text: > About yourself
  You are Justine Thyme. While most of your time is spent getting straight A's in high school or studying up on superheroes, you also have been conducting research on Einstein's recent breakthroughs in Time and Space.
  
  > take the pen and the notebook
  dry fountain pen: Taken.
  weathered notebook: Taken.
  
  > examine notebook
  In your months of research, you've compiled notes on over a dozen superheroes and their abilities. You can LOOK UP a superhero to learn more about them.
  
  The front page contains the following motto, underlined a dozen times: A TRUE HERO LEAVES NO ONE BEHIND.
  
  > examine the desk
  Someone must have used this basement as an office years ago. This desk is very plain, with no drawers.
  
  > look at stool
  This stool looks like the kind of stool that people leave in a corner for years, pulling out only for the worst tasks, such as changing a light bulb in the men's room.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a weathered notebook
  a dry fountain pen
  
  > Go upwards
  If you ever wanted to learn more about fish, this would have been the place to do it. A shattered tank spans one wall, and a wave of broken glass fills the air before it. You can leave to the Hall of Mirrors to the west or the splash pool to the north.
  
  An old leaden hatch is open, revealing an opening down to the basement.
  
  It is unbelievably quiet in here. You poke your head outside, only to withdraw it again in shock and fear. It seems the world has been frozen in time!
  
  Your only conclusion is that the trauma of the battle and explosion have awakened some sort of latent abilities deep within you. It is
  up to you and you alone to save every last person in this abandoned theme park.
  
  When you feel like everyone is safe, you can RELEASE the temporal energies in the same place that you stopped time and let the bomb fall.
  
  > Examine tank
  This fish tank seems to have been caught in the process of shattering from some sort of shockwave. Tiny shards of glass fill the air in front of it.
  
  > examine the glass
  Tiny shards of glass fill the air in front of the shattered aquarium.
  
  > go north
  Splash Pool (Frozen)
  The splash pool has frozen solid, and flakes of snow surround you. A large carousel is to the west, and you can retreat to the
  aquarium to the south.
  
  You saw this from the aquarium as you were headed down the stairs. Mister Winter was battling the Alchemist until she ran out of antifreeze. That's when he started pulling out the big symbols.
  
  Mister Winter is surrounded by pillars of ice, one hand pointing accusingly to the snack bar to the north, and another tracing
  an arcane symbol of winter in the sky.
  
  > look up Winter
  An ancient necromancer awoken by the evils of war, Mister Winter is capable of casting bone-chilling spells, incantations, and diagrams.
  
  > look up alchemist
  Once the mild-mannered Professor Molly Q. Lar, The Alchemist uses her powers of chemistry to alter the human body and mind. While she initially resisted the unscientific appellation of Alchemist, she now embraces her mystique.
  
  > examine mister
  (Mister Winter)
  Mister Winter is the epitome of cold, with bulky armor made from ice. Just looking at him makes you chilled inside.
  
  > look at the symbol
  The arcane symbol of winter traces itself into your mind. You feel confident that you would be able to reproduce it on a suitable medium.
  
  > examine ice
  Which do you mean, the splash pool, the bulky ice armor or the pillars of ice?
  
  > examine the Pool
  Splash Pool (Frozen)
  The splash pool has frozen solid, and flakes of snow surround you. A large carousel is to the west, and you can retreat to the
  aquarium to the south.
  
  Mister Winter is surrounded by pillars of ice, one hand pointing accusingly to the snack bar to the north, and another tracing
  an arcane symbol of winter in the sky.
  
  > examine the armor
  Mister Winter made this armor from slabs of pure ice.
  
  > look at the pillars
  Forceful and fantastical at the same time, these pillars were raised by Mister Winter's power.
  
  > go north
  The snack bar smells horrible, and is encrusted with filth. It has changed the least of all of the attractions. The splash pool is to the south, and the gift shop occupies the space to the west.
  
  Ah, so this is where the Alchemist ended up.
  
  The Alchemist has stumbled over the snack bar in her haste to flee from something to the south. Her bag has spilled, sending potions of power flying everywhere.
  
