100 feet away. Or 30 meters away to be more exact.

FourSquare
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Sisyphus
Last seen: River Styx
2 minutes ago
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King Aeolus
Last seen: Thessaly
Feb. 29th
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Friends in Other Cities
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Merope @ Ephyrae 
Corinth, Greece
9 months ago
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Sisyphus @ Source of Fire
Mount Olympus, Greece
1 day ago
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Glaucus @ Throne room
Ephyra
4 hours ago
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Thanatos @ chain store
Tartarus
13 minutes ago
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Ares @ chain store
Tartarus
7 minutes ago
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Persephone
River Styx 
5 minutes ago
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(Cancel) | Nearby Places
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[search.          ]
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River Styx
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Olympus
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Corinth
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Large Boulder
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LARGE BOULDER
100 feet away
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(Check in here?)
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1 Person here
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[Zeus][ ][ ]
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3 tips
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Don't forget your loyalty card for the coffee shop
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Great views from the top of the mountain
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This boulder looks quite heavy
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Mayor
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Zeus
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No Photos

Add a photo to let people know what it's like
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(back) | Check In
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( CHECK IN )
Ok, we've got you @ Large Boulder, Mount Olympus.
You've been here 1 times.
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Points
Nice check in! You earned: +9
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Your first divine retribution +4
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First time at Large Boulder +3
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First of your friends to check in here +2
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Leaderboard
You're at the top of the leaderboard - king of the ancient world!
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#1. Sisyphus.  26
#2. Hercules.   16
#3. Adonis.  0

Large Boulder
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You're checked in here!
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People here
[You][Zeus][ ]
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You're 3246428591024692 days from becoming Mayor
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DoctorMikeReddy over 12 years ago

Inspiration for this story came from a joke tweet I made to @FourSquare about not being able to check in at Limbo - having been stuck on a crap train journey tonBrighton following 3 train cancellations - and then playing with Foursquare. I used this as reference material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
And rather fast typing, despite there being few actual words.

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Galen over 12 years ago

Hilarious! And probably the most inventive, experimental story we've had here yet.

DoctorMikeReddy almost 6 years ago

Some change on the server meant a “” (left arrow without right arrow character) wiped out the last few lines of the story. Have edited it out now, but apologies to readers wondering at the end. It was fine when it was first written.

DoctorMikeReddy almost 6 years ago

So, it looks like these tag starts are getting stripped from stories now, presumably for security reasons; think ^ but rotated by +/- 90 degrees.

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