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==== Chapter 48: The Cotillion Cavern ==== | ==== Chapter 48: The Cotillion Cavern ==== | ||
[[The Cotillion Cavern]] is described. It is an enormously dangerous place: trapdoors open on the dance-floor at the end of every third waltz, daggers hang from the chandeliers by “slowly-disintegrating threads”, the air conditioning vents “occasionally expel laughing gas”, the music sometimes gets loud enough to rupture eardrums, and even the drinks are randomly laced with “any of the following: alcohol, cranberry juice, [[dragon]] [[dragon spit|spit]], paralyzing poison, truth serum, sleep syrup, pure caffeine, and other additives”. However, brave partygoers who manage to survive all the way through the deadly cotillion are rewarded with a treasure chest containing any combination of a long list of valuable or extroardinary items including “discounts for [[the Salon]], rubies, an egg of a [[giant sea rooster]], ropes of diamond, jet packs, a [[TARDIS]], hallucination inducers, a cryogenics manual, golden daggers, a pair of silver earrings, and a portal to [[Mars]]”. | [[The Cotillion Cavern]] is described. It is an enormously dangerous place: trapdoors open on the dance-floor at the end of every third waltz, daggers hang from the chandeliers by “slowly-disintegrating threads”, the air conditioning vents “occasionally expel laughing gas”, the music sometimes gets loud enough to rupture eardrums, and even the drinks are randomly laced with “any of the following: alcohol, cranberry juice, [[dragon]] [[dragon spit|spit]], paralyzing poison, truth serum, sleep syrup, pure caffeine, and other additives”. However, brave partygoers who manage to survive all the way through the deadly cotillion are rewarded with a treasure chest containing any combination of a long list of valuable or extroardinary items including “discounts for [[the Salon]], rubies, an egg of a [[giant sea rooster]], ropes of diamond, jet packs, a [[TARDIS]], hallucination inducers, a cryogenics manual, golden daggers, a pair of silver earrings, and a portal to [[Mars]]”. | ||
==== Chapter 49: The Roof ==== | |||
[[The Roof]] is described. Stretching as far as the eye can see and swept over by “vicious” winds, it is “covered in lines, dashes, squares, and circles of paint to help guide the many airborne creatures and machines that call the Roof home”; the latter include “airships, jumbo jets, hot air balloons, ornithopters, jet-proppelled wings, dragons of all shapes and sizes, [[zero gravity vest]]s, zeppelins, starships, UFOs,” and many more. Flight attendants constantly “scurry about” to help visitors “find, borrow, rent, buy, steal, or otherwise obtain” whatever “flying thing” will suit their needs, so long as they carry appropriate identification. For all its wonders, the Roof is hard to get to: one must take [[the Elevator]] to [[the Theater Room]], then go backstage to find a portal to the hair dye closet in [[the Salon]]. There, one of the [[dragon]]s will “beam” anyone who gives them “a sky lantern fueled with hydrogen” up to the Roof. | |||
=== Worldbuilding=== | === Worldbuilding=== | ||
