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you press a button on the metal sphere. a panel on the orb slides open and a small cup extends toward you on a tray.\n\nyou chug the coffee and feel anxious.\n\n[[ok|room]]

you debate what to fill your time with next.\n\n[[go to the coffee machine|coffee]]\n[[go to the window|window]]\n[[go to the tapestry|tapestry]]\n[[sleep]]

you wake up on the mattress laid across a third of your one-room apartment.<<set $gossip to 0>>\n\n[[go to the coffee machine|coffee]]\n[[go to the window|window]]\n[[go to the tapestry|tapestry]]

a message appears on the tapestry and scrolls past you.\n\n"<<display phrase>>"\n\n[[oh|tapestry]]

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As you watch the goings-on below, a piece of gossip is revealed to you.<<set $gossip to $gossip+1>>\n\nYou now have <<print $gossip>> <<if $gossip eq 1>>piece<<else>>pieces<<endif>> of gossip.\n\n[[continue|patterns]]\n[[leave|room]]

you look out the window. the ground floor is sturdier and safer, but you have a nice view of the lake from up here.\n\nhooded figures scuttle about on the docks below.\n\n[[watch their patterns|patterns]]\n[[leave|room]]

you go to sleep.\n\n[[finally|Start]]

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tangled webs and all that

ian martin

there is a tapestry creeping up one wall of your apartment. it comes up endlessly through the floorboards and disappears through a slit in the ceiling.\n\n[[read]]\n[[write]]\n[[leave|room]]