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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1h

This is a sunny, cozy bedroom, barren of furniture. The only way out is to the west.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 3h

This covered walkway extends east and west from the hallway door to the garage. The garden is to the north, and a door to the office is southwest.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 5h

This is closet with a set of coat pegs.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 7h

This is a north-south hallway leading to an outer door further north. To the east is a coat closet.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 9h

This is a small pond, all of whose plants and animals have shut up shop for the winter. A path leads northwest to the patio from here.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 11h

This dock, which extends north into a broad canal, is crafted of fine woods from across the solar system: hickory wood from the forests of Earth, and dickory wood from the jungles of Venus. A path leads south.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 13h

You have entered one building in the dormitory complex, the very same dorm where you once lived for several terms when you were a student at the University. Many doors open onto a nearby lounge. Loud music filters through the walls, and the odor of mindex hangs in the air.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 15h

You are in the trawler's galley. A stove and a small table are the fixtures here. A ladder leads up through the deck to the wheelhouse for feeding the captain in rough weather.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 17h

This is the enclosed front porch of your home. Your front garden lies to the south, and you can re-enter your home to the north.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 19h

This is a full bath, including a shower stall.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 21h

No expense has been spared to make this long dim hallway anything but a servant's corridor. The foyer is east, a kitchen north of you. Music drifts into this narrow hallway through the south wall and from a brightly lit area to the east. The kitchen is north of you.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 23h

You are on Wicker Drive, which runs northeast to southwest. An alley forks off to the east. A large factory complex can be entered to the southeast, and a gun shop is north of here. A row of tenements stretches off to the northwest and west.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

You are standing at the entrance of what might have been a coal mine. The shaft enters the west wall, and there is another exit on the south end of the room.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

@kalmn.bsky.social You are carrying a slot and a lamp.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This is the campsite of a family of nomadic robotic gypsies. A ragged tent is pitched on the north side of the camp, and trails lead northwest and south.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

You are at the top of a sixteen-step stairway. It leads west and down. The strange passageway into the cube rooms lies to the south. The walls here are painted in somber colors -- deep ochres, browns and blacks, but the scenes the paintings depict are oddly gay.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

You are at the fore end of the trawler. You can see the ocean over the rail that runs around the deck. A ladder leads below deck, and the wheelhouse is aft of you. A chair is bolted to the deck.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This is the northern end of the ballroom, near the entrance.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This is a tiny, smoke-filled bar, with exits to the west and northeast. Loud, distorted music comes from an old jukebox. Battered wooden stools are the only seating.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fore end of the yellow hall. The planters hold dry, dead plants. The usual ring corridor joins the main hall.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This looks like the entrance to a run-down amusement park, no longer gaudy with lights and glitter. A sign above the entrance proclaims 'Welcome to Bozbarland - The Entertainment Capital of the Empire.' The park lies to the west and a tunnel leads northeast.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve large paintings cover the walls of this long, tall room. The main exit is north, but there's also a small opening to the south.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

This is the western half of Halley Park, bordered on the north by a car lot, on the northwest and west by the zoo, and on the south by Halley Drive. A dried-up pond bed fills the center of the park. Near the zoo entrance is an entrance leading down to the Tubes.

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You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

Airportway curves northeast along the river toward the airport, and a road leads north into the military base. On the south side of the street is Symphony Hall, and next to it is a car lot.

You Are Carrying @youarecarrying.bsky.social · 1d

You are in the lobby of FrobozzCo International's World Headquarters, an impressive four hundred story structure. Wide stairs lead up and down; the main exit is to the west; an emergency exit leads east.