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DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Yeah, but was the switch down there?"
Floyd | The old and rickety-looking wooden ladder is fixed to something at the
Floyd | top end, though you can't see what very clearly from down here. The
Floyd | hole leads to the attic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Guest Room
Floyd | A small, windowless and rather cramped bedroom. Perhaps that explains
Floyd | why overnight visitors are so infrequent.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ornamental plate and a dusty leather-bound book here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "x plate"
Floyd | A small, rather attractive copper plate inlaid with intricate silver
Floyd | patterns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd | The title of the book is "The Pyramids of Egypt". Written by a 19th
Floyd | century archaeologist whose name you can't pronounce, it describes
Floyd | several of the monuments in excruciating detail, almost down to the
Floyd | precise measurements of each brick. Idly flipping through the dull
Floyd | volume, your eyes are drawn to a few paragraphs speculating on the
Floyd | existence of yet undiscovered pyramids hidden beneath the shifting
Floyd | desert sands. You set the book aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, you recall that holiday you took in Egypt several years ago,
Floyd | and the memories - slowly at first, but then faster and faster - flash
Floyd | back to you, images of clear skies, desolate sands, ancient ruins,
Floyd | clearer and closer as time itself seems to dissolve, statues almost
Floyd | tangibly solid, spiralling ever inward until memory and consciousness
Floyd | converge...
Floyd |
Floyd | By Pyramid Entrance
Floyd | You'd left the tour bus behind for the afternoon to investigate this
Floyd | recently discovered monument, the tomb of an obscure twelfth dynasty
Floyd | ruler. It made headlines when it was discovered following the violent
Floyd | desert storms of last summer, and the sand still lingers around its
Floyd | base. Hardly any tourists have heard of this place, and not having to
Floyd | put up with the endless babbling is part of the attraction for you. The
Floyd | hot sun reflects blindingly off the polished white limestone of the
Floyd | casing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The view from this slightly wobbly wooden platform halfway up the
Floyd | pyramid would doubtless be magnificent, were there anything to look at
Floyd | other than desert. To the west are rickety stairs leading back to the
Floyd | ground, and to the east a dim passage descends into the man-made
Floyd | mountain.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "whoa text dump"
DavidW says, "also, we've changed locations."
maga says, "ur framestory a splode"
Jacqueline says, "So we did."
Jacqueline says, "So much for our attic light puzzle."
inky says, "oh yeah"
inky says, "now I remember this has lots of jumps into subsections"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | an electric torch (providing light)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga asks, "it's been under the sand for centuries but somehow it's still polished?"
Jacqueline says (to maga), "shh"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sloping Passage