the toe of your shoe is eaten away by the corrosive liquid in the lake. Swimming is out.As you wind your way around the ramp you sense just how enormous RAMA really is.The phantom swells and blocks your path, leaving you feeling a little weak.It could 8   This is a round, open doorway cut into the crater wall. Before it hovers a spinning phantom-like shape: at times it appears to be almost a distinct form, whirling into a blurred outline. At other times it looks like blown dust.The tip ofH H  &&8   The ramp is about three meters wide and slopes gently as it spirals down around the inside of the crater. 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All sense of direction is lost as the sidewalk twists and angles past other corridors and darkened rooms. You glimpse what look like warehouses full of complex machinery, and empty, brightly lit cubicles flasHFHXw`F 'F VF  'FD Q  '`Q8  star systems. A hair-thin beam of light seems to reflect off of the walls forming a large, perfectly equilateral triangle.You must exit first.prdoorYou must exit.You exit.pwind H6i~U7'`'F%t X5%F be a form of energy, perhaps some kind of cosmic vermin infecting RAMA.The phantom swells and the crystalline substance is drawn into its center. Seemingly satisfied, the phantom stands aside.Etched into the three walls of this room are three mysterious H H  &&8   The ramp is about three meters wide and slopes gently as it spirals down around the inside of the crater. Below is the circular lake of dark green water, and the three doors.perampU7> 7>&"HH  ŀ^1!a%!eŦŀ^a!^aAŕp!!p P85с!Հ^AUԄCԔԀ^тՕ1^!Հ!ՕՀ^ lake's surface. Before you is a square doorway. 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Three ramps - one each at the south, east and west - spiral down 500 meters to a lake of greenish water. At each ramp's base is a differently shaped door.Nothing happens. As far as the cr   EёYр^a1I^Q^ CCP*B?/#?QQ!bՑqԀ^ ŕ!‚^ѕA1ե!ё!Հ!1!ՕՀ^A%ԕ! D IN-N-M&L+MF'mH0!  GD/NN-M&L+MF'mH0!  GD/mH0  through your body, but nothing seems permanently damaged.psquarpsquarpsquarpsquar  U)07>U3m! 7  7 ! 7  7 *G )MH HXK I  mm box about 1/2 meter deep. Fine beams of light crisscross the interior, forming a 3 dimensional grid.The lights brighten as the object is apparently scanned. When the light fades back to normal, the object is gone.The door slides open.A sharp pain runs <<5P@A3RA3RA4H I BH&0.'H He half machine and half animal. It ignores your attack.pcrateThe crab moves slowly toward the crater.'.U7'* ''Y \^ "08@'H!9  'HN)  'HM'H' gg8   `WThe ground here is glossy, as if made of a hard, ceramic glaze. It slopes up gently to the square's center where there is a half-kilometer wide crater.Nothing happens. As far as the crab is concerned, you don't exist.The crab looks to b1*(" *** A*QTP@!UP@UUUT@1U1*( ! * ! ***(*|sO?UT@UPAUUU1U1~yg" ***r( ) *|AsUUU/UUcTP!@U* **1*!**(  *!UTUTUUUTP*(  ****UUPUU@UUg**(**( **!|s!O?8UUPUU@UUar~yg* *(**1 ! 4 **UTAUUU!TP@PTP@1U*a ***( UTUTUUUT@ ** O***(U1UUT@UUQUTfg( 2*(*! *a *  *A*UT4UTPAUqP!!PUPUUTQTU**( ;**  **UTUU@U@UU* ** 2 **UAEQUUUT@C"Ug4T*(PA1$gy~*(***( 4?Os|UUAUE!UU~*  *("* *  .*U!@!UQTUqATU@PTAP@U* *!(6*  ! * (*  *?UAPUTUTP1TUQTUTPUq2g"y!~**/***( *s|)UUATUUUTPU1*(*! P(* _** **?Op|UPTPA/UUa@P"TPAUU11gy~* A(*(** (*(**!?OpU2TUqUUTUU~* (*"(* ***UATUqTAUTUsUQEU*(*(  *1  *(*!(*  *?Os|UATUqTP#@PTUQTUT     11*P@*''''H 0k.d{ j [Ew  (0'H)'  HN'H'H : 'H&#H  into a sort of bin located on its back.The crab looks to be half machine and half animal. It ignores your attack.The crab looks to be half machine and half animal.pcrashThe crab carries the remains of your dragonfly off.bU7* 8   You find yourself on a featureless, blue square on the southern grid. Pieces of the broken dragonfly are scattered about. A crab-like creature is here.A large, crab-like creature is here. It is loading the pieces of your broken dragonflyUUQEUU1%)*1*A*Q*Q*?"! **JRTUUUUUU~~**!*1*A*A*Q*Q*?UU!U1UAUAUQUQU?**!*1*A*A*Q*Q*0A!!!!((*1*A*Q*Q*?~~UU!U1UAUAUQUQU?p@p**!*1*A*A*Q*Q*?%S1UUUU_OA *!*1DTTTTT$(" *****JRTUUՂQEUUUUA%)***" ***JRT!UU/#C?