Shangri-La 1
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You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic. Recently promoted to the post of junior marketing executive at the Funhouse Novelty Company, you're the one who comes up with all those zany items you can buy for a Dollar in the pages of Cosmic Comics.
But something is missing in your life. A nagging question gnaws at your soul, undermines your joy at your new-found success and interferes with the very business of living. But this is not a answer you can find in the pages of any book; for what you yearn to know is the very meaning of life itself!
But then you learned about a man, a guru of great wisdom, endowed with the miraculous supreme realisation who could teach you the secrets of the universe. A six hundred year old hermit living at the top of a mountain in a kingdom most right-thinking people assume to be a myth. A man known as the Dada Lama!
And this is why we find you now, after many months of journeying, of fruitless searching, beaten and battered by the uncaring elements, in this mysterious valley hidden deep within the mountains...
...the mystical valley of Shangri-La!
A Philosophical Odyssey by J. J. Guest
Release 2 / Serial number 101127 / Inform 7 build 6E72 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
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You weren't sure what to expect from the mystic valley of Shangri-La. You'd heard all the stories of course -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world! That's what it said in the brochure, anyway...
What you weren't expecting was a caravan park. But there's no mistaking the large sign over the entrance: "Shangri-La Caravan Park welcomes the pure of soul -- 200 Spaces Available." Most of the spaces are empty.
Directly ahead is perhaps the loveliest mountain you have ever seen; an almost perfect cone of snow, it is as though a small child had dropped a Cornetto in the middle of the valley. A broad path leads north to the mountain, and on either side are narrow trails leading northeast and northwest.
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