text: > Describe the surroundings
  A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding mountains  beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it.
  
  Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU.
  
  Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, tinkering away.
  
  > Go northwest
  A frothy, frilly pink bedroom with a large canopy bed and a vanity buried under mountains of makeup. Posters of famous movie stars line the walls. A large bay window looks out on a pleasantly kept rose garden.
  
  > Go southwest
  It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The door to the northeast leads back to the living room.
  
  Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her famous snickerdoodles.
  
  > talk to Jenny
  "Hi, Bonnie! How's everything going up there?"
  
  1) "We're putting together a machine to stop the brain guzzlers."
  2) "Don't worry about it, Jenny, all that matters is we're safe in here."
  
  > 1
  ["We're putting together a machine to stop the brain
  guzzlers."]
  
  "Wow, that's great! I'm sure everything will work out and I'm, uh, I'm okay waiting here, I guess. I--do you want something baked? Anything?"
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 3
  ["Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"]
  
  "Can I--Bonnie, that's not exactly difficult. Don't you pay attention in home ec at all? That was practically the first thing they taught us after how to make a roux. I mean--sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Of course I can help. Some nice fresh fruit is all I need."
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 4
  ["None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"]
  
  Jenny frowns, looking at the tubes. "Of course they're not ripe, poor things! They may look healthy, but they're all alone up here, stuck to a dumb old wall. If there's one thing I've learned it's that even if they have all the food and water they need plants will never be happy if they feel neglected. They need people to love them. They need people to talk to them! Openly! You can't just tell plants you love them and then run off with your popular friends every afternoon while they're stuck working in the shop. I mean being sold in the shop. Being sold is like the flowers' job, that's why I said it like that." Jenny coughs. "Anyway, uh, maybe just talking to them and giving them some attention would help."
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 2
  ["What kinds of things can you bake?"]
  
  "All kinds of things! It's not that different from botany, really, except more of the plants are dead and uh, ground up, plus there's eggs and things. But both require hard work and a good solid knowledge of baker's chemistry!"
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 1
  ["Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."]
  
  "Oh, uh, they're just kind of the first cookie I learned how to make. I sort of bake when I'm nervous. It gives me something to do with my hands. Mary Jane eats when she's nervous, so together we make a pretty good team!"
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 5
  ["I should go."]
  
  "See you later!"
  
  It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The door to the northeast leads back to the living room.
  
  Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her famous snickerdoodles.
  
  > talk to the garden
  [Picture number 15 here.]
  
  ...
  
  1) "Er, hello? Gosh, I feel silly."
  2) "Good plant, good...planty planty."
  3) "Good morning. My, don't you look lovely and green today!"
  
  > 3
  ["Good morning. My, don't you look lovely and green today!"]
  
  ...
  
  1) "Please, oh, please...grow for me?"
  2) "Come on, grow! Show those lazy vegetables how it's done!"
  3) "You know what they say. Boys seldom make dinner of fruit that looks thinner! So... go for it!"
  
  > 3
  ["You know what they say. Boys seldom make dinner of fruit that
  looks thinner! So... go for it!"]
  
  ...
  
  1) "Come on, be a sport!"
  2) (stick out your stomach) "See, I'm growing. Doesn't this
  look fun?"
  3) "If all the other plants jumped off a bridge...of...of not-growing, would you?"
  
  > 2
  [(stick out your stomach) "See, I'm growing. Doesn't this
  look fun?"]
  
  ...
  
  1) (Appeal to fruit's sense of patriotism.)
  2) (Bring up your past together.)
  3) (Violent emotional breakdown)
  
  > 1
  [(Appeal to fruit's sense of patriotism.)]
  
