Shrine (lines 287-344)
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287 ! The SHRINE.
288 !
289 ! Defined in DM4 §23
290 Object Shrine "Shrine"
291 with description
292 "This magnificent Shrine shows signs of being hollowed out from
293 already-existing limestone caves, especially in the western of the
294 two long eaves to the south.",
295 n_to StoneDoor,
296 se_to Antechamber,
297 sw_to
298 "The eaves taper out into a crevice which would wind further if it
299 weren't jammed tight with icicles. The glyph of the Crescent is
300 not quite obscured by ice.";
301
302 ! Defined in DM4 §23
303 Object -> paintings "paintings"
304 with name 'painting' 'paintings' 'lord' 'captive',
305 initial
306 "Vividly busy paintings, of the armoured Lord trampling on a
307 captive, are almost too bright to look at, the graffiti of an
308 organised mob.",
309 description
310 "The flesh on the bodies is blood-red. The markers of the Long Count
311 date the event to 10 baktun 4 katun 0 tun 0 uinal 0 kin, the sort
312 of anniversary when one Lord would finally decapitate a captured
313 rival who had been ritually tortured over a period of some years,
314 in the Balkanised insanity of the Maya city states.",
315 has static;
316
317 ! Defined in DM4 §12 and §15
318 Object -> stone_table "slab altar"
319 with name 'stone' 'table' 'slab' 'altar' 'great',
320 initial
321 "A great stone slab of a table, or altar, dominates the Shrine.",
322 has enterable supporter static;
323
324 ! Defined in DM4 §11
325 Treasure -> -> mask "jade mosaic face-mask"
326 with name 'jade' 'mosaic' 'face-mask' 'mask' 'face',
327 initial
328 "Resting on the altar is a jade mosaic face-mask.",
329 description
330 "How exquisite it would look in the Museum.",
331 after [;
332 Wear:
333 move priest to Shrine;
334 if (location == Shrine)
335 "Looking through the obsidian eyeslits of the mosaic mask,
336 a ghostly presence reveals itself: a mummified calendrical
337 priest, attending your word.";
338 Disrobe:
339 remove priest;
340 ],
341 cultural_value 10,
342 has clothing;
343
344 ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
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