# Stiffy Makane: Apocolocyntosis — 157 of 235

## One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard

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Volume Fifteen - "Cheating Fate"

Cheating Fate is a scene. Cheating Fate begins when the player is Divine Eris. Cheating Fate ends when the player is not Divine Eris.

The saved score is a number that varies. The saved turn count is a number that varies.

When Cheating Fate begins:

now the saved score is the score;

let N be a random number between 28993 and 37043;

silently set the score to N;

now the saved turn count is the turn count;

let N be a random number between 98560231 and 99789221;

now the turn count is N;

follow the major-scene-change rule;

say "Meanwhile, back in Olympus...";

say paragraph break;

say paragraph break;

say "A terrible feeling sweeps over you, rushing from the top of your head to the very tips of your luxuriant black wings. Oh dear. Something awful has happened to the game you were playing; the Golden Banana is slipping from your grasp.[paragraph break]You fly as fast as you can to the Game Room, trying meanwhile to come up with a strategy.";

say paragraph break;

really have the parser notice the Great Table;

now the left hand status line is "[location] (As Eris)";

move the player to the Game Room.

When Cheating Fate ends:

now the turn count is the saved turn count;

silently set the score to the saved score;

remove the god-spooge from play;

remove the blisters from play;

now the mine of the Mweru bird figurine is false;

now the mine of the hippopotamus figurine is false;

now the description of the big black wings is "The wings are blue-black and covered in iridescent feathers. It's a neat effect.";

now the description of Erisian black hair is "Eris's hair is shoulder-length and black.";

now the description of the basic black dress is "It's a basic black dress. Nothing fancy.";

now the left hand status line is "[location]".

Test Eris with "x me/x wings/score/x game/x hades/x olympus/x stiffy/x syra/take syra/search curtains/look under table/take stiffy/put stiffy on board/x argus/fuck argus/put stiffy on board/put stiffy on hades".

Test min-to-eris with "test min-intro/test min-rome/test min-ostia/test min-sea/ask palinurus about syracuse/test min-piracy/test rowing/test viking/test min-intro".

test min-eris with "take stiffy/put stiffy on board/fuck argus/put stiffy on hades".