text: [Themes: Science Fiction]
  
  > look around
  Stadium, in the sculptured chair
  Crowds of screaming fans stand all around you, reaching out toward the rock group playing on the centre stage.
  
  "Biofeedback
  Biofeedback
  Take my dreams back
  Give me something new and strange"
  
  > listen
  You hear nothing unusual.
  
  The lead musician, playing a stringless virtual electric with chrome pickups on his fingertips, launches into an instrumental riff on the first two stanzas.
  
  > listen
  You hear nothing unusual.
  
  "Biofeedback
  Biofeedback
  Take my dreams back
  Give me something new and strange"
  
  > listen
  You hear nothing unusual.
  
  The music blurs into a warped analog acid mix, from a style nearly a hundred years old.
  
  "Simplicity conformity
  Reality compelling me
  Illusion me transfusion me
  Electricity my complicity"
  
  > listen
  You hear nothing unusual.
  
  "Biofeedback
  Biofeedback...
  Something new and strange...
  Something new and strange...
  Something new and strange..."
  
  > wait
  Time passes...
  
  The musician does another lead break, roaming up and down the scale in five different tonal keys.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes...
  
  The singer steps forward, drops his voice to a whisper and speaks softly as if reading a nursery rhyme.
  
  "And we will walk on glowgrass lawns
  And we will sing electric storms
  And the mothers and the fathers
  of all our futures will be there
  And we will live without a care..."
  
  > wait awhile
  Time passes...
  
  The band kicks into a screaming frenzy and ends on a crescendo cry.
  
  "Biofeedback!"
  
  The crowd goes wild, and the sound slowly fades out.
  
  > wait
  Time passes...
  
  A soft female voice says "End of licensed tracks on this release. Please reset your projector to replay, or link to vvr.audioclub.com.eu to decrypt another single. Thank you for purchasing from The Audio Club."
  
  > unplug the cable from cube
  The black cable unplugs easily from the cube's socket. The black cube abruptly stops humming, and the flicker of light and sound vanishes.
  
  > take the cell
  (also taking the connected cable)
  Taken.
  
  > take the red disk
  You've already got your hands full.
  
  > Go east
  This domed construction is fairly small compared to the building proper, and open to the air at the southwest. Given today's scholarly confusion about many Ancient living habits, it could serve any number of functions. But the giveaway is the vehicle stationed in the middle of the floor. An interior door, currently open, leads west to to the living area.
  
  The vehicle, a primitive skycar, rests under the centre of the dome.
  
  You see a yellow disk here.
  
  > enter
  You step into the vehicle.
  
  Skycar, in vehicle dome
  The interior of the skycar is fairly cramped compared to a modern altiwing or dropship. There's a control console directly in front of you, and a viewshield through which you can see the vehicle dome. The exit hatch to your side is open; in the rear of the car is an access panel (currently open).
  
  You see a Frisbee Helipta here.
  
  > Enter
  You step into the vehicle.
  
  Skycar, in vehicle dome
  The interior of the skycar is fairly cramped compared to a modern altiwing or dropship. There's a control console directly in front of you, and a viewshield through which you can see the vehicle dome. The exit hatch to your side is open; in the rear of the car is an access panel (currently open).
  
  You see a Frisbee Helipta, a white vat, and a magprobe here.
  
  > put the cell in the socket
  The black cable is already plugged into the power cell's socket.
  
  > examine the panel
  Done.
  
  The access panel is open. In the access panel you see a corroded metal coil, a triangular hole, and a rectangular hole.
  
  > look at the console
  Despite your research, the controls on this model of skycar are quite unfamiliar to you. The only ones you can make out at all are a green button marked with a sunburst symbol, a mechanical lever (currently pushed all the way forward), and a slot to fit a ten-centimetre disk. There's a green disk in the slot.
  
  > put the cell in the rectangle
  The power cell slots neatly into the rectangular hole.
  
  > say the dolphin
  An electronic voice replies, "Thank you. Your password is accepted."
  
  Marie's projected image appears on the seat beside you.
  
  Marie flicks in and out of view for a few moments, then settles into a sitting posture beside you. She glances around the vehicle's interior - presumably, the skycar has concealed visual pickups to give projected images the power of sight - and then nods.
  
  "Okay. You've got the electrics running. Now you need to give the drive some power. That lever there is the main throttle - pull it to increase power and push to slacken off. Steering could be a problem - I'll try to cut past the overrides and do it myself."
  
  Seeing your expression, Marie grins. "Why the surprise? I'm a natural with cars. You should have seen me fly this before... when I was... whatever. Well, I'm okay now. I'll be fine."
  
  The car does not respond.
  
  "Well, let's go!" says Marie.
  
  > put the red disk in the slot
  Done.
  
  "Please say the password," repeats the electronic voice.
  
  > say the dolphin
  An electronic voice replies, "Thank you. Your password is accepted."
  
  A projected image of an Ancient rock concert appears on the seat beside you.
  
  Harsh white spotlights converge on the lead singer, while smoke and lasers spell out the band's name: "Fleischman Tokamak."
  
  > say the dolphin
  The car does not respond.
  
  Harsh white spotlights converge on the lead singer, while smoke and lasers spell out the band's name: "Fleischman Tokamak."
  
  > examine the seat
  The passenger seat isn't important.
  
  Harsh white spotlights converge on the lead singer, while smoke and lasers spell out the band's name: "Fleischman Tokamak."
  
  > take the red disk
  Taken.
  
  The projected image vanishes.
  
  > put the green disk in the slot
  Done.
  
  Marie's projected image appears on the seat beside you.
  
  Marie flicks in and out of view for a few moments, then settles into a sitting posture beside you. She glances around the vehicle's interior - presumably, the skycar has concealed visual pickups to give projected images the power of sight - and then nods.
  
  "Okay. You've got the electrics running. Now you need to give the drive some power. That lever there is the main throttle - pull it to increase power and push to slacken off. Steering could be a problem - I'll try to cut past the overrides and do it myself."
  
  Seeing your expression, Marie grins. "Why the surprise? I'm a natural with cars. You should have seen me fly this before... when I was... whatever. Well, I'm okay now. I'll be fine."
  I beg your pardon?
  
  > take Green
  Taken.
  
  Marie's image vanishes.
  
  > put the yellow disk in the slot
  Done.
  
  A projected image of a rainforest appears on the seat beside you.
  
  > look at the rainforest
  It's only a projection.
  
  > take the red
  Taken.
  
  "You did not say the password," says the electronic voice. "For your protection, this vehicle is now powering down."
  
  There's a quiet click from the console. The green button stops glowing.
  
  > say the dolphin
  An electronic voice replies, "Thank you. Your password is accepted."