Stiffy Makane: Apocolocyntosis — 34 of 235

Part One - "Battlement"

The Battlement is a room. "The battlement perches precariously over the long, long drop into the black waters of the lake. The rest of the castle is accessible through a doorway to the south." The lake_scenery is scenery in the battlement. "The lake looks very cold, very black, and very far away." Understand "lake", "loch", "ness", "water", "black", and "cold" as lake_scenery. The printed name is "lake". Some battlement_scenery are scenery in the battlement. "The wet, gray flagstones of the ancient castle are slippery with rain." Understand "wet", "old", "ancient", "castle", "rest", "gray", and "flagstones" as battlement_scenery. It is ambiguously plural. The printed name is "flagstones".

The scottish_sky_scenery is sky_scenery in the Battlement. It is in the Lake. The description is "Rain sluices down from a lead-dark sky." Understand "empty", "air", "lead", "dark", "sky", "leaden", "rain", "rainy", "cloud", "fog", "foggy", and "clouds" as the scottish_sky_scenery.

Check dropping the Banana during Medias Res: instead say "Not after all you went through to get it."

Check going north in the battlement: instead say "If you mean to jump into the lake, just say so. If you don't, there's nothing there but the empty air." Check going east in the battlement: instead try going north. Check going west in the battlement: instead try going north.

Check going down from the battlement for the first time: instead say "The only way down is to jump. You might not survive the fall or the subsequent immersion." Check going down from the battlement for the second time: instead try jumping. The Lake is down from the Battlement. Check diving when the location is the Battlement: instead try jumping. Check jumping into the lake_scenery: instead try jumping. Check diving into the lake_scenery: instead try jumping.

Check jumping when the location is the Battlement:

say "Offering up a silent prayer, you leap from the battlement and plummet toward the water below...[paragraph break][paragraph break]*SPLASH*[paragraph break][paragraph break]Surfacing and spitting out dark, bitter water, you realize that you seem to have survived. However, in water this icy, you surely will not for long.[paragraph break]";

now NN is 0;

now the description of Stiffy Makane is "Cold. So very, very cold.";

move the player to the Lake;

stop the action.

Check wanking when the location is the Battlement:

instead say "There's a time and a place for everything, and now is very much not the time for that."

Check shitting when the location is the Battlement:

instead try pissing.

Check pissing when the location is the Battlement:

instead say "You're scared, but not that scared."