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$205 YOU HAVE WALKED UP A HILL, STILL IN THE FOREST. THE ROAD SLOPES BACK DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL. THERE IS A BUILDING IN THEDISTANCE.
$206 YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK      BUILDING. AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF   THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLEY.
$207 YOU ARE INSIDE A BUILDING, A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING.
$208 YOU ARE IN A VALLEY IN THE FOREST BESIDE A STREAM TUMBLING      ALONG A ROCKY BED.
$209 AT YOUR FEET ALL THE WATER OF THE STREAM SPLASHES INTO A 2-INCH SLIT IN THE ROCK. DOWNSTREAM THE STREAMBED IS BARE ROCK.
$210 YOU ARE IN A 20 FOOT DEPRESSION FLOORED WITH BARE DIRT. SET INTOTHE DIRT IS A STRONG STEEL GRATE MOUNTED IN CONCRETE. A DRY     STREAMBED LEADS INTO THE DEPRESSION.
$211 YOU ARE IN A SMALL CHAMBER BENEATH A 3X3 STEEL GRATE TO THE     SURFACE. A LOW CRAWL OVER COBBLES LEADS INWARD TO THE WEST.
$212 YOU ARE CRAWLING OVER COBBLES IN A LOW PASSAGE. THERE IS A DIM  LIGHT AT THE EAST END OF THE PASSAGE.
$213 YOU ARE IN A DEBRIS ROOM FILLED WITH STUFF WASHED IN FROM THE   SURFACE. A LOW WIDE PASSAGE WITH COBBLES BECOMES PLUGGED WITH   MUD AND DEBRIS HERE, BUT AN AWKWARD CANYON LEADS UPWARD AND WESTA NOTE ON THE WALL SAYS 'MAGIC WORD: XYZZY'.
$214 YOU ARE IN AN AWKWARD SLOPING EAST/WEST CANYON.
$215 YOU ARE IN A SPLENDID CHAMBER THIRTY FEET HIGH. THE WALLS ARE   FROZEN RIVERS OF ORANGE STONE. AN AWKWARD CANYON AND A GOOD     PASSAGE EXIT FROM EAST AND WEST SIDE OF THE CHAMBER.
$216 AT YOUR FEET IS A SMALL PIT BREATHING TRACES OF WHITE MIST. AN  EAST PASSAGE ENDS HERE EXCEPT FOR A SMALL CRACK LEADING ON.	ROUGH STONE STEPS LEAD DOWN THE PIT.
$217 YOU ARE AT ONE END OF A VAST HALL STRETCHING FORWARD OUT OF     SIGHT TO THE WEST. THERE ARE OPENINGS TO EITHER SIDE. NEARBY, A WIDE STONE STAIRCASE LEADS DOWNWARD. THE HALL IS FILLED WITH    WISPS OF WHITE MIST SWAYING TO AND FRO ALMOST AS IF ALIVE. A    COLD WIND BLOWS UP THE STAIRCASE. THERE IS A PASSAGE TO THE DOMEBEHIND YOU. ROUGH STONE STEPS LEAD TO THE TOP OF THE DOME.
$218 THIS IS A LOW ROOM WITH A CRUDE NOTE ON THE WALL. THE NOTE SAYS,		'YOU WON'T GET IT UP THE STEPS!'
$219 YOU ARE ON THE EAST BANK OF A FISSURE SLICING CLEAR ACROSS THE  HALL. THE MIST IS QUITE THICK HERE, AND THE FISSURE IS TOO WIDE TO JUMP.
$220 YOU ARE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE FISSURE IN THE HALL OF MISTS.
$221 YOU ARE AT THE WEST END OF THE HALL OF MISTS. A LOW WIDE CRAWL  CONTINUES WEST AND ANOTHER GOES NORTH. TO THE SOUTH IS A LITTLE PASSAGE SIX FEET OFF THE FLOOR.
$222 YOU ARE IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING, WITH PASSAGES OFF IN  ALL DIRECTIONS.(HAVE FUN!)
$223 YOU ARE IN THE SOUTH SIDE CHAMBER.
$224 YOU ARE IN THE WEST SIDE CHAMBER OF THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN    KING. A PASSAGE CONTINUES WEST AND UP HERE.
$225 YOU ARE IN A LOW N/S PASSAGE AT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. THE HOLE   GOES DOWN TO A E/W PASSAGE.
