diff --git a/src/game/Loader.ts b/src/game/Loader.ts
index 25eeae6..a87d458 100644
--- a/src/game/Loader.ts
+++ b/src/game/Loader.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import GameState from './GameState';
 import Room from './entities/Room';
 import Item from './entities/Item';
+import Transition from './entities/Transition';
 
 export default class Loader {
   static loadCampaign(name: string): GameState {
@@ -14,11 +15,46 @@ export default class Loader {
         { aliases: ['pick up'], action: () => 'It stows away nicely.' } // just temporarily.
       ]
     });
-    const room = new Room({
+    const start = new Room({
       name: 'the room',
-      description: 'Dry air, murky gray concrete walls, a flickering light bulb hanging from the ceiling... This place makes you feel uncomfortable.',
+      description:
+        'Dry air, murky gray concrete walls, a flickering light bulb hanging from the ceiling... This place makes you feel uncomfortable.',
       items: [key]
     });
-    return new GameState({ currentRoom: room, inventory: [] });
+    const hallway = new Room({
+      name: 'long hallway',
+      description:
+        'Speckles of dust dance in the light of a solitary lamp. The hallway extends far into the distance, leaving you unsure about your very being.',
+      paths: []
+    });
+    start.paths.push(
+      new Transition({
+        from: start,
+        to: hallway,
+        description: 'You enter a long, murky hallway.',
+        actions: ['enter', 'go through'],
+        aliases: ['door']
+      })
+    );
+    hallway.paths.push(
+      new Transition({
+        from: hallway,
+        to: start,
+        actions: ['enter', 'go through'],
+        description: 'You leave the hallway and go back.',
+        aliases: ['door', 'back']
+      })
+    );
+    return new GameState({
+      currentRoom: start,
+      inventory: [
+        new Item({
+          name: 'long thread',
+          aliases: ['thread'],
+          description: 'A long, thin thread of white silk',
+          actions: []
+        })
+      ]
+    });
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/game/Vocabulary.ts b/src/game/Vocabulary.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24a7b83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/game/Vocabulary.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export default class Vocabulary {
+  private static directionalActions = [];
+}
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diff --git a/src/game/entities/Atmosphere.ts b/src/game/entities/Atmosphere.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b88f92d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/game/entities/Atmosphere.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+export class Atmosphere {
+  readonly color: string;
+  private static instances: Map<string, Atmosphere> = new Map<string, Atmosphere>([
+    ['dark', new Atmosphere({ color: '#232323' })],
+    ['wooden', new Atmosphere({color: 'brown'})]
+  ]);
+
+  protected constructor({color}: {color: string}) {
+    this.color = color;
+  }
+
+  public get(mood: string): Atmosphere | undefined {
+    return Atmosphere.instances.get(mood);
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/src/game/entities/Room.ts b/src/game/entities/Room.ts
index dd69991..3843078 100644
--- a/src/game/entities/Room.ts
+++ b/src/game/entities/Room.ts
@@ -1,30 +1,39 @@
 import Item from './Item';
+import Transition from './Transition';
 
 export default class Room {
   name: string;
   description: string;
   items: Item[];
+  paths: Transition[];
   // TODO pathways to other rooms
   // TODO various event-based messages somehow
 
   constructor({
     name,
     description,
-    items = []
+    items = [],
+    paths = []
   }: {
     name: string;
     description: string;
-    items: Item[];
+    items?: Item[];
+    paths?: Transition[];
   }) {
     this.name = name;
     this.description = description;
     this.items = items;
+    this.paths = paths;
   }
 
   find = (name: string) => {
     return this.items.find(item => item.name === name || item.aliases.indexOf(name) > -1);
   };
 
+  explore = (phrase: string) => {
+    return this.paths.find(path => path.aliases.indexOf(phrase) > -1);
+  };
+
   enter = () => {
     // return [this.description, this.items.reduce<string>((acc: string, item: Item): string => `${acc}, ${item.description}`, 'It holds')];
     return [this.description, 'It holds:', ...this.items.map<string>(item => item.description)];
diff --git a/src/game/entities/Transition.ts b/src/game/entities/Transition.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc159e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/game/entities/Transition.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import Room from './Room';
+
+export default class Transition {
+  readonly from: Room;
+  readonly to: Room;
+  _blocked: boolean;
+  readonly description?: string;
+  readonly aliases: string[];
+  readonly actions: string[];
+
+  constructor({
+    from,
+    to,
+    actions,
+    aliases,
+    description,
+    blocked
+  }: {
+    from: Room;
+    to: Room;
+    actions: string[]
+    aliases: string[]
+    description?: string;
+    blocked?: boolean;
+  }) {
+    this.from = from;
+    this.to = to;
+    this.aliases = aliases;
+    this.description = description;
+    this._blocked = blocked || false;
+    this.actions = actions;
+  }
+
+  set blocked(blocked: boolean) {
+    this._blocked = blocked;
+  }
+
+  get blocked() {
+    return this._blocked;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/game/performer.ts b/src/game/performer.ts
index 14c0170..dd125a1 100644
--- a/src/game/performer.ts
+++ b/src/game/performer.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,14 @@ export const perform = (stack: ParsedPhrase[], gameState: GameState): string[] =
       return [action.perform(argument), message];
     } else if (action instanceof DirectionalAction && argument instanceof Direction) {
       // requires there being a passage in that direction
-      return [action.perform(argument)];
+      const path = gameState.currentRoom.explore(argument.word);
+      console.log('oh yes', path);
+      if (path) {
+        gameState.currentRoom = path.to;
+        return [action.perform(argument), path.description || 'to somewhere', ...path.to.enter()];
+      } else {
+        return ['there is nothing in that direction'];
+      }
     } else {
       return ['no viable 2-phrase action'];
     }
diff --git a/src/game/words.ts b/src/game/words.ts
index cc64291..9c4b62d 100644
--- a/src/game/words.ts
+++ b/src/game/words.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const singularActions = ['sleep', 'wait', 'die'];
-const directions = ['up', 'down', 'left', 'right', 'north', 'south', 'east', 'west'];
+const directions = ['up', 'down', 'left', 'right', 'north', 'south', 'east', 'west', 'door', 'back'];
 const directionalActions = ['go', 'walk', 'run'];
 const objects = ['door', 'key', 'exit', 'two furry dice'];
 const objectActions = ['eat', 'open', 'pick up', 'take', 'inspect', 'look at', 'throw', 'stroke'];