!       The SHRINE.
!
!       Defined in DM4 §23
Object  Shrine "Shrine"
  with  description
            "This magnificent Shrine shows signs of being hollowed out from
             already-existing limestone caves, especially in the western of the
             two long eaves to the south.",
        n_to StoneDoor,
        se_to Antechamber,
        sw_to
            "The eaves taper out into a crevice which would wind further if it
             weren't jammed tight with icicles. The glyph of the Crescent is
             not quite obscured by ice.";

!       Defined in DM4 §23
Object  -> paintings "paintings"
  with  name 'painting' 'paintings' 'lord' 'captive',
        initial
            "Vividly busy paintings, of the armoured Lord trampling on a
             captive, are almost too bright to look at, the graffiti of an
             organised mob.",
        description
            "The flesh on the bodies is blood-red. The markers of the Long Count
             date the event to 10 baktun 4 katun 0 tun 0 uinal 0 kin, the sort
             of anniversary when one Lord would finally decapitate a captured
             rival who had been ritually tortured over a period of some years,
             in the Balkanised insanity of the Maya city states.",
  has   static;

!       Defined in DM4 §12 and §15
Object  -> stone_table "slab altar"
  with  name 'stone' 'table' 'slab' 'altar' 'great',
        initial
            "A great stone slab of a table, or altar, dominates the Shrine.",
  has   enterable supporter static;

!       Defined in DM4 §11
Treasure -> -> mask "jade mosaic face-mask"
  with  name 'jade' 'mosaic' 'face-mask' 'mask' 'face',
        initial
            "Resting on the altar is a jade mosaic face-mask.",
        description
            "How exquisite it would look in the Museum.",
        after [;
            Wear:
                move priest to Shrine;
                if (location == Shrine)
                    "Looking through the obsidian eyeslits of the mosaic mask,
                     a ghostly presence reveals itself: a mummified calendrical
                     priest, attending your word.";
            Disrobe:
                remove priest;
            ],
        cultural_value 10,
  has   clothing;

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