The Gorreven Papers — 2 of 23

Section 1 - Introduction

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When play begins:

say "This should never have happened.[paragraph break]";

say "You've told yourself that a thousand times. You are our most intrepid agent. If anyone could retrieve the Gorreven Papers, you could.[paragraph break]The Gorreven Papers! To think of them was unspeakable; to speak of them was unthinkable.[paragraph break]You took all the precautions you could have taken. Some places just aren't built to be broken into.[paragraph break]Or out of.[paragraph break]You have become intimately familiar with the four bare walls of your cell and the dirty yellow light bulb that glares down from the ceiling. Your cell has no door, but an alert guard blocks the doorway twenty-four hours a day[unicode em dash]or at least as far as you can tell. You have to sleep sometimes. They leave the guard in a doorless doorway so that he will constantly remain alert. No napping on the other side of a supposedly secure steel door. It isn't surprising. If you had wanted to keep yourself prisoner you would have done the same.[paragraph break]";

say "You were brought in here blindfolded after a good beating. It gives you headaches just trying to remember any of the turns you took on the way in. But now you're on the inside of this complex. On the same side of those electric fences as the Gorreven Papers. If you can't get out of here with the papers, you may as well not go out at all, because your life won't be worth a fake dollar bill. None of our lives will."

[Uncomment this when developing with the Skein, since the blessed Transcript is only correct with this random seed.]

[When play begins:

seed the random-number generator with 1943.]