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You pass by other swimmers.\nOlder swimmers, but swimmers nonetheless.\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke4]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 3s >>\n<<set $l3 = false>>\n<<set $l4 = true>>

Good going, just keep it up!\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke3]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l2 = false>>\n<<set $l3 = true>>

Your journey begins.\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke2]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l1 = false>>\n<<set $l2 = true>>

WHY THE HELL DOESN'T PEOPLE\nUNDERSTAND THE SPEED SYSTEM\nIN THE POOL WHERE SLOWER PEOPLE\nSHOULD STICK TO THE EDGES?!?!\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke19]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 5.5s >>\n<<set $l18 = false>>\n<<set $l19 = true>>

Has it really gone an hour since you ate that sandwich?\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke8]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l7 = false>>\n<<set $l8 = true>>

Band-aid alert by your shoulder!\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke7]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l6 = false>>\n<<set $l7 = true>>

Is that Michael Phelps by the showers?\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke6]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l5 = false>>\n<<set $l6 = true>>

Does the chlorine really kill all the urine?\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke5]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l4 = false>>\n<<set $l5 = true>>

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Your hand slaps the other side of the community pool you've now conquered!\n\nNow what?\n\nYou can [[go home|home]] or simply [[stay in the water|water]] or maybe do another [[lap|step]]?\n\n<<set $l20 = false>>

Is that a fin?\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke9]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l8 = false>>\n<<set $l9 = true>>

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Your bathroom reek of chlorine.\nYour wrinkled body makes you look old.\n\nYou feel somewhat vigorous as you've actually got some exercise at the same time as you feel sad after your swim.\n\nBetter be dead but conscious than alive and oblivious...\n

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Skin like raisin.\nYou die of starvation and cold.\nSeagulls pick your bones clean during night.\n\nNon the wiser.

20 strokes are required to make it across the pool.\n\nThe only enemy is yourself, time and gravity.\n\nHURRY!\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke1]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 3.5s >>\n<<set $l1 = true>>

You can see the end of this aquatic gauntlet...\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke20]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l19 = false>>\n<<set $l20 = true>>

PaperBlurt

You kick a teen in the back after he\nsplashed you by accident. You kicked\nby purpose but smile and say you're sorry.\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke18]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 5.5s >>\n<<set $l17 = false>>\n<<set $l18 = true>>

You swallow (by accident) some water\nand think of the amount of //other// people's\npee, blood, puke(?) and fecal matter now\nwobbling around in your tummy.\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke17]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 6s >>\n<<set $l16 = false>>\n<<set $l17 = true>>

Should one get this winded by a few strokes in a pool?\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke16]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 3.2s >>\n<<set $l15 = false>>\n<<set $l16 = true>>

Warmth fills your bathing suit.\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke15]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 2.5s >>\n<<set $l14 = false>>\n<<set $l15 = true>>

Peeing in the pool.\nLike a sneaky ninja that just had to go.\n\n[[Right stroke|stroke14]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 3s >>\n<<set $l13 = false>>\n<<set $l14 = true>>

Are you angry about others splashing around...\nor the fact that you're to old to splash yourself?\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke13]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 5s >>\n<<set $l12 = false>>\n<<set $l13 = true>>

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Water got in your ear - going deaf - only hearing a right sided world!\n\n[[Left stroke|stroke11]]\n\n<<timedgoto "death" 3s >>\n<<set $l10 = false>>\n<<set $l11 = true>>

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