LibraryMessage 1 "<br><b>~Ruins~</b>
<br><i>An Interactive Worked Example</i>
<br>Copyright(c)1999 by Angela M. Horns."
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! This version created by R.Rawson-Tetley in October 2001, from
! Roger Firth's Inform recreation of this game, quoted in Edition 4/1
! of the Inform Designer's Manual.
!
! PLAYER
! lamp,dictionary,map
! GREAT PLAZA
! | mushroom,packing-case,camera,newspaper,steps
! |
! |
! SQUARE CHAMBER -------------------- WORMCAST
! | inscriptions,sunlight,(key) eggsac
! |
! |
! STOOPED CORRIDOR
! | statuette,door
! |
! |
! UPPER CANYON SHRINE
! | ball / \ paintings,altar,mask,(priest)
! | ---------- ----------
! | / \
! XIBALBÁ ANTECHAMBER
! | stela | cage,skeletons,(warthog)
! | |
! | |
! LOWER CANYON BURIAL SHAFT
! | chasm honeycomb
! |
! |
! PUMICE LEDGE
! bone
!
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! Intro
LibraryMessage 200 "<bgcolor gray><font color=white><clearscreen><br>
<b>RUINS</b>
<font color=black><br><bgcolor lightgray><br>
<br> ~But Alligator was not digging the bottom of the hole
<br> Which was to be his grave,
<br> But rather he was digging his own hole
<br> As a shelter for himself~
<br>
<br> -- from the Popol Vuh
<br><bgcolor gray><br>
<font size=2 color=white>
<br>[ Please press SPACE to begin.]
<waitkey><br>
<clearscreen>
<br>Days of searching, days of thirsty hacking through the briars of
the forest, but at last your patience was rewarded. A discovery!"
' Give starting objects to the player
map.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation
dictionary.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation
sodiumlamp.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation
' Show the game version, the library version
' and output the start location to the player
game.displayversion
call StandardLib.DisplayLibraryVersion
game.displaycurrentlocation
Score: Override [
var outs = |"You have scored " & currentplayer.score & " (out of a possible 25) in " & currentplayer.turns & " turns, earning you the rank of "|
if ( currentplayer.score = 25 ) then
outs = |outs & "Director of the Carnegie Institution."|
currentplayer.print outs
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.score >= 20 ) then
outs = |outs & "Archaeologist."|
currentplayer.print outs
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.score >= 10 ) then
outs = |outs & "Curiosity-seeker."|
currentplayer.print outs
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.score >= 5 ) then
outs = |outs & "Explorer."|
currentplayer.print outs
end
endif
outs = |outs & "Tourist."|
currentplayer.print outs
]
AfterInputImmediate: CodeExtend [
call DarkDaemon.inthedark
if ( currentplayer.getvalue(warthog) = 1 ) then
;go,look,examine,smell,search,jump
end
endif
#n,s,e,w,u,d,ne,nw,se,sw
end
endif
;eat
currentplayer.print "You haven't the knack of snuffling up to food yet."
end
endif
;inventory
currentplayer.print "You are empty-handed."
end
endif
currentplayer.print "Warthogs can't do anything so involved. If it weren't for the nocturnal eyesight and the lost weight, they'd be worse off all round than people."
end
endif
;photo
if ( camera.currentlocation <> currentplayer.containerlocation ) then
currentplayer.print |"Not without the use of your camera" & "."|
end
endif
if ( input.noun = 4 ) or ( input.noun = |1000000 + currentplayer.index| ) then
currentplayer.print "Best not. You haven't shaved since Mexico."
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.itemscarried > 1 ) then
currentplayer.print "Photography is a cumbersome business, needing the use of both hands. You'll have to put everything else down."
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.currentlocation = forest.id ) then
currentplayer.print "In this rain-soaked forest, best not."
end
endif
if ( currentplayer.cansee = false ) then
currentplayer.print "It is far too dark."
end
endif
endif
]
}
! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Treasure class definition
!
Item treasure "Treasure Class" {
OnAction: [
;photo
if ( this.movedfromoriginallocation = true ) then
currentplayer.print "What, and fake the archaeological record?"
end
endif
if ( this.getuserboolean(photoinsitu) = true ) then
currentplayer.print "Not again."
end
endif
currentplayer.print |"You set up the elephantine, large-format, wet-plate camera, adjust the sodium lamp and make a patient exposure of the " & this.thename & "."|
this.adduserboolean(photoinsitu)
endif
end
proc before_insert
if ( input.noun2 = packingcase.nounid ) then
call StandardLib.AddScore this.getvalue(culturalvalue)
if ( currentplayer.score = 25 ) then
currentplayer.print |"As you carefully pack away the " & this.thename & ", a red-tailed macaw flutters down from the tree-tops, feathers heavy in the recent rain, the sound of its beating wings almost deafening, stone falling against stone... As the skies clear, a crescent moon rises above a peaceful jungle. It is the end of March, 1938, and it is time to go home."|
call StandardLib.Won
end
else
returnvalue = "Safely packed away."
