100 feet away. Or 30 meters away to be more exact.
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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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( 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][Zeus][ ]
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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.
Hilarious! And probably the most inventive, experimental story we've had here yet.
There is an audio version of this story, recorded for #AudioMo, at http://audioboo.fm/boos/1038905-audiomo-3rd-november-be-there-or-foursquare-and-really-short-story-two-six-minute-stories
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.
So, it looks like these tag starts are getting stripped from stories now, presumably for security reasons; think ^ but rotated by +/- 90 degrees.
I do all sorts of things. Mostly badly. Mostly better than others. I tell stories. Occasionally, I lie.
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