Grocery Store (#139)

(an instance of Generic Post-Apocalypse Room made by legba)

     The walls of the store still have neon signs and large, bright ads on them. There are groceries here too: cans of tuna and soup and fruit cocktail and spaghetti-os, rice and cereal and jars of ketchup and mayonnaise. Sometimes there's fresh food as well: milk, eggs, cheese, fruits and vegetables bartered from the farmers downriver, kept in a generator-fueled cooler on the far wall.
     Still, it's not quite like grocery stores used to be. The only light comes from dozens of flickering candles, scattering moving shadows on the yellowing walls. The scent is cheese and apples, dry cereal and dust, and below that a sweet burning that might be sage.

You see shelf of candles here.

EXITS:
      [ stairs ] The Loft. You make your way up the narrow, wooden stairs.
      [ out ] Outside the Grocery Store. You struggle to raise the heavy, rolldown security door. It clearly hasn't been oiled in quite sometime. You manage to raise it up just enough to squirm under it, and fortunately, think to let it down gently so it doesn't bang and break a window or something.
      [ window ] Outside the Grocery Store.



VERB SOURCE CODE:

accept: 
"Copied from rummagesale (#624):accept by Deleuze (#213) Thu Mar 10 23:07:54 1994 
EST";
status = 0;
what = args[1];
status = pass(@args);
if (!status)
    if (this.owner in connected_players())
        this.owner:tell(player.name, " just tried to move ", what.name, " into ", 
this.name, ".");
    endif
    if (player == what)
        player:moveto(#128);
        if (player.location == #128)
            player:tell("This being a post-apocalypic kind of place, there's a lot 
of security around.  The grocery store's original owners seem to have been plagued 
by space aliens who just teleported in all the time without even a by your leave 
and took them away to their spaceships to do experiments.  So they took precautions. 
 You'll have to find another way into the grocery store.");
            #128:announce(player.name, " tries unsuccessfully to teleport into the 
Grocery Store and gets bounced off the Space Alien Deflector Beam.");
        endif
    endif
endif
return status;
.

acceptable: 
return pass(@args) || (args[1].location.location == this);
.


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