Your mission, that you have been carefully selected to embark on, is to gather as much intel you can about the humans without drawing unwaranted attention to yourself. Our preliminary scans of the area show there are 3 locations on the premises that contain key items you must retrieve. Review the locations before you leave.
1. Harold-Kumar Memorial Library (click: "Harold-Kumar Memorial Library")[(set: $review1 to true)
The so-called library houses a plethora of valuable information, yet for some reason most humans spend their time elsewhere. Inside the library there should be an priceless artifact called the Encyclopedia. Obtain it.
]
2. Reggie's Pizza Place (click: "Reggie's Pizza Place")
[(set: $review2 to true)
The growing adults of this learning center all gather here even into the late hours when they are supposed to be heibernating. Bring back the secret of this location that attracts so many humans.
]
3. Bernard Administration Hall (click: "Bernard Administration Hall")
[(set: $review3 to true)
This building contains information regarding to every human on this campus. We must acquire this information at all costs. The data is stored on a "floppy disk" somewhere deep in storage.
]
[[Continue|intro2]]Obviously, we don't want to reveal ourselves or our technology to the humans this early in their development so discretion is crucial to your mission's success. When you have collected all three items flick your skin suit's nostrils and it will send us your location and we can teleport you out of there. Make sure you're in an isolated location though, we don't want another Area 51.
Good luck out there Grobulon-429. We're counting on you!
[[Walk from out of the bushes.|campus0]]
(set: $sus to 0)
(set: $hasBook to false)
(set: $hasMoney to false)
(set: $hasChange to false)
(set: $hasPizza to false)
(set: $hasUSB to false)
(set: $plugUSB to false)
(set: $hasFloppy to false)
(set: $adminClear to false)
(set: $adminVisit to false)
(set: $libraryVisit to false)
(set: $pizzaVisit to false)You are Grobulon-429, an agent of an alien species attempting to collect information on the human population of Earth. You have been teleported in front of the Lotterdale Community College with a doctorate in Theoretical Human Relationships, a B.S. in Human History post Big Bang #5 with a minor in post-post-post-pop culture.
[[Continue|intro1]](set: $sus to 0)
//You step foot into the sunlight and are hit with a large crowd of young adult humans murmuring about "classes", "making friends", and "I heard this class is an easy A" as they make their ways across the open field.
You see one specific human with a shirt saying "NEW STUDENT GUIDE" handing out pamplets and pointing out the surrounding buildings.
Out of the corner of your skin bag's eyes, you see a large map printed across a tablet indicating specific locations on the school.//
What do you do?
[[Approach the guide|guide0]]
[[Harold-Kumar Memorial Library|libraryLoop]]
[[Reggie's Pizza Place|pizza0]]
[[Bernard Administration Building|admin0]]
[[Use your Grobulon vision to see further into the distance|campus1]]
(link: "Do nothing")[Yeah that'd be nice, but time is of the essence here.]//You enter the library.//
(if: $hasBook is false)[[Ask librarian|librarian0]]
(link: "Ask student")[The librarian violently shushes you.]
(link: "Peruse")[You start skimming individual "book" covers only to find titles like "Twilight", "The Communist Manifesto", and "Moby Dick". None of which read "Encyclopedia". This would take forever to find the right one.]
[[Leave the library|campus2]]//As you enter the grease covered establishment you see gaggles of college undergrads huddling around pies of cow cheese, tomato essence, and burnt flour. You blend in perfectly with the wierdos, outcasts, and new kids hanging around the stools lined up along the window-side bar.
You take a step into the crowd and see one student huddled in a corner booth frantically slapping their hands across a wide plastic device bent at a 85 degree angle. An older gentleman dawning a large white blob on his head spinning the burnt flour in his powdery hands yelling at other younger people attempting to replicate his actions.//
(set: $visitPizza to true)
What do you do?
