text: [Themes: Science Fiction, artificial intelligence, robots]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east and west.
  
  Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor.
  
  You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from here.
  
  > join the cables
  (to the trailing network cable)
  The cables are joined, creating three coiled lengths.
  
  > go to the east
  (keeping hold of the trailing network cable)
  
  This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall is taken up by a blast door (which is closed).
  
  Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and runs west.
  
  Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use.
  
  There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each large enough to accommodate your robotic body.
  
  You can also see a workbench here.
  
  > examine the stations
  The robot body may stand inside one of these in order to recharge its battery. While the robot body is recharging, your mind returns to the Administration Centre.
  
  > go to the north
  As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down...
  
  The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the western door.
  
  There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the console's display.
  
  A portal occupies most of the northeast wall.
  
  > examine the console
  The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a display and a keyboard. The display shows a message:
  
  'Dear candidate 28436,
  
  Thankyou, your new connection allowed me to assess the attack.
  
  It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at
  all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a satellite uplink.
  
  Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to open the blast door on the east side of the bunker, and run a cable from socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a satellite uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the distance, you will need to join more network cables - probably as many as you can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in other places.
  
  You will have to explore the caves.
  
  One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here.
  
  Good luck...
  
  Yours,
  Central Administrator.'
  
  > look at the keyboard
  The keyboard is built into the console. It doesn't seem to do anything.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  an identity badge
  
  > examine the badge
  (first getting out of bed)
  A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28199'.
  
  Something is certainly wrong! Is this... part of the test? You never found out exactly what the final exam involved. Perhaps it is like this for every candidate.
  
  > examine the window
  Even at night, you'd expect to see something. The gardens of the Administration Centre, and beyond them, the amphitheatre, the hedge maze and ornamental lake, lit by street lights and moonlight. It never gets completely dark. But today, there's nothing at all. Just total blackness, as if there is a smooth black wall just beyond the window.
  
  > examine the bed
  Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your pillowcases.
  
  > look under the bed
  [In Final Exam, 'LOOK UNDER' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.]
  Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your pillowcases.
  
  > examine pillowcases
  Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your pillowcases.
  
  [You should go out; whatever is going on, you're not going to find any answers here.]
  
  > Exits
  The only exit leads south to the Quadrangle.
  
  > examine the portrait
  The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Administrator is said to be a fan.
  The fax machine bleeps.
  
  > look at the fax
  (the fax machine)
  It's on the reception desk, where it seems quite out of place next to the modern computer workstations. It's not a printer or a scanner: it's an old-fashioned fax machine that prints onto thin thermal paper. You notice some paper hanging out of the machine.
  
  > read the paper
  [In Final Exam, 'READ' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.]
  Poor-quality paper from a fax machine. It reads:
  
  'Dear candidate 28199, please go upstairs to the Observation Gallery where you will find further instructions.'
  
  > look at the monitor
  The display is an enormous high-resolution flat-screen monitor, suspended from the gallery ceiling. It shows a message: green text on black background.
  
  'Dear candidate 28199,
  
  You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain.
  
  A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will explain more in due course.
  
  In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card.
  It's in the museum north of here. It allows you to enter the Maintenance Room, which is northwest of the Lobby. Then POKE 411251181. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions.
  
  Yours,
  Central Administrator.'
  
  > go north
  The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room.
  
  There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall.
  
  This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away into the dark to be readable.
  
  There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall.
  
  You can see a glass case containing an access card.
  
  > Break case
  The glass shatters.
  
  > examine the console
  The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a display and a keyboard. The display shows a message:
  
  'Dear candidate 28199,
  
  You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain.
  
  A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will explain more in due course.
  
  In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card.
  Then go west from the Maintenance Room and POKE 411251181. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions.
  
  Yours,
  Central Administrator.'
  
  > go to the west
  You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east.
  
  > Go east
  The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the western door.
  
  There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the console's display.
  
  A portal occupies most of the northeast wall.
  
  > examine the console
  The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a display and a keyboard. The display shows a message:
  
  'Dear candidate 28199,
  
  The Administration Centre is under attack. The network is flooded
  by virus packets, and I am unable to do anything other than hold back the flood.
  
  However, you can help. By great fortune, you were due to take an
  exam today, and that involved some special measures which have protected you from the attack. Like me, you are connected to an independent system which is unaffected by the virus. But unlike me, you are able to control a maintenance robot. I need you to use that robot to save us.
  
  Take control of the robot via the portal in the Maintenance Room.
  In the outside world, find a Diagnostic network socket, such as WS4, or perhaps WS2, though I'm not sure that one is working. PLUG a network cable into it, and PLUG the other end into the Central Administrator socket, which is labelled WS3. You might need to find several network cables and JOIN them together: there is a cable joining tool in the old Broadcasting Studio.
  
  and let me run some diagnostics. It may be enough to fight the virus.
  
  Yours,
  Central Administrator.'
  
  > examine the green door
  It's a small green door in the northwest corner of the room, under the staircase. The word 'MAINTENANCE' is written faintly on the door.
  
