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+TRINITY II SYNOPSIS
+BM 9/4/85
+
+You begin as an American tourist, strolling through a London park.
+After witnessing odd events, receiving a mysterious message and
+solving a lighthearted puzzle or two, you find yourself nose to nose
+with an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile, bearing a red
+sickle-and-cresent and tipped with a hydrogen bomb. A convenient
+interdimensional duct allows you to escape microseconds before London is
+vaporized. This all takes place before the title screen.
+
+"Inside" the duct, you discover a bizarre fantasy world where space and
+time are interchanged. The magical inhabitants of this twilight zone are
+wringing their 4-dimensional hands because our atom bomb tests are blasting
+big, unsightly holes in their otherwise peaceful universe. The only way to
+prevent the collapse of the entire kingdom is for some foolhardy adventurer to
+journey backwards in time to the first A-bomb test at Trinity, and prevent
+it from going off.
+
+Armed only with the 3-D map of the Hole Matrix provided in the game package,
+the player ventures through a bewildering variety of exotic locations,
+solving puzzles, meeting unlikely characters and casting magic spells.
+But unknown forces are at work to foil your quest, and you soon find yourself
+caught up in a multidimensional war between two great empires who seek
+to control the Matrix. It all comes together during a spectacular climax
+in the New Mexico desert, where you must single-handedly decide the
+course of history in just 29 minutes of real playing time. 
+
+Trinity II IS:
+
+-- definitely an EZIP game;
+
+-- a fantasy (because it has magic in it);
+
+-- "puzzle-oriented," though it's very much a story (like WISHBRINGER);
+
+-- the first Infocom game to include "real-time" sequences (at the end);
+
+-- historically correct (when applicable);
+
+-- the first installment in a vaguely-conceived fantasy trilogy, with a
+   blanket title to be revealed later.
+
+Trinity II is NOT:
+
+-- a science fiction game (because it has magic in it);
+
+-- a solemn, thinly-disguised political diatribe against the testing and
+   deployment of nuclear weapons;
+
+-- an excruciatingly detailed tour of the Trinity Site, with every cactus and
+   prickly pear bush accurately placed and individually described; 
+
+-- humorless (the puzzles in the opening sequence are decidedly loony);
+
+-- boring (I hope);
+
+-- behind schedule (yet).