We've gone upstairs. It went to an attic, where we grabbed some rope and a nasty looking knife.
I tried opening the egg, too, but nothing much happened. I guess we'll just ... hang on to it for the moment.
>OPEN EGG
You have neither the tools nor the expertise.
EDIT: Apparently I read 'expertise' as 'experience'. The way I do this is I can't actually copy-paste down the things the game gives me, so I have to manually write down everything the game tells us. My apologies for this misstep.
The way it mentions we don't have the expertise makes me think we should just have it in our inventory. Maybe we get the skill later on? Anyway, time to head west.
>WEST
Living Room
You are in the living room. There is a doorway to the east, a wooden door with strange gothic lettering to the west, which appears to be nailed shut, a trophy case, and a large oriental rug in the center of the room.
Since there appears to be nothing else to do outside of the house (seriously, even the canyon gave us zero (0) options), should we try again at the troll? We might need to just bash at it enough to kill it. Should we do it or should we not do it?