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Objects moved into place during play (lines 668-920)
668 ! These objects are moved into place as the game proceeds.
669 !
670 ! Defined in DM4 §14, modified in §23
671 Object sodium_lamp "sodium lamp"
672 with name 'sodium' 'lamp' 'heavy',
673 describe [;
674 if (self has on)
675 "^The sodium lamp squats on the ground, burning away.";
676 "^The sodium lamp squats heavily on the ground.";
677 ],
678 before [;
679 Examine:
680 print "It is a heavy-duty archaeologist's lamp, ";
681 if (self hasnt on) "currently off.";
682 if (self.battery_power < 10) "glowing a dim yellow.";
683 "blazing with brilliant yellow light.";
684 Burn:
685 <<SwitchOn self>>;
686 SwitchOn:
687 if (self.battery_power <= 0)
688 "Unfortunately, the battery seems to be dead.";
689 if (parent(self) hasnt supporter && self notin location)
690 "The lamp must be securely placed before being lit.";
691 Take, Remove:
692 if (self has on)
693 "The bulb's too delicate and the metal handle's too hot
694 to lift the lamp while it's switched on.";
695 PushDir:
696 if (location == Shrine && second == sw_obj)
697 "The nearest you can do is to push the sodium lamp to the
698 very lip of the Shrine, where the cave floor falls away.";
699 AllowPushDir();
700 rtrue;
701 ],
702 after [;
703 SwitchOn:
704 give self light;
705 SwitchOff:
706 give self ~light;
707 ],
708 daemon [;
709 if (self hasnt on) return;
710 if (--self.battery_power == 0) give self ~light ~on;
711 if (self in location) {
712 switch (self.battery_power) {
713 10: "^The sodium lamp is getting dimmer!";
714 5: "^The sodium lamp can't last much longer.";
715 0: "^The sodium lamp fades and suddenly dies.";
716 }
717 }
718 ],
719 battery_power 100,
720 has switchable;
721
722 ! Defined in DM4 §16
723 Object dictionary "Waldeck's Mayan dictionary"
724 with name 'dictionary' 'local' 'guide' 'book' 'mayan' 'waldeck'
725 'waldeck^s',
726 description
727 "Compiled from the unreliable lithographs of the legendary raconteur
728 and explorer ~Count~ Jean Frederic Maximilien Waldeck
729 (1766??-1875), this guide contains what little is known of the
730 glyphs used in the local ancient dialect.",
731 before [ w1 w2 glyph;
732 Consult:
733 wn = consult_from;
734 w1 = NextWord(); ! First word of subject
735 w2 = NextWord(); ! Second word (if any) of subject
736 if (consult_words==1 && w1~='glyph' or 'glyphs') glyph = w1;
737 else if (consult_words==2 && w1=='glyph') glyph = w2;
738 else if (consult_words==2 && w2=='glyph') glyph = w1;
739 else "Try ~look up in book~.";
740 switch (glyph) {
741 'q1': "(This is one glyph you have memorised!)^^
742 Q1: ~sacred site~.";
743 'crescent': "Crescent: believed pronounced ~xibalba~,
744 though its meaning is unknown.";
745 'arrow': "Arrow: ~journey; becoming~.";
746 'skull': "Skull: ~death, doom; fate (not nec. bad)~.";
747 'circle': "Circle: ~the Sun; also life, lifetime~.";
748 'jaguar': "Jaguar: ~lord~.";
749 'monkey': "Monkey: ~priest?~.";
750 'bird': if (self.correct) "Bird: ~dead as a stone~.";
751 "Bird: ~rich, affluent?~.";
752 default: "That glyph is so far unrecorded.";
753 }
754 ],
755 correct false,
756 has proper;
757
758 ! Defined in DM4 §23
759 Object map "sketch-map of Quintana Roo"
760 with name 'map' 'sketch' 'sketch-map' 'quintana' 'roo',
761 description
762 "This map marks little more than the creek which brought you
763 here, off the south-east edge of Mexico and into deepest
764 rainforest, broken only by this raised plateau.";
765
766 ! Defined in DM4 §23
767 Object stone_key "stone key"
768 with name 'stone' 'key';
769
770 ! Defined in DM4 §17, modified in §18 and §23
771 Object priest "mummified priest"
772 with name 'mummified' 'priest',
773 initial
774 "Behind the slab, a mummified priest stands waiting,
775 barely alive at best, impossibly venerable.",
776 description
777 "He is desiccated and hangs together only by will-power. Though his
778 first language is presumably local Mayan, you have the curious
779 instinct that he will understand your speech.",
780 life [;
781 Answer:
782 "The priest coughs, and almost falls apart.";
783 Ask: switch (second) {
784 'dictionary', 'book':
785 if (dictionary.correct == false)
786 "~The ~bird~ glyph... very funny.~";
787 "~A dictionary? Really?~";
788 'glyph', 'glyphs', 'mayan', 'dialect':
789 "~In our culture, the Priests are ever literate.~";
790 'lord', 'tomb', 'shrine', 'temple':
791 "~This is a private matter.~";
792 'paintings':
793 "The calendrical priest frowns. ~10 baktun, 4 katun,
794 that makes 1,468,800 days since the beginning of time:
795 in your calendar 19 January 909.~";
796 'ruins':
797 "~The ruins will ever defeat thieves. In the underworld,
798 looters are tortured throughout eternity.~ A pause.
