BareTheKing.aslx

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<asl version="550">
  <include ref="English.aslx" />
  <include ref="Core.aslx" />
  <template name="LockedExit">That space is threatened. You cannot move there.</template>
  <game name="Bare the King">
    <gameid>508d9430-e42b-4fb5-989f-f43e11445fca</gameid>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <firstpublished>2014</firstpublished>
    <author>Team DJKALA</author>
    <gridmap />
    <autodescription type="boolean">false</autodescription>
    <cruelty type="string"></cruelty>
    <pov type="object">player</pov>
    <start type="script"><![CDATA[
      msg ("You open your eyes slowly. <br/>*ping*<br/>A faint light pulses in time with a soft pinging somewhere off in the darkness that surrounds you, faintly illuminating a bare, empty floor in an alternating black and white tile pattern. ")
      UpdateSquareLocks
    ]]></start>
    <object name="brick3">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <look>It is an ivory-coloured brick.</look>
      <alias>ivory-coloured brick</alias>
      <throw>You throw the brick up into the air. You'd best get out of the way before it comes down.</throw>
      <take />
      <ontake type="script">
      </ontake>
      <ondrop type="script">
      </ondrop>
    </object>
    <object name="Kerchief">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <look>It is a white kerchief.</look>
      <alias>token</alias>
      <feature_usegive />
      <givesingle type="boolean">false</givesingle>
      <wear>It's a bit small, but you try it on anyway. Probably not your best decision.</wear>
      <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
      <fold>You fold it the kerchief into a neat pyramid, like at a fancy restaurant... But this isn't a dinner napkin, so you unfold it.</fold>
      <giveto type="scriptdictionary" />
      <selfuseon type="scriptdictionary">
        <item key="Bishop">
          msg ("You hold out the white kerchief to the Bishop. He looks up, startled.")
          msg ("“What is this?”")
          msg ("“Its just a hankee. The Knight said something about strengthening my heart, but...I think you might need it more then me.”")
          msg ("“That... is very kind of you.  But giving yourself strength may not be enough to win this fight.”")
          msg ("You shrug awkwardly.")
          msg ("“Maybe not but... the Knight seemed pretty convinced that this isn’t over yet. He’s out there fighting as hard as he can, even if it is hopeless.  Wouldn’t trying be better than sitting here waiting for the end?”")
          msg ("He looks pensive.")
          msg ("“Besides, it’s not like it could get any worse.”")
          msg ("A sad smile tugs at his mouth.")
          msg ("“You... may have a point. Besides, it looks like that damn Knight isn’t going to let this end any time soon. Here, take this.”")
          msg ("He pulls a brick from behind his robes, it’s one of the Rook’s!")
          msg ("“I...sabotaged the Rook. I didn’t want to keep fighting, so I thought I would at least hasten the end. It was foolish of me, and I can only hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me.”")
          msg ("Turning, he squares his shoulders and moves confidently down the board, toppling the black Pawn directly before the enemy King.")
          msg ("The Black King chuckles menacingly, then leaps forward, smashing the Bishop to the ground.")
          msg ("A small sparkle flies through the air, landing a few feet away from you.")
          RemoveObject (Bishop)
          AddToInventory (helped_bishop)
          MakeObjectVisible (memory2)
          AddToInventory (brick3)
          RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByPawn2")
          RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (C1, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (D1, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (E1, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (C2, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (E2, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (C3, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (D3, "threatenedByKing")
          SetObjectFlagOn (E3, "threatenedByKing")
        </item>
      </selfuseon>
    </object>
    <object name="Horse">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <attr name="feature_usegive" type="boolean">false</attr>
      <givesingle type="boolean">false</givesingle>
      <pet>You calmly pet the horse, as if trying to reassure it. </pet>
      <ride>You don't know how to ride a horse.</ride>
      <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
      <givetoanything type="script">
        msg ("They don't seem to want the horse.")
      </givetoanything>
      <giveto type="scriptdictionary">
        <item key="Knight">
          msg ("You give the horse to the knight.")
        </item>
      </giveto>
    </object>
    <object name="GameStatus">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
      <usedefaultprefix type="boolean">false</usedefaultprefix>
      <MemoryCounter type="int">0</MemoryCounter>
      <object name="helped_rook">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <scenery />
      </object>
      <object name="helped_bishop">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <scenery />
      </object>
      <object name="helped_knight">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <scenery />
      </object>
      <object name="numBricks">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <numBricks type="int">0</numBricks>
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <drop />
        <scenery />
      </object>
      <object name="helped_pawn">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <scenery />
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
      </object>
    </object>
  </game>
  <object name="Row 8">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>You are standing on a non-descript white square. To your north and west, there is nothing but a smothering darkness. </description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>The floor is black beneath your feet. To your north the darkness looms, its bleak silence unsettles you.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="A8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="C8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="C8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>You stand upon a white tile, its finish chipped and worn. To the north, the darkness continues to swirl, hiding its contents.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="B8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="D8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>You are standing on a black tile. To the north there is nothing but blackness.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="C8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>You stand upon a white tile. To the north the dark swirls, its tendrils lap at the edge of your square.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="D8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="E7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="F8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="F8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>There is a black tile beneath your feet, its surface littered with cuts from some sort of stuggle. Pieces of stone are strewn about it. The dark to the north seems expectant, ready to overtake the square at a moment's notice.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="E8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="G8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>There is a beat-up white tile beneath your feet. The darkness sits to the north. You feel it watching you.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="F8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H8">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H7">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H8">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByQueen type="boolean">false</threatenedByQueen>
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>You sit at the edge of the board in a black tile, darkness looming to the north and the east. It pulses with energy, unsettling you.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G8">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="G7">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H7">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <object name="Row 7">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description type="script">
        msg ("You stand in a black tile. To your west, the darkness swirls. It taunts you, but never crosses the board threshold.")
        if (Contains (B6_EnemyRook,Black Rook)) {
          msg ("To the southeast, you see a Black Rook. He glowers menacingly, and you gulp: he's definitely too big for you to take on.")
