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Chapter of the Beginning

Beginning is a scene. Beginning begins when play begins.

After examining the door for the third time during Beginning:

if the mother is in the Drawing Room:

say "Maybe you should ask your mother about the door, she must know something about it.";

continue the action.

[conversation!]

Instead of talking at the real mother:

if the wooden door is unknown and the wooden door is locked:

make mother open the door;

otherwise:

continue the action.

Instead of talking with the real mother about the black key:

if the wooden door is unknown and the wooden door is locked:

make mother open the door;

otherwise:

continue the action.

Instead of talking with the real mother about the wooden door:

if the wooden door is unknown and the wooden door is locked:

make mother open the door;

otherwise:

continue the action.

Instead of talking to the real mother about "the/-- wooden/secret/-- door" for the first time, make mother open the door.

Instead of talking to the real mother about "the/-- black/-- key" for the first time, make mother open the door.

To make mother open the door:

if the wooden door is unknown and the wooden door is locked and the mother is in the Drawing Room:

now the wooden door is unlocked;

say "'Ah, that old door', she says. 'When this place was just one house, you were able to go here through the wooden door into the other flat. When they turned the house into flats, they simply bricked up the way through the door.'";

say "Your mother unlocks the door with an old black key that you can't remember having seen before. Then she puts the key in her pocket.";

say "'Just look at it, there is nothing behind the door.'[paragraph break]";

say "(Then she goes out of the room, leaving you alone to examine the door thoroughly.)[line break]";

now the mother is in the parents' room;

now the father is in the parents' room.

Beginning ends when the wooden door is known. [i.e. player must look at open! door]