text: > Describe the surroundings
  Mall, First Level, Eastern Edge, in the fountain
  This bit of hallway features an enormous and beautiful fountain. There are exits in all four primary compass directions.
  Audrey and Gibs are here.
  
  There's a dull, raw ache on the left side of my jaw. I try to rub it away, but it doesn't help.
  
  The spectre arrives from the west.
  
  > Status
  I have a lot of minor scratches, but will be okay, since I still have my looks.
  
  A little more water trickles into the fountain.
  
  > Drink water
  Ahhhhh! Mine Luftwaffe!
  
  The spectre heads off to the north.
  
  > go to the west
  I will have to get out of the fountain first.
  
  > Go outside
  I get out of the fountain.
  
  I collapse to the floor. The pain all over my body has gone from a throbbing that I can deal with to sharp, sudden piercings of agony... Audrey sees me fall. She comes to my side.
  
  I lash out to keep her away. I see her talking to me, pleading to get up and get better, but my ears don't pick up the sound. I try to move my hands up to clear them, but there's just molding and seeping sacs of pus where my ears once were.
  
  I try to tell her to stay away and to burn me so that I infect no one else, but I can't make the words escape. She cradles me in her arms anyway. I am up against her cool body, she is stroking my forehead with her hands. I shift. My right arm begins to separate and cracks off into my jacket. Everything feels so warm, this fever is terrible...
  
  Libson couldn't even count. Dramatics of that hit and that round couldn't save it! Ha! Who could choose to slinking over abounds and hell? Hell! one lake algae flash seventeen flash future flash nothing release cradling holding still eyes NO not oh hope flash
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  > go east
  Have you got a photographic memory? If you have you will find the following question to be very easy. If you haven't, please find your novella that came with the game called 'Which Witch?'. Please turn to page 17, then find line 5 (please note that lines start at 1, 'chapter' lines are included, but blank lines are not.) And count to word 6.
  
  Now please enter this word. Or just hit enter. You have three chances to get it right.
  Please enter word :
  
  > hit enter
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  > Go east
  Mall, First Level, Southern Edge
  This is the southern-most section of the Mall. There's a large block of impenetrable cement to the south, which covers over the failed Outlet Store, and two paths to two other stores: the candle store (west) and party favors store (east).
  The spectre and a Revenant are here.
  
  Audrey follows me.
  
  The spectre heads off to the north.
  
  The Revenant heads off to the north.
  
  > Go north
  Mall, First Level, Central Corridor
  This stretch of the Mall hallway is covered with just a bit of rubble. There are clear exits to the west and south. The gate to the Record Store is down to the north.
  The cross is here.
  The spectre and a Revenant are here.
  
  Audrey follows me.
  
  > talk to Revenant
  I can't think of anything to say right now.
  
  The spectre heads off to the south.
  
  The Revenant heads off to the west.
  
  > Go west
  Mall, First Level, West Edge
  The area is free from the wreckage. Gibs, though is just standing up, completely motionless, facing the inky blackness that shrouds the Food Court from here. Casey is nowhere to be found.
  Gibs and a Revenant are here.
  
  Audrey follows me.
  
  "She was here, Duffy. She was beautiful."
  
  "Who was? Casey? Where's Casey?"
  
  "Casey... " Gibs turns and looks at me for the first time since I came back. "No... not poor Casey. We finished up getting all the wreckage out of the way and as I looked up Casey was entranced by the most beautiful creature I have ever seen. Her skin was so pale, so fragile. She had this dark shock of bangs that framed her perfect face. As soon as I looked up, I froze. But she had locked eyes with Casey. I knew her name was Kali, but not how. Casey didn't seem to be able to move, at first, just like me. Then -- "
  
  "It was a vampire, Gibs. I was hoping we'd avoid one, but -- "
  
  "She took Casey by the hand and they both walked that way... into the darkness."
  
  The Revenant heads off to the west.
  
  > Go west
  The Food Court is a vast, open area and I can only see about half of it from here due to the lack of light -- the entire western end of it is cloaked in darkness. There are a number of cheap square tables and static plastic chairs bolted to the floor here, although a few have somehow broken off and are loose.
  
  To the northeast is a Nutrition Store. They carry a large assortment of tabs, pills, drugs and spices. The Court has another section to the west, and there is an exit east from where we came.
  
  Audrey lets out a little surprised 'yip!' and runs over towards me.
  
  "Jarret!" she says, "I felt something brush up against my leg! Something's here, in this area with us!" Before I can pooh-pooh her objections to this area, a metal chair comes flying at us. It appears as if a poltergeist has infected the food court.
  A fluorescent light, a garbage can, a brown table, a short gray table, a plastic chair, a metal chair, a broken chair, and some chair parts are here.
  The vampire, Casey, and a Revenant are here.
  
  Audrey and Gibs follow me.
  
  A fluorescent light comes flying right at me!
  
  I dodge the item, though.
  
  The Revenant heads off to the west.
  
  I notice something moving over in the far corner of the Food Court. It's a girl. She is wearing a reserved violet dress and has the most perfect, slim little figure I have ever seen.
  
  The vampire, I guess. It has to be; she's just as stunning as Gibs said.
  
  Focusing harder, I see Casey beside her, unmoving, defeated, completely obedient. The vampire whispers softly to her -- Casey snaps back into proper consciousness, and after a moment begins to look at her with loving trust. They are both several yards away, but I can make what the vampire says to her perfectly: Follow me, my
  pet.
  
  The vampire heads off to the west.
  
  Casey heads off to the west.
  
  > Go west
  I can't get by the Poltergeist!
  
  Something roughly picks up a metal chair and throws it at me!
  
  A metal chair strikes me, and I take a little bit of damage.
  
  > Go northeast
  The Nutrition Store is dominated by a series of five-foot high shelves that make up four distinct aisles. The walls are a sickly shade of green which some junior ad exec no doubt thinks promotes quick sales decisions, when all it truly does is make customers eager to get the hell out before they add an equally off-putting color to the surrounding by use of their own acrid vomit.
  
  In the rear of the store is a modest plastic counter and an ancient analog cash register. Further behind that is a closed metal door that really clashes with what's going on otherwise, stylistically.
  
  There is no front gate to the Nutrition Store, only a ten foot cut in the wall. The opening is not quite centered, however, and a 5'x3' pane of glass has been placed into the southern wall.
  
  Exits lead to the southwest and through the door.
  
  "There should surely be some garlic here," I say to myself...
  
  Audrey and Gibs follow me.
  
  A horrible scream pierces the air, originating from the far end of the Food Court.