        }
      </description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="A8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A6">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>Beneath your feet is a scuffed white tile.</description>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <exit alias="east" to="C7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="A7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="C8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A6">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C6">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="C7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description type="script">
        msg ("Beneath your feet is a black tile. There is rubble piled in a corner, arranged in a small mound.")
        if (Contains (B6_EnemyRook,Black Rook)) {
          msg ("To the southwest, you see a Black Rook. He glowers menacingly, and you gulp: he's definitely too big for you to take on.")
        }
      </description>
      <exit alias="east" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="B7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="B8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C6">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D6">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="Rubble">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <look>The rubble appears to have been placed in a pyramid formation. It is made up of pieces of smooth white stone, marred in places. There are deep cuts that run all over it. You almost miss it, but there is a small shoddily engraved plate in front of the pile. The plate reads, "Rest, loyal soldier.".</look>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="D7_KnightSquare">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>An armoured man staring forlornly at the darkness that surrounds the chessboard, making half-hearted whistles and clicking noises. A white tile is beneath your feet.</description>
      <descprefix type="string"></descprefix>
      <objectslistprefix type="string"></objectslistprefix>
      <alias>D7</alias>
      <firstenter type="script">
        msg ("You are immediately assailed by a hopeless feeling of loneliness, and solitude, as images of empty chairs around a dinner table, and backs turning in a crowded room.  You push past the desolation in your mind and approach the figure. ")
      </firstenter>
      <object name="Knight">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <alt type="stringlist">
          <value>man</value>
          <value>armoured man</value>
          <value>armored man</value>
        </alt>
        <speak type="script">
          if (not GetBoolean(Knight,"talked_to")) {
            msg ("“Who are you calling for?”")
            msg ("“The black Queen chased off my loyal steed, and now she’s lost in the darkness.  If anything happens to her, I’ll never be able to forgive myself.”")
            msg ("“Why don’t you go after her?”")
            msg ("“The darkness holds only death for us.  She can outrun the evil therein, but not forever.  The fog blocks her ears, and dulls her senses.  If only I had something to cut the stench of evil!”")
            msg ("He rubs his eyes and turns back to the darkness, anxiously searching for any sign of his beloved mount.  ")
            Knight.talked_to = true
          }
          else if (Horse.parent = player) {
            msg ("The Knight leaps to his feet when he sees you approaching with the horse.  The horse tugs the bridle out of your hand and trots over to her master, nuzzling at his pockets for treats.  The Knight puts a foot in the stirrup and swings himself onto her back, heaving a sigh of contentment as he settles into his accustomed place.")
            msg ("“Thank you for returning her to me, we are not complete without each other.  My fellow pieces have lost heart in the battle, but we never did: we only lost our ability to fight.  Take this token, that it may strengthen your heart as you have mine.”")
            msg ("He hands you down a white kerchief, before turning his steed in the direction of the enemy lines.  The horse rears, then charges off as the Knight draws a lance from somewhere.  You realize that they are approaching the enemy Rook, and try to call out a warning, but you are too late!")
            msg ("The Knight plants his lance into the side of the Rook, which shudders.  To your amazement, it begins shaking apart, and as it falls into ruin you notice something glinting where it’s base was resting. The Knight, his labour completed, salutes you before turning back towards the enemy lines.")
            AddToInventory (helped_knight)
            RemoveObject (Horse)
            AddToInventory (Kerchief)
            MakeObjectVisible (memory3)
            MoveObject (Knight, B6_EnemyRook)
            RemoveObject (Black Rook)
            RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByRook")
            UpdateSquareLocks
          }
          else {
            msg ("The knight continues to stare forlornly into the darkness, not even acknowledging you.")
          }
        </speak>
        <smell type="script">
          msg ("The Knight looks confused as you lean in to sniff him.")
        </smell>
        <push type="script">
          msg ("You try pushing the Knight. He laughs as you strain yourself.")
        </push>
      </object>
      <exit alias="south" to="D6">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="C7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C6">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>You step onto a black tile. Its edges are receding from those tiles around it, making room for some weeds to grow.</description>
      <exit alias="east" to="F7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="E8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="D6">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F6">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="Weeds">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <look>The weeds really seem to be a type of flower. The flower itself having five white petals, with black berries hanging off of it.</look>
        <pick>It would be such a shame to pluck such a pretty thing.</pick>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="F7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>You find yourself on a white tile, worn as all the others are.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="E7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F6">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G6">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="G7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>You step onto a black tile, chipped and worn. There is a noticeable chunk missing out of the centre of the tile.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="F7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H7">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="F8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F6">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G6">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H8">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H6_TowerSquare">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H7">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByQueen type="boolean">false</threatenedByQueen>
      <description>At the edge of the board you find yourself on a white tile. The void to your east providing stark contrast to the tile.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G7">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H6_TowerSquare">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="G6">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H8">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G8">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <object name="Row 6">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A6">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>You sit in a white tile, the darkness lingers to the west unsettling you.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="north" to="A7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Better you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A5_BishopSquare">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B6_EnemyRook">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <alias>B6</alias>
      <description>The tile is black beneath your feet, just as any other such tile.</description>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <enter type="script">
      </enter>
      <exit alias="west" to="A6">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="C7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="C6">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A5_BishopSquare">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="Black Rook">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <alive />
        <changedalive type="script">
          MoveObject (memory3, B6)
          MakeObjectVisible (memory3)
        </changedalive>
      </object>
      <object name="memory3">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <take />
        <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
        <alias>Knight's Memory</alias>
        <takemsg>It takes some searching, but you finally spot the small object that appeared when the Rook fell.  It is a collar with a small tag on it.</takemsg>
        <look>It is the collar with a small tag small that appeared when the Rook fell.  </look>
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <listalias>Black Rook's Collar</listalias>
        <ontake type="script"><![CDATA[
          IncreaseObjectCounter (GameStatus, "MemoryCounter")
          msg ("The smell of wet dog permeates the air, and you feel a warm, rough tongue on the back of your hand, welcoming you: the image of a toothy smile and soft fur warms your heart.<br/><br/>You no longer feel alone.")