end
endif
endif
end
proc initialise
this.setvalue(culturalvalue) = 5
end
end
proc before_get
if ( this.currentlocation = packingcase.containerlocation ) then
returnvalue = "Unpacking such a priceless artifact had best wait until the Carnegie Intitution can do it."
cancelevent
end
endif
if ( this.getuserboolean(photoinsitu) = false ) then
returnvalue = "This is the 1930s, not the bad old days. Taking an artifact without recording its context is simply looting."
cancelevent
end
endif
end
proc before_remove
if ( this.currentlocation = packingcase.containerlocation ) then
returnvalue = "Unpacking such a priceless artifact had best wait until the Carnegie Intitution can do it."
cancelevent
end
endif
if ( this.getuserboolean(photoinsitu) = false ) then
returnvalue = "This is the 1930s, not the bad old days. Taking an artifact without recording its context is simply looting."
cancelevent
end
endif
end
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The game begins in the GRAND PLAZA.
!
Location forest "~Great Plaza~" {
Description "Or so your notes call this low escarpment of limestone, but the rainforest has claimed it back. Dark olive trees crowd in on all sides, the air steams with the mist of a warm recent rain, midges hang in the air. ~Structure 10~ is a shambles of masonry which might once have been a burial pyramid, and little survives except stone-cut steps leading down into darkness below."
OnInput: [
;go
#u
currentplayer.print "The trees are spiny and you'd cut your hands to ribbons trying to climb them."
end
endif
#in
currentplayer.currentlocation = steps.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
#d
if ( steps.getuserboolean(rubblefilled) = true ) then
currentplayer.print |"Rubble blocks the way after only a few steps" & "."|
end
else
currentplayer.currentlocation = squarechamber.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
#n,s,e,w,ne,nw,se,sw
currentplayer.print "The rainforest is dense, and you haven't hacked through it for days to abandon your discovery now. Really, you need a good few artifacts to take back to civilization before you can justify giving up the expedition."
end
endif
endif
;listen
currentplayer.print "Howler monkeys, bats, parrots, macaw."
end
endif
]
}
Item mushroom "a speckled mushroom" {
StartsIn forest
Nouns "speckled" "mushroom" "fungus" "toadstool"
Initial "A speckled mushroom grows out of the sodden earth, on a long stalk."
Description "The mushroom is capped with blotches, and you aren't at all sure it's not a toadstool."
has edible
OnAction: [
;eat
steps.removeuserboolean(rubblefilled)
currentplayer.print "You nibble at one corner, unable to trace the source of an acrid taste, distracted by the flight of a macaw overhead which seems to burst out of the sun, the sound of the beating of its wings almost deafening, stone falling against stone."
end
endif
end
proc before_get
if ( this.getuserboolean(picked) = true ) then
returnvalue = "You pick up the slowly-disintegrating mushroom."
else
this.adduserboolean(picked)
returnvalue = "You pick the mushroom, neatly cleaving its thin stalk."
endif
end
proc before_drop
returnvalue = "The mushroom drops to the ground, battered slightly."
end
endif
]
}
Item packingcase "a packing case" {
Nouns "packing" "case" "box" "strongbox"
StartsIn forest
Size 2
Initial "Your packing case rests here, ready to hold any important cultural finds you might make, for shipping back to civilisation."
StaticMessage "The case is too heavy to bother moving, as long as your expedition is still incomplete."
has static container open openable
}
Item camera "a wet-plate camera"
StartsIn packingcase
Nouns "wet-plate" "plate" "wet" "camera"
Description "A cumbersome, sturdy, stubborn wooden-framed wet plate model: like all archaeologists, you have a love-hate relationship with your camera."
}
Item newspaper "a month-old newspaper"
StartsIn packingcase
Nouns "times" "newspaper" "paper" "month-old" "old"
Description "~The Times~ for 26 February, 1938, at once damp and brittle after a month's exposure to the climate, which is much the way you feel yourself. Perhaps there is fog in London. Perhaps there are bombs."
