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Volume Fourteen - "Gostakia"

[ Still remains to be written; could be skipped with little harm done. ]

This is the Scottish Playing rule:

now the player is cleanish;

now the toga is cleanish;

now the global_pirate_attack_flag is 0;

move the Scottish_sky_scenery to Scotland;

move the Caledonian Coast to Limbo;

move the loincloth to Limbo;

move the Golden Banana to the player;

say "The longboat crunches to a stop on a rocky shingle. The Vikings pile out, ready for battle, dragging you along with them....[paragraph break]";

say "[paragraph break][bracket]Here the original text is badly damaged and illegible for many pages. What we can piece together from the extant fragments of this section and the remainder of the work, however, is that Stiffy somehow becomes accepted as one of the Vikings. He wins his toga and the Banana back, acquires the honorific 'Sven Stiffy' for his deeds[run paragraph on]";

if the stiffycolor of the stiffycock is not blue

begin;

follow the deeply obscure scene rule;

stop the action;

otherwise;

say ", and ends up raiding the castle of the chief of the Gostak tribe, in far northern Scotland. The text then resumes.[close bracket][paragraph break][paragraph break]";

end if;

follow the return to the game rule.