        ]]></ontake>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="C6">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>You stand in a white tile, nothing around you.</description>
      <changedthreatenedByRook type="script">
      </changedthreatenedByRook>
      <exit alias="west" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="B7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D6">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B5">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="D6">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <threatenedByPawn5 />
      <description>You step into a black tile.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="C6">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C5">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="D5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E6_StartingSquare">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <alias>E6</alias>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <descprefix>You are in</descprefix>
      <objectslistprefix>You can see</objectslistprefix>
      <usedefaultprefix type="boolean">false</usedefaultprefix>
      <prefix>square</prefix>
      <description type="script">
        if (GetBoolean(EnemyPawn5, "alive")) {
          msg ("A black pawn stands in the square to your immediate south.")
        }
        msg ("You are standing in a white tile.")
      </description>
      <beforefirstenter type="script">
      </beforefirstenter>
      <object name="player">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <inherit name="editor_player" />
        <attr name="horse_possible" type="boolean">false</attr>
        <numBricks type="int">0</numBricks>
        <attr name="feature_player" type="boolean">false</attr>
      </object>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit name="Exit_E6_E7" alias="north" to="E7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D7_KnightSquare">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit name="Exit_E6_D6" alias="west" to="D6">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
      </exit>
      <exit name="Exit_E6_F6" alias="east" to="F6">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="D5">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit name="Exit_E6_E5" alias="south" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="F6">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <threatenedByPawn5 />
      <description>There is a scuffed black tile beneath you, its worn surface scarred.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G6">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="G6">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>You are standing on what should be a white tile. It has been cracked so deeply that a dark substance has leaked through the crack and covered the tile.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="F6">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="F7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H7">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H6_TowerSquare">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F5">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H5">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H6_TowerSquare">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByRook type="boolean">false</threatenedByRook>
      <threatenedByQueen type="boolean">false</threatenedByQueen>
      <descprefix>You approach</descprefix>
      <objectslistprefix>You can see</objectslistprefix>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a ruined tower before you. A battlement crowned top lies a few feet away from the base, with small tufts of soft, fragrant grass poking up from underneath it.<br/>The abysmal darkness lingers to the east, seething.]]></description>
      <alias>H6</alias>
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <firstenter type="script">
        msg ("Your eyes are drawn upwards as you feel something begin to surface in your mind. A feeling of terror grips you as images of a broken mirror, a wooden door and blood stains in a porcelain sink flash through your mind. A sense of inescapable futility fogs your mind and you stumble forward, reaching out to catch yourself on the crumbling tower.")
      </firstenter>
      <object name="Rook">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <inherit name="male" />
        <alias>Tower</alias>
        <gender>it</gender>
        <article>it</article>
        <push>You push the Rook. It looks annoyed but remains silent.</push>
        <smell>The Rook looks confused and bit scared as you lean in to sniff him.</smell>
        <speak type="script">
          if (not GetBoolean(Rook,"talked_before")) {
            msg ("“If you’re looking for help, I don’t think I’m going to be much use to you.”")
            msg ("“Ah! You...you talk?”")
            msg ("“It appears so.”")
            msg ("“Oh...ok then?  Where am I, what happened here?”")
            msg ("It heaves a sigh.")
            msg ("“We are losing the battle. I am broken and undone.”")
            msg ("“The battle?”")
            msg ("“Yes. Have you not seen the black pieces? They have already taken the queen. It is only a matter of time now before the rest of us are destroyed.”")
            msg ("“You don’t seem that broken... Why don’t you rejoin the fight?”")
            msg ("If it had eyebrows, the tower would be raising them at you.")
            msg ("“I have been laid low, and unmade.  I cannot continue while I am in pieces.”")
            msg ("The tower sighs again and lapses into sad silence.")
            SetObjectFlagOn (Rook, "talked_before")
          }
          else if (Got(brick1)) {
            if (Got(brick2)) {
              if (Got(brick3)) {
                msg ("You place the bricks in its obvious holes, then lift the Rook’s head back onto its shoulders. The bricks shift a bit under the weight, but appear to be holding. The Rook shifts on its base to stare down the board.")
                msg ("“I am whole again? Thank you. Now I can continue my duty, your way will be clear. The Pawn must be Queen; it is the only way to check the black King. Hurry, your time is growing short.”")
                msg ("Without another word, the Rook slides swiftly down the board, and with a tremendous crack topples the enemy Queen.")
                msg ("You see a small twinkle as something falls to the ground where the black piece stood.")
                msg ("However, an enemy Pawn jumps out of the bushes in a nearby tile and ambushes the Rook, killing him! The interloper stands over the new corpse, looking triumphant.")
