Burial Shaft (lines 558-608)
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558 ! The BURIAL SHAFT.
559 !
560 ! Defined in Exercise 55
561 Object Burial_Shaft "Burial Shaft"
562 with description
563 "In your eventual field notes, this will read:
564 ~A corbel-vaulted crypt with an impacted earthen plug as seal
565 above, and painted figures conjecturally representing the Nine
566 Lords of the Night. Dispersed bones appear to be those of one
567 elderly man and several child sacrifices, while other funerary
568 remains include jaguar paws.~ (In field notes, it is essential
569 not to give any sense of when you are scared witless.)",
570 n_to Wormcast,
571 u_to [;
572 cage.floor_open = true;
573 self.u_to = self.opened_u_to;
574 move selfobj to self;
575 print "Making a mighty warthog-leap, you butt at the earthen-plug
576 seal above the chamber, collapsing your world in ashes and
577 earth. Something lifeless and terribly heavy falls on top of
578 you: you lose consciousness, and when you recover, something
579 impossible and grotesque has happened...^";
580 ChangePlayer(selfobj);
581 give warthog ~light;
582 <<Look>>;
583 ],
584 cant_go
585 "The architects of this chamber were less than generous in
586 providing exits. Some warthog seems to have burrowed in from the
587 north, though.",
588 before [; Jump: <<Go u_obj>>; ],
589 opened_u_to [; PlayerTo(cage); rtrue; ],
590 has light;
591
592 ! Defined in DM4 §5
593 Treasure -> honeycomb "ancient honeycomb"
594 with name 'ancient' 'old' 'honey' 'honeycomb',
595 article "an",
596 initial
597 "An exquisitely preserved, ancient honeycomb rests here!",
598 description
599 "Perhaps some kind of funerary votive offering.",
600 after [;
601 Eat:
602 "Perhaps the most expensive meal of your life. The honey tastes
603 odd, perhaps because it was used to store the entrails of the
604 Lord buried here, but still like honey.";
605 ],
606 has edible;
607
608 ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
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