+
+ ('thing:lobby:porcelain-doll
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a creepy porcelain doll"
+ #:desc "It strikes you that while the doll is technically well crafted,
+it's also the stuff of nightmares."
+ #:goes-by '("porcelain doll" "doll"))
+ ('thing:lobby:1950s-robots
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a set of 1950s robots"
+ #:desc "There's a whole set of these 1950s style robots.
+They seem to be stamped out of tin, and have various decorations of levers
+and buttons and springs. Some of them have wind-up knobs on them."
+ #:goes-by '("robot" "robots" "1950s robot" "1950s robots"))
+ ('thing:lobby:tea-set
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a tea set"
+ #:desc "A complete tea set. Some of the cups are chipped.
+You can imagine yourself joining a tea party using this set, around a
+nice table with some doilies, drinking some Earl Grey tea, hot. Mmmm."
+ #:goes-by '("tea set" "tea"))
+ ('thing:lobby:mustard-pot
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a mustard pot"
+ #:desc '((p "It's a mustard pot. I mean, it's kind of cool, it has a
+nice design, and it's an antique, but you can't imagine putting something
+like this in a museum.")
+ (p "Ha... imagine that... a mustard museum."))
+ #:goes-by '("mustard pot" "antique mustard pot" "mustard"))
+ ('thing:lobby:head-of-elvis
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "the pickled head of Elvis"
+ #:desc '((p "It's a jar full of some briny-looking liquid and...
+a free floating head. The head looks an awful lot like Elvis, and
+definitely not the younger Elvis. The hair even somehow maintains
+that signature swoop while suspended in liquid. But of course it's
+not Elvis.")
+ (p "Oh, wait, it has a label at the bottom which says:
+\"This is really the head of Elvis\". Well... maybe don't believe
+everything you read."))
+ #:goes-by '("pickled head of elvis" "pickled head of Elvis"
+ "elvis" "Elvis" "head" "pickled head"))
+ ('thing:lobby:circuitboard-of-evlis
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "the pickled circuitboard of Evlis"
+ #:desc '((p "It's a circuitboard from a Lisp Machine called EVLIS.
+This is quite the find, and you bet just about anyone interested in
+preserving computer history would love to get their hands on this.")
+ (p "Unfortunately, whatever moron did acquire this has
+no idea what it means to preserve computers, so here it is floating
+in some kind of briny liquid. It appears to be heavily corroded.
+Too bad..."))
+ #:goes-by '("pickled circuitboard of evlis" "pickled circuitboard of Evlis"
+ "pickled circuitboard of EVLIS"
+ "evlis" "Evlis" "EVLIS" "circuitboard" "pickled circuitboard"))
+ ('thing:lobby:teletype-scroll
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a scroll of teletype"
+ #:desc '((p "This is a scroll of teletype paper. It's a bit old
+and yellowed but the type is very legible. It says:")
+ (br)
+ (i
+ (p (strong "== The four essential freedoms =="))
+ (p "A program is free software if the program's users have
+the four essential freedoms: ")
+ (ul (li "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).")
+ (li "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.")
+ (li "The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).")
+ (li "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.")))
+ (p "You get this feeling that ambiguities in the
+English language surrounding the word 'free' have lead to a lot of terminology debates."))
+ #:goes-by '("scroll of teletype" "scroll of teletype paper" "teletype scroll"
+ "teletype paper" "scroll" "four freedoms"
+ "scroll of teletype paper holding the software Four Freedoms"
+ "scroll of teletype paper holding the software four freedoms"))
+ ('thing:lobby:orange-cat-phone
+ <gameobj> 'room:lobby
+ #:invisible? #t
+ #:name "a telephone shaped like an orange cartoon cat"
+ #:desc "It's made out of a cheap plastic, and it's very orange.
+It resembles a striped tabby, and it's eyes hold the emotion of
+a being both sleepy and smarmy.
+You suspect that someone, somewhere made a ton of cash on items holding
+this general shape in the 1990s."
+ #:goes-by '("orange cartoon cat phone" "orange cartoon cat telephone"
+ "orange cat phone" "orange cat telephone"
+ "cartoon cat phone" "cartoon cat"
+ "cat phone" "cat telephone" "phone" "telephone"))))
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