                AddToInventory (helped_rook)
                MakeObjectVisible (memory1)
                RemoveObject (EnemyQueen)
                RemoveObject (Rook)
                MoveObject (EnemyPawn1, H2)
                RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByQueen")
                RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByPawn1")
                SetObjectFlagOn (G3, "threatenedByPawn1")
                UpdateSquareLocks
              }
            }
          }
          else {
            msg ("The tower is unresponsive. A somber silence lingers in the air.")
          }
        </speak>
      </object>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="G5">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H7">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G6">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H5">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G7">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="grass">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <smell>The grass has a very horse-friendly scent.</smell>
        <take />
        <takemsg>You take some of the fragrant grass.</takemsg>
        <dropmsg>You drop the grass into more grass.</dropmsg>
        <eat>You taste a bit of the grass, but it doesn't taste as good as it smells.</eat>
        <look>The grass looks quite soft.</look>
        <inventoryverbs type="stringlist">
          <value>Look at</value>
          <value>Drop</value>
        </inventoryverbs>
        <offertothedarkness type="script">
          if (GetBoolean(Knight, "talked_to") and GetBoolean(player,"horse_possible")) {
            msg ("You pull out the handful of grass and tentatively hold it out to the darkness, fanning it to waft its clean smell into the oppressive stink.")
            msg ("There is a pregnant pause, and the fear that you are too late gnaws at you, but then... You hear the clopping of hooves, and with a jubilant whinny, a large white war horse bursts from the fog, nearly knocking you over. Startled, you drop the grass, and the horse happily snuffles it up before raising its head to regard you with soft brown eyes. There is a bridle on its head and a saddle on its back.")
            MakeObjectInvisible (grass)
            AddToInventory (Horse)
          }
          else {
            msg ("Nothing happens.")
          }
        </offertothedarkness>
      </object>
      <object name="memory1">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <take />
        <takemsg>You come upon the sparkle you noticed when the Rook destroyed the black Queen.  It is a small brass key.</takemsg>
        <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
        <alias>Rook's Memory</alias>
        <look>It is the small brass key that was dropped  when the Rook destroyed the black Queen.</look>
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <alt type="stringlist">
          <value>key</value>
          <value>brass key</value>
        </alt>
        <listalias>Black Queen's Brass Key</listalias>
        <ontake type="script"><![CDATA[
          IncreaseObjectCounter (GameStatus, "MemoryCounter")
          msg ("The smell of cinnamon surrounds you, and the earlier terror is replaced with images of soft down quilts, and warm wooden loungers in a garden full of lavender.  <br/><br/>You feel safer.")
        ]]></ontake>
      </object>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <object name="Row 5">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A5_BishopSquare">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <alias>A5</alias>
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description type="script">
        msg ("You come upon a robed man seated on a small bench cradling his head in his hands. A tall mitre is on the ground next to him, and a stethoscope glints on his chest.")
        if (Contains (B6_EnemyRook,Black Rook)) {
          msg ("To the northeast, you see a Black Rook. He glowers menacingly, and you gulp: he's definitely too big for you to take on.")
        }
      </description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <firstenter type="script">
        msg ("You are assailed with images of bloody knuckles and a cruel laugh as a silent scream rings in your ears, the voice terrifyingly familiar: it is your own. Pain threatens to overwhelm you, but dissipates somewhat as you stumble towards the seated figure. Shaking your head to clear the lingering hurt, you approach him.")
      </firstenter>
      <object name="Bishop">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <gender>he</gender>
        <article>him</article>
        <alive />
        <feature_usegive />
        <speak type="script">
          if (not GetBoolean(Bishop,"talked_before")) {
            msg ("“Hello?”")
            msg ("“Go away.”")
            msg ("“Er...who are you?  What are you doing here?”")
            msg ("“It doesn’t matter anymore.  I couldn’t save the queen, I failed.  I have nothing left to fight for.”")
            msg ("The man covers his eyes with his hands, ignoring you.")
            Bishop.talked_before = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("The man refuses to look up as you speak to him, his head still remains in his hands.")
          }
        </speak>
        <changedalive type="script">
          MoveObject (memory2, D3)
          MakeObjectVisible (memory2)
        </changedalive>
        <smell type="script">
          msg ("The Bishop takes a step back looking perplexed. He gives you a slightly concerned look.")
        </smell>
        <push type="script">
          msg ("You push the Bishop. It looks annoyed but remains silent.")
        </push>
        <give type="scriptdictionary">
          <item key="Kerchief">
            msg ("You hold out the white kerchief to the Bishop.  He looks up, startled.")
            msg ("“What is this?”")
            msg ("“Its just a hankee. The Knight said something about strengthening my heart, but...I think you might need it more then me.”")
            msg ("“That...is very kind of you. But giving yourself strength may not be enough to win this fight.”")
            msg ("You shrug awkwardly.")
            msg ("“Maybe not but...the Knight seemed pretty convinced that this isn’t over yet.  He’s out there fighting as hard as he can, even if it is hopeless.  Wouldn’t trying be better than sitting here waiting for the end?”")
            msg ("He looks pensive.")
            msg ("“Besides, it’s not like it could get any worse.”")
            msg ("A sad smile tugs at his mouth.  ")
            msg ("“You...may have a point. Besides, it looks like that damn Knight isn’t going to let this end any time soon.  Here, take this.”")
            msg ("He pulls a brick from behind his robes, it’s one of the Rook’s!")
            msg ("“I...sabotaged the Rook. I didn’t want to keep fighting, so I thought I would at least hasten the end. It was foolish of me, and I can only hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me.”")
            msg ("Turning, he squares his shoulders and moves confidently down the board, toppling the black Pawn directly before the enemy King.")
            msg ("The Black King chuckles menacingly, then leaps forward, smashing the Bishop to the ground.")
            msg ("A small sparkle flies through the air, landing a few feet away from you.")
