat Rock)
nw (to Curved Pathway)
n (to Clearing)
w (to Aspen Grove)

--- ASPEN GROVE -----

w (wandering)

>> A large white rabbit runs through the aspen grove, pausing to
>> look at his pocket watch. 

>> "I'm late, I'm late!" he cries. 

>> Just before he puts his watch back into his pocket, you notice
>> that the time on his watch reads 10:24. 

e (wandering)
e (wandering)

--- CLEARING -----
s (to Curved Pathway)
se (to By Flat Rock)
se (to By Raspberry Bush)
s (to Outside Back Door)
w (to Kitchen)

--- KITCHEN -----

swing watch
say "10:24"
put watch in pocket

>>  The video screen shows a TV documentary about the history
>> of chemistry.  You learn that in the study of alchemy, seven key 
>> elements shared symbols with the seven celestial bodies of the 
>> sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.  You 
>> also see a chart of the Periodic Table of Elements, which was 
>> invented by Dmitri Mendeleev.  On the chart, each element has 
>> a number.   

take pawn
w (to Phone Booth)
press "4" (to Second Floor Landing)
e (to Landing)
n (to Short Hall)

--- SHORT HALL -----

put pawn on shelf

>> Fuzzy Chamber turns so that hole is facing you.

w (to Fuzzy Chamber)

--- FUZZY CHAMBER -----

take ear tile

>> Fuzzy Chamber turns until hole faces west. 

w (to Rachel's Bedroom)

--- RACHEL'S BEDROOM -----

x mural

>> Highlights:
>>      golden egg
>>     winged sandals, extra mustard, thermometer
>>     iron hammer, red-hot sparks
>>     goddess, green eyes, copper bracelets
>>     tin man, lightning bolt on midnight blue
>>    silver moon
>>    black robe, plumb line, lead weight

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to gold circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the shining egg.
>> Gold:  atomic number 79.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to silver gold circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the crescent moon.
>>Silver:  atomic number 47.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to gold circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the hammer.
>> Iron:  atomic number 26.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to yellow circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the thermometer.
>> Mercury:  atomic number 80.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to blue circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the Tin Man.
>> Tin:  atomic number 50.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to green circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the bracelet.
>> Copper:  atomic number 29.

put tulip in vase
>> Vase moves to black circle
wiggle ears
>> Violinist taps his finger on the plumb line weight.
>> Lead:  atomic number 82.

x table

>> The bedside table has a shiny black lacquer finish, with a 
>> contrasting white glass top.  Black lines divide the top of the 
>> table into 3-by-3 grid, like a tic-tac-toe pattern.  Written on the 
>> grid are numbers. 

>> The grid reads: 
>>	"74"	"29"	"50" 
>>	"26"	"80"	"47" 
>>	"79"	"11"	"82" 

touch "79"
touch "47"
touch "26"
touch "80"
touch "50"
touch "29"
touch "82"

>> The compartment opens.

*** 5 POINTS FOR OPENING THE COMPARTMENT ***