#A11211*!!1AA/!1AA/մՀՀՀAQժTA!#AD!!!S?UUUU2!(ՓCB ?*** CBPP#TUU*!!(*****q(!!!UDEO!BO A ((**?tAx*x!TT!TUUUUUU@@********Օ3 '&' % %U1UAUAUQUQU?3T?UUTR"J****33****)#%U!U3DEEEEE! 3tŠ?1A1 P|< <|UUUUUUUUՀ******** UUUUUUUՕ!TUTPB@ *!*A*A*Q*Q*?a(**(! !UUUUUT/UUUT!P@B ****(****(! !U!UQU6ՕTUUUUTP #*    770 P@QQQҀ 8   SThis square is featureless. The ground is deep blue and completely unmarked.pblueMU7@ 9@ $H   HNH H   /Ԕ!ч܀QrAo/1ՑЇ!ЇԀAz!ŠAaՕ!ՀARŠဪՕ!ՀAՀчсՁԀAѡՀՀA! PՁAՕ?ՕqՅϪ1/ձ/ՕaՕ!  aaZ P@  '  this square has become mysteriously black.This square has become as light as the rest of RAMA.U72J @ *H&  HNH  HMd_RI ,8  ' ' ' $$8   OThis square is made of a material so black, it appears as a great square of total darkness, rather than a solid surface. 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Its unusual configuration prevents it from swinging in or out.You are inside the cage. At the center of the area is a shiny metal podium about three feet high, au, the cage is awakening with flashes of light and color. The walls of the cage seem to respond to every note.sending giant arcs of colored lightning out into the room, to criss-cross over your head.The cage is tightly woven of fine wire. Inside, you canan't get a handhold on the door.The door slides easily, and disappears into the ground.The door is closed.As you cross the threshold, the door closes behind you. A chorus of strange but pleasing sounds rises slowly from within RAMA, while all around yo 8   The square is almost totally enclosed by a tentlike structure of wire mesh, as if it were a giant bird cage. Before you, in the side of the cage, is a closed door.The mesh is too finely woven, there's nothing to hold onto.You try, but c *(*(((*/((1*Q*UU!UU$UUQU*"*""*""**U*Q*UU  % Q  of vision.The whirlwind, a spinning phantom, darts just outside your field of vision.The whirlwind seems to have disappeared. Perhaps it was never really there...The crystals are deeply embedded in the sand. You can only pry up one at a time.The sand 8   This square glitters with millions of small crystals set into a bed of sand. The square does not appear to be empty of life, like the rest of RAMA. 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Next to you is a panel, containing nine buttons, arranged in the same way.While you ho   |@ *(!U%)*QjUU-*~`UTUu}/**>UPC?|pBj**jz~_UUO**(~ye#URu}./**_UU1PO?UU**a!/**UUPO_UU**)'A?/+**UUUTWS_O#_W/UUU******U`UAT*!')F*UY*UQ*QUT1OUAEU*iUj*UQ*(~x` 6*Ui*Ua*Q UTC?|3UQ)*Q~U*UQ@ *(?/*QJUi*Uq*a UTSO1_WU*jU*q~UQT@ **TU}+*U@ * /UU%*jWU* xUqTP *JU}/**UPC?sQ#/?uU*U* `Q)QUQW~j*+U1*aPU?@TU@qhj*?UV*U*~A* b` *R-Uh~*-U1*aUqAU@?QUj*XU*1Ua*qA*3(x~zj*a-UX*+U*UUQ}Uaj*A?q}U*1`U*x *f*UX*UA*QU@?|pq"?Ue*U* {P!******!UUUUUU!******!UU%).+-"5UUU2**A RTUUVZj**UU!)**+-UU* PUUUQVj**U***+5UUb*PUE!q|D}!uUUVZ**!U* `x~~z*+UU2@ *UA|uUVj**1U*x~j*5U1*Uq@  tH "53 % ' '7D9+t 'tt  't6t '9  ztJ705<  on the platform. The column continues to rise into the rarified atmosphere of RAMA. 6[=]h1by\DU7 't'9' 5i&#x v (7FtH 8tH'tH faster and faster until you smash into the black square barely making an indentation. The column continues to rise into the rarified atmosphere of RAMA. The hexagonal shaft comes to a sudden stop. It is fortunate you were holding the railing; you remain he hexagonal shaft comes to a sudden stop. There is very little gravity here and your momentum carries you and your belongings off the platform. You ponder the error of your ways for several hours before you are caught by RAMA's gravity. You begin falling of RAMA. You see lights on the podium which roughly correspond with the lights on in the Southern Hemisphere.Before you is a miniature replica of RAMA. You see lights on the podium which roughly correspond with the lights on in the Southern Hemisphere. Tce is perfectly smooth.You must step on a surrounding tile first.The wheel is about five centimeters in diameter.You don't see a wheel.There are three handrails here. They are just a little higher than they should be.Before you is a miniature replica to about one meter. 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