
[page="start"]

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You see a ragged old man in torn clothes, his beard long
and straggled.  He removes a lit pipe from his mouth and
speaks in a slow voice.
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"Who are thoo?

 'Tis so many years since I spoke t' another soul..
 Has thoo any curry?"

[link="Who are you?"]
[linkto="name"]
[link="What do you do?"]
[linkto="job"]
[endpage]


[page="name"]

"'Bent Gunn' is me name.
  Bent by name, Bent by nature.  Hehehe.."
  
[learn_name]
[link="What do you do?"]
[linkto="job"]
[endpage]


[page="job"]

"I has no job, for I's rich as a king..
 Them'll hail me 'Bent Gunn the first'..

 ..For I knows where the Treasure is! 
 But I shan't tell thoo!"

[learn_name]
[link="How did you get here?"]
[linkto="gethere"]
[link="Tell me about the Treasure."]
[linkto="treasure"]
[endpage]



[page="treasure"]

"Aye, 'tis nine million pounds worth of the finest goods
 Cap'n Skint could lay his hands upon."

[colour="#808080"]
 He takes a small, grubby snuff box from his pocket and
 taking a pinch of the contents, shoves some up his nose.
 It is not snuff.
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"Aye, 'Twas all hidden t' keep't from the Church..
 T' Keep't from God, Christ 'n the Virgin Mary.."

[link="Tell me where the treasure is."]
[linkto="treasure_where"]
[link="That's nice.  Goodbye!"]
[linkto="exit"]
[endpage]


[page="treasure_where"]

[if_male]"Nay, lad!  This treasure's not for thoo!
[if_female]"Nay, lass!  This treasure's not for thoo!
 I'll not tell where it be hidden."

[link="Tell me where the treasure is or I'll kill you."]
[linkto="treasure_where2"]
[link="Why won't you tell me?"]
[linkto="whynottell"]
[link="I only want a part of the treasure."]
[linkto="part"]
[endpage]


[page="treasure_where2"]

"Thoo'll kill me?  And ne'er find the Treasure..?"
 
[link="Why won't you tell me where it is?"]
[linkto="whynottell"]
[link="I only want a part of the treasure."]
[linkto="part"]
[endpage]


[page="whynottell"]

"Thoo'd get there first, 'N make thoo King 'afore I can!"

[link="Being King isn't all it's cracked up to be."]
[linkto="kingbad"]
[link="I only want part of the treasure."]
[linkto="part"]
[endpage]


[page="kingbad"]

"What be this?
 Hoo can it be bad t' rule o'er men?"

[link="Everyone wants you to solve their problems!"]
[linkto="problems"]

[endpage]


[page="problems"]

[if_male]"Thoo'll needs try harder than that, lad!
[if_female]"Thoo'll needs try harder than that, lass!
 A King has advisors, 'll tell him right answers.
 Them'll solve problems!"

[link="I only want part of the treasure."]
[linkto="part"]
[endpage]



[page="gethere"]

"I were wi' Cap'n Skint when we came t' bury the Treasure.
 But when it were done, I fell asleep wi' a reefer, an'
 woke t' find me still here.  The ship were gone.
 
 'Twere five year ago.."
 
[endpage]


[page="part"]

"Aye?  An' what part be that?"

[link="Brown packages. I was sent by a Master to find them."]
[linkto="packages"]
[endpage]


[page="packages"]

"Brown packages..?  Aye, the Smack.
 Well I can gi' thoo' some Smack if thoo' need it.

 But thoo must gi' me something in exchange."

[link="What do you want me to get for you?"]
[linkto="whatget"]
[endpage]


[page="whatget"]

"Many's the night I's dreamed of curry --chicken mostly--
 and woke up here again.
 There' a place in the deep woods as sells a fine a curry
 as ever there were.

 'Tis a strange place, they calls it the 'KFS', and 'tis
 hidden far from the Church, for is said that curry be an
 abomination in t' eyes of the Lord.

[if_male] Fetch me a curry, lad, and I'll give thoo some Smack."
[if_female] Fetch me a curry, lass, and I'll give thoo some Smack."

[endpage]



[page="curry"]

"By t' stars!  A KFS Squirrel Curry!

 I's not had a good curry for so many a year..
 Here be the Smack that I promised thoo in return.

 Take care, 'tis highly refined!  Rare stuff, it be!"

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He hands you a small brown package.
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[take 1 kfs_curry]
[create 1 smack]
[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]