~Ecstatica 1 !CSTATIC.PCX A town A-M map - By Simon Burrows `You stagger blindly around for hours, losing all sense of `direction. Every building and every forest looks like the next, `and even the wallpaper looks dull!! At the edge of town, you `trip upon a rotting wooden pole, and as you squint up into the `sunlight you see it before you, the answer to all your problems `- a Tourist Information street plan of the town!! You look to `the skies and cry a loud thank you to God, a wild three-cheers `to Ordnance Survey, but, more than that, you give a hearty `handshake to your saviour - Simon Burrows - who, once again, has `come to your rescue with a beffudlement-quashing map to end all `beffudlement-quashing maps! `You can hardly believe your eyes as you stare at the map, but `then you remember that really you can't see it because you're `reading this. In excitement at the possiblity, and with a tinge `of trepidation, you furtively clasp the mouse and click on "View `Screen Shots" at the bottom of this text. As the gorgeous graphic `of the map embraces the pixels of your Super Video Graphics Array `Visual Display Unit, you realise that Ecstaticians really do know `how to make a map!!! `Alarmed at the seemingly unexplained highlight-points you fear `the worst - have the Jewson constructors forgotten to add the `key? Behold, though, for glancing down lower through this `document, you seen the gaily red-coloured lines which can mean `only one thing - location descriptions!!!! Read on, chosen one... ~`A) THE BRIDGE ` Trying to cross this fiend will result in it snapping rather ` alarmingly!! ~`B) THE HERB SHOP ` The barrels found in the room at the back are a surprisingly ` good hiding place!! ~`C) A HOUSE ` There's no way into this private residence!! ~`D) THE CHURCH ` Here you'll find a bible and an effigy scattered untidily on ` the floor!! ~`E) THE INN ` Here lies a mace and a rather unsavoury dragon with the taste ` for a crusader's blood!! ~`F) THE STABLE ` Since Bedland have recently moved out of this area, the grass ` in here will have to suffice for a resting place on which to ` heal!! ~`G) MESSY ROOM ` The cupboard makes another good hiding place, and there's ` also a charming table which will attack you when you take the ` dagger laid upon it!! ~`H) THE SORCERESS' RESIDENCE ` Simply enough, to avoid a blow from the drunken bear, run ` past it!! ~`I) MORTUARY??!!! ` Here lies a woman stabbed to death, and an exit to the ` outside world!! ~`J) THE OLD KNIGHT'S ABODE ` Where the old knight lives, perhaps?? ~`K) ANOTHER BORING LITTLE ROOM ` Armour and a sword reside here, it is said... ~`L) THE BARREL HOUSE ` Barrels...barrels...barrels and more barrels... ~`M) ANOTHER HOUSE ` Another private residence not worth a look at (and not ` possible to take a look at either) ~`Good luck young adventurer, now the path is lit before you... ` 컴컴컴컴컴컴� ~` Simon Burrows ` 컴컴컴컴컴컴