Hilltop Score: 0 Moves: 1
Silence.
Autumn 2097. People have been taking to the hills. Hiding. Now people are running, other people standing. A light in the sky unchanging.
You wont find him of course. You never do.
The end of the world.
Hugo Martay
Release 4 / Serial number 240304 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 SD
You are standing on a steep sided hill. Behind you to the east is a range of mountains trapping the city against the sea. In front of you would once have been a forested plain stretching down to the sparkling sea. You can imagine the first humans to see this place, standing on the hilltop, the ancestors of this great city in front. You feel a sense of kinship with that ancient people, as you stand knowing that you will be the last person to see this now metropolised, cultivated plain.
You look across a city to the sea on the far side. A silent city. The hilltop itself is barren of trees, although the steep slopes around are wooded. You must be standing a good forty or fifty metres above the city below.
A dull star stands out against the cloudless twilight sky. It will soon hit the earth four hundred miles away.
People stand around you.
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