{
  "startingRoom": "ShrekHutPorch",
  "endingRoom": "PeacefulSwamp",
  "rooms": [
    {
      "name": "ShrekHutPorch",
      "description": "You walk outside your hut, looking out over the expansive swamp before you. To the west is your outhouse, behind you, to the south, the door to your hut is swinging closed.\nLooking east, there is a trail worn through the trees.",
      "items": ["mud ball", "tanned leather"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "West",
          "room": "Outhouse"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "South",
          "room": "HutInterior"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "East",
          "room": "SwampTrail"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Outhouse",
      "description": "You go into your outhouse, bombarded immediately by a disproportionately loud band of mice playing \"All Star\" by Smashmouth.\nThe only place to go from here is quickly back to your hut. Or down in the hole?...",
      "items": ["tiny electric guitar", "corn cob"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "ShrekHutPorch"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Down",
          "room": "SewerHole"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SewerHole",
      "description": "Carefully, you force yourself down the small hole in the ground, trying desperately to escape the singing mice.\nOnce underground, you realize some animal had been building a home here.\nSlightly disgruntled, and not particularly inclined to get lost, you see the hole above you seems to be the only way out.",
      "items": ["small torch", "'rock' pile"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Up",
          "room": "Outhouse"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "SewerTunnels"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SewerTunnels",
      "description": "Regardless of your better judgement, you forge ahead into the darkness. Strange sounds echo in the distance, and you pick up your pace. Just as you can't see anything, you slam into a wall.\nIt's a dead end. Carefully, you pick yourself up off the floor. Feeling your way around, you think you can see your way back to where you came.",
      "items": ["tiny electric guitar, corn cob"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "LostTunnel"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "LostTunnel",
      "description": "As you stumble through the dark, you realize you are completely lost. You have no idea where you are, or how to get back.\nShort of spending the rest of your life right here, the only path is forward.",
      "items": ["leg bone"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "TunnelExit"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "TunnelExit",
      "description": "Continuing on, you finally see a sliver of light ahead. looking closer, it looks like there is an exit above you, covered mostly with a rock.\nIt doesn't seem to be too heavy. Looking through the sliver of light, you see the interior of a room.\nYou realize suddenly that the rock above you is actually the same one you are using as a foot-rest in your hut.",
      "items": ["familiar knife", "filthy shirt"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Up",
          "room": "HutInterior"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "HutInterior",
      "description": "You step into the familiar interior of your hut. Looking around, you see your kitchen table, fireplace, chair, and bed. Everything seems to be in order.\nIt is always comforting to be safely at home. You look over at the door on the north wall of your hut, the one you had gone through just a few moments ago, right?\nYou glance over at your footrest but nothing seems amiss.",
      "items": ["large onion", "cooked fish filet"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "North",
          "room": "ShrekHutPorch"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SwampTrail",
      "description": "It is a good day for walking. You wander onto the path that winds around the swamp. The familiar sounds and smells comfort you as you walk.\nTo the west is your hut, but otherwise the trail seems to be pretty washed out. Looking around, you see the wagon tracks heading north. Beside that, you are surrounded by untamed swamp.",
      "items": ["small blue flower"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "ShrekHutPorch"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "North",
          "room": "WagonCrossroads"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "WagonCrossroads",
      "description": "After walking along some wagon tracks, you come to a crossroads. if you go south, you will find the trail home. To the east is a field of sunflowers.",
      "items": ["wagon hitch", "broken board"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "South",
          "room": "SwampTrail"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "East",
          "room": "SunflowerField"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SunflowerField",
      "description": "Beautiful sunflowers surround you, each radiant as the sun itself. Compared to your swamp, though, they hold little beauty.\nTo the West is a path you know will lead home. North of the field lies the lands full of castles and adventures.",
      "items": ["sunflower seeds", "layered cake"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "West",
          "room": "WagonCrossroads"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "North",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "RoadsideInn",
      "description": "While traveling, you see up ahead is the broken down inn that you know marks the edge of your swamp and its familiar surroundings and the land beyond where your knowledge extends.\nLooking up, you see a road sign. It says wilderness pointing south, the sign pointing west reads 'Rednettle village,' and the one pointing northeast reads Knottingham Manor.",
      "items": ["broken glass", "wooden mug"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "South",
          "room": "Sunflower Field"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "West",
          "room": "RednettleVillage"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Northeast",
          "room": "roadToKnottingham"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "RednettleVillage",
