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She's Actual Size
Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell
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After seeing the video, I researched a little bit, and I've been playing Chasm. I like their explanation (although you can find more formal and detailed explanations elsewhere...)
Quote:
One day in 1921 King Alfonso XIII of Spain decided he wanted to take a peek at his new Hydroelectric dam. The prisoners had been working on the dam at the top of El Chorro Gorge for simply ages, and now he wanted to know how they were going.
So he called up his dam building flunky and told them "Olé! I'm coming to visit, so get those builder boys into gear."
The flunky replied "Olé!" and hung up the phone.
Turning around the King's flunky said to his flunky "Olé! We're going ok with the dam, but we don't have any way for the King to check it all out, and there's no way Alfonso's going to swim the through the resevoir to look at his dam."
The flunky's flunky said "Olé!"
So they decided to build a narrow path along the side of El Chorro, 100 metres above the river, leading from the start of the chasm, to where the dam was... waaaaay back up the top.
They hammered planks of wood; a foot wide and a couple of feet long, into the stone. The path would sit on top of the planks- just wide enough to walk along, but no wider.
Eventually, with a lot of hard work, and more than a few practical jokes (hanging each other over the edge, that kind of thing), the path was ready for Alfonso XIII to take a look at his dam.
The flunky said "Olé! You know, we should call this path Camino del Ray (which means 'Path of the King')"
His flunky said "Olé! I know what it means, I speak Spanish."
So Alfonso came out and looked at his dam: "Olé!, looking good boys, nice work on the dam, but ah, that pathway, don't you think it's a little bit dodgy? You could slip and take a nasty fall, I know I'm never walking along it again."
The basics of the story are true, about the path, the chasm, the dam, and the King. But the dialogue is made up.
Dave Jones and Jill McLeod visited El Chorro in 2000, took lots of photos, and about a year after they got back, Dave decided it'd be great to base a game around El Chorro and Camino del Rey. So they did.
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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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