"FWLS2" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Well, we're in one of his paintings. A waterfall illusion.
Goes over the edge, then flows back up to the top."

"Don't be silly. Water can't do that."

"That's why it's an illusion. Might wanna brace yourself,
we've reached the waterfall again."

"Wha--" he managed before we fell again. Oddly enough, I
was having fun. I always liked flume rides.

"Alright, Swift, where to now?" I asked, splashing a bit of
water around, like a kid in a pool on the first day of summer.

"Jump off at this next right angle," Swift said.

*

It's a good thing we jumped, because Swift informed us on
the way down from the cliffside that housed the waterfall that
the thing was programmed to drown us if we didn't figure out
where to get off on the next cycle. I just love the way he
informs us of imminent danger when not asked to.

"NOW where are we?" Gosub asked, as a large chamber
materialized around us.

"Ah. Nudder drawing," I said. "I think this is entitled
'staircases' or something similar."

"Why is tha-- oh dear."

Once again, VOS proves to be more fun than reality. Where
else can you take a room of staircases that technically defies
every law of physics that exists and make it come alive?

All the 'cases were there, jutting out at weird angles,
sometimes reforming into another 'case. And the odd line-drawing
men were there too, marching along like puppets on parade.

"I like it," I said. "This guy Escher might have a career
in rez art after we burn his holding out from under him. Swift,
anything particularly dangerous here?"

"Contact with any of the walking figures will instantly kill
you," he stated.

"Great. Just great. So what, we gotta find the door to the
next room in all this mess AND avoid the time bombs on legs?"