      "description": "Standing on the edge of Rednettle Village, you look around. The path out of town is to the east. In the center of town is a huge well, with a fountain spraying high in the air.\nA young woman is leaned over the edge of the fountain ahead of you. She seems to be struggling with something.\nThe young woman straightens, looking frustrated. She notices you standing nearby and asks you to help her fill a bucket from the well.\nLooking around, you see that besides going forward to help the woman, you could head north down a nearby street.",
      "items": ["bucket", "penny"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "Fountain"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "North",
          "room": "RednettleWandering"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fountain",
      "description": "As you approach the woman near the fountain, she turns.\n'Thank you kind stranger.' she tells you, obviously relieved. 'I am constantly drawing from this well, but it so hard to get the bucket far enough down without falling in.\nWould you mind helping me while you're here?' Being the kind stranger you are, you agree, of course. Reaching over the side, you can see the water level is quite far down. As you reach down as far as you can, you feel the bucket grow heavier.\nRelieved, you pull the bucket back up.\n'Thank you so much for helping me.' The woman tells you as you hand her the full bucket. 'I don't have much, but if you follow me for a moment, I will give you some of this.'\nThe woman heads into a small tavern to the south.",
      "items": ["penny"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "North",
          "room": "RednettleWandering"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "South",
          "room": "RednettleTavern"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "RednettleTavern",
      "description": "You follow the woman inside the tavern. Once inside, she hands you a full mug. You decide to drink it. Expecting water, you are pleasantly surprised to find that it tasted wonderful,\nunlike anything you have tasted before. After a while, you begin to feel odd. You realize you are no longer in the tavern, but outside in the woods.\nPretty soon you see a road in front of you. You can go towards it, or...\nWell, it seems that forward is the only way, as you cannot quite remember where you came from, or how you got here.",
      "items": ["small twig", "smooth granite stone"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "RednettleWandering",
      "description": "You walked up the road heading north in Rednettle village, but quickly got turned around, finding yourself leaving the village.\nNot knowing where to go, you follow the road into the trees, where it joins with many other roads as they twist and turn through the woods.\nUp ahead, you see the treeline. Looking back, you have no idea which path leads back to the village. Looking forward, you can make out a building just down the road from the forest edge.",
      "items": ["ash leaf", "red nettle leaf"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Back",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "roadToKnottingham",
      "description": "A group of soldiers guards the road leading to Knottingham Manor. When he sees you, the captain of the guard firmly states that the road is closed while the royal delegation is at the manor.\nYou look around. Beside the road behind the soldiers, you see a cave to the west, and the road you came from back to the southwest.",
      "items": ["caltrops"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "KnottinghamDungeon"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "West",
          "room": "MysteriousCave"
        },
        {
          "directionName": "Southwest",
          "room": "RoadsideInn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "KnottinghamDungeon",
      "description": "You decide you have no other choice but to try to get around the soldiers. After brute force fails miserably, you try sneaking around instead. Inevitably, you are caught and knocked unconscious.\n\nYou wake in a cell with a guard standing nearby. He looks bored, and starts asking you questions, but your head is still pounding from when you were hit.\nYou vaguely remember telling the guard your name, and generally where you live. You fall asleep as he leaves.\nLater on, another guard wakes you up, and opens the cell door gesturing for you to move forward.",
      "items": ["food tray", "stale bread", "spoon"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "PeacefulSwamp"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "MysteriousCave",
      "description": "You decide to try to explore the cave, as it doesn't seem like you can get anywhere arguing with the guards.\nYou travel deep inside, your path lit by small glowing crystals everywhere.\nSuddenly, a small witch jumped out of nowhere, and threw a handful of glittery powder all over you. Instantly, you became disoriented.\nHours later, you are still wandering through the caves, when suddenly you emerge into the sunlight.\nAhead you can vaguely see trees, but your eyes are slow to adjust.",
      "items": ["glowing crystal"],
      "directions": [
        {
          "directionName": "Forward",
          "room": "PeacefulSwamp"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "PeacefulSwamp",
      "description": "After what seemed like endless wandering, you realize that you are back in your swamp. You sit down on a log, thankful to be somewhere safe and familiar.\nYou only half remember today's events, but as you watch the sunset light up your swamp, you realize this is where you belong.\nIn your swamp living a peaceful life on your own, not out on quests or adventures.\nYou sigh as you get up to walk home, silently promising yourself that your walks in the future will stay closer to home.\nAs you near your hut however, you think you can make out what looks like a group of fairy tale creatures.\n The loudest one seemed to be a talking donkey, who was complaining about a 'Lord Farquaad.' Before you knew it, though, they were hidden by trees.\nNo, actually they were never there, it must just have been a hallucination caused by the day's stress, or a half forgotten memory from today's adventures.\nAnything else would be ridiculous. \n",
      "items": ["small pink flower"],
      "directions": []
    }
  ]
}