At/on the other side (aka Yet Another Tiny Question)

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Ant_222  #512367  Sun, 11 May 08 11:26 AM
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 I thought tunnels went through something.  So don't they have two entrances?  Which one would be the entrance?  I didn't get that part.

There's a rock ridge wit a tunnel through it. The hero's on one side of of the ridge, and naturally he can see only one tunnel's end. This one I thought would be the entrance. 

  
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CalifJim  #512503  Sun, 11 May 08 05:05 PM
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he can see only one tunnel's end.
But not another tunnel's end?  (Now you have more than one tunnel!)  I think you meant to say that he can see only one end of the tunnel.  Smile

In any case, I assume that the end of the tunnel he can see is the "entrance".   Got it.

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CalifJim  #512507  Sun, 11 May 08 05:22 PM
Ant_222
«I stood at the bottom of the ancient open mine. Possibly, here was where the raw materials had been mined for the military factory which was on the other end of the tunnel. The entrance to the tunnel was in the south.»
To my ear, ancient and factory don't go together.  ancient suggests the times of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.  factory suggests something much more recent.  Why ancient, and not just old?

CJ 

  
Ant_222  #512541  Sun, 11 May 08 07:30 PM
«But not another tunnel's end? (Now you have more than one tunnel!) I think you meant to say that he can see only one end of the tunnel»
Yep, I even considered "only one the tunnel's end", but it doesn't sound right as well...

«To my ear, ancient and factory don't go together.»
The game's setting is far future, and the hero crash-lands on a planet where he finds this ancient weapons (military) factory, ancient gliders and ancient laser guns... And when he finds a helicopter it is as amazing to him as meeting a dinosaur.
  
CalifJim  #512573  Sun, 11 May 08 10:29 PM
Ant_222
The game's setting is far future
Aha!  That explains it.

CJ 

  
Ant_222  #512583  Sun, 11 May 08 11:26 PM
At last! What a discussion out of a little question!
  
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