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Book Two - "Plaza"

The Olympic Plaza is a room in Olympus. It is north of Summit. It is west of Game Room. The description is "This plaza is built of gleaming white marble, shining brightly in the hot sun beneath a brilliant blue sky. To the south, a crystal stairway descends to the summit of Mt. Olympus. All around the spire of the peak, gray stormclouds boil. To your north, a wide flight of stairs leads up to a gargantuan temple, or perhaps palace. A smaller building, adorned with a giant pair of dice above its doorway, is to the east. Baths, built on a colossal scale, are off to your west."

The scenery_stormcloud is scenery in Olympic Plaza. The description is "Gray, threatening stormclouds hover far below you." Understand "gray", "boil", "boiling", "hover", "hovering", "grey", "threatening", "storm", "cloud", "clouds", "stormcloud", "stormclouds", "rain", and "snow" as the scenery_stormcloud. Instead of doing anything other than examining, jumping into, or diving into with the scenery_stormcloud, say "The clouds are far away." Instead of jumping into the scenery_stormcloud, try diving into the scenery_stormcloud. Instead of diving into the scenery_stormcloud for the first time, say "You draw back at the edge, momentarily conquering your suicidal impulse." Instead of diving into the scenery_stormcloud:

say "You take three running steps and swan-dive off the edge of the plaza. You plummet through clouds and then impact the side of Mount Olympus, with predictable results.";

end the story saying "You have jumped to your death from Olympus".

Before going up in Olympic Plaza, instead try going north.

Before going down in Olympic Plaza, instead try going south.