text: [Themes: Romance, Action, Humor]
  
  > Look around
  This lab has been cleaned up impressively for the weekend.
  
  A cloning machine sits in a corner.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  Can of Spray Cheese
  a winner ticket
  a lottery ticket
  
  > Go south
  Through some bars on the left hand side of the hallway, you can see a sharkmen guard at a table. He sits with his back to you and seems to be trying to open his cellphone to replace the battery. Good, that should take a while.
  On the wall, just outside of your reach through the bars, is a blue button.
  
  > Go south
  You sneak down the hallway to the next cell. And there Paul sits, sullenly on a cot, eyes down, shoulders slumped. You lean agsainst the frame nonchalantly. "Hey handsome"
  Paul's eyes light up and he jumps to his feet and grabs the bars. "I knew you'd come to rescue us!"
  "Us? I was thinking of just rescuing you!"
  Paul puts his hands on his hips and furrows his brow. "Is that so? How would you feel if someone left you in prison?" You avert his gaze and try to dig in the prison floor with your boot. "Pretty terrible." you murmur. He pats you through the bars. "Well done. Now get us out. Man, am I happy to see you." He smiles. You turn away. "Me too." Dang, you must have some dust in your eye.
  Paul's Cell
  Paul sits here gloomily, awaiting his rescue.
  
  > examine Paul
  His beard has become a bit more scraggly since you last saw him, far too long ago, and his frame looks thin and fragile in the prison pyjamas. But he's alive.
  
  > ask Paul about Rat
  You can only do that to something animate.
  
  > talk to Paul
  "Free us, then we can have all the Quip-based conversations you want."
  
  > Go south
  Paul sits here gloomily, awaiting his rescue.
  
  > go to the south
  You continue down the hallway, and Paul whispers: "That's a Venusian warrior woman..."
  "So men really are from Mars and women ..."
  "No dear, gender is artificial construct that's not helping anyone." "Can she understand us?"
  "I learnt a few pheases, but we don't have time for chit-chat. Maybe latter."
  
  The Venusian's warrior woman sits here, awaiting rescue.
  
  > examine the woman
  She has silvery skin, golden her put up in a tight bun, and wears full body chain mail. Black, pearl eyes look at you unblinking.
  
  > go to the south
  This cell is open. The hallway ends at a huge gate further the south.
  
  Inside you see the body of famed adventurer Ronathan Rask.
  
  > examine Rask
  Without going into too much detail, it looks like he died a humiliating and avoidable death.
  
  > search body
  Aha! You found a datachip.
  
  > look at datachip
  Looks like it's a DNA scrambler. It will rearrange all those little letters in your genes at random.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  You are carrying:
  a datachip
  Can of Spray Cheese
  a winner ticket
  a lottery ticket
  
  > go to the south
  This is a small reception area.
  
  A huge  metal gate leads outside, to the south.
  
  Marius runs towards you from under a chair.
  
  > examine the gate
  A huge metal gate, padlocked, with a small window inside it.
  
  > look at the window
  You can see the tank outside, patrolling, and the sad sight of your golf cart, front axle broken.
  
  > go to the north
  This cell is open. The hallway ends at a huge gate further the south.
  
  Inside you see the body of famed adventurer Ronathan Rask.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > go north
  The Venusian's warrior woman sits here, awaiting rescue.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > go to the north
  Paul sits here gloomily, awaiting his rescue.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > go north
  Through some bars on the left hand side of the hallway, you can see a sharkmen guard at a table. He sits with his back to you and seems to be trying to open his cellphone to replace the battery. Good, that should take a while.
  On the wall, just outside of your reach through the bars, is a blue button.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > Go north
  Connecting space. West, back to the airduct. A door marked "Lab" leads north, the prison cells are to the south.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > Go north
  This lab has been cleaned up impressively for the weekend.
  
  A cloning machine sits in a corner.
  
  Marius arrives from the south.
  
  > put the datachip in the slot
  You slide it into the slot.
  
  > put Marius in the machine
  (first taking Marius)
  
  He slips out of your grab. Looks like you have to learn to respect his boundaries.
  
  > enter the machine
  Marius has better things to do.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes.
  
  The machine goes *beep* *boom* *clang* and something metallic is spit out of the other pod. You hear a puff as the datachip disintegrates. Must've been one use only.
  
  > wait
  Time passes.
  
  > Exit
  You get out of the cloning machine.
  
  This lab has been cleaned up impressively for the weekend.
  
  A cloning machine sits in a corner.
  
  You can also see an axle and Marius here.
  
  > Go south
  Connecting space. West, back to the airduct. A door marked "Lab" leads north, the prison cells are to the south.
  
  Marius arrives from the north.
  
  > go to the south
  Through some bars on the left hand side of the hallway, you can see a sharkmen guard at a table. He sits with his back to you and seems to be trying to open his cellphone to replace the battery. Good, that should take a while.
  On the wall, just outside of your reach through the bars, is a blue button.
  
  Marius arrives from the north.
  
  > look at the axle
  A perfectly fine front axle for a golf cart.
  
  > push the button
  Marius has better things to do.
  
  > Spray button
  You spray the button with cheese. The rat squeezes his plump belly through the bars and scuttles up the wall. He looks at you, right below the button, then gives you a claw-up as he pushes it.
  
  All hell breaks loose. Screeching alarm sirens sound throughout the prison. The guard jumps to his feet and pulls a huge Kerkerkruip rifle from the table. "Die, person who reminds me of my lost humanity quite painfully!" The bite in his ankle from Marius, who has come to your aid , seems even more painful. You grab the gun and take three shots to drop him, what with his hopping on one foot at all.
  Paul runs from his cell and into your arms. You hold him for a blissful second, then nod at the Venusian woman behind him. Paul looks at the dead guard. "I told you not to kill indiscriminately anymore, huzzie." You look to the ground, mumbling "Sorry". "Now, let's make for the gate. They'll send more guards through the Ventilation Building any second."
  The three of you run for the reception area. You suddenly don't feel safe at all. No, not safe at all. You hope you can save the four of you.
  
  This is a small reception area.
  
  Paul and the Venusian stand here.
  
  A huge  metal gate leads outside, to the south.
  
  Marius runs towards you from under a chair.
  
  A huge group of Sharkmen burst through the door at the far end of the corridor and spot you immediately. "Get them!" shouts their leader. They start running towards you.