text: [Themes: medical, violence, experimentation, experiments, psychic, profanity]
  
  > look at your surroundings
  Laundry, Mt Airy Hospital
  There is no mistaking the purpose of this room. Industrial washers and dryers line the walls of this room, and three canvas-walled carts filled with dirty linens squat awaiting their purpose. The room stinks of offal, blood and bleach all at the same time. On the east wall, a large sink made of heavy-duty steel sits, but its long faucet is bent at a peculiar angle and it is missing both handles. A particularly large laundry machine looms at the end of the row.
  
  An open door leads south out of the room.
  
  There's a human skeleton lying on the tiled floor. It's wearing a very clean lab coat.
  
  You can also see a laundry bin (in which is a heap of soiled sheets) here.
  
  > Go south
  Basement Hall, Mt Airy Hospital
  Grime coats the frosted covers of the overhead lights, causing the peeling walls and tiled floors to look shadowed and ugly. The laundry room's large entrance to the north opposes the boiler room door to the south. To the west, an elevator's doors stand closed.
  
  An open door leads north into the laundry room.
  
  A swollen corpse with visibly broken limbs lies on the floor a short distance from the elevator doors.
  
  > wait awhile
  Time passes.
  
  The split-flap display stops on "BASEMENT". The elevator call button goes dark, and the metal doors slide open.
  
  > put the suit on the hook
  (the clean hazard suit on the small brass hook)
  You set the clean hazard suit on the small brass hook.
  
  > Go west
  Side Hall End, Mt Airy Hospital
  Plain, windowless doors labelled neatly with small brass signs lead off to the north and south. At the east end of the hallway, a large, lurid orange biohazard symbol marks a door of a different design.
  This door is a sliding door instead of a regular door, and it has a small, wire-reinforced window.
  
  Several curving, sharp pieces of glass and small pieces of metal litter the floor.
  
  There's a keycard reader beside the sliding door.
  
  The airlock door slides closed with a hiss and locks with a click.
  
  > Alarm
  You push the alarm button, and a strident bell rings out, filling the elevator painfully for a long moment. The sound dies away, but the ringing in your head takes a bit longer to fade.
  
  > examine Alice
  Which do you mean, small piece of unlined paper, Alice 5/12/78, Alice 4/17/78 or Alice 4/30/78?
  
  > Unlined
  Which do you mean, small piece of unlined paper, Alice 5/12/78, EGB 4/20/78, EGB 5/12/78, EGB 5/12/78, EGB 4/7/78, EGB 3/20/77, Alice 4/17/78, Alice 4/30/78 or EGB 5/3/78?
  
  > go south
  The only way out of the elevator is through the elevator doors to the east.
  
  > go south
  Hall End, Mt Airy Hospital
  Long banks of fluorescent lights cast sharp shadows along the half-familiar, half-unfamiliar hallway, which continues off to the north. The tiled floor is only a shade darker than the dull off-white walls. A strange, unpleasant odor hangs in the air and stings your nostrils. The door to Room 320 is across the hall to the west.
  
  A windowless door leads east into the testing room's antechamber.
  
  > go west
  Room 320, Mt Airy Hospital
  A broad ivory spike protrudes from the floor and pierces the ceiling, transfixing the corpse of a slender, dark-haired woman on the way.
  Her blood stands starkly red against the dull white tile and walls. The room's furnishings - a hospital bed, a bookshelf, a dresser - have been smashed into a still-recognizable pile of twisted metal and wood on the west side of the room. Thousands of pieces of shredded paper, none much larger than a fingernail, cover the floor near the wreckage and shiver in the slight breath from the broken window. The only exit is to the east.
  
  > look at Alice
  (the the corpse of the young nurse)
  The woman impaled on the white spike is dressed as you imagine a nurse might have been in the seventies, with a button-down skirt that must once have been clean white. Her face, frozen in a look of wide-eyed shock, indicates asian-american heritage and youth.
  
  > search Alice
  (the the corpse of the young nurse)
  You go briefly and quickly through the dead nurse's pockets, but you find nothing of interest.
  
  > put the brass key in Alice
  (the the corpse of the young nurse)
  That can't contain things.
  
  > give the brass key to Alice
  You can only do that to something animate.
  
  > Examine tv
  It's a wall-mounted television monitor, antique by your standards. The screen seems to be split into two halves, but one half is completely dark. The other shows a familiar sight: the testing chamber. A skinny young man is hunched on a chair in the corner of the room, next to the table. A timestamp shows in blocky white font on the bottom of the monitor: MAY 12 1978 20:02.
  