            RemoveObject (Bishop)
            AddToInventory (helped_bishop)
            MakeObjectVisible (memory2)
            AddToInventory (brick3)
            RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByPawn2")
            RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (C1, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (D1, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (E1, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (C2, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (E2, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (C3, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (D3, "threatenedByKing")
            SetObjectFlagOn (E3, "threatenedByKing")
          </item>
        </give>
      </object>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="A6">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="memory2">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <take />
        <takemsg>The small object that flew from the Bishop when he was destroyed by the black King shimmers quietly on the ground.  It is a thermometer.</takemsg>
        <alias>Bishop's Memory</alias>
        <attr name="feature_usegive" type="boolean">false</attr>
        <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
        <look><![CDATA[It is the thermometer that flew from the Bishop when he was destroyed by the black King.<br/>]]></look>
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <listalias>Bishop's Thermometre</listalias>
        <ontake type="script"><![CDATA[
          IncreaseObjectCounter (GameStatus, "MemoryCounter")
          msg ("An antiseptic smell rises up to your nose, sharp but clean. You close your eyes and remember gentle hands applying cooling pads to burns, and smoothing hair away from a fevered forehead.<br/><br/>You are no longer in pain.")
        ]]></ontake>
      </object>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <exit alias="west" to="A5_BishopSquare">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A6">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="C6">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="C5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="C5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description type="script">
        msg ("A small expanse of black floor surrounds you.")
        if (Contains (B6_EnemyRook,Black Rook)) {
          msg ("To the northwest, you see a Black Rook. He glowers menacingly, and you gulp: he's definitely too big for you to take on.")
        }
      </description>
      <exit alias="west" to="B5">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="B6_EnemyRook">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <lockmessage>You eye the black chess piece and gulp. It looks awfully solid from where you're standing... You're not sure you could budge it, let alone fight it. Best you don't antagonize it.</lockmessage>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C6">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D6">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="D5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <exit alias="west" to="C5">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C6">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D6">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="D4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E5_EnemyPawn">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <alias>E5</alias>
      <usedefaultprefix type="boolean">false</usedefaultprefix>
      <prefix>square</prefix>
      <enter type="script">
      </enter>
      <beforeenter type="script">
        if (Contains (E5_EnemyPawn,EnemyPawn5)) {
          msg ("Upon entering the square, the Black Pawn occupying it fades out of existence.")
          RemoveObject (EnemyPawn1)
          RemoveFlagFromSquares ("threatenedByPawn5")
          UpdateSquareLocks
        }
      </beforeenter>
      <exit alias="west" to="D5">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D6">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F6">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="F5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="D4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="E4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="EnemyPawn5">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <alias>Black pawn</alias>
        <take type="boolean">false</take>
        <displayverbs type="stringlist" />
        <inventoryverbs type="stringlist" />
        <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
        <alive />
        <speak type="script">
          if (helped_pawn.parent = player) {
            msg ("\"I salute you, and congratulate you on your victory.\"")
          }
        </speak>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="F5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <exit alias="west" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E6_StartingSquare">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F6">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G6">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="brick2">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <look>It is an cream-coloured brick chipped in some spots and cracked in others. It has probably seen better days.</look>
        <alias>cream-coloured brick</alias>
        <eat>You bite into the brick. It tastes like dirt and iron. It's not the worst thing you've ever had though.</eat>
        <take />
        <ondrop type="script">
        </ondrop>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="G5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <exit alias="west" to="F5">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="F6">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G6">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H6_TowerSquare">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H5">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H4">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H5">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <description>You are in a white tile now, to the east you feel the menacing presence of the void.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G5">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G6">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H6_TowerSquare">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="G4">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H4">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
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        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
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    <object name="A4">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>You are in a white tile, the floor chipped and black rubble strewn everywhere.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
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      <exit alias="north" to="A5_BishopSquare">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B5">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B3">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
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            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
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            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B4">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <exit alias="west" to="A4">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A5_BishopSquare">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B5">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="C5">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="C4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="A3">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="south" to="B3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southeast" to="C3">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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    <object name="C4">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <exit alias="west" to="B4">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="B5">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="C5">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="D5">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="D4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="south" to="C3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southeast" to="D3">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <inherit name="square" />
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        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="C5">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="D5">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="E5_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="E4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="south" to="D3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="northdirection" />
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        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
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        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
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      <exit alias="south" to="E3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
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      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
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        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="F5">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="G5">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="G4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="E3">
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      <exit alias="south" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
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        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="F5">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="G5">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="H5">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="H4">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="south" to="G3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southeast" to="H3">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
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      <description type="string"></description>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="G5">
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        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="H5">
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        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
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      <exit alias="south" to="H3">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
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        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <object name="Row 3">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>The square under you is losing its prestige after the many battles it has seen, but its darkness still shows through.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="north" to="A4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="B3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>Below you is a white tile that looks well worn with a large rock in the centre.</description>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <exit alias="west" to="A3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="C4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="C3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="Large Rock">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <look>Up close, the rock isn't actually a rock. It's the ruins of a soldier who once stood tall; a soldier who was proud of what he was fighting for. The recklessness of his loyalty must have brought him to his end.</look>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="C3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByPawn2 />
      <description>You now stand upon a black tile with pieces missing.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="B3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="B4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="D3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <description>The glint off the white tile under your feet is intense and bright.</description>
      <beforeenter type="script">
        if (ListContains(ScopeVisible(), memory3)) {
          msg ("You can see a small glimmering object on this tile.")
