Sharp words between the superpowers. Tanks in East Berlin. And now, reports the BBC, rumors of a satellite blackout. It’s enough to spoil your continental breakfast.
But the world will have to wait. This is the last day of your $599 London Getaway Package, and you’re determined to soak up as much of that authentic English ambience as you can. So you’ve left the tour bus behind, ditched the camera and escaped to Hyde Park for a contemplative stroll through the Kensington Gardens.
Palace Gate
A tide of perambulators surges north along the crowded Broad Walk. Shaded glades stretch away to the northeast, and a hint of color marks the western edge of the Flower Walk.
We’re off to a very solid start! IF has often struggled between the two extremes of “pages and pages of intro text” and “I have no idea what I’m doing”, and here, Moriarty’s grounded us with two short paragraphs. We are an American tourist in London, somewhere during the Cold War (this game came out in 1986, so probably intended to be contemporary). The news is all doom-and-gloom as usual, but we are not going to let that ruin our vacation!
How should we begin?