A Double-Sided Map!
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 12416
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Fred looked at the map. It didn't make any sense to him either. It was
just a bunch of black space with an occasional blob of red or blue or
yellow at various spots. Attached to each of the blobs, except a big
yellow one near the center of the page, was a single white line that
looped around that big yellow blob before meeting the blob it came from.
The pattern ended up looking like a series of concentric ellipses, but
that is completely irrelevant, as neither Fred nor Astra knew what an
ellipse was.
Fred, frustrated, picked up the map as if to tear it into pieces, but as he did so, Astra stopped him. "Fred, there's something on the other side. How stupid of me to assume that only one side of the parchment could have been a map." The other side of the map was much more parchment-like, and had a bunch of intersecting lines in red, blue, yellow, and white. Aside from a "you are here" sign near the end of one of the blue lines, there was no text on this side either. "Well," said Astra, "at least we know where we are, but this is just as confusing as the one on the other side. Also, I have no idea how to read either map, and why there are now two maps I can't understand." "Hey, I've got an idea," said Fred. "Maybe this is a two-sided map. The black side shows you which level of the cave you're on, and the parchment side shows you all the different ways you can go on that level." "So what you're saying is that the caves are an intricate system of mazelike levels, in which gettting from one end of a level to another often requires going to a different level?" "Exactly," said Fred. Now, if you'll put your finger on the 'you are here' sign, and press a little, so I can see which blob we're on right now." Astra did as Fred asked and the indentation corresponded to...
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