[[Approach the powder-hand man|chef0]]
[[Approach the frantic student|hacker0]]
[[Head back to the main plaza|campus2]]//You enter the admin building and are greeted with shinny white teeth and a tired smile as it is custom in this region. You return the gesture hiding tighting the suit's cheeks as to save your face from falling.
You pan across the inside of the buidling and notice two doors in your immediate vacinity. One labeled ''ADMISSIONS'' and another ''RECORDS before 1990s'' as well as the student assistant at the front desk.//
(set: $adminVisit to true)
[[Enter ADMISISONS|adminWrong]]
[[Enter RECORDS before 1990s|adminWrong]]
(if: $hasPizza is false)[[Talk to front desk... the person not the actual desk|admin1]]
(if: $hasPizza)[[Raise the glorious pizza in the air like a trophy.|adminClear]]
[[Leave the administration building|campus2]]UPITTY SLIGHTLY OLDER STUDENT
Hiya! My name is Jess and I'm a new-student guide here to help make sure you get to classes on time or answer any questions you might have! Did you need help with something?
(link: "Where is Harold-Kumar?")[(set: $libInfo to true)The Harold-Kumar Memorial Library is just north of here past the fountain. You can't miss it with the row of steps leading up to it and the big sign out front. Make sure you bring your student ID before you check out a book or use the computers.]
(link: "Where is Reggie?")[(set: $pizzaInfo to true)Reggie's Pizza Place is the hottest on-campus restaurant! It's the perfect hang-out spot to meet other students or grab a bite. Just don't expect to get any peace or quiet there.]
(link: "Where is Bernard?")[(set: $adminInfo to true)If you need any help getting your student ID or checking on the classes you are taking, the Bernard Administration Building is further past the Nichols Science Center and Haley Osweld Department of the Arts.]
[[I am really almighty. Thanks to you.|campus2]]//A sudden primal instinct runs over you and your mission training kicks in as you take a running start and leap 5 feet into the air and snatch the disk above your head. You clasp onto the edges with both of your sweaty hands that fit your own appendages like loose gloves. You land on the pavement with a somersault as the crowd that was minding their own business now take a second to look at your what you've just done.
The now attentive crowd of humans stare at you including the male that threw it.//
[[Take a bow|diskGood]]
[[Run away to avoid any more attention and drop the disk|diskBad]](set: $sus to $sus + 1)
//Your eyes dialate and you notice a group of students off in the distance huddling under a tree helping the fallen leaves photosythensize by burning them... or so you'd guess. One of the students drops their current converstaion after noticing you staring at him. You start to panic as he starts to panic and you try to pretend like your eyes didn't turn reptilian-like in front of him.
Suddenly, you notice a small plastic disk spiraling towards you as a young male human yells// "Heads up!"
[[Go for the disk|disk]]
[[Let it zoom past your loosely fit head|nodisk]]PLASTIC DISK DUDE
Aw, you totally could have caught that bro. Bummer.
//He goes to retrieve the disk next to you, but gives you an odd look as he runs back to his social partners.//
[[Sweat nervously and head back to the plaza|campus2]]"That was awesome!" //someone says holding three fresh new textbooks that will take a painful amount of time to pay for.//
[[Head back to main plaza|campus2]](set: $sus to $sus + 1)
PLASTIC DISK DUDE
That fella was crazy! I've never seen anyone do that on the fly like that.
[[Continue|campus2]]//You see one specific human with a shirt saying "NEW STUDENT GUIDE" handing out pamplets and pointing out the surrounding buildings.
Out of the corner of your skin bag's eyes, you see a large map printed across a tablet indicating specific locations on the school.//
What do you do?
[[Approach the guide|guide0]]
[[Harold-Kumar Memorial Library|libraryLoop]]
[[Reggie's Pizza Place|pizzaLoop]]
[[Bernard Administration Building|adminLoop]]//You approach the silent female human looks up at you with her glasses leaning over her nose. Carefully keeping tabs on other students while pressing her fingers to a row of letters layed out accross her table in front of a large glowing box.//
SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Hello there, how can I help you today?