        }
      </beforeenter>
      <exit alias="west" to="C3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByPawn2 />
      <description>You step into a black square, well worn from the shoes of others.</description>
      <exit alias="west" to="D3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="E4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="E2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="F3_PawnSquare">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <alias>F3</alias>
      <description><![CDATA[You move down the board into a white square and spy a small boy clutching a spear far too large for himself and pointing it trembling at the enemy King, who is feet away.  This must be the Pawn that the Rook spoke of.<br/>]]></description>
      <firstenter type="script">
        msg ("As you approach the Pawn, you are assailed with feelings of helplessness and weakness, strong enough to make you stumble.  Resolutely shaking your head, you press through and make it to the side of the boy, who jumps and squeaks as you appear out of the darkness.")
      </firstenter>
      <exit alias="west" to="E3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="Pawn">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <gender>he</gender>
        <article>him</article>
        <speak type="script">
          if (not GetBoolean(Pawn,"talked_before")) {
            msg ("“W-Who goes there?!” He stammers, trying to keep an eye on both you, and the Black King.")
            msg ("“Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you, I promise.”")
            msg ("“This is war, y-y-you can’t trust, anyone!”")
            msg ("Glaring, he shuffles his feet around a bit, but keeps his spear pointing at the enemy King.")
            Pawn.talked_before = true
          }
          else if (helped_rook.parent = player) {
            if (helped_bishop.parent = player) {
              if (helped_knight.parent = player) {
                msg ("“D-don’t come any closer!”")
                msg ("“Ok, I’ll stay right here.  Listen, you have to go.  Your path is clear, you’re the only one who can end this!”")
                msg ("“What?” Staring around in astonishment, he notices that the Queen that was threatening his flank is missing.")
                msg ("“But...what can I do?  I’m just one pawn...and the King is right there!”")
                msg ("The Black King shifts around to face the Pawn, and smiles menacingly.")
                msg ("“Don’t worry about him, you can make it!  If you get to the end, this will all end! You can do it, everyone is depending on you!”")
                msg ("He seems hesitant, but glances over at the square where the Bishop fell.  Taking a deep breath, he levels his spear and gulps.")
                msg ("“Oh...ok.  I’ll do it. Will you come with me?”")
                msg ("“Sure, I don’t see why not.“")
                msg ("")
                msg ("Taking another deep breath, he tightens his grip on his spear and charges straight forward.  The Black King’s grin slips when he realizes that the Pawn isn’t going for him: he’s heading for the end square.")
                msg ("")
                msg ("Panic fills the Black King’s face as he rushes to catch the Pawn, but he’s too late.")
                msg ("")
                msg ("The Pawn steps over the edge and a blinding light engulfs him.  The Black King screams.")
                msg ("")
                msg ("When the light fades, you look over to see a woman in shining white armour standing over the Black King’s crumpled form. She turns a serene, beautiful face towards you, and offers you the hilt of the King’s sword.  A sense of purpose emanates from the sword, and your previous feelings of helplessness are driven from you.")
                msg ("")
                msg ("“It is over.” Says the White Queen.")
                RemoveObject (Pawn)
                AddToInventory (helped_pawn)
                MakeObjectVisible (WhiteQueen)
              }
            }
          }
          else {
            msg ("The boy stands firm, while holding his spear pointed at the enemy king with glaring eyes darting around the battlefield.")
          }
        </speak>
        <smell type="script">
          msg ("The Pawn pushes you back as you try to lean in to take a whiff.")
          msg ("\"What in tarnation do you thing your up to?\"")
          msg ("You take a step back silently, not sure how to answer for your odd actions")
        </smell>
        <push type="script">
          msg ("You push over the pawn. As he gets up he gives you a scowl and quickly gets back into position.")
