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Volume Seventeen - "Ivory"

Book One - "Background"

The Dream of the Red King is a scene. The Dream of the Red King begins when Stiffy Harrows Hell ends falsely. The Dream of the Red King ends when the time since The Dream of the Red King began is 9 minutes.

When Dream of the Red King begins:

[ turn off Locksmith ]

ignore (the opening doors before entering rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the closing doors before locking rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the closing doors before locking keylessly rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the unlocking before opening rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the intelligently opening doors rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the intelligently closing doors rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the intelligently closing keyless doors rule) in the before rulebook;

ignore (the intelligently opening containers rule) in the before rulebook.

When Dream of the Red King ends:

if the location is not Limbo, say "[paragraph break][paragraph break]";

consider the Looking-Glass-Ending rule.

This is the Looking-Glass-Ending Rule:

say "[paragraph break][italic type]Somewhere, the Red King stirs, stretches, and sleepily opens his eyes.[roman type][paragraph break][paragraph break][paragraph break]";

end the story saying "You have gone out-bang!-just like a candle".

[ ! This is to simulate the annoying lost-in-the-woods bit of Adventure]

Every turn during the Dream of the Red King:

if the location is Open_Forest

begin;

if the Open_Forest is not warned_about and a random chance of 1 in 2 succeeds

begin;

move the player to the Other_Forest, without printing a room description;

otherwise;

now the Open_Forest is warned_about;

end if;

otherwise;

now the Open_Forest is not_warned_about;

end if.

Kentucky is a region. End_Of_Road, Open_Forest, Other_Forest, In_Valley, Slit_In_Streambed, Inside_Building, Outside_Grate, and Road_Hill are in Kentucky.

Test Kentucky with "in/ get keys/ w/ s/ s/ s/ unlock grate with keys/ d"