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Section 15 - Northbank of the River Void

The Nbank is a room.

Printed name of Nbank is "Northbank of the River Void"

South of the Woodland Clearing is the Nbank.

Description of Nbank is "You are on the Northbank of the River Void. The river is roaring past with a fierce current."

The River Void is fixed in place.

The River void is inside Nbank.

Description of river void is "The River Void is fast, deep and wide. The water level is unusually high, and it is roaring loudly as it flows past. There is a bridge across it that the North Nowhere council have finally fixed, after years of it being broken."

The indefinite article of the river void is "the".

The Bridge is fixed in place.

Bridge is inside Nbank.

Description of bridge is "A wooden footbridge, with wooden handrails curves elegantly over the river."

Some broken reeds are inside Nbank.

Description of broken reeds is "Two hollow tubular reeds."

Instead of blowing reeds:

Say "You blow down the reeds and they make a high pitched droning buzzing noise."

The weird instrument is nowhere.

Description of weird instrument is "A weird instrument that you made from a gourd and some reeds."

Understand "Pungi" as weird instrument.

Instead of tying broken reeds to gourd:

Say "You attach the reeds to the two holes on the gourd.";

Move the weird instrument to the player;

Now gourd is nowhere;

Now broken reeds are nowhere.

Instead of tying gourd to broken reeds:

Say "You attach the reeds to the two holes on the gourd.";

Move the weird instrument to the player;

Now gourd is nowhere;

Now broken reeds are nowhere.

Playing is an action applying to one visible thing.

Understand "play [something]" as playing.

Instead of playing something:

Say "It's not something that can be played with."

Instead of playing someone:

Say "They can't be played!"

Instead of playing reeds:

Say "You blow down the reeds and they make a high pitched droning buzzing noise."

Instead of playing weird instrument:

Say "You blow into the round end of the weird instrument, and air resonates in the gourd and is amplified into the reed tubes that add a drone to the sound. The sound it produces is both irritating and strangely hypnotic."

Instead of blowing weird instrument:

Say "You blow into the round end of the weird instrument, and air resonates in the gourd and is amplified into the reed tubes that add a drone to the sound. The sound it produces is both irritating and strangely hypnotic."

Instead of playing weird instrument when snake is awake in location :

Say "You start playing the weird instrument. The snake moves towards you and with trembling hands you hold your ground and continue to play. The snake rears up and comes so close you can smell its warm rank breath on your face. Its eyes appear to glaze and it starts swaying from side to side. As you continue to play the snake nods its head to the hypnotic droning sound. The snake curls up on the ground, closes its eyes, and begins to snore. ";

Now the snake is asleep.

Instead of blowing weird instrument when snake is awake in location:

Say "You start playing the weird instrument. The snake moves towards you and with trembling hands you hold your ground and continue to play. The snake rears up and comes so close you can smell its warm rank breath on your face. Its eyes appear to glaze and it starts swaying from side to side. As you continue to play the snake nods its head to the hypnotic droning sound. The snake curls up on the ground, closes its eyes, and begins to snore.";

Now the snake is asleep.

Instead of blowing weird instrument when donella is in location:

Say "You start playing the weird instrument. As the hypnotic and quite irritating music drones on, Donella says 'Oooh! A homemade Pungi! Very nicely put together. You know they are used for snake charming right?!";

Now printed name of the weird instrument is "Pungi".

Instead of playing weird instrument when donella is in location:

Say "You start playing the weird instrument. As the hypnotic and quite irritating music drones up to full volume, Donella says 'Oooh! A homemade Pungi! Very nicely put together. You know they are used for snake charming right?!";

Now printed name of the weird instrument is "Pungi".

Instead of showing weird instrument to Donella:

Say "Donella says 'Oooh! A homemade Pungi! Very nicely put together. You know they are used for snake charming right?!";

Now printed name of the weird instrument is "Pungi".

Instead of giving weird instrument to Donella:

Say "Donella says 'Oooh! A homemade Pungi! Very nicely put together. You know they are used for snake charming right?![paragraph break]Donella plays the instrument for a few seconds and then hands it back to you."