The furnace.alloy vocabulary implements a convenience responder which combines several Furnace features into one easy-to-use wrapper:

•	Furnace asides
•	Furnace conversation scope
•	Furnace sessions
•	Furnace database support

A word to wrap a responder in an alloy:

<alloy> ( responder db -- responder' )

Initializing database tables for asides, conversations and sessions:

init-furnace-tables ( -- )

Start a timer to expire asides, conversations and sessions:

start-expiring ( db -- )