| “ | You can find safety in some places in the Prairie, but if you want treasures, they can be found only on the other side of a giant herd of bulls. | ” |
The Prairie is a spacious, mostly-empty land with dark brown soil. There are occasional herds of bulls walking quietly along corridors. If you manage to cross a herd of bulls without getting gored, you will be rewarded with Green Grass on the other side.
There's also a belt of safety zone between the herds, filled with Orbs of Safety, thus making the Prairie an alternative safe place to save your game besides the Crossroads.
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Orb of Safety
Green Grass
Orb of the Bull
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Although it appears at first sight that the bulls are walking in circles, these are actually not circles, but equidistant curves surrounding a middle lane which stretches along a straight line. The closest Euclidean parallel is a corridor consisting of parallel lanes; however, because the game world is hyperbolic, only the middle lane is straight; the surrounding lanes are equidistant curves (since parallel straight lines diverge in the hyperbolic plane). The result is that bulls in the outer lanes will eventually fall behind the bulls closer to the center lanes, and conversely bulls in the inner lanes will overtake and move ahead of bulls in the outer lanes. It is as if the outer lanes are "slow lanes" and the inner lanes are "fast lanes", even though the bulls are moving at exactly the same speed!
When crossing the herd, the player must take into account this effect. Sometimes this can be taken advantage of: moving to an inner lane will help the player outpace a bull in an outer lane, whereas moving to an outer lane allows a bull in an inner lane to pass ahead. This allows the player to pace himself to gaps between bulls. Note, however, that bulls in adjacent lanes will kill the player even if the player is not blocking their path, so care must be taken to avoid being squeezed between two bulls in adjacent lanes.