Whirlpool

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A whirlpool is perfect for sitting back and relaxing in comfort. Whirlpools have warm, bubbling water, and can hold up to 4 people. These also have the ids of hot tub, hottub, and jacuzzi.

House Object

Whirlpool is a house object which can be purchased for a player house at a cost of either 80000 coins or 144 ThreshCredits.

Capacity

4 people

Commands

You can enter and exit a whirlpool. If you are feeling a little mischievous, you can also splash and dunk your friends, depending on where they are.

From Without

swim/dive/bathe pool     - enter the pool

From Within

emerge                   - exit the pool
splash <target>          - splash someone who is outside the pool
dunk <target>            - dunk someone under the water

Default Appearance

bubbling whirlpool

   Cozy, warm, and bubbly, this delightful whirlpool looks like a marvelous
place to relax and let the cares and stresses of life just fade away. Warm
steam rises from the surface of the water, and it looks very inviting...

Customizing

In order to customize the short and long descriptions of your whirlpool, you must decorate the items whirlpool-short and whirlpool-long in the room where the whirlpool rests. For the short, it is important to note that you should put the description only on one line in the editor.

Example

> decorate item whirlpool-short

Enter the description for whirlpool-short:

When finished, type a period on a blank line. To cancel, type ~q

 ***ALWAYS*** hit return at the end of each line. The length of a line is:
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Frothing Hot Tub
.
You decorate the whirlpool-short here.
> gl

Wide Wooden Deck
     Obvious exits are north and south.

   Frothing Hot Tub