00001 You're in a large parking lot outside the south entrance
00001 to Rancho Nevada.  There are many cars parked here, from
00001 big shiny limos down to rusty old "welfare wagons".  You
00001 even notice a couple of police cruisers... and a military
00001 Hummer... To the south lies the vast Nevada desert, to
00001 the west, a small storefront with a big sign.
00002 The lobby is a splendid display of opulence.  Plush carpeting,
00002 a huge domed cieling with four chandeliers, several comfortable
00002 sofas with coffee tables and magazines, smiling, uniformed
00002 desk staff.  To the north is the front desk, to the east,
00002 a bar, and to the west, a stairway leading to the upper floors.
00003 This is a fairly flashy bar, even by Vegas standards.  Loud
00003 techno-disco music pumps out from big speakers,
00003 scantily-clothed women (and men) dance drunkenly on a
00003 smallish dance floor, and several tables are occupied with
00003 that most politically incorrect of sports: the drinking
00003 contest!  A sign invites you to join them for fun, free
00003 drinks, and prizes...
00004 A sign on the wall indicates that the hotel rooms are upstairs,
00004 and that the "other facilities" are on the third floor.  There
00004 are also brochure holders here, suggesting a visit to The Secret
00004 Lounge or the Rooftop Lounge...
00005 The desk clerk is busily attending to his night audit duties,
00005 and he flashes you a quick smile and "good evening" and
00005 returns to his paperwork.  On the desk is a computer terminal
00005 on a swivel base, apparently intended for both guests and
00005 staff to use.  A huge mural of the view from the Rancho Nevada
00005 Belfry at sunset occupies most of the north wall.  There
00005 are pay phones to the east and a four-star dining room to the
00005 west.  At the north wall, under the mural, is a coat check
00005 and bellhop station, behind it a door leading to the cloakroom
00005 and the business office.
00006 The dining room is basically a four-star restaurant with
00006 all the opulence of the lobby, and prices to match.  You
00006 decide to look for a vending machine instead.
00007 You're at a bank of payphones.  You don't seem to see any
00007 phone books around, but there are a couple of numbers
00007 mentioned on a sign on the wall.
00008 The cloakroom is small and crowded with luggage, racks of
00008 coats and jackets, furs, and to your surprise, two police
00008 uniforms!  There is also a safe here.
00009 This is a fairly ordinary looking industrial kitchen, with
00009 a walk in freezer, several gas stoves, and so on.
00010 You wince at the stench in this room and then notice
00010 that it's coming from the coffee pot.  You resolve to
00010 tip more generously, now that you have seen what the
00010 staff have to put up with on their break.
00011 This is a cramped business office with all the usual
00011 trappings: desk, computer, phone, and so on.  There is
00011 also a brand-new audiovisual multimedia station here;
00011 apparently they haven't decided where in the Rancho to
00011 put it yet.
00012 Through a door to the north, you notice a stairway leading
00012 down...
00013 At the west edge of the parking lot, you are in front of
00013 Annie's Toy Shoppe.  It's a fairly small store but in
00013 typical Vegas style it has a huge glittering lighted sign
00013 that makes it look much bigger than it really is.  Behind
00013 the store is an old house, apparently the storefront was
00013 built later.  In the window you see a huge assortment of
00013 interesting items...
00014 Unlike the other stairwell, this one is plain and utilitarian.
00014 You conclude that it is a back stairway for the use of staff.
00015 For a five-star hotel, this bathroom sure needs an attendant!
00016 For a five-star hotel, this bathroom sure needs an attendant!
00027 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00027 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00027 the lobby!
00029 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00029 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00029 the lobby!
00031 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00031 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00031 the lobby!
00033 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00033 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00033 the lobby!
00035 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00035 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00035 the lobby!
00037 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00037 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00037 the lobby!
00039 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00039 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00039 the lobby!
00041 This is a a rather tacky hotel room.  You conclude that
00041 when they built this place, they spent all the money on
00041 the lobby!
00043 The jacuzzi looks so inviting with its warm, bubbling
00043 water.  There are cubbyholes for your clothes and a pile
00043 of fresh towels.  A sign invites you to strip and hop in
00043 naked!