$226 YOU ARE IN A LARGE ROOM, WITH A PASSAGE TO THE SOUTH, A PASSAGE TO THE WEST, AND A WALL OF BROKEN ROCK TO THE EAST. THERE IS A  LARGE 'Y2' ON A ROCK IN THE ROOM'S CENTRE.
$227 YOU'RE AT A LOW WINDOW OVERLOOKING A HUGE PIT, WHICH EXTENDS WAYOUT YOUR SIGHT. A FLOOR IS INDISTINCTLY VISIBLE OVER 50 FEET    BELOW. TRACES OR WHITE MIST COVER THE FLOOR OF THE PIT, BECOMINGTHICKER TO THE RIGHT. MARKS IN THE DUST AROUND THE WINDOW WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE THAT SOMEONE HAS BEEN HERE RECENTLY. DIRECTLY  ACROSS THE PIT FROM YOU AND 25 FEET AWAY THERE IS A SIMILAR WINDOW LOOKING INTO A LIGHTED ROOM. A SHODOWY FIGURE CAN BE SEEN    THERE PEERING BACK AT YOU.					      THE SHADOWY FIGURE SEEMS TO BE TRYING TO ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION.
$228 THE PASSAGE HERE IS BLOCKED BY A RECENT CAVE-IN.
$229 YOU ARE AT THE EAST END OF A VERY LONG HALL APPARENTLY WITHOUT  SIDE CHAMBERS. TO THE EAST A LOW WIDE CRAWL SLANTS UP. TO THE   NORTH A ROUND 2 FOOT HOLE SLANTS DOWN.
$230 YOU ARE AT THE WEST END OF A VERY LONG FEATURELESS HALL. THE    HALL JOINS UP WITH A NARROW NORTH/SOUTH PASSAGE.
$231 YOU ARE AT A CROSSOVER OF A HIGH N/S PASSAGE AND A LOW E/W ONE.
$232 DEAD END.
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$233 YOU ARE IN A DIRTY BROKEN PASSAGE. TO THE EAST IS A CRAWL. TO   THE WEST IS A LARGE PASSAGE. ABOVE YOU IS A HOLE TO ANOTHER     PASSAGE.
$234 YOU ARE ON THE BRINK OF A SMALL CLEAN CLIMBABLE PIT. A PASSAGE  LEADS WEST.
$235 YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF A SMALL CLEAN PIT. A STREAM FLOWS OUT AHOLE AND THROUGH SOME SMALL SLITS IN THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT.
$236 YOU ARE IN A LARGE ROOM FULL OF DUSTY ROCKS. THERE IS A BIG HOLEIN THE FLOOR. THERE ARE CRACKS EVERYWHERE, AND A PASSAGE LEADINGEAST.
$237 YOU ARE AT A COMPLEX JUNCTION. A LOW HANDS AND KNEES PASSAGE    FROM THE NORTH JOINS A HIGHER CRAWL FROM THE EAST TO MAKE A     WALKING PASSAGE GOING WEST. THERE IS ALSO A LARGE ROOM ABOVE.   THE AIR IS DAMP HERE.
$238 YOU ARE IN AN ANTEROOM LEADING TO A LARGE PASSAGE TO THE EAST.  SMALL PASSAGES GO WEST AND UP. THE REMNANTS OF RECENT DIGGINGS  ARE EVIDENT. A SIGN HANGING IN THE MIDAIR SAYS -                'COVE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEYOND THIS POINT.PROCEED AT OWN RISK'
$239 YOU ARE AT WITT'S END, WITH PASSAGES OFF IN ** ALL ** DIRECTIONS
$240 YOU'RE IN A LARGE ROOM CARVED OUT OF SEDIMENTARY ROCK. THE FLOORAND WALLS ARE LITTERED WITH BITS OF SHELL IMBEDDED INTO THE     STONE. A SHALLOW PASSAGE PROCEEDS DOWNWARD, AND A SOMEWHAT      STEEPER LEADS UP. A LOW HANDS AND KNEES PASSAGE ENTERS FROM THE SOUTH.
$241 YOU ARE IN AN ARCHED HALL. A CORAL PASSAGE ONCE CONTINUED UP ANDEAST FROM HERE, BUT IS NOW BLOCKED BY DEBRIS. THE AIR SMELLS OF SEA-WATER.
$242 YOU ARE IN A LONG SLOPING CORRIDOR WITH RAGGED SHARP WALLS.
$243 YOU ARE IN CUL-DE-SAC ABOUT EIGHT FEET ACROSS.
$244 YOU ARE IN BEDQUILT. A LONG EAST/WEST PASSAGE WITH HOLES        EVERYWHERE. TO EXPLORE AT RANDOM, SELECT UP,DOWN,NORTH OR SOUTH.
