This is the start of a game, just 3 rooms for the moment, but with a mix of
scenery objects and other more portable objects that can be interacted with.
I've no idea where the game is heading, though there are some things that I
want to develop more including adding a door into the tower and possibly 
making the book readable. I'm just letting the story evolve. I've tried 
to include an intro sequence to the game to set things up. After then 
it is a bit railroaded (not many locations after all) but it's a start.

The game is written in Inform 7 on a Mac. Copy and paste the source from a
text editor into Inform to compile it and play with it.

Although I've programmed MUDs before I've done very little Inform coding.
Still finding out how to do things in the manual, and then promptly forgetting!