City of Smoke and Mirrors

The City of Smoke and Mirrors is a location in ZED. The player visits it after visiting the island hub for the fourth time and before visiting the tick cave.

Script
[Mr. Id]: Interesting...

[Mr. Id]: Heh. You thinking what I'm thinking?

[Mr. Ego]: Oh yeah. Leonard Landry, the Third.

[Both]: "Lenny the Lysurgeon - PhD, LSD."

[Mr. Ego]: Vision quests, making art, seeing shows. Guy was a trip.

[Mr. Id]: Junior year certainly put things in perspective. Better than summer abroad.

[Mr. Ego]: Couldn't ask for a better tour guide, though.

[Mr. Ego]: Kinda crazy he's running for president.

[Mr. Ego]: Hear that? "The walls are breathing, man..."

[Id & Ego]: *both laughing*

[Mr. Ego]: Wow.

[Mr. Ego]: This... This isn't ours.

[Mr. Id]: "Welcome, esteemed reader, to the City of Smoke and Mirrors!"

[Mr. Ego]: I...I know that, don't I?

[Mr. Id]: Broke and bussing tables, found this book:

[Mr. Id]: "Through A Many-Splendored Lens: The Fantastic Worlds of Fritz Forsythe."

[Mr. Ego]: Not impressed, at first. Standard-issue paperback stuff. Way too much airbrush,

[Mr. Ego]: but, one page led to another...

[Mr. Id]: And we're lost.

[Mr. Ego]: Seems we've got enough of an oeuvre, to not have to resort to other artists' stuff.

[Mr. Id]: Don't be petty. Inspiration's a faithless lover.

[Mr. Id]: Anyway, ol' Fritz clearly left an impression.