ReadableText "~The Times~ for 26 February, 1938, at once damp and brittle after a month's exposure to the climate, which is much the way you feel yourself. Perhaps there is fog in London. Perhaps there are bombs."
has readable
}
Item steps "stone-cut steps"
Nouns "steps" "stone" "stairs" "stone-cut" "pyramid" "burial" "structure" "ten" "10"
StartsIn forest
OnAction: [
;examine
if ( this.getuserboolean(rubblefilled) = true ) then
currentplayer.print |"Rubble blocks the way after only a few steps" & "."|
end
endif
if ( this.getuserboolean(visitedsquare) = true ) then
currentplayer.print "The cracked and worn steps descend into a dim chamber. Yours might have been the first feet to have trodden them for five hundred years. On the top step is inscribed the glyph Q1."
end
else
currentplayer.print "The cracked and worn steps descend into a dim chamber. Yours might be the first feet to have trodden them for five hundred years. On the top step is inscribed the glyph Q1."
end
endif
endif
end
proc initialise
this.adduserboolean(rubblefilled)
end
]
has scenery
}
Item forestmist "a low mist"
StartsIn forest
Nouns "low" "swirling" "mist"
Description "The mist has an aroma reminiscent of tortilla.",
has scenery
OnAction: [
;smell
currentplayer.print this.defaultexamine
end
endif
currentplayer.print "The mist is too insubstantial."
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The SQUARE CHAMBER.
!
Location squarechamber "Square Chamber" {
Nouns "lintelled" "lintel" "lintels" "doorways"
Description "A sunken, gloomy stone chamber, ten yards across. A shaft of sunlight cuts in from the steps above, giving the chamber a diffuse light, but in the shadows low lintelled doorways to east and south lead into the deeper darkness of the Temple."
U_to forest
E_to wormcast
S_to corridor
has light
OnInput: [
#u
if ( eggsac.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation ) then
currentplayer.print "The moment that natural light falls upon the eggsac, it bubbles obscenely and distends. Before you can throw it away, it bursts into a hundred tiny, birth-hungry insects..."
call StandardLib.Dead
end
endif
endif
;put
if ( input.noun = eggsac.nounid ) and ( input.noun2 = sunlight.nounid ) then
currentplayer.print "You drop the eggsac into the glare of the shaft of sunlight. It bubbles obscenely, distends and then bursts into a hundred tiny insects which run in all directions into the darkness. Only spatters of slime and a curious yellow-stone key remain on the chamber floor."
stonekey.currentlocation = currentplayer.currentlocation
eggsac.currentlocation = 0
end
endif
endif
]
OnDisplay: [
if ( steps.getuserboolean(beendown) = false ) then
steps.adduserboolean(beendown)
endif
]
}
Item carvedinscriptions "carved inscriptions" {
StartsIn squarechamber
Nouns "carved" "inscriptions" "carvings" "marks" "markings" "symbols" "moving" "scuttling" "crowd"
Initial "Carved inscriptions crowd the walls, floor and ceiling."
Description "Each time you look at the carvings closely, they seem to be still. But you have the uneasy feeling when you look away that they're scuttling, moving about. Two glyphs are prominent: Arrow and Circle."
StaticMessage "Don't be ridiculous."
has static
}
Item sunlight "a shaft of sunlight" {
StartsIn squarechamber
Nouns "shaft" "of" "sunlight" "sun" "light" "beam" "sunbeam" "ray" "rays" "sun's" "sunlit" "air" "motes" "dust"
Description "Motes of dust glimmer in the shaft of sunlit air, so that it seems almost solid."
StaticMessage "It's only an insubstantial shaft of sunlight."
has static scenery
}
Item chambermist "a low mist"
StartsIn squarechamber
Nouns "low" "swirling" "mist"
Description "The mist has an aroma reminiscent of tortilla.",
has scenery
OnAction: [
;smell
currentplayer.print this.defaultexamine
end
endif
currentplayer.print "The mist is too insubstantial."
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The STOOPED CORRIDOR.
!
Location corridor "Stooped Corridor" {
Description "A low, square-cut corridor, running north to south,
stooping you over."
N_to squarechamber
S_to shrine
has darkness
OnDisplay: [
' Display the door
call LockableTwoWayDoors.displaydoor stonedoorcorr.id
]
OnInput: [
' Block player if the door is closed
;go,push
#s
if ( stonedoorcorr.openclosestate = false ) then
currentplayer.print "The door is in the way."
endif
endif
endif
]
}
Item statuette "a pygmy statuette" extends treasure {
StartsIn corridor
Nouns "snake" "mayan" "pygmy" "spirit" "precious" "statuette" "statue"
Initial "A precious Mayan statuette rests here!"
Description "A menacing, almost cartoon-like statuette of a pygmy spirit
with a snake around its neck."
}
Item stonedoorcorr "a stone door" {
StartsIn corridor
Nouns "door" "massive" "big" "stone" "yellow"
Description "It's just a big stone door."
ReadableText "The passage is barred by a massive door of yellow stone."
Initial "The great yellow stone door is open."
HasUDB locked
has static openable invisible
OnAction: [
call LockableTwoWayDoors.doorhandler stonedoorcorr.id stonedoorshrine.id stonekey.id
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The SHRINE.