799 ~As are archaeologists.~";
800 'web', 'wormcast':
801 "~No man can pass the Wormcast.~";
802 'xibalba':
803 if (Shrine.sw_to == Junction)
804 "The priest shakes his bony finger.";
805 Shrine.sw_to = Junction;
806 "The priest extends one bony finger southwest toward the
807 icicles, which vanish like frost as he speaks. ~Xibalb@'a,
808 the Underworld.~";
809 }
810 "~You must find your own answer.~";
811 Tell:
812 "The priest has no interest in your sordid life.";
813 Attack, Kiss:
814 remove self;
815 "The priest desiccates away into dust until nothing remains,
816 not a breeze nor a bone.";
817 ThrowAt:
818 move noun to location; <<Attack self>>;
819 Show, Give:
820 if (noun == dictionary && dictionary.correct == false) {
821 dictionary.correct = true;
822 "The priest reads a little of the book, laughing in a
823 hollow, whispering way. Unable to restrain his mirth,
824 he scratches in a correction somewhere before returning
825 the book.";
826 }
827 if (noun == newspaper)
828 "He looks at the date. ~12 baktun 16 katun 4 tun 1 uinal
829 12 kin~, he declares before browsing the front page.
830 ~Ah. Progress, I see.~";
831 "The priest is not interested in earthly things.";
832 ],
833 orders [;
834 Go:
835 "~I must not leave the Shrine.~";
836 NotUnderstood:
837 "~You speak in riddles.~";
838 default:
839 "~It is not your orders I serve.~";
840 ],
841 has animate;
842
843 ! Defined in DM4 Exercise 53
844 Object warthog "Warthog"
845 with name 'wart' 'hog' 'warthog',
846 initial
847 "A warthog snuffles and grunts about in the ashes.",
848 description
849 "Muddy and grunting.",
850 orders [;
851 Go, Look, Examine, Smell, Taste, Touch, Search,Jump, Enter:
852 rfalse;
853 Eat:
854 "You haven't the knack of snuffling up to food yet.";
855 default:
856 "Warthogs can't do anything so involved. If it weren't for the
857 nocturnal eyesight and the lost weight, they'd be worse off
858 all round than people.";
859 ],
860 has animate proper;
861
862 ! Defined in DM4 §8
863 Object low_mist "low mist"
864 with name 'low' 'swirling' 'mist',
865 description "The mist has an aroma reminiscent of tortilla.",
866 before [;
867 Examine, Search:
868 ;
869 Smell:
870 <<Examine self>>;
871 default:
872 "The mist is too insubstantial.";
873 ],
874 react_before [; Smell: if (noun == nothing) <<Smell self>>; ],
875 found_in Square_Chamber Forest,
876 has scenery;
877
878 ! Defined in DM4 Exercise 46
879 Object tiny_claws "sound of tiny claws" thedark
880 with name 'tiny' 'claws' 'sound' 'of' 'scuttling' 'scuttle' 'things'
881 'creatures' 'monsters' 'insects',
882 article "the",
883 initial
884 "Somewhere, tiny claws are scuttling.",
885 before [;
886 Listen:
887 "How intelligent they sound, for mere insects.";
888 Touch, Taste:
889 "You wouldn't want to. Really.";
890 Smell:
891 "You can only smell your own fear.";
892 Attack:
893 "They easily evade your flailing about.";
894 default:
895 "The creatures evade you, chittering.";
896 ],
897 each_turn [; StartDaemon(self); ],
898 daemon [;
899 if (location ~= thedark) {
900 self.turns_active = 0;
901 StopDaemon(self);
902 rtrue;
903 }
904 switch (++(self.turns_active)) {
905 1: "^The scuttling draws a little nearer, and your breathing
906 grows loud and hoarse.";
907 2: "^The perspiration of terror runs off your brow. The
908 creatures are almost here!";
909 3: "^You feel a tickling at your extremities and kick outward,
910 shaking something chitinous off. Their sound alone is a
911 menacing rasp.";
912 4: deadflag = true;
913 "^Suddenly there is a tiny pain, of a hypodermic-sharp fang
914 at your calf. Almost at once your limbs go into spasm, your
915 shoulders and knee-joints lock, your tongue swells...";
916 }
917 ],
918 turns_active 0;
919
920 ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
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