Entwurf Silvia Springer 1 (PJS)

"Desperately Seeking The Wisdom of Socrates" by Silvia Springer

Include Simple Chat by Mark Tilford.

When play begins, say "Several days ago your High Priestess gave you a new assingment: 'Go to Athens to meet Socrates, the wise man I told you about, and learn from him as much as you can. The oracle told me that you should leave right away, so take the very first ship tomorrow morning.' You just arrived at Athens - a young cretan priestess from Minos. You remember clearly the stories the High Priestess told you about Socrates, who was in his early days intitiateted in the secrets of love and wisdom by another famous High Priestess - Diotima. Since you are eager to learn to know as much of the secrets of life and death as you can, you are very exited to meet this well-known man, to get initiated by his and Diotimas wisdom."

Marketplace is a room. "The athenian market."

Description of marketeplace is "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chickens - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to a boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order he got n the morning. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher."

The stall is an enterable, open container that is fixed in place. The description of stall is "A small stall of a egg vendor. First-class eggs, very expensive."

Cage is a container. After taking the chickens: say "I was hypnotising them." Description of cage is "It is a big container made of wood." Boy is a person in the marketplace. Description of boy is "He is a boy of about sixteen years, not more than that. He is tall and very slim, probable he has grown fast lately. His black, curlied hair would - under more friendly circumstances - shine in the sun like a ravens wing, now they are flattering in the wind and they have become wet of sweat. His father ordered him this morning to sell the chickens on the market - this is why he looks really distressed, because he doesn't want to disappoint his father."

Cow is an animal in the marketplace. 

Pigs are animals in the marketplace.

Chickens are animals in the marketplace. Description of chickens is "They make much fuzz running around in circles."

The player carries a notepad and some money. The description of notepad is "Your high priestess notepad. There is a message inside: 'Visit Socrates and listen to his teachings. Don't spend too much of money on your journey, and be careful with strangers."

The description of money is "The money that has been given you for your journey. You haven't spent a lot up to now."

[CHAT] Talking to is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "talk to [someone]" as talking to. Report talking to: say "You have nothing to say.".

Understand "ask [somebody]" as talking.

[SCENE 1 - CATCHING THE CHICKENS] Catch The Chickens is a scene. Catch The Chickens begins when play begins. Catch The Chickens ends when taking chickens.

Instead of looking for the second time: say "As you look for the chickens, you soon spot them next to a group of pigs, only a couple of steps away from you. You move towards them and get ready to catch the chickens."; now the description of marketplace is "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chicken - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to a boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order he got n the morning. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher.

You spotted the chickens next to a group of pigs. Now that was easy."; now chickens are in the marketplace.

Catching is an action applying to one visible thing. Understand "catch [something]" as taking. Understand "catch" as taking.

The intimacy-level is a kind of value. The intimacy-levels are low, medium and high. The chickens have an intimacy-level.

Before taking the chickens: if the intimacy-level of the chickens is low begin; say "As you apporach the chickens, the pigs start a grunting and squeaking uproar and the chickens flee again - right through a group of people and stop next to a fountain behind them."; now the intimacy-level of the chickens is medium; change the description of marketplace to "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chickens - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order he got in the morning. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher.

Now the chickens are next to a jug of water behind a group of talking people."; stop the action; end if; if the intimacy-level of the chickens is medium begin; say "You run around the group and just the second when you try to hypnotize the chickens, they flee once again.

This time they run towards a vendor who displays a crate full of fresh eggs."; change the description of marketplace to "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chickens - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to the boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order he got in the morning. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher.

The chickens run towards an flowers vendor, they are frantic by now."; now the intimacy-level of the chickens is high; stop the action; end if; if the intimacy-level of the chickens is high and the chickens are in the marketplace begin; say "Before you reach the vendor, the chickens enter one of the market stalls that are everywhere there. It looks like the stall of a egg vendor. Well, at least now the chickens are trapped inside! There is no other person than yourself in the stall."; change the description of marketplace to "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chickens - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to the boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order he got in the morning. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher.Now you are standing right in front of the stall in which the chickens are."; stop the action; end if; if chickens are inside the stall and player is not inside the stall begin; say "You only have to enter this stall and the chickens are yours."; stop the action; end if.

After taking the chickens: say "Without anyone taking notice, you entered the stall inside which you spotted the chickens assembling in a corner.

In this moment you stand before the chickens and hypnotize them. As they drop on the floor like like littly feathery stones, you hit a big bowl with eggs with your elbow, while hypnotizing the chickens and eventually one after another keep falling on the floor, making 'plop' and a real mess on the floor. Fortunately you made it out of the stall without getting too dirty and you have the chickens at last. But on the other hand does the vendor come rushing towards you. This very likely would be a perfect moment to leave the marketplace!"; change the description of marketplace to "The athenian market, filled with plenty of stalls, decorated with apples, grapes, melons, figs and other kinds of fruit - spread before your eyes. The odour of ripe fruit fills your nostrils and let you wish to purchase a slice of beautifully coloured water melon. Other stalls contain pottery, or meat, or fish. Between the stalls there are running around some gaggling chickens - they escaped from their wooden cage belonging to the boy who is selling the chickens to fullfill his fathers order. He runs after them, shouting and waving. You might feel obliged to help him. A couple of pigs stand grunting and sobbing, kept together by their owner, who is standig next to them with a wand made of wood, ready to kick the pigs on their backs when they want to stroll away. A sad looking cow with tender eyes waits to be purchased by a butcher.

And in the middle of this marketplace - a muddy stall, loads of broken eggs, a vendor who seems to want to kill you with chickens in your arms."; remove the stall from play; move boy to marketplace; move player to marketplace;

Instead of dropping the chickens, say "The chickens already caused enough trouble. You're not going to release them out of your safe arms."

Slave is a man in the marketplace. "A rich athenian citizien's slave stands before a booth, loaded with fish and bargains with the fisherman."

[Fisherman is a man in the marketplace.]

Melon is in the Marketplace. "A farmer is standing in front of his stall trying to sell his fruit. 'You want some melons? Very ripe, I give you a good price!' You hesitate, because your appetite has been awakend."

Instead of buying melons, say "'What's the price for a slice of melons?' ' Half a copper coin.' The farmer is grinning from one ear to another. You decide to call him a racketeer and walk off."

Instead of buying melons, say "'Give me a slice of melon.' 'You can only have the whole melon or none!'"

Instead of buying melons, say "'I would like to buy one slice of melon, is it possible?' 'Certainly, my lady, here you have it for good!"

Pedestal is in the marketplace. "In the middle of the marketplace there stands a wooden pedestal. Advocates praise there benefits and offer their services."

Advocate is a man in the marketplace. "One advocate is a special experience: he is tall, handsome with black curlierd hair falling down to his shoulders, his eyes are full of anger, he is gesticulating while speaking, he is apealling aganinst an unjust judgement pronounced a couple of days ago. You can hear the name 'Socrates'."