!
Location shrine "Shrine" {
Description "This magnificent Shrine shows signs of being hollowed out from
already-existing limestone caves, especially in the western of the
two long eaves to the south."
N_to corridor
SE_to antechamber
has darkness
OnInput: [
;go
#sw
if ( this.SW <> junction.id ) then
currentplayer.print "The eaves taper out into a crevice which would wind further if it weren't jammed tight with icicles. The glyph of the Crescent is not quite obscured by ice."
end
endif
endif
#n
if ( stonedoorshrine.openclosestate = false ) then
currentplayer.print "The door is in the way."
endif
endif
endif
]
}
Item paintings "the paintings" {
StartsIn shrine
Nouns "painting" "paintings" "lord" "captive"
Initial "Vividly busy paintings, of the armoured Lord trampling on a
captive, are almost too bright to look at, the graffiti of an
organised mob."
Description "The flesh on the bodies is blood-red. The markers of the Long Count
date the event to 10 baktun 4 katun 0 tun 0 uinal 0 kin, the sort
of anniversary when one Lord would finally decapitate a captured
rival who had been ritually tortured over a period of some years,
in the Balkanised insanity of the Maya city states."
StaticMessage "That's hardly portable."
has static
}
Item stonetable "a slab altar" {
StartsIn shrine
Nouns "stone" "table" "slab" "altar" "great"
Initial "A great stone slab of a table, or altar, dominates the Shrine."
StaticMessage "That's hardly portable."
has supporter static sit stand lay
}
Item mask "a jade mosaic face-mask" extends treasure {
StartsIn stonetable
Nouns "jade" "mosaic" "face-mask" "mask" "face"
Initial "Resting on the altar is a jade mosaic face-mask."
Description "How exquisite it would look in the Museum."
has wearable
OnAction: [
;wear
if ( this.currentlocation <> currentplayer.containerlocation ) then
currentplayer.print "(taking the jade mosaic face-mask first)"
this.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
endif
priest.currentlocation = shrine.id
if ( currentplayer.currentlocation = shrine.id ) then
currentplayer.print "Looking through the obsidian eyeslits of the mosaic mask, a ghostly presence reveals itself: a mummified calendrical priest, attending your word."
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
end
endif
endif
Item stonedoorshrine "a stone door" {
StartsIn shrine
Nouns "door" "massive" "big" "stone" "yellow"
Description "It's just a big stone door."
ReadableText "The passage is barred by a massive door of yellow stone."
Initial "The great yellow stone door is open."
HasUDB locked
has static openable invisible
OnAction: [
call LockableTwoWayDoors.doorhandler stonedoorcorr.id stonedoorshrine.id stonekey.id
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The WORMCAST.
!
Location wormcast "Wormcast" {
Description "A disturbed place of hollows carved like a spider's web, strands of
empty space hanging in stone. The only burrows wide enough to crawl
through begin by running northeast, south and upwards."
W_to squarechamber
OnInput: [
;go
#s,ne,u
currentplayer.print "The wormcast becomes slippery around you, as though your body-heat is melting long hardened resins, and you shut your eyes tightly as you burrow through darkness.<br>"
if ( eggsac.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation ) then
currentplayer.currentlocation = squarechamber.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
else
' Choose randomly from the corridor, forest and square chamber
var rnum = |3 * random + 1 + makeinteger|
if ( rnum = 1 ) then
currentplayer.currentlocation = corridor.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
if ( rnum = 2 ) then
currentplayer.currentlocation = forest.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
if ( rnum = 3 ) then
currentplayer.currentlocation = squarechamber.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
endif
#n,se,sw,e,w,d,nw
if ( currentplayer.getvalue(warthog) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "Though you begin to feel certain that something lies behind and through the wormcast, this way must be an animal-run at best: it's far too narrow for your armchair-archaeologist's paunch."
end
else
currentplayer.print "The wormcast becomes slippery around your warthog body, and you squeal involuntarily as you burrow through the darkness, falling finally southwards to...<br>"
currentplayer.currentlocation = burialshaft.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
endif
endif
endif
' If player drops something take it to the square chamber
;drop
var imid = getitemfromnoun input.noun
if ( imid <> 0 ) then
currentplayer.print |"The " & item(imid).thename & " slips through one of the burrows and is quickly lost from sight."|
item(imid).currentlocation = squarechamber.id
end
endif
endif
]
}
Item eggsac "a glistening white eggsac" {
Nouns "egg" "sac" "eggs" "eggsac"
StartsIn wormcast
Initial "A glistening white eggsac, like a clump of frogspawn the size of a
beach ball, has adhered itself to something in a crevice in one
wall."
OnAction: [
end
proc before_get
returnvalue = "Oh my."
end
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The ANTECHAMBER.
