text: [Themes: Horror, horror, mystery]
  
  > look around
  (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Without her bag,  Cleopatra continues to study the guests.
  
  (2) Communications: The medicine man pokes at a chandelier with his staff. The leprechaun, doll in hand, and sasquatch watch him.
  
  (3) Laboratory: Vacant.
  
  (4) Alien Zoo: The devil tries to look beyond the MIB and out the door.
  
  (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant.
  
  Below the pentagon of screens, America is playing "You Can Do Magic" on the laptop, which shows an open web browser, and the cat purrs on your lap.
  
  > Xyzzy
  Focus on the cameras, you think. I don't want to miss
  anything.
  
  > look at 2
  Communications (second floor, west wing)
  (watch all monitors)
  
  Something is different about the room . . . The lighting has dimmed, and shadows shroud the corners.
  
  The sasquatch and leprechaun turn to each other, and the sasquatch shrugs. The leprechaun speaks to the medicine man, who glances at the red-haired doll as he listens. He points at the door. Smiling, the leprechaun leads the sasquatch out of the room.
  
  The medicine man touches his staff to the bottom of the chandelier as the white-haired scientist arrives. The scientist smiles and speaks. The medicine man nods then lowers his staff. He speaks. The scientist nods then begins to pull a liquor bottle with a ribbon around its neck out of his pocket, but the medicine man stops him. The scientist glances at the camera, and the medicine man gestures at the door with his staff. They leave together.
  
  A shadow is cast over you. You swivel around. Frankie's bulk crowds the tiny room. He considers the cat then looks up to you. His grin is crooked. "What's new, pussycat?" he says. He laughs then starts humming the eponymous Tom Jones song before turning to the monitors. He tries to focus on the monitored characters.
  
  > close the door
  The door remains silent as you swing it. You leave it open; you don't want anything in your way if something happens out in the hall.
  
  > examine Frankie
  Reanimation, apparently achieved by shocking one's heart through jumper cables attached to the chest, has turned Frankie's face green and tore his shirt and jeans, and the brain transplant has left a nasty black stitch across his forehead. Given the way Frankie has been stumbling around the party, maybe it's time to hook up those batteries attached to his neck because he definitely isn't fully charged.
  
  > talk to Frankie
  "So, have you seen anything unusual tonight?" you say.
  
  "You mean besides the fact that Bigfoot is wandering the halls?" Frankie regards the cat. "And there's a giant skunk sitting on a fly's lap?"
  
  The cat hisses, jumps to the floor, and runs out the door.
  
  "Sorry, pussy," Frankie says. "You don't smell as bad!" His voice booms in the small room. "What was your question again?"
  
  "Have you seen anything creepy tonight. Supernatural."
  
  "Like ghosts? That's crap. It never hurts to be careful, though. We're all targets thanks to the Greada Treaty that Eisenhower signed with the grays. Human experiments for alien technology. I've seen them all. The Nordics. Arcturians. Reptilians."
  
  "How do you know I'm not one of them?"
  
  He smiles. "They're cold blooded. You're hot."
  
  > talk about the aliens
  "I'm beyond being able to talk about that," Frankie says then burps.
  
  > talk to Frankie
  "It looks like we need to keep an eye on the leprechaun," you say.
  
  "I wouldn't trust Lucky Charms as far as I could toss —" Frankie attempts a swing of his arms and teeters on his feet. "He's trying to scare us with that stupid doll, but I'm too smart for that."
  
  > look at 2
  Communications (second floor, west wing)
  (watch all monitors)
  
  Black Widow appears and pulls Rasputin through the doorway to join her. She notices a curtained off area at the far end of the room. Passing between tables, she approaches it and pulls back the curtains, revealing a set of audio equipment. Fiddling with the stereo, she says something and gestures for Rasputin to join her.
  
  Rasputin takes a deep breath, rubs his palms on his pants, and makes his way over to Black Widow. She points at a knot of cables snaking from the equipment to a dark corner behind some speakers. Rasputin hesitates then reaches into the darkness. Suddenly, he flings his arm back and stumbles backward. With wide eyes, he rubs his hand and speaks.
  
  Black Widow frowns and inspects Rasputin's hand. She shrugs. She attempts to look behind the speaker, but Rasputin stops her with a hand to her shoulder. Smiling, she shakes her head then bends over into the darkness.
  
  The leprechaun, without the doll, steps through the doorway, the sasquatch following behind him. They move aside as Black Widow, head shaking, leads the trembling Rasputin out the door. As she exits, the scientist appears in the doorway with a bottle. Rasputin snatches it from his hand and takes a swig. He pauses and does it again. Nodding, he returns the bottle, and the two men leave.
  
  The sasquatch follows the grinning leprechaun to the doorway where they stop and look into the hall.
  
  > Keep going
  Communications (second floor, west wing)
  (watch all monitors)
  
  The leprechaun and sasquatch look out the door and into the hall. The grin falters on the leprechaun's face. He scowls and leaves the room, the sasquatch trailing.
  
  The chandelier shakes. Tick one box on the "haunted house"
  checklist: shaking chandelier, you think.
  
  Beneath, the room is filled with not only the tools of transcommunication, such as ouija boards and sound trumpets, but also the tricks of the trade, such as ectoplasmic cheesecloth and wobbly furniture.
  
  Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction.
  Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction.
  Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction.
  A high-pitched scream pierces the Fly Eye. That was from somewhere upstairs.
  
  Static bursts from the playroom. Are children giggling?
  
  "Gotta check that out," Frankie says before lumbering away.
  
  > listen
  Despite the static, you can hear the laptop playing "Clap for the Wolfman."
  
  > examine the chandelier
  It's a fixture with lots of dangly glass bits for maximum jangling and clattering.