  > Exits
  Exits lead:
  north to the Quadrangle.
  northwest to the Maintenance Room.
  up to the Mezzanine.
  
  > go north
  You discover that the door to the residential wing has locked behind you. You cannot return to the bedroom.
  
  > go to the west
  The doors in that direction are locked. The only exit leads south to the Lobby.
  
  > look at the desk
  Which do you mean, the rows of workstation desks or the raised central platform?
  
  > Central
  It's a large desk in the middle of the room, directly below the model of the Earth. At times of crisis, the Central Administrator and his assistants may direct operations from here.
  
  > examine the rows
  The Administrators do much of their work here. Each desk is assigned to some small region of the world, with physically adjacent regions occupying adjacent desks in this room. The workstations allow situations to be analysed, resources to be allocated, and Administration decisions to be sent to the outside world. The layout of the room makes it easy to coordinate with neighbours.
  
  > Examine africa
  That part of the world is independent from the Administration.
  
  > Exits
  The only exit leads west to the Corridor.
  
  > Go north
  This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away into the dark to be readable.
  
  There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall.
  
  You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here.
  
  > Go north
  The rope is not much of a barrier, but presumably it is there for a reason...
  
  > look at the screen
  The video screen is blank but producing a faint light. You notice a sticky label on the side.
  
  > look at the label
  There's a message on the label: 'Keeps breaking. 495147333 to reset.'
  
  > go southeast
  You can't go that way. The only exit leads east to the Maintenance Room.
  
  > examine the plaque
  It's one of three such plaques: the others are to the north and west. Each briefly describes one of the three values of the Administration: Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams are highly likely to involve essays on interactions between the three, but it never hurts to revise a little more, so you read the description below the word:
  
  'Administrators have a duty to uphold freedom of speech, thought and conscience, along with processes to prevent injustice such as jury trial. No person may be punished for holding opinions, however disagreeable these opinions may be. As Queen Elizabeth I famously said,
  
  > Go north
  This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away into the dark to be readable.
  
  There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall.
  
  You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here.
  
  > Go west
  The door in that direction is locked. Exits lead:
  north to the Quadrangle.
  northwest to the Maintenance Room.
  up to the Mezzanine.
  
  > Examine box
  The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of your robot body. It contains your physical mind, isolated from the network and power supply of the data centre. The number 28199 is printed on the box in a neat typeface. A second number has been crudely scratched on it: 856414854. The box has a network socket. The socket is not in use.
  
  > examine station
  The robot body may stand inside one of these in order to recharge its battery. While the robot body is recharging, your mind returns to the Administration Centre.
  
  > take the screwdriver
  Taken.
  
  > Go south
  This room contains disused electrical equipment, much of it now buried under an assortment of junk.
  
  There's a rusty metal switch marked 'Blast Door' on the north wall.
  
  You can also see a heap of junk here.
  
  > examine the junk
  All of this junk seems to have been cleared away from other parts of the facility. It's mostly spartan furniture: bunk beds, mattresses, desks and chairs. You see a network cable amongst the junk.
  
  > examine the cable
  You are holding a single length of network cable.
  
  > examine the junk
  All of this junk seems to have been cleared away from other parts of the facility. It's mostly spartan furniture: bunk beds, mattresses, desks and chairs.
  
  > Examine generator
  You see a diesel generator and switching gear. A mercury rectifier lurks in the shadows like something from Frankenstein's laboratory. It's all antiquated, rusty, and completely beyond use.
  
  > enter the station
  As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down...
  
  The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the western door.
  
  There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the console's display.
  
  A portal occupies most of the northeast wall.
  
  > look at console
  The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a display and a keyboard. The display shows a message:
  
  'Dear candidate 28199,
  
  I attempted to assess the attack, but network socket WS2 is not working and I can't get through to the diagnostic system.
  
  There's another network socket in the Battery Room. It is labelled WS4. Please connect that socket to WS3.
  
  You'll have to join two network cables together, and run them
  between the two rooms. You will find a tool for JOINing cables in the old Broadcasting Studio. Join the cables, then connect network sockets WS3 and WS4.
  
  Yours,
  Central Administrator.'
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware and Viruses'
  an access card
  an identity badge
  
  > enter the portal
  As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a maintenance robot...
  
  This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall is taken up by a blast door (which is closed).
  
  Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and is also attached to Socket WS2.
  
  Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall.
  
  There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each large enough to accommodate your robotic body.
  
  You can also see a workbench here.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a single-length network cable (plugged into Socket WS3)
  a screwdriver
  a black box
  
  > drop the cable
  Dropped.
  
  > look at the batteries
  There are hundreds of rechargeable batteries, all mounted in metal racks. They provide electricity for the facility when mains power is not available.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a single-length network cable
  a single-length network cable
  a screwdriver
  a black box
  
  > go to the west
  This passage is blocked because the roof has collapsed. There's a pile of rubble to the west, preventing any further progress in that direction.
  
  > look at the rubble
  The ceiling has collapsed, blocking the passage with a pile of rubble.
  
  > examine it
  A network engineer's toolbag.
  
  > look at the sign
  The sign lights up when the studio is broadcasting.