        </push>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="G3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <description>You are engulfed by the darkness of the black tile you are in. </description>
      <exit alias="west" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="F4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H4">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H3">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H2">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H3">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <description>You have stepped into a white square.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G3">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G4">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H4">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="G2">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H2">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <object name="Row 2">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <description>You are in a white square. To the west there is crushing blackness.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="north" to="A3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="B3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="B2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="A1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="B1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
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            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
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            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
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      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>You step into a black square.</description>
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        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="A3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="B3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="C3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="C2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="A1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="B1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="C1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="brick1">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <look>It is a heavy brick of beige colour that looks rough around the edges but still fairly sturdy. Looking at it makes you feel slightly melancholy.</look>
        <alias>beige-coloured brick</alias>
        <take />
        <ondrop type="script">
        </ondrop>
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="C2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <threatenedByKing />
      <exit alias="west" to="B2">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="B3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="B1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="C1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="D1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <threatenedByKing />
      <alias>D2</alias>
      <exit alias="west" to="C2">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="C1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="D1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="E1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="EnemyPawn2">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
      </object>
    </object>
    <object name="E2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <threatenedByKing />
      <exit alias="west" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="E3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="F2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="D1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="E1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="F1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="F2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <threatenedByPawn1 />
      <exit alias="west" to="E2">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="E1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="F1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="G1_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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    <object name="G2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <exit alias="west" to="F2">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="F3_PawnSquare">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H3">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H2">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="F1">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="G1_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="H1">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H2">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByPawn1 />
      <description>You are in a black square, to the east the darkness seems to be trying to overtake and mold with the dark tile.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
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      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
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      <exit alias="west" to="G2">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G3">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H3">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="G1_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="H1">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="EnemyQueen">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <alive />
        <changedalive type="script">
          MoveObject (memory1, H2)
          MakeObjectVisible (memory1)
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      </object>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
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    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="A1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <description>You stand in a lonely black square. To the south and to the west the doctor claws at the tile, barely staved off by the light.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = True
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      <beforefirstenter type="script">
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      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = False
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      <exit alias="north" to="A2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="B2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="B1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
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      </exit>
      <exit alias="west" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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        ]]></script>
      </exit>
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      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <attr name="grid_borderwidth" type="int">1</attr>
      <grid_parent_offset_auto />
      <threatenedByRook />
      <description>You are in a white tile. To the south the darkness teems.</description>
      <beforeenter type="script">
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      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
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      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
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      <exit alias="west" to="A1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northwest" to="A2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="north" to="B2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="northeast" to="C2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="east" to="C1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
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      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
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      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
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          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="C1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByKing />
      <description>You find yourself in a black square. To the south you don't see anything except the darkness, an impenetrable curtain.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="B1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="B2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="C2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="D1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="D1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <attr name="grid_borderwidth" type="int">1</attr>
      <description>You are in a white tile, the darkness seethes to the south.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="C1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="C2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="E2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="E1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="E1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <threatenedByKing />
      <description>The floor beneath you is black, the darkness reaching out from the south is melding with the dark tile.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="D1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="D2_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="E2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="F2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="F1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="F1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">White</attr>
      <description>You stand in a white tile. To the south the darkness moves, shifting and pulsing.</description>
      <beforeenter type="script">
      </beforeenter>
      <beforefirstenter type="script">
      </beforefirstenter>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="E1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="E2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="F2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="G2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="G1_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="WhiteQueen">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <inherit name="female" />
        <visible type="boolean">false</visible>
        <look>A woman in shining white armour stands valorously before you.</look>
        <drop type="boolean">false</drop>
        <attr name="feature_switchable" type="boolean">false</attr>
        <admire>The White Queen seems almost angelic in her pure white armour.</admire>
        <alias>White Queen</alias>
        <alt type="stringlist">
          <value>queen</value>
        </alt>
        <speak type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (GetInt(GameStatus, "MemoryCounter") >= 3) {
            msg ("As you approach the White Queen, a gentle light parts the fog overhead, and you can feel yourself being drawn towards it.  She smiles, and offers the sword’s hilt to you.<br/><br/>“I don’t think I can take this with me where I’m going…”<br/>“Not physically, no.  But it will be here whenever you need it.  Do you understand now?”<br/>You smile, thinking back to the happy memories that the defeated black pieces reminded you of.  <br/>“Yes, I think I do.”<br/>“Then go.  Be happy, for all of us.”<br/>Nodding, you take the hilt of the sword and turn towards the light again.  You feel your feet getting lighter, and you let yourself go.  As you float towards it, your eyes close, and the chessboard fades out.<br/><br/>You open your eyes to the concerned faces of your loved ones standing around your hospital bed, tears of relief and joy in their eyes.<br/><br/>You blink back tears yourself, and smile.  <br/>“Its ok...I’m ok.  I’m back.”")
          }
          else {
            msg ("As you approach the White Queen, a harsh white light pierces the fog overhead, and you flinch from its touch.  The White Queen smiles, and offers the sword’s hilt to you.<br/><br/>“Take it, and be free.”<br/>You shrink from the sword, the painful memories of the white chess pieces still burning in your mind.<br/>“I...can’t.”<br/>The smile fades from her face, and she slowly lowers the sword.<br/>“If you remain here, nothing will change.  You will be trapped forever.”<br/><br/>You look around.  With the black pieces gone, the chessboard doesn’t look nearly as frightening.  There’s nothing left here to hurt you.<br/><br/>Turning to the White Queen, you take her other hand and place it on the hilt.<br/><br/>“You beat him, you keep it.”<br/>She sighs and shakes her head.<br/>“I can’t protect you forever.”<br/>“I’ll just stay a while and get my strength back, you won’t have to hold it forever, I promise.”<br/><br/>You turn to go to the Knight, ignoring the light in the sky as it starts to dim.  You’re sure it’ll still be there when you’re finished visiting with him and the Rook.<br/><br/>You start to whistle, free from pain for the first time in what feels like forever.  The light in the sky flickers for a few moments, then finally goes out.  The darkness starts enclosing the board, enveloping and hiding the Rook and the Knight, but you’re not afraid this time.  The darkness is different, warmer.<br/><br/>Somewhere far above you, the pinging stops, and you hear hysterical sobs, but it doesn’t matter now.<br/><br/>You smile as the darkness engulfs you, closing your eyes and drifting away in its gentle embrace.")