$245 YOU ARE IN A ROOM WHOSE WALLS RESEMBLE SWISS CHEESE. OBVIOUS    PASSAGES GO WEST, EAST, NE, AND NW. PART OF THE ROOM IS OCCUPIEDBY A LARGE BEDROCK.(?)
$246 YOU ARE IN THE SOFT ROOM. THE WALLS ARE COVERED WITH HEAVY      CURTAINS, THE FLOOR WITH A THICK PILE CARPET. MOSS COVERS THE   CEILING.
$247 YOU ARE AT THE EAST END OF THE TWOPIT ROOM. THE FLOOR HERE IS   LITTERED WITH THIN ROCK SLABS, WHICH MAKE IT EASY TO DESCEND THEPITS. THERE'S A PATH HERE BYPASSING THE PITS TO CONNECT PASSAGESFROM THE EAST AND WEST. THERE ARE HOLES ALL OVER, BUT THE ONLY  BIG ONE IS ON THE WALL DIRECTLY OVER THE WEST PIT WHERE YOU     CAN'T GET TO IT.
$248 YOU ARE AT THE WEST END OF THE TWOPIT ROOM. THERE'S A LARGE HOLEIN THE WALL ABOVE THE PIT AT THIS END OF THE ROOM.
$249 YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EASTERN PIT IN THE TWOPIT ROOM.
$250 YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WESTERN PIT IN THE TWOPIT ROOM.    THERE IS A LARGE HOLE DIRECTLY ABOVE YOU.
$251 YOU ARE IN A LARGE LOW CIRCULAR CHAMBER WHOSE FLOOR IS AN       IMMENSE SLAB FALLEN FROM THE CEILING (SLAB ROOM). EAST AND WEST THERE ONCE WERE LARGE PASSAGES, BUT THEY ARE NOW FILLED WITH    BOULDERS. LOW SMALL PASSAGES GO NORTH AND SOUTH, AND THE SOUTH  ONE QUICKLY BENDS WEST AROUND THE BOULDERS.
$252 THIS IS THE ORIENTAL ROOM. ANCIENT ORIENTAL CAVE DRAWINGS COVER THE WALL.A GENTLY SLOPING PASSAGE LEADS UPWARD TO THE NORTH,    ANOTHER PASSAGE LEADS SE, AND A HANDS AND KNEES CRAWL LEADS WEST
$253 YOU ARE IN A LARGE LOW ROOM. CRAWLS LEAD NORTH, SE, AND SW.
$254 YOU ARE IN A LONG WINDING CORRIDOR SLOPING OUT OF SIGHT IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. A COLD WIND BLOWS UP THE CORRIDOR.
$255 DEAD END CRAWL.
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$256 YOU ARE FOLLOWING A WIDE PATH AROUND THE OUTER EDGE OF A LARGE  CAVERN. FAR BELOW, THROUGH A HEAVY WHITE MIST, STRANGE SPLASHINGNOISES CAN BE HEARD. THE MIST RISES UP THROUGH A FISSURE IN THE CEILING. THE PATH EXITS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST.
$257 YOU ARE IN AN ALCOVE. A SMALL NW PATH SEEMS TO WIDEN AFTER A    SHORT DISTANCE. AN EXTREMELY TIGHT TUNNEL LEADS EAST. IT LOOKS  LIKE A VERY TIGHT SQUEEZE. AN EERIE LIGHT CAN BE SEEN AT THE    OTHER END.
$258 YOU ARE IN A ROOM LIT BY AN EERIE GREEN LIGHT EMANATING FROM THEWALLS. AN EXTREMELY TIGHT TUNNEL LEADS EAST, AND A DARK CORRIDORLIES TO THE NE.
$259 YOU'RE IN THE DARK-ROOM. A CORRIDOR LEADING SOUTH IS THE ONLY   EXIT. A MASSIVE STONE TABLET IN THE WALL READS: 'CONGRATULATIONSON BRINGING LIGHT INTO THE DARK-ROOM'
$260 YOU ARE ON ONE SIDE OF AN EXTREMELY DEEP CHASM. A HEAVY WHITE   MIST RISING UP FROM BELOW OBSCURES ALL VIEW OF THE FAR SIDE. A  SW PATH LEADS AWAY. A RICKETY WOODEN BRIDGE EXTENDS ACROSS THE  CHASM, VANISHING INTO THE MIST. A SIGN POSTED ON THE BRIDGE     READS 'STOP! PAY TROLL!'
