THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES:
After finding a bomb, our interpid explorer comes across a deep pit.
Our hero, with an apparent death wish, decides to blow up the bomb here, sealing off the cave and eventually dying of thirst.
FIN
Meanwhile …
With much trepidation, our hero enters the dreaded MAZE.
You lose your sense of direction because twisting passages are coming and going at all points of the compass.
Following Standard Adventurer Protocol, the adventurer drops a tent in the room in order to keep track of directions. Proceeding NORTH just goes in a loop, but proceeding EAST leads to something new!
What appears to be a petrified river bed slopes gently upward leading toward the west. It has a low, four-foot ceiling.
At this point, our adventurer decides to blow the bomb up again. Rocks rain from overhead and the cave shakes. However, the frozen river remains frozen.
What would you like to do next?
(Places we have been marked in green.)
Renga in Blue 
Wait, is the rope new? Take it, pretend we didn’t blow up the bomb, go back to the Pit Room, and USE ROPE.
Going to speed things along with the maze — going west takes you back, and you’re not going to find anything interesting exploring more.
Gonna presume you want to climb down the rope, too.
USE RAFT, I guess?
Sounds reasonable.
USE RAFT requires getting it first. I dropped the WATER for you so there’d be room.
Explore everything before trying anything! N.S.W.E.
N.
To go back in the lake you need to USE RAFT again, so USE RAFT. S. W.
(Again note; you can go back east, but you would need to USE RAFT again.)
I put you back on the lake with the clam and the pearl. What now?
A *clammy* draft, eh? Let’s try going back there (USE RAFT. W, I guess), and go west.
And if it complains about being unable to fit through the passage, try DROP RAFT,, and then DROP TENT.
Just to be clear based on how it works on the map, going west goes back to the west side of the lake.
I’d like to try using the bomb in the ice room, and using the knife on the clam to see if that’ll get us the pearl.
(You can now go south from the ice room; the lamp is also still there.)
Killed in two hits!
It’s possible to be killed by the clam, you got some lucky rolls.
Well, we should get the pearl and lamp (this will require some inventory-juggling I fear; maybe we can drop the rope, which we’ve used?) And sometime we should try rubbing the lamp. Maybe we should do that in the writing room?
Also, as a request, can you kindly reproduce the verb list with the map for these posts?
>TAKE LAMP
[Congrats, you have found 1 out of 4 of the treasures!]
>DROP ROPE
>TAKE PEARL
[Congrats, you have found 2 out of 4 of the treasures!]
The verb/noun combination >RUB LAMP is recognized, but in this case it had no effect.
Unfortunately, the rope is needed to clamber back up the pit and get to this room, so I dropped the pearl again. Swap with something different?
I will be making a new post later today likely. I will include both updated map and verb list.
I guess whenever we’re going up the rope we can drop the raft, so till further notice maybe leave the raft at the bottom of the rope whenever we need to climb up it, and leave the rope at the base of the pit room when we’re exploring there.