  > examine Alchemist
  (the Alchemist)
  The Alchemist wears a close-fitting pink helmet and a pink lab coat. She normally carries numerous potions, but they seem to have gotten away from her.
  
  > look at the potions
  There are so many potions here, it's bewildering. You'll never find anything without help.
  
  > examine the bag
  The Alchemist's bag has spilled, sending potions everywhere.
  
  > take the bag
  That's frozen in time.
  
  > take the potions
  There are hundreds of potions. You'll need to be more specific.
  
  > examine the filth
  The filth is, as might be expected, filthy.
  
  > search Alchemist
  (the Alchemist)
  You find nothing of interest.
  
  > Search potions
  Without help, it's impossible to distinguish them.
  
  > Go west
  The ghosts of merchandise past haunt this weathered shop. An empty display table has been left here, as well as some boxes and leftover packaging. The snack bar is back to the east, and the carousel
  is south.
  
  So this is where Squid Kid ended up. Makes sense the Chef would be here, too.
  
  Squid Kid is crouched, cowering, under the table. A puddle of ink trails behind her.
  
  The Chef is frozen mid-stalk, clutching a massive cleaver in one hand and a carving fork in the other. She's looking for something, or someone, and she looks very, very hungry.
  
  > examine kid
  Poor Squid Kid. She's tried attending six different schools since her change, but the students invariably begin to complain about her wrecking the grade curve. But she's managed to keep her superpowers remarkably well hidden.
  
  Squid Kid is squished into a rubbery suit with an insignia of a squid on the center.
  
  > look up squid kid
  Squid Kid was born when a mild-mannered young girl fell into a vat of squid ink at the same time that a lightning storm struck the factory. With her powerful ink shots and the ability to breathe underwater, Squid Kid is the best at submarine hide and seek!
  
  > examine chef
  The Chef is one of Evildom's most wretched beasts. Not content with feasting on endangered species, she also enjoys devouring pulp science fiction books and consuming unhealthy amounts of television and newspaper stories.
  
  > Examine boxes
  The boxes and leftover packaging are completely unimportant.
  
  > examine the ink
  The ink is puddled up in a trail leading to Squid Kid.
  
  > go south
  The carousel is much barer than it used to be. Your friend Teddy has a wooden ostrich in his house that he claims is from here, but you never know with Teddy.
  
  The first bits of debris from Rex Dashing's airship have almost reached the ground here.
  
  There are exits to the north, east, south, and
  west.
  
  You stare upwards in shock. The exploding airship is directly above. A masterpiece of nuclear and robotic technology, turned to such destruction. Horrible.
  
  is stopped..
  
  > examine the airship
  High in the sky, Rex Dashing's airship is frozen mid-explosion. Various bits are plummeting from the sky towards the center of the park.
  
  The debris is very close to you here. You may be able to climb
  up it.
  
  > look up dashing
  Rex Dashing is a playboy adventurer and superhero, current owner of Airship Mephistopheles.
  
  > Go upward
  Boy, it sure is high up here. You can see the whole park. It's a lot smaller than you remember.
  
  You are perched on a lone stair, with one hand on a steel beam. You can go back down to the carousel, further from impending doom.
  
  Amelia Derringer, intrepid villain, hangs suspended in the air, her body stretched and elasticized as only a blobified morphivore can. She currently looks like an upside-down bowl.
  
  > look at Amelia
  (Amelia Derringer)
  Amelia the villain is stretched out and blobified into a bowl shape.
  
  > look up amelia
  Catgirl, society girl, and metamorphic prodigy. She has only to eat a bite of an animal to gain its powers.
  
  > turn amelia
  (Amelia Derringer)
  You don't want to knock anyone over, and so you leave them alone.
  
  > look up the radon
  Inventor, physicist, and card-carrying member of the League of Notoriety.
  
  > examine the ship
  High in the sky, Rex Dashing's airship is frozen mid-explosion. Various bits are plummeting from the sky towards the center of the park.