!       The game beings in the GRAND PLAZA.
!
!       Defined in DM4 §4, modified in §8, §9 and §23
Object  Forest "~Great Plaza~"
  with  description
            "Or so your notes call this low escarpment of limestone, but the
             rainforest has claimed it back. Dark olive trees crowd in on all
             sides, the air steams with the mist of a warm recent rain, midges
             hang in the air. ~Structure 10~ is a shambles of masonry which
             might once have been a burial pyramid, and little survives
             except stone-cut steps leading down into darkness below.",
        d_to steps,
        in_to steps,
        u_to
            "The trees are spiny and you'd cut your hands to ribbons
             trying to climb them.",
        cant_go
            "The rainforest is dense, and you haven't hacked through it for days
             to abandon your discovery now. Really, you need a good few
             artifacts to take back to civilization before you can justify
             giving up the expedition.",
        before [; Listen: "Howler monkeys, bats, parrots, macaw."; ],
  has   light;

!       Defined in DM4 §4, modified in Exercise 1 and §23
Object  -> mushroom "speckled mushroom"
  with  name 'speckled' 'mushroom' 'fungus' 'toadstool',
        initial
            "A speckled mushroom grows out of the sodden earth, on
             a long stalk.",
        description
            "The mushroom is capped with blotches, and you aren't
             at all sure it's not a toadstool.",
        after [;
            Take:
                if (self.mushroom_picked)
                    "You pick up the slowly-disintegrating mushroom.";
                self.mushroom_picked = true;
                "You pick the mushroom, neatly cleaving its thin stalk.";
            Drop:
                "The mushroom drops to the ground, battered slightly.";
            Eat:
                steps.rubble_filled = false;
                "You nibble at one corner, unable to trace the source of an
                 acrid taste, distracted by the flight of a macaw overhead
                 which seems to burst out of the sun, the sound of the beating
                 of its wings almost deafening, stone falling against stone.";
            ],
        mushroom_picked false,
  has   edible;

!       Defined in DM4 §12
Object  -> packing_case "packing case"
  with  name 'packing' 'case' 'box' 'strongbox',
        initial
            "Your packing case rests here, ready to hold any important
             cultural finds you might make, for shipping back to civilisation.",
        before [;
            Take, Remove, PushDir:
                "The case is too heavy to bother moving, as long as your
                 expedition is still incomplete.";
            ],
  has   static container open openable;

!       Defined in DM4 §6
Object  -> -> camera "wet-plate camera"
  with  name 'wet-plate' 'plate' 'wet' 'camera',
        description
            "A cumbersome, sturdy, stubborn wooden-framed wet plate
             model: like all archaeologists, you have a love-hate
             relationship with your camera.";

!       Defined in DM4 §23
Object  -> -> newspaper "month-old newspaper"
  with  name 'times' 'newspaper' 'paper' 'month-old' 'old',
        description
            "~The Times~ for 26 February, 1938, at once damp and brittle
             after a month's exposure to the climate, which is much the way you
             feel yourself. Perhaps there is fog in London.
             Perhaps there are bombs.";

!       Defined in DM4 §4, modified in §5 and §23
Object  -> steps "stone-cut steps"
  with  name 'steps' 'stone' 'stairs' 'stone-cut' 'pyramid' 'burial'
             'structure' 'ten' '10',
        description [;
            if (self.rubble_filled)
                "Rubble blocks the way after only a few steps.";
            print "The cracked and worn steps descend into a dim
                   chamber. Yours might ";
            if (Square_Chamber hasnt visited)
                print "be the first feet to tread";
            else
                print "have been the first feet to have trodden";
            " them for five hundred years. On the top step is
             inscribed the glyph Q1.";
            ],
        door_to [;
            if (self.rubble_filled)
                "Rubble blocks the way after only a few steps.";
            return Square_Chamber;
            ],
        door_dir d_to,
        rubble_filled true,
  has   scenery door open;

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