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Section - Deaths and victories

Before opening the harrison-cardboard-box when the player does not carry the harrison-cardboard-box:

say "(first taking [the harrison-cardboard-box].)[command clarification break]";

try taking the harrison-cardboard-box.

Instead of taking the harrison-cardboard-box when harrison-cardboard-box is not handled and the location is MGR3:

move harrison-cardboard-box to player;

now harrison-cardboard-box is handled;

say "Taken.[paragraph break][bracket]Congratulations! You have reached the violent conclusion of this room.[close bracket][line break]";

Instead of taking the harrison-cardboard-box when harrison-cardboard-box is not handled and the location is MGR3e:

say "You reach in through the birdcage door. As soon as your hand closes around the cardboard box, [run paragraph on]";

if the petter-statue is petter-clean:

say "you hear a soft flapping of wings coming from every direction, accompanied by a strangely beautiful song of hoarse harmonies. Huge white parrots surround you. At first you are alarmed, but their kindly gaze calms you down. The parrots lift you with their beaks [ps--] somehow holding onto your clothes everywhere without hurting you, dropping you, or ripping the fabric. They give you a nice tour of the greenhouse, circling the tree and the glass walls. The view is breathtaking, and their song stills your vertigo. They gently carry you down to the ground and let go. Then they are gone.";

move the harrison-cardboard-box to player;

now the harrison-cardboard-box is handled;

move player to MGR3;

move the petter-parrots to MGR3;

say "[bracket]Congratulations! You have reached the peaceful conclusion of this room.[close bracket][line break]";

otherwise:

say "it seems to get darker outside. You hear a distant sound as from a thousand squawking birds, and it is getting louder.[paragraph break]There is a huge crash and sharp pieces of glass shower down all around you. Then the air is full of parrots. A pandemonium of red-eyed albino parrots, thousands of them, circling through the greenhouse like the water in a washing machine. They land on your back and in your hair, wherever you can't wave them off. Their sharp beaks peck at your skin, pinching it, pulling it, going for your eyes [ps--]";

cause death by falling.

To cause death by falling:

say 12 petter-paragraph breaks;

say "When you open your eyes you are on your back on the greenhouse floor, feeling your clothes soaking up blood. The parrots land on you and around you, their talons and beaks tearing into your flesh, but as you try to wave them off, you find that you are unable to lift a finger. [if the player is petter-falling-too-fast]If only you could have found a way to slow down the fall somehow, is your last rational thought. [end if]The pain is unimaginable, yet you cannot make a sound, not even as one of them pecks out your eye.";

end the story saying "Death comes as a relief".