!
Location antechamber "Antechamber" {
Description "The southeastern eaves of the Shrine make a curious antechamber."
NW_to shrine
has darkness
}
Item cage "an iron cage" {
StartsIn antechamber
Initial "override me"
Nouns "iron" "cage" "bars" "barred" "frame" "glyphs"
Description "The glyphs read: Bird Arrow Warthog."
has enterable transparent container open openable static
OnAction: [
;get,go
#in
currentplayer.print "The skeletons inhabiting the cage come alive, locking bony hands about you, crushing and pummelling. You lose consciousness, and when you recover something grotesque and impossible has occurred...<br>"
currentplayer.setvalue(warthog) = 1
skeletons.currentlocation = 0
warthoglight.currentlocation = currentplayer.containerlocation
game.displaycurrentlocation
endif
endif
;go
#d
if ( this.getvalue(flooropen) = 1 ) then
currentplayer.currentlocation = burialshaft.id
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
endif
end
proc before_displayinitial
' IAGE handles sublocations in a different way to Inform
' - we just override the display description for the object
' in the main location according to where we are. The normal
' library will take care of the rest.
' Show inner desc if we are inside the cage
if ( currentplayer.stateitem = cage.id ) then
if ( this.getvalue(flooropen) = 1 ) then
returnvalue = "From the floor of the cage, an open earthen pit cuts down into the burial chamber."
cancelevent
end
else
returnvalue = "The bars of the cage surround you."
cancelevent
end
endif
endif
' Otherwise, show the outer description.
if ( this.openclosestate = true ) then
returnvalue = "An iron-barred cage, large enough to stoop over inside, looms ominously here, its door open. There are some glyphs on the frame."
cancelevent
end
else
returnvalue = "The iron cage is closed."
cancelevent
end
endif
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The BURIAL SHAFT.
!
Location burialshaft "Burial Shaft" {
Description "In your eventual field notes, this will read:
~A corbel-vaulted crypt with an impacted earthen plug as seal
above, and painted figures conjecturally representing the Nine
Lords of the Night. Dispersed bones appear to be those of one
elderly man and several child sacrifices, while other funerary
remains include jaguar paws.~ (In field notes, it is essential
not to give any sense of when you are scared witless.)"
N_to wormcast
OnInput: [
;go
#u
if ( cage.getvalue(flooropen) = 0 ) then
cage.setvalue(flooropen) = 1
currentplayer.setvalue(warthog) = 0
currentplayer.print "Making a mighty warthog-leap, you butt at the earthen-plug seal above the chamber, collapsing your world in ashes and earth. Something lifeless and terribly heavy falls on top of you: you lose consciousness, and when you recover, something impossible and grotesque has happened...<br>"
warthog.currentlocation = this.id
warthoglight.currentlocation = 0
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
else
' If the floor is already open, take the player up to the cage
currentplayer.currentlocation = antechamber.id
currentplayer.stateitem = cage.id
currentplayer.state = 5
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
#d,s,e,w,ne,nw,se,sw
currentplayer.print "The architects of this chamber were less than generous in providing exits. Some warthog seems to have burrowed in from the north, though."
end
endif
endif
;jump
if ( cage.getvalue(flooropen) = 0 ) then
cage.setvalue(flooropen) = 1
currentplayer.setvalue(warthog) = 0
currentplayer.print "Making a mighty warthog-leap, you butt at the earthen-plug seal above the chamber, collapsing your world in ashes and earth. Something lifeless and terribly heavy falls on top of you: you lose consciousness, and when you recover, something impossible and grotesque has happened..."
warthog.currentlocation = this.id
warthoglight.currentlocation = 0
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
]
}
Item honeycomb "an ancient honeycomb" extends treasure {
StartsIn burialshaft
Nouns "ancient" "old" "honey" "honeycomb"
Initial "An exquisitely preserved, ancient honeycomb rests here!"
Description "Perhaps some kind of funerary votive offering."
has edible
OnAction: [
;eat
currentplayer.print "Perhaps the most expensive meal of your life. The honey tastes odd, perhaps because it was used to store the entrails of the Lord buried here, but still like honey."
end
endif
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The UPPER/NORTH CANYON.
!
Location canyonn "Upper End of Canyon" {
Description "The higher, broader northern end of the canyon rises only to an
uneven wall of volcanic karst."
S_to junction
d_to junction
has light
}
Item hugeball "a huge pumice-stone ball" {
StartsIn canyonn
Nouns "huge" "pumice" "pumice-stone" "stone" "ball"
Initial "A huge pumice-stone ball rests here, eight feet wide."
Description "A good eight feet across, though fairly lightweight."
