Lake of Lava                                           NW     -      - 
(-------------------------------------------------)     W <---(M)---> -
                                                        SW     -     SE

You are swimming in a large lake of lava.  Here is where lava spews from
somewhere deep in the ground and flows all over the floor.  Lava is bubbling
from all over here and the heat is unbearable.  
     A straw man sits here, propped up.