Item:Mechanical toy lyre with copper strings

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mechanical toy lyre with copper strings
Look:	Partially obscured by a tiny wooden panel, gears gather in a jumbled heap at the base of the miniature instrument, their placement making actually playing a song on this toy impossible. Two tiny feet provide a base for the instrument to stand upon. A diminutive key protrudes from a small hole in its side.
Weight:	5 stones
Metal:	Unknown
Appraised Cost:	902 Kronars721.6 Lirums <br />650.883 Dokoras <br />0.902 LTBpoints <br />0.902 Tickets <br />0.902 Scrips <br />
Properties:	This item has more than normal or unusual verbs.
Dimensions:	1 length x 1 width x 1 height
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• STUDY: It looks like to wind up your lyre you must TURN the key in its back, then PULL the key out.

You can also PUSH, RUB, and OPEN a mechanical toy lyre with copper strings. You are also certain that you could hurt its feelings by mocking it.

A mechanical toy lyre with copper strings also looks somewhat delicate, and you may want to LOWER it if you want to set it down.

• TURN: You wind up your lyre. You meet very little resistance as you turn the key.
• TURN: You wind up your lyre. You meet a slight amount of resistance as you turn the key.
• TURN: You wind up your lyre. The toy puts up a fair amount of resistance as you turn the key. You believe you can only wind the toy up a little bit more.
• TURN: You wind up your lyre. A click indicates you have wound up the mechanical lyre as much as you can.
• PULL (turned): You pull the key out of your mechanical lyre as you gently set it on the ground.

With a rhythmic clicking sound, the lyre begins hopping madly in ever-widening circles, each hop also lifting it higher and higher into the air. However, after several seconds, when it leaps skyward, the toy tilts slightly, and lands on its side, legs still springing wildly.

You scoop the mechanical lyre back up and reinsert the key into the wind-up slot.

• PULL (unturned): You pull the key out of your mechanical lyre but nothing happens. Perhaps you should wind up the toy first by TURNing the key. You replace the key into the wind-up slot.
• PUSH: You poke at the mechanical lyre, causing it to hop slowly and deliberately in place.
• RUB: You rub your lyre in an attempt to polish it. It looks better.
• OPEN: You pull up on some of the outside skin of your lyre and peer under it. You are rewarded with a view of a mess of gears and fine clockwork.
• MOCK: You squint at a mechanical toy lyre with copper strings and exclaim, "You're a pile of junk!" The mechanical lyre remains silent, properly shamed.
• LOWER: You gently lower your mechanical lyre to the ground.