$261 YOU ARE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE CHASM. A NE PATH LEADS AWAY FROM THE CHASM ON THIS SIDE. A RICKETY WOODEN BRIDGE EXTENDS ACROSS  THE CHASM, VANISHING INTO THE GLOOM. A SIGN POSTED ON THE BRIDGEREADS, 'STOP! PAY TROLL!'
$262 YOU'RE IN A LONG EAST/WEST CORRIDOR. A FAINT RUMBLING NOISE CAN BE HEARD IN THE DISTANCE.
$263 THE PATH FORKS HERE. THE LEFT FORK LEADS NORTHEAST. A DULL      RUMBLING SEEMS TO GET LOADER IN THAT DIRECTION. THE MAIN        CORRIDOR ENTERS FROM THE WEST.
$264 YOU ARE WALKING ALONG A GENTLY SLOPING NORTH/SOUTH PASSAGE LINEDWITH ODDLY SHAPED LIMESTONE FORMATIONS.
$265 THE WALLS ARE QUITE WARM HERE. FROM THE NORTH CAN BE HEARD A    STEADY ROAR, SO LOUD THE ENTIRE CAVE SEEMS TO BE TREMBLING.     ANOTHER PASSAGE LEADS SOUTH, AND A LOW CRAWL GOES EAST.
$266 YOU ARE IN A SMALL CHAMBER FILLED WITH LARGE BOULDERS. THE WALL ARE VERY WARM, CAUSING THE AIR IN THE ROOM TO BO ALMOST STIFLINGFROM THE HEAT. THE ONLY EXIT IS A CRAWL HEADING WEST, THROUGH   WHICH IS COMING A LOW RUMBLING.
$267 YOU ARE ON THE EDGE OF A BREATH-TAKING VIEW. FAR BELOW YOU IS ANACTIVE VOLCANO, FROM WHICH GREAT GOUTS OF MOLTON LAVA COME      SURGING OUT, CASCADING BACK INTO THE DEPTHS. THE GLOWING ROCK   FILLS THE FARTHEST REACHES OF THE CAVERN WITH A BLOOD-RED GLARE,GIVING EVERYTHING AN EERIE MACABRE APPEARANCE. THE AIR IS       FILLED WITH FLICKERING SPARKS OF ASH AND A HEAVY SMELL OF       BRIMSTONE. THE WALLS ARE HOT TO THE TOUCH, AND THE THUNDERING OFTHE VOLCANO DROWNS OUT ALL OTHER SOUNDS. EMBEDDED IN THE JAGGED ROCK FAR OVERHEAD ARE MYRIAD TWISTED FORMATIONS COMPOSED OF PUREWHITE ALABASTER, WHICH SCATTER THE MURKY LIGHT INTO SINISTER    APPARITIONS UPON THE WALLS. TO ONE SIDE IS A DEEP GORGE FILLED  WITH A BIZARRE CHAOS OF TORTURED ROCK WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN  CRAFTED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF. AN IMMENSE RIVER OF FIRE CRASHES OUT FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE     VOLCANO, BURNS ITS WAY THROUGH THE GORGE, AND PLUMMETS INTO A   BOTTOMLESS PIT FAR OFF TO YOUR LEFT. TO THE RIGHT, AN IMMENSE   GEYSER OF BLISTERING STEAM ERUPTS CONTINUOSELY FROM A BARREN    ISLAND IN THE CENTRE OF A SULPHEROUS LAKE WHICH BUBBLES         OMINOUSELY. THE FAR RIGHT WALL IS AFLAME WITH AN INCANDESCENCE  OF ITS OWN, WHICH LENDS AN ADDITIONAL INFERNAL SPLENDOR TO THE  ALLREADY HELLISH SCENE. A DARK FOREBODING PASSAGE EXITS TO THE  SOUTH.
$268 YOU ARE STANDING AT THE ENTRANCE TO A LARGE BARREN ROOM. A SIGN NESTED ABOVE THE ENTRANCE READS: 'CAUTION! BEAR IN ROOM'
$269 YOU ARE INSIDE A BARREN ROOM. THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM IS         COMPLETELY EMPTY EXCEPT FOR SOME DUST. MARKS IN THE DUST LEAD   AWAY TOWARD THE FAR END OF THE ROOM. THE ONLY EXIT IS THE WAY   YOU CAME IN.
$270 YOU ARE IN A LONG, NARROW CORRIDOR STRETCHING OUT OF SIGHT TO   THE WEST. AT THE EASTERN END IS A HOLE THROUGH WHICH YOU CAN SEEA PROFUSION OF LEAVES.
