text: [Themes: thriller]
  
  > go downwards
  Once inside, you realize why this car wasn't accessible from the rest of the train: it's a mail transport car. Bags of letters and parcels fill the shelves around you, almost completely obscuring the one light fixture in the car. The sliding metal door east offers a possible exit.
  
  In front of you stands a large metal box, closed on all sides save the front, which is protected by a pane of glass. The rose-tinting of the glass hints at rather than exposes the complicated machinery held within.
  
  An open metal hatch reveals the sun and sky above.
  
  You can also see a 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb here.
  
  > get the tube
  Which do you mean, the tube filled with gas or the small plastic tube?
  
  > go to the north
  It's a real struggle, but eventually you move northwards along the top of the train...
  
  Handholds in the top of the car allow one to move carefully across the surface, but make no mistake about it: one slip means a short but unpleasant trip over the side. The handholds travel south or north along the length of the train, provided one does not get snagged on the numerous air vents and lights protruding from the surface.
  
  The bomb detonates, vaporizing you instantly.
  
  > open acid bottle
  You open the bottle of acid.
  
  The train just rushed through the Los Angeles station.
  
  > examine the wire
  Fluorescent gas swirls around the inside of the tube.
  
  > examine the plexiglas box
  It's made a transparent plastic.
  
  The thick plastic walls distort the box's contents.
  
  > look at the left beaker
  A glass Pyrex beaker, maximum capacity 500ml, with something scrawled on the side in grease pencil. There's a glass probe fused to the bottom.
  
  You can't get close enough to see the contents, however.
  
  > pour the acid on the sealant
  It's doubtful that the contents of the bottle of acid could damage the silicone caulking.
  
  > pour the acid in the left beaker
  acid: The metal box isn't open.
  
  > attach the bulb to the box
  Which do you mean, the 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb or the strange red bulb?
  
  > White
  (the metal box)
  You would achieve nothing by this.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of acid (which is open but empty)
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is closed)
  some litmus powder
  
  > Open tube
  (the small plastic tube)
  You open the small plastic tube.
  
  > look at the powder
  Which do you mean, the white powder or the litmus powder?
  
  > White
  It's a white powder that sticks to itself in clumps, like flour that has been allowed to get damp.
  
  > examine the litmus powder
  A small quantity of red crystals, ground into a fine powder.
  
  > examine the glass tube
  Fluorescent gas swirls around the inside of the tube.
  
  > look under the box
  (the metal box)
  You find nothing of interest.
  
  > Break box
  (the metal box)
  Violence isn't the answer to this one.
  
  > look at the glass dish
  The metal box isn't open.
  
  The train just barreled by the Fullerton station.
  
  > read the labels
  What do you want to read in?
  
  > cut the box with diamond
  (the metal box with the diamond ring)
  Cutting that up would achieve little.
  
  > Pane
  As you cut the glass, you hear a gentle hiss, as if gas is escaping.
  
  Whumpf! The white powder suddenly bursts into flame!
  
  The resulting fire must have set off some sensor in the bomb. The subsequent explosion vaporizes you, the train, and a large portion of California instantaneously.
  
  > feel the box
  (the metal box)
  You feel nothing unexpected.
  
  The train just rushed past the Anaheim station.
  
  > Search box
  (the metal box)
  The rose-colored glass hampers your ability to make out details...
  
  A curious glass tube sticks out of a mass of electronics glued to the back of the box. Inside the tube you see a swirling gas. A thin gold wire spirals its way around the outside of the tube.
  
  A glass dish sits under a thick metal coil, which dangles from another breadboard packed with electronics.
  
  In the center of the bomb is a Plexiglas box.
  
  Sitting on a nest of electronics within the glass box is an ominous black sphere.
  
  Above the glass box is an antique pair of brass scales, curiously out of place when compared to the high-tech components around them. The metal dishes normally associated with such scales have been replaced by two labeled Pyrex beakers.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of acid (which is open but empty)
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is open)
  some litmus powder
  
  The train just zoomed past the Santa Ana station.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of acid (which is open but empty)
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is open)
  some litmus powder
  
  > Close bottle
  Which do you mean, the left beaker, the right beaker, the bottle of hydroxide, the squirt bottle, the bottle of acid or the bottle of developing fluid?
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of acid (which is closed)
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is open)
  some litmus powder
  
  > open the bottle
  Which do you mean, the bottle of hydroxide, the squirt bottle, the bottle of acid or the bottle of developing fluid?
  
  > put the acid in the coat
  You need to be holding the bottle of acid before you can put it into something else.
  
  The train just rumbled past the Irvine station.
  
  > put the acid in the bottle
  (the bottle of acid)
  You can't put something inside itself.
  
  > Close bottle
  (the bottle of acid)
  That's already closed.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  You are carrying:
  a bottle of acid (which is closed)
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is open)
  some litmus powder
  
  > put the bottle in the coat
  (the bottle of acid in the sport coat)
  You put the bottle of acid into the sport coat.
  
  > check your inventory
  You are carrying:
  a quantity of acid
  a diamond ring (being worn)
  a sport coat (being worn)
  a bottle of acid (which is closed)
  a bottle of hydroxide (which is open but empty)
  a squirt bottle (which is closed)
  a quantity of pale blue liquid
  a strange red bulb
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is open)
  some litmus powder
  
  > drop all
  acid: Dropped.