Introduction

You had been so looking forward to this night, in fact you had been planning it for nigh on three weeks now and you had fully intended it to a "night to remember" ... It was going to be that, okay, but not quite in the way in which you had intended it to be ... So when the first "twinges" of pain had racked your head you had reached for the aspirins and quickly downed a couple. However, the pain had worsened and the tablets you had taken since had done nothing to ease the matter, so it was with a heavy heart that you made the phone-call cancelling your big night and condemned yourself to a quiet night in bed with nothing more than a glass of hot milk and your trusty bed-socks.

Sleep was a long time in coming; the throbbing in your temple grew stronger and the warm haze of slumber was not to be. You tossed and turned for an hour or two and as the nearby church clock chimed twice, you realised that the pain in your head was not going to give way that easily. However, you eventually drop off into a fitful sleep... or at least you think that is what happened.

"...All that is no more. All that ever could be has been lost in the corridors of time. For something strange has happened... something unbelievable! The world as we know it has faded and you have tumbled through a warp in the very fabric of time. You do not know how you know this, but you sense that millennia have passed and that you now stand in the far distant future... where everything has gone, everything has changed. Now you can glimpse our future and what lies ahead, and perhaps, just perhaps, you can also find a way to return to your own time..."

"A spiral twists and turns in the air about you and you stand alone in the vastness of what mere mortals call... eternity."

Notes

The following abbreviations are accepted by this game and may prove to be useful.

X - EXAMINE, Z - DROP, G - GET, P - PAUSE, R - REDESCRIBE, L - LOOK.

Use the commands RAMLOAD (RL) or RAMSAVE (RS) to store a position to memory but always use the commands SAVE and LOAD to store a more permanent record on tape.

Hints

1. Balloons can come in useful when either inflated or deflated
2. If it is too low to walk then why not get on all fours
3. Rings are *not* just for pulling
4. Visors protect your eyes from not only the sun.