$271 YOU ARE IN THE GIANT ROOM. THE CEILING HERE IS TOO HIGH UP FOR  YOUR LAMP TO SHOW IT. CAVERNOUS PASSAGES LEAD EAST, NORTH, AND  SOUTH. ON THE WEST WALL IS SCRAWLED THE INSCRIPTION:FEEFIEFOEFOO
$272 THE PASSAGE HERE IS BLOCKED BY A RECENT CAVE-IN.
$273 YOU ARE AT ONE END OF AN IMMENCE N/S PASSAGE.
$274 YOU ARE IN A MAGNIFICENT CAVERN WITH A RUSHING STREAM, WHICH    CASCADES OVER A SPARKLING WATERFALL INTO A ROAING WHIRLPOOL     WHICH DISAPPEARS THROUGH A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. PASSAGES EXIT TO  THE SOUTH AND WEST.
$275 YOU ARE AT THE TOP OF A STEEP INCLINE ABOVE A LARGE ROOM. YOU   COULD CLIMB DOWN HERE, BUT YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CLIMB BACK  UP. THERE IS A PASSAGE LEADING BACK TO THE NORTH.
$276 YOU ARE IN A SECRET N/S CANYON ABOVE A LARGE ROOM.
$277 A LARGE STALACTITE EXTENDS FROM THE ROOF AND ALMOST REACHES THE FLOOR BELOW. YOU COULD CLIMB DOWN IT, AND JUMP FROM IT TO THE  FLOOR, BUT HAVING DONE SO YOU WOULD BE UNABLE TO REACH IT TO     CLIMB BACK UP. THE MAZE CONTINUES AT THIS LEVEL.
$278 YOU ARE IN A SECRET CANYON AT A JUNCTION OF THREE CANYONS,      BEARING NORTH, SOUTH, AND SE. THE NORTH ONE IS AS TALL AS THE   OTHER TWO COMBINED.
$279 YOU ARE IN A SECRET N/S CANYON ABOVE A LARGE ROOM.
$280 YOU ARE IN A NORTH/SOUTH CANYON ABOUT 25 FEET ACROSS. THE FLOOR IS COVERED BY WHITE MIST SEEPING IN FROM THE NORTH. THE WALL    EXTEND UPWARD FOR WELL OVER 100 FEET. SUSPENDED FROM SOME UNSEENPOINT FAR ABOVE YOU, AN ENORMOUSE TWO-SIDED MIRROR IS HANGING   PARALLEL TO AND MIDWAY BETWEEN THE CANYON WALLS. (THE MIRROR IS OBVIOUSLY PROVIDED FOR USE BY THE DWARVES, WHO, AS YOU KNOW, AREEXTREMELY VAIN.) A SMALL WINDOW CAN BE SEEN IN EITHER WALL, SOMEFIFTY FEET UP.
$281 YOU ARE AT THE EDGE OF A LARGE UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR. AN OPAQUE CLOUD OF WHITE MIST FILLS THE ROOM AND RISES RAPIDILY UPWARD.   THE LAKE IS FED BY A STREAM WHICH TUMBLES OUT OF A HOLE IN THE  WALL ABOUT 10 FEET OVERHEAD AND SPLASHES NOISILY INTO THE WATER SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE MIST. THE ONLY PASSAGE GOES BACK TOWARD THESOUTH.
$282 YOU ARE IN A SECRET CANYON WITH EXITS TO NORTH AND EAST.
$283 YOU ARE IN A SECRET E/W CANYON ABOVE A TIGHT CANYON.
$284 YOU ARE IN A WIDE PLACE IN A VERY TIGHT N/S CANYON.
$285 THE CANYON HERE BECOMES TOO TIGHT TO CONTINUE.
$286 YOU ARE IN A TALL E/W CANYON. A LOW CRAWL GOES THREE FEET NORTH AND SEEMS TO OPEN UP.
$287 THE CANYON RUNS INTO A MAZE OF BOULDERS--DEAD END.
$298 YOU ARE NEAR A LARGE PIT BESIDE A LARGE ORANGE IN THE MAZE. THE STALACTITE IS ABOUT 30 FEET LONG, ALLOWING YOU TO DESCEND IT.   HOWEVER, DUE TO THE SMOOTHNESS OF THE STALACTITE, YOU WILL      PROBABLY BE UNABLE TO CLIMB BACK UP AGAIN.
$300 DEAD END.