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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 27 -- Virtualizing the Imagined: <strong>Underground</strong> River Games<br />

The <strong>Underground</strong> River in A Dance with<br />

Rogues' Sewers <strong>of</strong> Betancuria is infested with<br />

sword spiders and rats.<br />

We'll have more to say about sewers -- and not the virtual variety -- in Chapter 58, The Grand<br />

Tour, European Sewers <strong>of</strong> Distinction.<br />

Most virtual-world gamecraft portrays underground rivers as static features to be negotiated,<br />

much the same as magic mountains or pits to doom. But now and then we encounter a<br />

subterranean stream that works as a subterranean stream should.<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

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