StaticMessage "There's a lot of stone in an eight-foot sphere."
has static
OnAction: [
;pull,turn
currentplayer.print "It wouldn't be so very hard to get rolling."
end
endif
;push
#ne
if ( currentplayer.currentlocation = junction.id ) then
currentplayer.print "The Shrine entrance is far less than eight feet wide."
end
endif
endif
if ( input.adverb = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "It wouldn't be so very hard to get rolling."
end
endif
#n,u
currentplayer.print "You strain to push the ball uphill."
endif
#s,d
currentplayer.print "The ball is hard to stop once underway."
endif
call PushableItems.before_push this.id
end
endif
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The XIBALBÁ/JUNCTION.
!
Location junction "Xibalba" {
Description "Fifty metres beneath rainforest, and the sound of water is
everywhere: these deep, eroded limestone caves extend like
taproots. A slither northeast by a broad collapsed column of
ice-covered rock leads back to the Shrine, while a kind of canyon
floor extends uphill to the north and downwards to south,
pale white like shark's teeth in the diffused light from the
sodium lamp above."
NE_to shrine
N_to canyonn
U_to canyonn
S_to canyons
D_to canyons
has light
}
Item stela "a stela" extends treasure {
StartsIn junction
Nouns "stela" "boundary" "stone" "marker"
Initial "A modest-sized stela, or boundary stone, rests on a ledge at head height."
Description "The carvings appear to warn that the boundary of Xibalba,
Place of Fright, is near. The Bird glyph is prominent."
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The LOWER/SOUTH CANYON.
!
Location canyons "Lower End of Canyon" {
Description "At the lower, and narrower, southern end, the canyon stops dead at
a chasm of vertiginous blackness. Nothing can be seen or heard
from below."
N_to junction
U_to junction
OnDisplay: [
if ( hugeball.getuserboolean(plugginggap) = false ) and ( hugeball.currentlocation = this.id ) then
hugeball.currentlocation = 0
this.S = onball.id
this.description = "The southern end of the canyon now continues onto the pumice-stone ball, wedged into the chasm."
currentplayer.print "The pumice-stone ball rolls out of control down the last few feet of the canyon before shuddering into the jaws of the chasm, bouncing back a little and catching you a blow on the side of the forehead. You slump forward, bleeding, and... the pumice-stone shrinks, or else your hand grows, because you seem now to be holding it, staring at Alligator, son of seven-Macaw, across the ball-court of the Plaza, the heads of his last opponents impaled on spikes, a congregation baying for your blood, and there is nothing to do but to throw anyway, and... but this is all nonsense, and you have a splitting headache."
end
endif
]
OnInput: [
#s,d
if ( this.S <> onball.id ) then
currentplayer.print "Into the chasm?"
end
endif
endif
]
has light
}
Item chasm "a horrifying chasm" {
StartsIn canyons
Nouns "blackness" "chasm" "pit" "horrifying" "bottomless"
has scenery
OnAction: [
;jump
#in
currentplayer.print "You plummet through the silent void of darkness, cracking your skull against an outcrop of rock. Amidst the pain and redness you dimly make out the God with the Owl-Headdress..."
call StandardLib.CustomDeath "You have been captured"
end
endif
#over
currentplayer.print "It's far too wide."
end
endif
endif
;search
currentplayer.print "The chasm is deep and murky"
end
endif
;put,drop,throw
#in
if ( input.noun2 = this.nounid ) then
var imid = getitemfromnoun input.noun
if ( imid <> 0 ) then
currentplayer.print |"The " & item(imid).thename & " tumbles silently into the darkness of the chasm."|
item(imid).currentlocation = 0
end
endif
endif
endif
endif
end
]
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! The PUMICE LEDGE.
!
Location onball "Pumice-Stone Ledge" {
Description "An impromptu ledge formed by the pumice-stone ball, wedged into
place in the chasm. The canyon nevertheless ends here."
N_to canyons
D_to canyons
U_to canyons
has light
}
Item incisedbone "an incised bone" extends treasure {
StartsIn onball
Nouns "incised" "carved" "bone"
Initial "Of all the sacrificial goods thrown into the chasm, perhaps
nothing will be reclaimed: nothing but an incised bone, lighter
than it looks, which projects from a pocket of wet silt in the
canyon wall."
Description "A hand holding a brush pen appears from the jaws of Itzamna,
inventor of writing, in his serpent form."
}
! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- !
! Objects which are moved into position as the game proceeds
!
