text: [Themes: thriller]
  
  > Go down
  You are unable to descend by the maintenance access hatch.
  
  > go to the south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 4, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  > go to the south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  You're in a small gap between the cars. Small maintenance tunnels lead south and north, although they are rather small and probably not safe when the train is in motion. A maintenance hatch above you offers more traditional passage on the train.
  
  A prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the "closed" position.
  
  > Go south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 3, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  > Go south
  Slowly you crawl southwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 2, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  > Go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  You're in a small gap between the cars. Small maintenance tunnels lead south and north, although they are rather small and probably not safe when the train is in motion. A maintenance hatch above you offers more traditional passage on the train.
  
  A prominent lever is attached to the car junction. The lever has been pushed into the "closed" position.
  
  > Go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 3, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  The train just rumbled through the San Luis Obispo station.
  
  > go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 4, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  > Go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 5, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > Go upwards
  You can't go that way.
  
  There is the movement of feet above you.
  
  > Go north
  Slowly you crawl northwards along the length of the train...
  
  Car 6, underside
  From here, you can make out the complex speed regulators, air brakes, and other mechanisms you take for granted whenever you travel by rail. You can crawl south or north along the length of the car.
  
  There is the nervous shuffling of feet above you.
  
  > Go north
  This is the last car of the train. (It's a special, remember?)
  
  There is the nervous shuffling of feet above you.
  
  > Go up
  Between each pair of cars is an area which has always frightened you. Maybe it's the fact that the area is open save for a flimsy metal railing across the gaps; maybe it's the constant shifting of the floor beneath your feet. Safer areas lie south and north.
  
  A maintenance access hatch is open, leading downwards to darkness.
  
  > go north
  (The maintenance access hatch slams shut when you release it to move.) You open the door to car 6.
  
  Car 6, the last car
  This is a tiny car-- a classic caboose, except it isn't red, and it doesn't have a potbelly stove. It's pretty much a lounge for the conductor and his assistants, except the conductor is conspicuously missing.
  
  You can see all of the passengers and a tool chest (which is closed) here.
  
  The door to the car junction slides shut.
  
  > Open chest
  You open the tool chest, revealing a squirt bottle and a can of lubricant.
  
  > Open chest
  That's already open.
  
  > Scream
  Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
  
  Screaming is a good way to attract the unwanted attention of terrorists, you quickly find out.
  
  > say hello
  (to the passengers)
  The passengers are too scared to respond.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a stained sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is closed)
  a strange red bulb
  Wolfie (the paper spider guardian of computers)
  a punched ticket
  a small velvet box (which is closed)
  a train schedule
  
  > examine the passengers
  They look scared, and with good reason. Reporters report news; they aren't part of it.
  
  > open the Wolfie
  You'd never get him back together again.
  
  > read wolfie
  (A description of Wolfie is included in your game package.)
  
  It's an origami wolf spider.
  
  > show the Wolfie to the passengers
  (first taking Wolfie (the paper spider guardian of computers))
  They mumble amongst themselves, but the consensus is that they have no comment to make on Wolfie (the paper spider guardian of computers).
  
  > pour the hydroxide on the Wolfie
  The bottle of hydroxide is closed.
  
  > open bottle
  Which do you mean, the squirt bottle or the bottle of hydroxide?
  
  > look at the squirt
  It's a squirt bottle. The label is so faded as to make it practically illegible.
  
  > open the hydroxide
  You open the bottle of hydroxide.
  
  > Close hydroxide
  You close the bottle of hydroxide.
  
  > take squirt
  (putting Wolfie (the paper spider guardian of computers) into the stained sport coat to make room)
  Taken.