[ AfterLife;
  if (~~prepared_flag) rfalse;
  
  if (player in Balance_Room)
      "^^Your foresight in preparing a resurrection was wasted.  The
         tangled magic of the Balance Room coiled around your puny
         enchantment like a constricting serpent.";

  prepared_flag = false; deadflag = false; hearing_good = false;

  if (memory.capacity >= 2) memory.capacity--;

  while (child(player)~=0) move child(player) to parent(player);
  move players_book to player;

  print "^^With great foresight you prepared yourself for resurrection... 
           Your mind feels a little weaker, but at least you're alive.^";
  PlayerTo(Boneyard);
];

Place Boneyard "Boneyard"
  with name "bones" "blades" "shoulder" "skulls",
       description
          "This is a room of bones.  Shoulder blades make up the floor,
           skulls the walls and leg-bones the door frames. The west exit
           leads into darkness, but the doorway to the north opens onto a
           seemingly normal scene.",
       n_to
       [;  if (scales.number ~= 0) return In_Cave;
           return Grasslands;
       ],
       w_to "Some magical force blocks your way, as though that doorway
             led into adventures from your past which you cannot rejoin now.",
       before
       [;  Examine, Search:
               if (noun==w_obj) "You can make out nothing to the west.";
       ];

Scroll -> worthless_scroll "worthless scroll"
  with initial "You are almost treading on a worthless scroll.",
       name "worthless";

Spell -> -> filfre_spell
  with name "filfre",
       purpose "produce gratuitous fireworks",
       magic
       [;    if (self hasnt scored) { score++; give self scored; }
            "A brief shower of gratuitous fireworks spells out:
           ^^The masterly Enchanter trilogy was written by Marc Blank,
             Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky.";
       ],
       unmagic
       [;   "A lengthy shower of artistically justified fireworks spells out:
           ^^The masterly Enchanter trilogy was written by Jane Austen,
             Emily Bronte and Edgar Allen Poe.";
       ];