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Simon's rooms
- noun The rooms east of the fast-flowing river. The
youngest section of The Land, having been added to MUD2
some time after MUD1 and Valley were sewn together. They were
designed primarily by the late Simon Dally in consultation with
Richard Bartle, hence their collective name. "Il Castellare"
and the Olives were written first (based on the Tuscan house of
some friends of Dally's), followed by the Monastery and
Scriptorium (inspired rather heavily by Eco's "The Name of the
Rose"), with the Gardens completed last (Dally's own design,
composed after research in a monumental tome on how classical
landscape gardens were planned and executed). Reading the
descriptions of the rooms in this order gives some idea of
Dally's growing expertise at the task. Simon's rooms are
characterised as being comparatively free of puzzles,
sparse (sense 2), and with most of
their objects being easy T. The Keep
is an exception, being a more recent addition by Bartle to
Dally's creation. See The Land, section.
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