Text based RPG areas

ID:170484
 
Jan 18 2005, 1:38 pm
I'm making a text-based RPG. How do I manually name areas like, if I want them to have the same name? I tried:

 area
    var
        north
        south
        east
        west
    Rand1
        name = "Staircase in front of the Halls of blah blah blah...

But that doesn't work. Help please.