15. Death and the Boneyard (lines 1577-1633)
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1577 [ AfterLife;
1578 if (~~prepared_flag) rfalse;
1579
1580 if (player in Balance_Room)
1581 "^^Your foresight in preparing a resurrection was wasted. The
1582 tangled magic of the Balance Room coiled around your puny
1583 enchantment like a constricting serpent.";
1584
1585 prepared_flag = false; deadflag = false; hearing_good = false;
1586
1587 if (memory.capacity >= 2) memory.capacity--;
1588
1589 while (child(player)~=0) move child(player) to parent(player);
1590 move players_book to player;
1591
1592 print "^^With great foresight you prepared yourself for resurrection...
1593 Your mind feels a little weaker, but at least you're alive.^";
1594 PlayerTo(Boneyard);
1595 ];
1596
1597 Place Boneyard "Boneyard"
1598 with name "bones" "blades" "shoulder" "skulls",
1599 description
1600 "This is a room of bones. Shoulder blades make up the floor,
1601 skulls the walls and leg-bones the door frames. The west exit
1602 leads into darkness, but the doorway to the north opens onto a
1603 seemingly normal scene.",
1604 n_to
1605 [; if (scales.number ~= 0) return In_Cave;
1606 return Grasslands;
1607 ],
1608 w_to "Some magical force blocks your way, as though that doorway
1609 led into adventures from your past which you cannot rejoin now.",
1610 before
1611 [; Examine, Search:
1612 if (noun==w_obj) "You can make out nothing to the west.";
1613 ];
1614
1615 Scroll -> worthless_scroll "worthless scroll"
1616 with initial "You are almost treading on a worthless scroll.",
1617 name "worthless";
1618
1619 Spell -> -> filfre_spell
1620 with name "filfre",
1621 purpose "produce gratuitous fireworks",
1622 magic
1623 [; if (self hasnt scored) { score++; give self scored; }
1624 "A brief shower of gratuitous fireworks spells out:
1625 ^^The masterly Enchanter trilogy was written by Marc Blank,
1626 Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky.";
1627 ],
1628 unmagic
1629 [; "A lengthy shower of artistically justified fireworks spells out:
1630 ^^The masterly Enchanter trilogy was written by Jane Austen,
1631 Emily Bronte and Edgar Allen Poe.";
1632 ];
1633
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