Item sodiumlamp "a sodium lamp" {
Nouns "sodium" "lamp" "heavy"
Initial "must have initial description to override"
has lightsource
OnAction: [
;examine
var oput = "It is a heavy-duty archaeologist's lamp, "
if ( this.islit = false ) then
oput = |oput & "currently off."|
else
if ( this.getvalue(batterypower) < 10 ) then
oput = |oput & "glowing a dim yellow."|
else
oput = |oput & "blazing with brilliant yellow light."|
endif
endif
currentplayer.print oput
endif
;switch
#on
if ( this.getvalue(batterypower) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "Unfortunately, the battery seems to be dead."
end
endif
endif
endif
;light
if ( this.getvalue(batterypower) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "Unfortunately, the battery seems to be dead."
end
endif
endif
;push
#sw
if ( currentplayer.currentlocation = shrine.id ) then
currentplayer.print "The nearest you can do is to push the sodium lamp to the very lip of the Shrine, where the cave floor falls away."
end
endif
endif
call PushableItems.before_push this.id
end
endif
end
proc initialise
this.setvalue(batterypower) = 100
end
proc before_get
if ( this.islit = true ) then
returnvalue = "The bulb's too delicate and the metal handle's too hot to lift the lamp while it's switched on."
cancelevent
endif
end
proc before_displayinitial
if ( this.islit = true ) then
returnvalue = "The sodium lamp squats on the ground, burning away."
cancelevent
end
else
returnvalue = "The sodium lamp squats heavily on the ground."
cancelevent
end
endif
end
proc each_turn
' This means that our custom description will always be used
this.movedfromoriginallocation = false
' Battery daemon
if ( this.islit = true ) then
var batp = this.getvalue(batterypower)
batp = |batp - 1|
this.setvalue(batterypower) = batp
if ( batp = 10 ) then
currentplayer.print "The sodium lamp is getting dimmer!"
end
endif
if ( batp = 5 ) then
currentplayer.print "The sodium lamp can't last much longer."
end
endif
if ( batp = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "The sodium lamp fades and suddenly dies."
this.islit = false
game.displaycurrentlocation
end
endif
endif
end
]
}
Item dictionary "Waldeck's Mayan dictionary" {
Nouns "dictionary" "local" "guide" "book" "mayan" "waldeck" "waldeck's"
Description "Compiled from the unreliable lithographs of the legendary raconteur
and explorer ~Count~ Jean Frederic Maximilien Waldeck
(1766??-1875), this guide contains what little is known of the
glyphs used in the local ancient dialect."
OnAction: [
;consult
if ( input.noun2 = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "Try ~consult dictionary about -name of glyph-~."
end
endif
var lookupnoun = input.snoun2
if ( lookupnoun = "q1" ) then
currentplayer.print "(This is one glyph you have memorised!)<br><br>Q1: ~sacred site~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "crescent" ) then
currentplayer.print "Crescent: believed pronounced ~xibalba~, though its meaning is unknown."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "arrow" ) then
currentplayer.print "Arrow: ~journey; becoming~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "skull" ) then
currentplayer.print "Skull: ~death, doom; fate (not nec. bad)~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "circle" ) then
currentplayer.print "Circle: ~the Sun; also life, lifetime~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "jaguar" ) then
currentplayer.print "Jaguar: ~lord~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "monkey" ) then
currentplayer.print "Monkey: ~priest?~."
end
endif
if ( lookupnoun = "bird" ) then
if ( this.getvalue(correct) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "Bird: ~rich, affluent?~."
end
else
currentplayer.print "Bird: ~dead as a stone~."
end
endif
endif
currentplayer.print "That glyph is so far unrecorded."
endif
]
}
! This may seem a little odd - I am using an item here that represents the available
! glyphs for looking up in the dictionary. This way we have a fast test to see
! what is understood and what is not without resorting to using input.contains or
! an ask statement and parsing it ourselves. This is a useful trick.
Item glyphs "the dictionary glyphs" {
StartsIn limbo
Nouns "q1" "crescent" "arrow" "skull" "circle" "jaguar" "monkey" "bird"
}
Item map "a sketch-map of Quintana Roo" {
Nouns "map" "sketch" "sketch-map" "quintana" "roo"
Description "This map marks little more than the creek which brought you
here, off the south-east edge of Mexico and into deepest
rainforest, broken only by this raised plateau."
}
Item stonekey "a stone key" {
StartsIn limbo
Nouns "stone" "key"
}
Character priest "a mummified priest" {
StartsIn limbo
Nouns "mummified" "priest"
Initial "Behind the slab, a mummified priest stands waiting,
barely alive at best, impossibly venerable."
Description "He is desiccated and hangs together only by will-power. Though his
first language is presumably local Mayan, you have the curious
instinct that he will understand your speech."