          }
          finish
        ]]></speak>
        <lick type="script">
          msg ("You get the sudden urge to lick the White Queen.")
          msg ("As you step in, the Queen looks at you and gives you an angelic smile.")
          msg ("You lean in and stick out your tongue. The Queen steps back in surprise!")
          msg ("\"What exactly do you think you're doing?! Do you think you're some kind of dog?\"")
          msg ("You take a step back in embarrassment and quickly apologize.")
          msg ("\"I-I-I'm sorry, I don't not what came over me.\"")
        </lick>
        <turnscript name="WhiteQueenVisibility">
          <enabled />
          <script>
            if (not Contains (F3_PawnSquare,Pawn)) {
            }
          </script>
        </turnscript>
      </object>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="G1_EnemyPawn">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <attr name="grid_fill">Gray</attr>
      <alias>G1</alias>
      <description>You are in a black tile, to the south the void swirls.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="F1">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="F2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="G2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="H2">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="H1">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <object name="EnemyPawn1">
        <inherit name="editor_object" />
        <speak type="script">
          if (helped_pawn.parent = player) {
            msg ("\"I salute you, and congratulate you on your victory.\"")
          }
        </speak>
      </object>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <runscript />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
    <object name="H1">
      <inherit name="editor_room" />
      <inherit name="square" />
      <threatenedByQueen />
      <description>You are in a white tile. You have reached the end of the board, to the south and the east there is only the abyss.</description>
      <enter type="script">
        player.horse_possible = true
      </enter>
      <onexit type="script">
        player.horse_possible = false
      </onexit>
      <exit alias="west" to="G1_EnemyPawn">
        <inherit name="westdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northwest" to="G2">
        <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="north" to="H2">
        <inherit name="northdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southwest" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="south" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="southeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="east" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="eastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
      <exit alias="northeast" to="Darkness">
        <inherit name="northeastdirection" />
        <attr name="grid_length" type="int">0</attr>
        <runscript />
        <script type="script"><![CDATA[
          if (not GetBoolean(Darkness,"tried")) {
            msg ("As you near the edge of the board, you come upon an ethereal black curtain that the ambient light which has been following you since you woke up cannot pierce. Getting even close, you notice shifting shadows behind the veil. You reach out your hand to touch it and panic envelops your mind.<br/>Whatever is behind there is bad, very very bad. You probably don't want to proceed any further.")
            Darkness.tried = true
          }
          else {
            msg ("Ignoring the panic that threatens to engulf you, you step through the veil. The blackness encloses you, and you lose all sense of sight. Somewhere behind you, you hear something large shifting. Dread wells up inside you.")
            msg ("This was a bad idea.")
            msg ("It is your last thought as pain suddenly rips through your body.")
            msg ("You are dead.")
            finish
          }
        ]]></script>
      </exit>
    </object>
  </object>
  <verb>
    <property>offertothedarkness</property>
    <pattern>offer to the darkness</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You can't offer " + object.article + " to the darkness."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>pet</property>
    <pattern>pet</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You pett " + object.article + " and nothing happens. What more did you expect?"</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>ride</property>
    <pattern>ride</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You try to ride " + object.article + " and probably look really stupid doing so."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>pick</property>
    <pattern>pick</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You can't pick " + object.article + "."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>fold</property>
    <pattern>fold</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You can't fold " + object.article + "."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>admire</property>
    <pattern>admire</pattern>
    <defaultexpression>"You admire " + object.article + "."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <pattern>smell</pattern>
    <property>smell</property>
    <defaultexpression>"You smell" + object.article + " and get a whiff of dirt and rubble."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <pattern>push</pattern>
    <property>push</property>
    <defaultexpression>"You push" + object.article + " and nothing happens. What more did you expect?"</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <verb>
    <property>lick</property>
    <pattern>lick</pattern>
    <defaulttext>"You lick" + object.article + "...What are you doing with yourself."</defaulttext>
    <defaultexpression>"You lick" + object.article + "...What are you doing with yourself."</defaultexpression>
  </verb>
  <object name="Darkness">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <description type="string"></description>
    <exit alias="southwest" to="H7">
      <inherit name="southwestdirection" />
    </exit>
    <exit alias="west" to="H7">
      <inherit name="westdirection" />
    </exit>
    <exit alias="northwest" to="H7">
      <inherit name="northwestdirection" />
    </exit>
    <exit alias="southeast" to="A6">
      <inherit name="southeastdirection" />
    </exit>
    <exit alias="east" to="A6">
      <inherit name="eastdirection" />
    </exit>
  </object>
  <type name="square">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
  </type>
  <function name="UpdateSquareLocks">
    foreach (object, AllObjects()) {
      if (IsThreatened(object)) {
        foreach (exit, AllExits()) {
          if (exit.to.name = object.name) {
            LockExit (exit)
          }
        }
      }
      else if (DoesInherit (object, "square")) {
        foreach (exit, AllExits()) {
          if (exit.to.name = object.name) {
            UnlockExit (exit)
          }
        }
      }
    }
  </function>
  <function name="IsThreatened" parameters="object" type="boolean">
    if (DoesInherit (object, "square")) {
      if (GetBoolean(object, "threatenedByQueen") or GetBoolean (object, "threatenedByRook") or GetBoolean (object, "threatenedByKing") or GetBoolean (object, "threatenedByPawn1") or GetBoolean (object, "threatenedByPawn2") or GetBoolean (object, "threatenedByPawn5")) {
        if (not SquareContainsFriendlyPiece(object)) {
          return (true)
        }
      }
      return (false)
    }
    return (false)
  </function>
  <function name="RemoveFlagFromSquares" parameters="flagName">
    foreach (object, AllObjects()) {
      if (DoesInherit (object, "square")) {
        if (GetBoolean(object, flagName)) {
          SetObjectFlagOff (object, flagName)
        }
      }
    }
  </function>
  <function name="SquareContainsFriendlyPiece" parameters="object" type="boolean">
    if (DoesInherit (object, "square")) {
      if (Contains (object, Knight) or Contains (object, Rook) or Contains (object, Bishop) or Contains (object, Pawn)) {
        return (true)
      }
    }
    return (false)
  </function>
</asl>