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Donald dedicated his life to developing XANADU. After initially running out of funds, he moved the project to Bedquilt Cave along with Joseph and Lula. The three became lost in the sprawling tunnels and, after encountering the [[Hard Times boys]] – the "Strangers" – and their skeletal apparitions, Joseph and Lula fled, leaving Donald alone. He moved to a large cavern – the [[Hall of the Mountain King]] – off the {{Zero}} to continue work on the project. He posted advertisements on the University message boards and hired lab assistants to help him with the project, and published works articles such as "''Literary Multitudes: Hypertextual Narrative as Poststructural Witness." '' He discovered black bold mold growing on XANADU's circuitboards, giving it an unpredictable sentience, but the [[Hard Times]] workers quickly came to scrape it away. Eventually, one of his assistants, [[Weaver]], went to speak to the workers; she did not return, but neither did they. XANADU was left to disintegrate under layers of neglect and age. In meeting with [[Conway]], [[Shannon]], [[Ezra]], [[Junebug]], and [[Johnny]] in [[Act III]], he quotes a modified version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem [[wikipedia:Kubla Khan|Kubla Khan]], itself inspired by [[wikipedia:Xanadu, China|Xanadu (Shangdu), China]], the summer capital of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.