00044 There are a bunch of pay phones here.
00045 Before you came to Rancho Nevada, you had heard stories
00045 about the Corridor of Lost, which is reputed to be an
00045 infinite moebius loop of some sort.  The hotel staff
00045 assured you that it's just an optical illusion.  Is it?
00046 Strange things are afoot in Rancho Nevada...
00047 Are you sure you're where you think you are?
00048 It's 2 AM, do you know where your mind is?
00049 This sucks, Beavis!
00050 Yaa Butthead, it sucks it sucks it sucks!!!
00051 Where the hell are we anyway?
00052 Why do I feel like I'm going around in circles?
00053 You hear someone singing, "99 Bottles of beer on the wall..."
00054 Strange Things are afoot at the Circle K!
00055 You have discovered another Toy Shop!  This one is much
00055 smaller than Annie's downstairs, with only a few items
00055 on display, but you notice a large pneumatic shuttle
00055 system behind the counter.  The clerk explains that
00055 items come through the tube from Annie's Toy Shoppe as
00055 needed.  You notice that the prices are a little higher...
00056 After all that endless skulking around in the endless Corridor,
00056 you discover the Secret Lounge (which is actually the worst
00056 kept secret in Vegas) and sit down for a drink.
00057 There is a bank of Audiovisual Stations here.  Some of them
00057 are in use, and you hear strange sounds coming from them...
00058 A single fluorescent lamp flickers intermittently, providing
00058 almost no illumination at all.
00059 You're at the top of a utilitarian service stairwell, which
00059 you think probably only exists so the building would meet
00059 code.  Or maybe it was built that way to disguise something?
00059 Suspicious, your mind wanders...
00059 
00059 A sign indicates that this is the third floor.
00062 To your delight, you discover that there really -is- a bar
00062 on every floor!  And they have drinking contests here too!
00062 What a great place this is!
00063 This looks like something out of a dirty movie you once
00063 saw, only no one is naked.  The room is round, about 20
00063 feet in diameter, with comfortable sofas lining the entire
00063 perimeter.  In the center, a large, circular bed is
00063 illuminated by a series of spotlights around the edge of
00063 the cieling, leaving the sofas in near-darkness.  The bed is
00063 unoccupied at the moment, but in the darkness you can just "make
00063 out" several couples behaving romantically on the sofas.
00063 Strange.  Very strange.
00064 Three women are playing twister, they invite you to join them.
00064 You ask, "Strip Twister?" and they reply, "No way!"  You
00064 decline their invitation.
00065 This is a baby oil massage room.  Plastic sheets cover
00065 everything including a professional massage table.  The
00065 biggest container of baby oil you ever saw sits on a
00065 counter to one side, and an attractive masseuse sits on a
00065 chair in the corner reading the Las Vegas Times.
00067 You notice a large pneumatic tube leading to Annie's Toy
00067 Shoppe downstairs.  Other than that, this room is just a
00067 desk, a computer terminal, and a cash register.
00068 Just what you needed!  A bank machine!  Now you can go to
00068 the Toy Shop down the way.
00069 This is the damnedest thing you ever saw.  Grown men and
00069 women dressed only in diapers, playing with infants' toys
00069 and making goo-goo noises at each other, in an enormous
00069 playpen.  You decide it takes different strokes to move
00069 the world.
00070 There are some lockers here and a huge pile of diapers.
00070 And a nanny in uniform!  It seems that the diapered
00070 grownups next door were changed by her.  This is too weird!
00071 This is a well lit room with several "torture racks" with
00071 comfortable padding and velvet straps.  Judging from the
00071 flimsy and padded nature of the "instruments of pain" on
00071 the wall, you decide that this isn't seriously a torture
00071 room.
00072 This is a dimly lit room with several stark wooden crosses
00072 and leather straps for ankles and wrists.  A menacing
00072 cat-o-nine-tails and several whips adorn the walls.  You
00072 hope this room is as unserious as the "light torture chamber"
00072 next door, or someone could get hurt!