  "Now look," you tell the plant sternly. "Maybe you're a plant. And maybe you're not worried about the Brain Guzzlers because you don't have a brain, or even a nervous system, and so you don't think any of this has anything to do with you. But let me tell you this, buddy!
  You grew on American soil, or out of American water, anyway, and that makes you a citizen of the good old United States of America! Americans don't give up when the going gets tough. Americans fight. Americans win! Our country has never been successfully conquered by slime monsters from space and, gosh darn it, it's never going to be! Now you're going to get off your lazy roots, citizen, and you're going to start growing! And one day... one day, you magnificent son of a gun, little children who aren't yet a gleam in Father's eye will salute the everloving heck out your memory! There will be statues to you! People will look at still lifes and instead of saying 'Oh, another one of those', they'll stand a little taller. They'll wipe their eyes. And they'll say, 'There, in that bowl, there lies a true American'. And then they'll go home and they'll have a gosh darn honest-to-mother barbeque with hamburgers and corn on the cob and yes, even fruit, and it will all be because of you!"
  
  Your words and actions have moved the fruit to its various cores. Before your eyes, the bitter green lumps swell into a colorful cornucopia of ripe fruit!
  
  It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The door to the northeast leads back to the living room.
  
  The hydroponic garden is now bursting with oodles of ripe fruit in every color of the rainbow.
  
  Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her famous snickerdoodles.
  
  > talk to Jenny
  "Hi again, Bonnie!"
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "I should go."
  
  > 4
  ["I should go."]
  
  "See you later!"
  
  It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The door to the northeast leads back to the living room.
  
  The hydroponic garden is now bursting with oodles of ripe fruit in every color of the rainbow.
  
  Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her famous snickerdoodles.
  
  > take the fruit
  You pluck an armful of the ripest and fruitiest-looking fruit.
  
  > take the cookies
  "Take as many as you want!" Jenny says eagerly, practically shoving them into your hands. You end up with a lot more than you wanted.
  
  > talk to Jenny
  "Hi again, Bonnie!"
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"
  4) "Here's that fruit, Jenny!"
  5) "I should go."
  
  > 4
  ["Here's that fruit, Jenny!"]
  
  "Great! Oh, you just wait, I'll make you a nice fructonium pie!"
  
  And after a little kneading, a little flour, a little kneading, fifty-five minutes in the oven, and helping Jenny clean up the workspace because that's the considerate thing to do, it's ready. You now have a gently glowing pie filled with purest refined fructonium!
  
  "Looks good enough to eat, doesn't it?" Jenny laughs. "Uh, but don't, okay? That's really pure. Your stomach would melt."
  
  1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."
  2) "What kinds of things can you bake?"
  3) "I should go."
  
  > 3
  ["I should go."]
  
  "See you later!"
  
  It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The door to the northeast leads back to the living room.
  
  Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her famous snickerdoodles.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a fruit pie
  too many snickerdoodles
  a telepod (open but empty)
  a RPS cannon
  a checklist
  a Depth Charge Deluxe
  a game pamphlet
  a Canyonville High yearbook
  a collapsible hula hoop
  a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn)
  
  > examine the pie
  It's vibrating like a purring cat and luminous with a gentle ruby red aura. Gosh, this is a real day for glowing pies.
  
  > examine snickerdoodles
  (the snickerdoodles)
  They smell great. Jenny's such a good baker!
  
  > Go upwards
  A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding mountains  beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it.
  
  Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU.
  
  Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, tinkering away.
  
  ""
  
  > talk to Professor
  [Picture number 10 here.]
  
  "Ah, greetings again, my young chum."
  
  1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."
  2) "Have a snickerdoodle? Your daughter's friend made them.
  3) "Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form."
  4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"
  
  > 2
  ["Have a snickerdoodle? Your daughter's friend made them.]
  
  "Yes, she's very domestic, isn't she? Not exactly the sort of chum I'd prefer for Mary Jane--" His eyebrows raise as he nibbles on a cookie. "But I must admit that, scientifically speaking, she doodles a mean snicker."
  
  1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."
  2) "Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form."
  3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"
  
  > 2
  ["Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form."]
  
  "Wonderful!" The professor drops the pie into the BUBU's tank. "That should give our machine the necessary zing it needs for all-day power!"
  
  1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."
  2) "That's everything! Isn't it?"
  3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"
  
  > 2
  ["That's everything! Isn't it?"]
  
  He nods. "That's everything. We can launch the BUBU whenever you're ready. But we'll only have one shot, young lady. So be ready for it."
  
  1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."
  2) "I'm ready to go. Launch the BUBU!"
  3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"