text: [Themes: violence, gender-neutral protagonist, experiments, laboratory, psychic, experimentation, laboratory setting, profanity, horror, medical]
  
  Please be advised that One Eye Open is a horror game. It contains mature content (including blood, gore, human injury and death, mild language, tobacco reference, violence, and violent references.)
  
  We do not recommend this game for a younger audience.
  
  [Author's Note: Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps you will even survive it.]
  
  > Y.
  After only ten days, you're becoming surprisingly comfortable with life as a Corona Corporation guinea pig. It helps that your routine is so reliable - meals, exercise, rest, and sleep are clearly arranged on a schedule hanging beside the white clock in your room. As for the tests - well, you've grown used to the sight of your blood in a sample vial, and the rest is mostly paperwork. Personality tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, psychological tests, Rorschach and the MMPI and even kinetic family drawing... you're starting to worry that they'll run out of tests by the end of the month.
  
  Although 7:30 PM is always the day's last test, you never leave your room alone, so you were still watching American Beauty when Dr. Marnie Ephart knocked at the door. "Oh, you're almost to the end!" she said brightly, seeing the screen. "I can wait until you're through."
  
  "No, that's fine." You hit PAUSE to freeze Angela in mid-motion as you got up from the couch. "I've seen it before." Last Monday, actually. The video collection isn't that good, and, considering what they're paying you, it's a pity Corona couldn't invest in a few more options. It's hard to complain, though; the staff is friendly, the tests aren't hard, and the salary is great.
  
  During the day, Raymond, Best, or one of the scientists might be around, but at night, it's usually just the two of you, and the hall you cross now is deserted. You accompany her through the antechamber and into the main testing chamber. By now, you're used to being watched from behind one-way glass, but the observational room is fully lit today, and you can easily see inside.
  
  "Back in a moment," Dr. Ephart says cheerfully. "See you on the other side!"
  
  Test Chamber, Corona Labs
  In the center of the room, a single black office chair sits in front of a broad, heavy desk. The desk and chair are familiar, but the wireless keypad sitting on the desk is new. There are five large white buttons on the keypad, each displaying a different symbol in broad black strokes. The symbols are a circle, a cross, a set of three wavy lines, a square, and a five-pointed star. As always, you are quite aware of the cameras watching you from above.
  
  To the west, a windowless door separates the testing room from the antechamber outside.
  
  The familiar black office chair sits invitingly nearby.
  
  Through the thick pane of glass, you can see the curved desk in the observational room.
  
  >I beg your pardon?
  
  > sit in the chair
  You sit down on the office chair.
  
  Through the thick pane of glass, you see Dr. Ephart come into the observational room carrying a stack of cards and a notebook. She waves to you in friendly fashion, sets her notebook on the desk, and sits down before pressing the intercom button.
  
  "This is a different kind of test," Dr. Ephart explains. "I have twenty-five cards here, each of which shows one of the symbols on your keypad." She holds up five cards and fans them so you can see the circle, cross, wavy lines, square, and five-pointed star. "I'm going to draw one of these cards and concentrate on the shape. I want you to concentrate, to really focus your mind, and try to pick the same symbol that I do. After you've decided on your symbol, press it on the keypad. We'll do five of these."
  
  Dr. Ephart shuffles her cards together and draws the first card. She holds the card up with its back to you.
  
  > concentrate on the card
  Dr. Ephart is holding up one of the cards. The back shows several blue loops and a line drawing of a building.
  
  As you concentrate on the deck of cards, you get a dull headache. For a moment, you think you see the cross superimposed on the back of the card, but then it is gone.
  
  > press the cross
  The keypad chimes, and the cross button glows briefly. Dr. Ephart nods unconsciously as she tucks her card back in the deck.
  
  Dr. Ephart shuffles her cards together and draws the second card. She holds the card up with its back to you.
  
  > concentrate on the card
  As you concentrate on the deck of cards, you feel a peculiar twinge behind one eye. The back of the card distorts until it's like looking at the front of the card. You see the five-pointed star on the card.
  
  > Press star
  The keypad chimes, and the five-pointed star button glows briefly. Dr. Ephart tilts her head to one side as she takes note of your response.
  
  Dr. Ephart shuffles her cards together and draws the third card. She holds the card up with its back to you.
  
  > concentrate on the card
  As you concentrate on the deck of cards, small spots of light glitter through your vision. You close your eyes for a moment, then open them and look at the card. You clearly see the wavy lines on the back of the card before it swims out of sight.
  
  > press lines
  The keypad chimes, and the wavy lines button glows briefly. Dr. Ephart's lips curve slightly up as she writes something in her notebook.
  
  Dr. Ephart shuffles her cards together and draws the fourth card. She holds the card up with its back to you.
  
  > concentrate on the card
  As you concentrate on the deck of cards, your headache increases. Staring at the card, you sense that Dr. Ephart's card is the cross.
  
  > press the cross
  The keypad chimes, and the cross button glows briefly. Dr. Ephart glances at your response and looks impressed.
  
  Dr. Ephart shuffles her cards together and draws the last card. She holds the card up with its back to you.
  
  > concentrate on the card
  As you concentrate on the deck of cards, you feel briefly lightheaded. The five-pointed star jolts sharply and painfully into your brain. There's no doubt: that's her card.
  
  > Press star
  The keypad chimes, and the five-pointed star button glows briefly. Dr. Ephart breaks into a broad smile.
  
  Dr. Ephart picks up the deck of cards again. She smiles at you and presses the intercom switch. "You did great - thank you! I'll be back in just a moment."