OnAction: [
;ask
var seln = input.snoun2
if ( seln = "dictionary" ) or ( seln = "book" ) then
if ( dictionary.getvalue(correct) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "~The ~bird~ glyph... very funny.~"
end
else
currentplayer.print "~A dictionary? Really?~"
end
endif
endif
if ( seln = "glyph" ) or ( seln = "glyphs" ) or ( seln = "mayan" ) or ( seln = "dialect" ) then
currentplayer.print "~In our culture, the Priests are ever literate.~"
end
endif
if ( seln = "lord" ) or ( seln = "tomb" ) or ( seln = "shrine" ) or ( seln = "temple" ) then
currentplayer.print "~This is a private matter.~"
end
endif
if ( seln = "paintings" ) then
currentplayer.print "The calendrical priest frowns. ~10 baktun, 4 katun, that makes 1,468,800 days since the beginning of time: in your calendar 19 January 909.~"
end
endif
if ( seln = "ruins" ) then
currentplayer.print "~The ruins will ever defeat thieves. In the underworld, looters are tortured through eternity.~ A pause. ~As are archaeologists.~"
end
endif
if ( seln = "web" ) or ( seln = "wormcast" ) then
currentplayer.print "~No man can pass the Wormcast.~"
end
endif
if ( seln = "xibalba" ) then
if ( shrine.SW = junction.id ) then
currentplayer.print "The priest shakes his bony finger."
end
else
currentplayer.print "The priest extends one bony finger southwest toward the icicles, which vanish like frost as he speaks. ~Xibalba, the Underworld.~"
shrine.SW = junction.id
end
endif
endif
currentplayer.print "You must find your own answer."
endif
;tell
currentplayer.print "The priest has no interest in your sordid life."
end
endif
;attack,kiss
this.currentlocation = 0
currentplayer.print "The priest desiccates away into dust until nothing remains, not a breeze nor a bone."
end
endif
;show,give
if ( input.noun = dictionary.nounid ) and ( dictionary.getvalue(correct) = 0 ) then
currentplayer.print "The priest reads a little of the book, laughing in a hollow, whispering way. Unable to restrain his mirth, he scratches in a correction somewhere before returning the book."
dictionary.setvalue(correct) = 1
end
endif
if ( input.noun = newspaper.nounid ) then
currentplayer.print "He looks at the date. ~12 baktun 16 katun 4 tun 1 uinal 12 kin~, he declares before browsing the front page. ~Ah. Progress, I see.~"
end
endif
currentplayer.print "The priest is not interested in earthly things."
end
endif
]
OnTalk: [
;go
currentplayer.print "~I must not leave the Shrine.~"
end
endif
currentplayer.print "~It is not your orders I serve.~"
]
}
! Same trick again - I am using a dummy object for the priests range
! of understandings.
Item priestwords "the priest's words" {
StartsIn limbo
Nouns "dictionary" "book" "glyph" "glyphs" "mayan" "dialect" "lord" "tomb" "shrine" "temple" "paintings" "ruins" "web" "wormcast" "xibalba"
}
Character warthog "Warthog" {
Nouns "wart" "hog" "warthog"
Initial "A warthog snuffles and grunts about in the ashes."
Description "Muddy and grunting."
}
Item warthoglight "warthog light" {
has light lightsource
}
! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Stuff for dealing with the dark
!
Item soundoftinyclaws "a sound of tiny claws" {
StartsIn limbo
Nouns "tiny" "claws" "sound" "scuttling" "scuttle" "things" "creatures" "monsters" "insects"
StaticMessage "The creatures evade you, chittering."
has static
OnAction: [
;listen
currentplayer.print "How intelligent they sound, for mere insects."
end
endif
;touch,taste
currentplayer.print "You wouldn't want to. Really."
end
endif
;smell
currentplayer.print "You can only smell your own fear."
end
endif
;attack
currentplayer.print "They easily evade your flailing about."
end
endif
currentplayer.print "The creatures evade you, chittering."
]
}
currentplayer.setvalue(darkturns) = |currentplayer.getvalue(darkturns) + 1|
var dtur = currentplayer.getvalue(darkturns)
if ( dtur = 1 ) then
currentplayer.print "Somewhere, tiny claws are scuttling."
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
end
endif
if ( dtur = 2 ) then
currentplayer.print "The scuttling draws a little nearer, and your breathing grows loud and hoarse."
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
end
endif
if ( dtur = 3 ) then
currentplayer.print "The perspiration of terror runs off your brow. The creatures are almost here!"
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
end
endif
if ( dtur = 4 ) then
currentplayer.print "You feel a tickling at your extremities and kick outward, shaking something chitinous off. Their sound alone is a menacing rasp."
currentplayer.outputtoplayer = false
end
endif
if ( dtur = 5 ) then
currentplayer.print "Suddenly there is a tiny pain, of a hypodermic-sharp fang at your calf. Almost at once your limbs go into spasm your shoulders and knee-joints lock, your tongue swells..."
call StandardLib.Dead
end
endif
else
currentplayer.setvalue(darkturns) = 0
soundoftinyclaws.currentlocation = 0
endif
end
}
