text: [Themes: Science Fiction, robots, science fiction]
  
  SUSPENDED: INTERLOGIC Science Fiction
  
  SUSPENDED and INTERLOGIC are trademarks of Infocom, Inc.
  
  FC ALERT! Planetside systems are deteriorating. FC imbalance detected. Emergency reviving systems completed. You are now in control of the complex.
  
  SENSA INTERRUPT: Seismic aftershock detected ten meters north of Beta FC. Tremor intensity 9.7. Projected damage: connecting cables in Primary and Secondary Channels.
  
  FC INTERRUPT: All Robots, report locations.
  
  IRIS: In the Weather Monitors.
  WALDO: In the Gamma Repair.
  SENSA: In the Central Chamber.
  AUDA: In the Entry Area.
  POET: In the Central Chamber.
  WHIZ: In the Advisory Peripheral.
  
  [Author's Note: They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground complex 20 miles beneath the surface. Your brain, they told you, would be wired to a network of computers; your mind would continue to operate at a minimal level, overseeing maintenance of surface-side equilibrium. And you would not awake, so they promised, until your 500 years had elapsed - barring, of course, the most dire emergency. Then, and only then, you would be awakened to save your planet by strategically manipulating six robots, each of whom perceives the world differently. But such a catastrophe, you have been assured, could not possibly occur. Good morning.]
  
  > Impossible
  FC: Okay, you asked for it...
  
  FC INTERRUPT: External sensors detect huge radiation abnormalities in the star which provides Contra with all light and heat.
  
  WARNING! TIME CRITICAL!!
  
  External sensors detect significant instability in the star.
  
  > look
  Get me a seeing-eye robot.
  
  > Go west
  Get me a seeing-eye cane. Without my visual function, I'm worthless.
  
  FC INTERRUPT: Oh oh. Abnormalities in star approaching critical level. [9]       NOVA IMMINENT!
  
  So long from all the gang -- Iris, Waldo, Sensa, Auda, Poet, Whiz, FRED, and last but not least, we three FCs.
  
  > examine monitors
  FC: Cryolink already established to Iris.
  FC: Which monito do you mean, the Hydroponics Monitors, the Transit Monitors, or the Weather Monitors?
  
  > Hydroponics
  That's difficult for me to do until my visual function has been repaired.
  
  > listen
  FC: Cryolink established to Auda.
  AUDA: Okay. Auditory circuits activated.
  
  > look
  FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.
  WALDO: Internal map reference -- Gamma Repair
  I have reached the south end of this area. The walkway ends here.
  The walkway is not in motion.
  A large object sits before me. Sonar indicates it is hollow, but not empty.
  
  > open the object
  FC: Cryolink already established to Waldo.
  I don't detect any easy way to do that.
  
  > ask Sensa,  to look around
  FC: Cryolink established to Sensa.
  SENSA: Internal map reference -- Central Chamber
  All around me charges flow, shaped by the very nature of this room. The electrons are being channeled into an electrical column, central to this environment.
  In the room with me is Poet.
  
  > examine poet
  All types of energy flow into Poet, especially through its collector plates at the ends of its two extensions. He is a meter high.
  
  > ask Poet,  to look around
  FC: Cryolink established to Poet.
  POET: Internal map reference -- Central Chamber
  It hops and skips and leaves a bit, and can't decide if it should quit. It tells the world what it should know, but doesn't know when it's been shown.
  In the room with me is Sensa.
  
  > examine SENSA
  Sensa is sensitive to sensations and is about one meter in height.
  
  > ask Whiz,  to look around
  FC: Cryolink established to Whiz.
  WHIZ: Internal map reference -- Advisory Peripheral
  CLC tagged object indicates it is the Advisory pedestal before me.
  
  SENSA INTERRUPT: Secondary tremor detected in lower level. Intensity: 7.3. Projected damage: Cooling systems for FCs in Maintenance Area.
  
  > examine peripheral
  FC: Which periph do you mean, the Historical Peripheral, the Advisory Peripheral, the Technical Peripheral, or the Index Peripheral?
  
  > Advisory
  CLC tagged object indicates it is the Advisory pedestal before me.
  
  > take advisory pedestal
  Huh? You talking to me?
  
  > plug in
  It's great to be home. Plugged in to the Advisory Pedestal. Ready to process queries.
  
  > look up the iris
  FC: I don't understand that sentence.
  
  > ask about the iris
  AP: Iris can be best used to monitor the monitors surrounding the Central Chamber.
  Waldo should remove the maintenance panel and replace all faulty chips.
  
  > go to the iris
  FC: Cryolink established to Waldo.
  FC: Iris's location: Weather Monitors. Establishing path...
  WALDO: I'm on my way. Expect a report on arrival.
  
  > ask Poet,  to look around
  FC: Cryolink established to Poet.
  POET: Internal map reference -- Central Chamber
  It hops and skips and leaves a bit, and can't decide if it should quit. It tells the world what it should know, but doesn't know when it's been shown.
  In the room with me is Sensa.
  
  > kill yourself
  I'll open the sweet home and see what I can do.
  Okey Dokey. Man, you look like death warmed over!
  As the door swings open you are blinded by intense light and incredible pain. Just before everything overloads and you fade from existence, you can make out a shape outside, holding onto the door of the cylinder, and then everything goes dark.
  
  SUSPENDED: INTERLOGIC Science Fiction
  
  SUSPENDED and INTERLOGIC are trademarks of Infocom, Inc.
  
  FC ALERT! Planetside systems are deteriorating. FC imbalance detected. Emergency reviving systems completed. You are now in control of the complex.
  
  SENSA INTERRUPT: Seismic aftershock detected ten meters north of Beta FC. Tremor intensity 9.7. Projected damage: connecting cables in Primary and Secondary Channels.
  
  FC INTERRUPT: All Robots, report locations.
  
  IRIS: In the Weather Monitors.
  WALDO: In the Gamma Repair.
  SENSA: In the Central Chamber.
  AUDA: In the Entry Area.
  POET: In the Central Chamber.
  WHIZ: In the Advisory Peripheral.
  
  > go to the history
  FC: Cryolink established to Whiz.
  WHIZ: CLC setting coordinates. Will report in on arrival.