Wired at the Ski Resort
You strap on your skis at Large Donkey Mountain and decide you want to ski the dreaded XXX Double-Plus-Ungood Slope. You do pretty well for the first 10 feet . . . after that it's kind of a blur. A cold, painful blur. When you come to, you're bleeding profusely and wrapped in a barbed-wire fence. Why in the heck would someone put a barbed-wire fence in the middle of a ski slope?
It turns out the answer to that question is "to keep their herd of violently territorial mountain goats from wandering off". Escape is a real test of your wiliness and skiing abilities.
- Prior to August 30, 2013:
You strap on your skis at Large Donkey Mountain and decide you want to ski the dreaded XXX Double-Plus-Ungood Slope. You do pretty well for the first 10 feet . . . after that it's kind of a blur. A cold, painful blur. When you come to, you're bleeding profusely but wrapped in a spiffy new barbed-wire fence!
Occurs at Large Donkey Mountain Ski Resort.
Notes
- This adventure changed as part of the August 30, 2013 revamp of The Shore, Inc. Travel Agency.
- Previously, if you waited 30 turns in between shore trips, and chose the Ski Resort, this adventure would automatically be triggered.
References
- "Double-Plus-Ungood" is a reference to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell in which the government-controlled press (the language they use being called "newspeak") avoids unpleasant words like "bad" by replacing them with negated words like "ungood". Degrees of meaning were achieved by first adding the "plus" then the "double" prefixes, albeit without hyphens. "Doubleplusungood" referred to the worst possible action, decision, or situation someone could be involved in.