  > No
  Are you sure you want to do this? (y/n) >Please answer yes or no.> You let out your breath in a long hiss. You know that you must eventually open the test chamber, but you have to be absolutely prepared.
  
  > go south
  Boiler Room, Mt Airy Hospital
  A single incandescent bulb behind a metal cage provides harsh yet inadequate light to this room. A maze of large pipes runs along the ceiling. Most of said pipes lead to a large boiler that squats in front of you, easily taking up three quarters of the small room's real estate. A door to the north leads back to the hallway.
  
  A metal box is mounted on the wall, about the right size for a fire axe. The glass on the front is broken, and the broken glass is strewn near the foot of the box. You see no fire axe anywhere nearby.
  
  > look at box
  The metal box's glass has been shattered, and someone has taken the fire axe from it.
  
  > examine Boiler
  It's a large metal boiler. A gentle hiss comes from it, so you assume that it's still functional. You don't see any visible controls, but even if you did you don't think you'd know what to do with them.
  
  > take the pipe
  The pipes are firmly fixed in place.
  
  > Go south
  The only routes open to you are a door to the north labelled "Autopsy Room/Morgue" and a hallway leading back to the west. There's also a door to the east, but it's too damaged to open.
  
  > Go north
  You open the autopsy room door.
  
  Autopsy Room, Mt Airy Hospital
  The air here is thin with an astringent, chemical smell that makes you feel light-headed. Counters and cabinets line the west and north walls of the room, with a pair of sinks in the middle of each. Every surface you see is immaculate save for the metal table in the center of the room. On it, a corpse in a cut-up suit has been laid in a spread-eagled position, with dozens of surgical tools protruding from its dissected torso. Flaps of skin from the corpse's torso stretch towards the ceiling, suspended by thin pieces of surgical thread.
  
  A sheet of typewriter paper lies on the floor very near the hallway door.
  
  A door made of heavy, insulated glass leads to another room to the east.
  
  The door to the hallway lies to the south.
  
  You can also see a ruined bonesaw here.
  
  > take the paper
  (sheet of typewriter paper)
  You pick up sheet of typewriter paper.
  
  You add sheet of typewriter paper to your existing collection of pages.
  
  > read it
  You already have that.
  
  The sheet of typewriter paper reads:
  
  Unofficial log, April 15, 11:00 am
  I suppose someone must have listened to Elaine's assertion that
  this test subject was different from the rest, since we've just gained a new member of the team.
  This was not a pleasant cup of chicory to down first thing in the morning. Don't get me wrong -- I would love, more than anything, to welcome Simon Cross to our ranks, and G-d knows that we could stand to gain another team member. Of all of the positions we had open prior to today, however, I'm not sure I ever would have counted "Company Spook" among them.
  Perhaps I am being unfair, but it is my opinion that hypnotizing yourself into believing that a knife is a rolling pin will not prevent you from needing stitches after trying to make bread dough. Cross's official title is "auditor." He claims that he is here to oversee Corona's professional interests in the Project, and I don't doubt him one bit. Cross oozes "professional interests." He brushes his teeth with it, or he wouldn't be able to give me that sharkish grin.
  Still, we are bedfellows now. There's nothing to do but see to it
  that he is comfortable ... and bored.
  - Theo Yehuda
  
  The hallway door swings closed. There's a click as the lock reengages.
  
  > read the notes
  The sheet of typewriter paper reads:
  
  Unofficial log, April 15, 11:00 am
  I suppose someone must have listened to Elaine's assertion that
  this test subject was different from the rest, since we've just gained a new member of the team.
  This was not a pleasant cup of chicory to down first thing in the morning. Don't get me wrong -- I would love, more than anything, to welcome Simon Cross to our ranks, and G-d knows that we could stand to gain another team member. Of all of the positions we had open prior to today, however, I'm not sure I ever would have counted "Company Spook" among them.
  Perhaps I am being unfair, but it is my opinion that hypnotizing yourself into believing that a knife is a rolling pin will not prevent you from needing stitches after trying to make bread dough. Cross's official title is "auditor." He claims that he is here to oversee Corona's professional interests in the Project, and I don't doubt him one bit. Cross oozes "professional interests." He brushes his teeth with it, or he wouldn't be able to give me that sharkish grin.
  Still, we are bedfellows now. There's nothing to do but see to it
  that he is comfortable ... and bored.
  - Theo Yehuda