text: [Themes: Science Fiction, science fiction]
  
  You awaken inside your cryogenic chamber, cold and alone. You can see through a foggy glass door facing north in the Cryogenic Chamber Room. The room outside is pitch black except for a blinking red dot across from your chamber.
  
  You can see a glass door and a button here.
  
  [Author's Note: You signed up for the United Space Exploration Federation in the hopes that you would be one of the proud few chosen to head a colonization mission to Alpha Centauri Six. When the rosters were announced and your name was on it for crewman aboard the U.S.E.F. Intrepid, you did not think even the cryogenic sleep chambers would calm you down. You are about to embark on a life a excitement and adventure!]
  
  > About yourself
  As good-looking as ever.
  
  > look at the button
  It opens your chamber.
  
  The button is currently switched off.
  
  > Go north
  (first opening the glass door)
  
  The Cryogenic Chamber room lights flicker on, seeming to stuggle with a faltering power supply. The room is eerily lit by the dying lights. A broken up computer voice says "Good mor...ing pioneer 612... welcome to ... new colony planet. Refreshers are .... the east....cryogenic illness sh.... pass shortly. When y... are ready .... head... cargo bay....debriefing by... "
  The message cuts off. You see a bathroom to the East and a door to the North.
  
  You can see a glass door, other cryogenic chambers, your Cryogenic Berth (empty) and a blinking red light here.
  
  > look at light
  The blinking light appears to be on a control panel mounted to the wall. The panel seems to monitor the cryogenic chambers.
  
  > Go east
  A small compartment off of the Cryogenic Chamber. There is a large showering area past a row of lockers on one side and wash basins with mirrors on the other.
  
  You can see a shower (empty) here.
  
  > take a the shower
  Taken.
  
  > examine the shower
  They are dimly lit by a single row of halogen lights. It appears that no one has ever utilized the showers. You see two vents high up in the ceiling.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a shower
  
  > look at the vents
  They are too high up to be reachable.
  
  > stand on the shower
  You can only get into something free-standing.
  
  > look at the lockers
  The lockers have been smashed open. One has its door hanging on by a hinge.
  
  In the lockers is an uniform.
  
  > wear the uniform
  (first taking the uniform)
  You put on the uniform.
  
  > About yourself
  As good-looking as ever.
  
  > examine the basins
  Water basins used to wash up with mirrors above them. They are dry as a bone
  
  > Go west
  The Cryogenic Chamber room lights flicker on, seeming to stuggle with a faltering power supply. The room is eerily lit by the dying lights. A broken up computer voice says "Good mor...ing pioneer 612... welcome to ... new colony planet. Refreshers are .... the east....cryogenic illness sh.... pass shortly. When y... are ready .... head... cargo bay....debriefing by... "
  The message cuts off. You see a bathroom to the East and a door to the North.
  
  You can see a glass door, other cryogenic chambers, your Cryogenic Berth (empty) and a blinking red light here.
  
  > examine other
  (the uniform)
  It is smeared with something you hope is dirt
  
  > examine the chambers
  All the other chambers have smashed windows and are broken. Blood is smeared across a few of them. Yours appears to be the last one intact.
  
  > go to the north
  The corridor runs East to West with the door to the Cryo Chamber to the South. It is dimly lit and has discarded trash littering its corners. Dust has settled on the walls and floor but it appears something has swept a path in the center by walking. A message is written on the North wall.
  
  > read the message
  Someone has smeared a dark substance on the wall with thier hand. It reads: "Avoid the Beast!"
  
  > look at the trash
  Broken equipment, discarded boxes, and torn uniforms. Nothing useful.
  
  > go east
  The corridor banks ninety degrees, causing it to run West to North. The lights are flickering and there is quite a large pile of refuse in the corner. There is a door on the south wall of the corridor with a plaque above it marked Engine Room 2.
  
  > read the note
  (In hastily written scrawl)  Sometimes I just wait... and it goes the other way....
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.
  
  > Go south
  Pipes, valves, and air ducts clutter the walls and ceiling of the corridor. You can see the dull glow of a terminal through a layer of soot covering its screen. To the south lies the Engine Room.
  
  You can see Active Terminal here.
  
  The echos of the Beast arrives from the south.
  
  > examine Beast
  The beast has found you.
  
  A pale gaunt man in the shredded ruins of what must have once been the ship's uniform stands in front of you. Choose your next move carefully...it may be your last. You can't run!
  
  > run
  You'll have to say which compass direction to go in.
  
  > Colo2
  Ok.
  
  > Go north
  The corridor runs North to South with a door on the western wall. A plaque above the door says Kitchen. Flickering overhead lights illuminate claw marks gouged into the eastern wall of the corridor.
  
  > West
  The kitchen looks as if a tornado has blown through it. All the cabinets have been opened, food stuffs have been consumed and the boxes torn to shreds and scattered through the room. A refrigerator lays on its side in one corner. The oven appears to be the only appliance that was too heavy to be moved. On the wall across from the kitchenette area is a terminal. Doors are on both the East and West wall.
  
  You can see an oven (closed), a refrigerator (closed), a cabinets (empty) and Active Terminal here.
  
  > open the oven
  You open the oven.
  
  > look in the oven
  The oven is empty.
  
  > open the fridge
  Two unblinking pairs of blood red eyes stare up at you. It appears some sort of six legged rat creature has been making its home in the fridge.
  
  > take the rat
  The creature hisses at you and bolts from the kitchen.
  
  > close the fridge
  You close the refrigerator.