# Stiffy Makane: Apocolocyntosis — 31 of 235

## One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard

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Part Seventeen - "Ground Rules"

Table of Dedicants

Dedicant | Epigram
"Graham Nelson" | "il miglior fabbro"
"Emily Short" | "la migliore fabbra"
"Ezra Pound" | "il miglior fabbro"
"T.S. Eliot" | "il miglior fabbro"
"Jacek Pudlo" | "il miglior fabbro"
"Steve Breslin" | "il peggior fabbro"
"Robb Sherwin" | "il miglior fabbro"
"Andrew Plotkin" | "il miglior fabbro"
"Mark Ryan" | "il miglior uomo"

Rule for printing the banner text during Medias Res: do nothing.

This is the major-scene-change rule:

if testing is not in progress, pause the game;

now the last_wanking_turn is 0;

now the last_pissing_turn is 0;

now the last_shitting_turn is 0.

Every turn:

follow the adjust light rule;

if in darkness

begin;

increase the global_darkness_counter by 1;

let N be the global_darkness_counter;

if N > 1

begin;

let M be the global_darkness_counter - 1;

if a random chance of M in N succeeds

begin;

say "Very close behind you, you hear a small, nasty chuckle, just before the blinding pain begins.";

end the story saying "You have been eaten by a grue";

end if;

otherwise;

say "You are likely to be eaten by a grue[14 as a reference].";

end if;

otherwise;

now the global_darkness_counter is 0;

end if.

When play begins:

move Stiffy Makane to the battlement;

now the player is Stiffy Makane;

remove yourself from play;

check Unicode compliance;

now the right hand status line is "Score: [score]";

remove first_footnote from play;

remove first_reference from play;

remove greenish pus from play;

now the stiffycock is lit;

now the stiffycolor of the stiffycock is blue;

say "[paragraph break][paragraph break]";

choose a random row in the Table of Dedicants;

say "[first custom style]FOR [Dedicant entry in caps][roman type]";

say "[paragraph break]";

say "[second custom style][epigram entry][roman type]. [1 as a reference]";

say "[paragraph break][paragraph break]";

move the Golden Banana to Stiffy Makane;

now the golden banana is handled;

now the golden banana is warned_about.

[ Every turn:

If a garment is worn and the player is Stiffy Makane, remove the stiffycock from play;

otherwise move the stiffycock to Stiffy Makane. ]