text: [Themes: thriller]
  
  > go downwards
  Death. Nasty, oily, ground-to-a-pulp-under-the-wheels death. Best not to even consider it.
  
  > Go south
  Slowly you crawl southwards 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.
  
  > 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.
  
  The train just rushed past the Oxnard station.
  
  > Go up
  The maintenance access hatch seems to be blocked.
  
  > open hatch
  You can't. There's something on the other side preventing you from opening it.
  
  > 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.
  
  > examine the hatch
  It's a metal panel that provides access to the upper portion of the train.
  
  > go to the 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.
  
  > 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.
  
  The train just rumbled through the Simi Valley station.
  
  > 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.
  
  You can also see an external ladder here.
  
  > Go north
  You open the door to the car junction.
  
  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.
  
  You see a concealed maintenance access hatch in the floor here.
  
  You can also see an external ladder here.
  
  The door to car 3 slides shut.
  
  > Break glass
  Which do you mean, the tube filled with gas, the glass dish or the rose-colored glass pane?
  
  > Rose
  Try as you might, you can't break the glass. It's too thick.
  
  > Rose
  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.
  
  > Right
  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.
  
  > stand on the box
  (the metal box)
  That's not something you can stand on.
  
  > Go north
  You can't go that way.
  
  The train just rumbled through the Glendale station.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  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 quantity of acid
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is closed)
  some litmus powder
  
  > pour the blue liquid in the left beaker
  liquid: The metal box isn't open.
  
  The train just barreled past the Los Angeles station.
  
  > open the box
  (the metal box)
  Try as you might, the glass is securely affixed to the front of the box by some thick, gooey sealant. The sealant itself seems to be invulnerable to all of your attacks.
  
  > pour the acid in the hydroxide bottle
  The bottle of acid is closed.
  
  > open the bottle
  (the bottle of acid)
  You open the bottle of acid.
  
  > pour acid in the hydroxide bottle
  acid: You pour some liquid into the bottle of hydroxide.
  
  > pour the blue liquid in the hydroxide bottle
  liquid: You pour some liquid into the bottle of hydroxide.
  
  The liquid in the bottle of hydroxide turns pale blue.
  
  > examine the liquid
  (the bottle of hydroxide)
  A clear bottle with a glass stopper. The label on the outside has a stylized hand being dissolved away.
  
  > examine the hydroxide
  A clear bottle with a glass stopper. The label on the outside has a stylized hand being dissolved away.
  
  > pour the hydroxide on the sealant
  It's doubtful that the contents of the bottle of hydroxide could damage the silicone caulking.
  
  > get the bulb
  Which do you mean, the 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb or the strange red bulb?
  
  > go north
  You can't go that way.
  
  The train just zoomed by the Los Angeles station.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying:
  a 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb
  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 quantity of acid
  a bottle of developing fluid (which is open but empty)
  a small plastic tube (which is closed)
  some litmus powder
  
  > drop the bulb
  (the 60-watt soft-white incandescent light bulb)
  Dropped.
  
  > 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 train just rushed past the Fullerton station.
  
  You hear noises from the car below.