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- From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bubblyhotrock (was Sense of Wonder)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:14:39 GMT
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- In article <74337@apple.apple.COM> Darren Giles, dgiles@Apple.COM writes:
- >> You are looking down yet another deep chasm, with a river of lava
- >> bubbling far below (by this point of the game, you've probably seen
- >> enough lava to scrap your vacation plans to the volcano planet of
- >> Bubblyhotrock Centauri). A rope spans the chasm from just above the
- >> entryway here to just above the entryway of an opening at the other
- side
- >> of the chasm. On the other side of the chasm is a carriage of some
- sort.
- >Attached to the rope, I gather... More detail on the carriage &
- attachment
- >would be very helpful.
-
- As was mentioned in the post, this is not verbatim. More detail IS
- available, of course, if you take the trouble to look at the carriage or
- the attachment. For your own info, you have to guess about the inside of
- the carriage (no windows) , but if hollow it could probably fit four
- comfortably. It is made of some lightweight material you have not seen
- before. The rope passes into the carriage through a small hole about a
- foot below the roof of the carriage. You assume that the rope continues
- through the carriage to the other side, and that the carriage is somehow
- suspended by the rope.
-
- >> There is a lever on the wall.
- >Does it do anything?
-
- No. A lot of things in the adventure don't work because the place hasn't
- been visited for at least a century.
-
- >>If he climbs on top of it, the carriage overbalances and swings him
- right off
- >Why? Presumably it's hanging from the rope; if he could get this far
- hand-
- >over-hand, what's to say he can't keep holding onto the rope that the
- >carriage hangs from? [Or perhaps I don't have a good enough image of the
- >carriage to know why this is impossible.]
-
- See description of the carriage above.
-
- >> If... he climbs part of the rope and then cuts it... then if he has
- gone
- >> thirty feet across the rope he will swing right into the cave
- >Unhurt by the 70' plummet? Players might rule this out as "surely lethal
- >even if allowed"
-
- I neglected to mention that gravity on this planet is lower than on Earth
- by nearly a factor of two. The cave is actually a balcony for a very
- comfortable bedroom, and your fall is easily broken by cushions / bed.
- The carriage is pretty strong, but is quite dented from impacting with
- the rock ledge.
-
- >Also, it is necessary to allow for all other objects that could be
- brought
- >to this location. For example, if I had a 80+ foot rope, I might try
- tieing
- >it to the first rope just before the carriage, climbing down it, and then
- >swinging until I reached the ledge. I might also try to use the knife or
- >other tool to release the carriage from the rope so I could get past it.
-
- Actually, you have a 50 foot rope. That doesn't cut it. I can't
- envision in my head a way to cut the carriage loose without cutting
- yourself loose, as well. Well, there is ONE way -- your 50 foot rope
- tied around your waist, the other tied to a protrusion (which does not
- EXIST) in the rock wall, then slice away, but you wouldn't be able to get
- back -- you need about sixty-six feet of the ninety-six feet you cut away.
-