# Stiffy Makane: Apocolocyntosis — 57 of 235

## One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard

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Chapter Two - "Atrium"

The Atrium is a room. "The atrium is the heart of the house. It is a courtyard open to the sky, with covered arcades around each side. The impluvium fills the center of the room. The peristyle is off to the north, through the tablinum. The bustling central street of Ostia is to the south. Your bedroom door is to the west. The door to your parents[apostrophe] bedroom is east."

Some covered arcades are scenery in the Atrium. The description is "The arcades provide shade and shelter from the elements around the outside edge of the atrium."

The heavy wooden door is east of the Atrium. The heavy wooden door is a door. It is closed. It is locked. It is scenery. The description is "This heavy wooden door, painted dark blue, closes off your parents[apostrophe] bedroom from the rest of the house." Understand "east", "parents'", "blue" and "dark" as the heavy wooden door.

Instead of swimming in the atrium, try swimming around in the impluvium.

Rule for supplying a missing noun when drinking and the location is the atrium: now the second noun is the impluvium.

The impluvium is scenery in the atrium. The impluvium can be enterable. The impluvium is enterable. The description is "The impluvium functions as a cistern, catching rainwater and holding it for the house." Understand "cistern" and "water" as the impluvium. The impluvium can be drinkable. The impluvium is drinkable. Instead of drinking the impluvium, say "The water tastes like home. This is the water you have grown up drinking, and no other water tastes quite like this." Instead of tasting the impluvium, try drinking the impluvium. Instead of sucking the impluvium, try drinking the impluvium. Instead of touching the impluvium, try swimming around in the impluvium. Instead of smelling the impluvium, say "The water smells ever so slightly of algae. Maybe that should be unpleasant, but it's the comforting smell of home." Instead of entering the impluvium, try swimming around in the impluvium. Instead of searching the impluvium, say "The impluvium is partially full of water." Does the player mean drinking the impluvium: it is very likely. Instead of taking the impluvium, try drinking the impluvium.

Instead of swimming around in the impluvium, say "It would be rude and classless to splash around in the impluvium. That's what the baths are for."