Friday, December 21, 2018

Chapter 21: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd, 1975)

>sw

[Lower Shaft] You are in a small square room which is at the bottom of a long shaft. To the east is a passageway and to the northeast a very narrow passage. In the shaft can be seen a heavy iron chain. At the end of the chain is a basket.
The basket contains:
  A small pile of coal.
  A torch.
  A screwdriver.


Woohoo! It worked!

>take coal from basket, take torch from basket, take screwdriver from basket

Taken.

>east

[Machine Room] You are in a large room which seems to be air conditioned. In one corner there is a machine (?) which is shaped somewhat like a clothes dryer. On the "panel" there is a switch which is labeled in an obscure dialect of Swahili. Fortunately, I know this dialect, and the label translates to START. The switch does not appear to be manipulable by any human hand (unless the fingers are about 1/16 by 1/4 inch). On the front of the machine is a large lid, which is closed.

Hmmm...an underground room that is air conditioned, contains something that looks like a clothes dryer and has a switch that needs a tool. Sounds like fun.

>open lid

The lid opens.


Gotta use this coal for something…let’s try in here.

>put coal in machine

Done.


>close lid

The lid closes.


Let’s see…what is 1/16 by 1/4 inch? Perhaps our trusty "flat-blade", "slot-head", "straight", "flat", "flat-tip" or as I like to put it, "flat-head" screwdriver will fit in there.

>turn switch with screwdriver

The machine comes to life (figuratively) with a dazzling display of colored lights and bizarre noises. After a few moments, the excitement fades.

Sounds like the clothes washer at the laundromat where I first saw Penny, where many of our conversations took place, and where my slide into evil began. But enough about me.

>open lid

The lid opens.


>look in machine

The machine contains:
 

A huge diamond.

Neat. The transformation of carbon to diamond is a process that requires millions of years to complete and takes place 90 to 100 miles below the earth's surface when carbon, probably pure graphite, is exposed to temperatures exceeding 2,000°F and pressure that is 50 times greater than what exists on the surface of the earth. Who knew you could just pop coal into a machine and it would do the rest?

>take diamond

Taken.


>nw

Lower Shaft


At the end of the chain is a basket.

What goes down must go back up.

>put all in basket

Done.

Okay, time for us to boogie.

>ne

Timber Room

Take whatever you left here, presuming the Thief didn't pick up the treasures already.

>take lamp, etc.

Taken.

>north

Ladder Bottom

>up

Ladder Top

>up

Coal Mine #4

>east

Coal Mine #1

>east

Wooden Tunnel

>south

Shaft Room

>raise basket

The basket is raised to the top of the shaft.
The basket contains:
  A huge diamond.
  A torch.
  A screwdriver.


>take diamond, take torch, take screwdriver

>turn off lamp

The lamp is now off.

>west

Mine Entrance

>south

Slide Room


Wheeeeeeeeeee!!

>down

Cellar


>up

Living Room

>put treasures in case

>drop all

>save

Saved.



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