00073 This room appears to have been the site of a recent soda fight.
00073 Dozens of empty and near-empty cola, orange, and root beer bottles
00073 litter the floor, and the carpet is totally soaked.  Now you
00073 understand why that girl in the wet T-Shirt you saw earlier
00073 smelled like lemon-lime.
00074 You wonder for a moment why the only escalator in the place
00074 starts on the third floor.
00099 Wow, they even have a bar up on the roof!
00100 You notice that this will take you down to the parking lot,
00100 but if you go down, you can't come back up the same way.
00103 This room contains a TV, couch and chairs, a computer
00103 in one corner and a huge poster of the cover of Led
00103 Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" album hanging over a
00103 slate fireplace.  You conclude from your surroundings
00103 that Annie is shacking up with a very cool guy...
00103 The computer seems to be running a BBS...
00103 THC BBS - (250) 361-4549
00104 There is a long-haired 30 year old guy asleep in Annie's
00104 bed.  You quickly deduce that it is her boyfriend, Tommy,
00104 and decide not to wake him, even though it is late afternoon...
00105 Annie, a stunning redhead in her early thirties, stands
00105 six feet tall.  You sense a strange attraction to this
00105 charismatic person in spite of yourself, unlike anything
00105 you have felt before.  Busy making chicken vindaloo, Annie
00105 sweetly informs you that the store is out front.
00106 You are impressed to find a full hot tub in here.
00106 The toy business must be doing well!
00107 There's nothing here but a garbage can and a rusted old
00107 Datsun.
00113 Whew!  You could get lost out here!
00114 Boy, it sure is hot out here!
00115 You are unsettled by a draft coming from below...
00116 Looking around, you realize that Rancho Nevada has a
00116 huge underground complex.
00117 Peee-ew!  Smells like something died in here!
00118 Now you know where the smell came from.  You hope that the
00118 animals are there to provide fresh milk for the kitchen upstairs.
00119 You notice that the tiles on the walls, floor and cieling are
00119 not just shiny clean, they are iridescent and seem to give
00119 off more light than they reflect!  There must be something
00119 special ahead!
00120 You have discovered another of Rancho Nevada's many surprises;
00120 a recreation of the mythical Xanadu.  Ethereal eastern music
00120 softly plays, multicolored lights gently dance around the
00120 room.  Everyone in the room seems indescribably happy.
00121 This room features a domed cieling over sixty feet high!
00121 You see where the room got its name; a huge hot tub able
00121 to easily hold 100 people is the centerpiece.  You also
00121 notice a three-storey tall adult Jungle Gym playset with
00121 a dozen or so tipsy college kids playing stupid human tricks,
00121 and a bank of television sets playing R-Rated videos...
00122 Whew!  This place is something to phone home about!
00124 In addition to the usual carbonated beverages, this bar
00124 also serves up a wicked array of fresh fruit juices and
00124 "smart drinks".
00131 You find this room very disturbing - at the center of a huge
00131 red foil pentagram you see a very bloody stone altar.
00131 You are relieved that you haven't walked in on some kind
00131 of sacrifice, but you also wonder why a place like this
00131 needs a temple of Satan.
00136 A small service ladder leads to the pinnacle of the
00136 Belfry.  There is a sign on it that says "Employees
00136 Only".
00137 The view from here is stunning.
00138 The view from here is marvelous.
00139 The view from here is magnificent, it resembles that mural
00139 by the bellhop station.  But, your balance is a bit precarious
00139 and you decide you should have paid attention to the sign
00139 that said "employees only beyond this point..."
00140 The view from here is breathtaking.
00141 The view from here is uplifting.
00142 The view from here is world-class.
00143 The view from here is terrific.
00144 The view from here is wonderful.
00145 The view from here is fantastic.
00146 This looks like a fairly nice place, then you notice something:
00146 there are no women here!  Not a single one!  Nothing but men,
00146 some wearing normal clothes, some wearing leathers, some in
00146 drag.  Who would have thought that in this decade, only gays
00146 would go to a gay bar?
00149 Everything about this place says "GO AWAY."  Are you sure
00149 you want to be here?
00150 This little balcony looks over the parking lot.
00151 Four curly looping twisted thrilling-looking waterslides
00151 lead down to a splashdown pool adjoining the parking lot.
