// Roskilde 1994: the main stage, after Peter Gabriel, no pressure. fn on_enter() { if once("seen_roskilde") { say("Sixty thousand lighters. You can feel the low-end of the crowd's breathing."); } } fn on_verb(verb, noun) { if noun == "the rig" && (verb == "do" || verb == "play" || verb == "use") { if !flag("mainstage") { say("Not your stage yet. The stage manager holds the schedule, and the schedule is God."); return true; } if flag("legend") { say("The encore's done. Your ears will ring until Thursday. Worth it."); return true; } freeze_ego(true); say("You plug in. The overdrive hits the borrowed rig like weather hitting a coastline."); say("John opens in 7/4. Sixty thousand people who came for Sepultura decide — audibly, in real time — that this will do NICELY."); say("Forty-five minutes later, two brothers from Victoria walk off the biggest stage in Scandinavia."); set_flag("legend", true); points(10); give("tour money"); play("win"); freeze_ego(false); say("A promoter presses an envelope into your hands: the fee, cash, in kroner. (East of here, in a few years, you're going to need it.)"); return true; } false }