(if: $review1 is true)[[Do you have an Ency-clope-dia?|librarian2]]
[[Where does your species contain their collective knowledge?|librarian1]]
(link: "Where am I?")[
SILENT FEMALE LADY
This is the Harold-Kumar Memorial Library. Didn't you see the sign outside?
//I swear they come in dumber every year.// She mumbles under her breath.]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Do you have your ID with you?
(if: $hasID is true)[[Yes! I have the proper identification. //wink//|librarian5]]
[[No...|librarianReset]]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
//Oh no, not one of these ones again.//
Listen, if you aren't used to using computers, I recommend you check out the computer lab or rent a laptop at the tech help center. If you're looking for academic journals and research papers we have multiple databases to choose from.
[[Of course, I will indeed check out your laptop and explore your glorious databases.|librarian3]]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Uh huh... do you have an ID?
(if: $hasID is true)[[Why yes! I have my identification d-dentifcator right here!|librarian5]]
[[My id...|librarian4]]//You dig deep from your studies on human philosphy during your Grobulon education.//
Ah yes, I too have a primal and instinctual segment of my brain that drives my sexuality and aggression.
//The female stares at you not sure whether she should upgrade her feelings of awkwardness and uncomfortability into concern.//
[[Is that what you were refering to?|librarianWrong]]//You approach the door ku-nob.//
(set: $sus to $sus + 1)
FRONT DESK SITTER
Excuse me, you cannot go in there!
[[Scuttle away from the door|adminLoop]]//The front desk assistant feigns a smile as you approach. You hear a faint grumbling noise from behind the counter. Even though there may be a small animal with her ready to pounce at any moment, you proceed anyways.//
LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
How can I help you?
[[I want to go in there. //pointing at RECORDS before 1990s//|adminDeny]]
[[I want to go in THERE. //pointing at ADMISSIONS//|adminDeny]]
[[Do you have a small animal behind your desk?|adminFood]]
[[Step back|adminLoop]]//You walk up to the man covered in a white powder on top of his white clothing. He is barking orders and covering the money in his hand with tomato sauce and flour. He takes a moment of his precious time to acknowledge you.//
GRUMPY FLOUR COVERED MAN
Wadda ya want?
(if: $hasMoney is true)[[One pee-tsa with olives and Italian sausage. I have the exchange token, here. //Offer the bill.//|chef1]]
[[What is that? //Point at tomato, cheese, bread-thing//|chefQ]]
[[Uh...|chefScram]]//You see a young student frantically slamming their fingers across a plastic board with a glowing screen in front of her. She pays no mind to you, but knows you're standing there in front of her.//
KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Can I help you...?
[[What are you doing with your fingers?|hackerQ0]]
[[Do you need something?|hacker1]]
{(if: $plugUSB)[[Mission complete!|hackerDone]]}
[[How are you?|hackerBad]]
[[//Say nothing and walk away//|pizzaLoop]]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Lucky for you, someone returned an Encyclopedia Britannica earlier today, so I have one right here. I just need to see your ID...
//She offers the enourmous collection of paper glued together.//
[[Hand over ID|libraryIDCheck]](set: $sus to $sus + 1)
SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Listen... I really don't want to have to call security, please just get out of here and don't take anything. Okay!?
[[I am apologies. //Leave the library//|campus2]]LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
I'm sorry, students aren't allowed in there. School policy.
[[Understandable...|admin1]]LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
Excuse me? What are- Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't think you could hear my stomach growling. I've been so busy all afternoon I haven't had time to step out for a bite to eat.
[[Does your pet ''Stomach'' bite?|adminConfused]]
[[Perhaps I could bring you sustinance?|adminFood0]]//You return to the main lobby.
You pan across the inside of the buidling and notice two doors in your immediate vacinity. One labeled ''ADMISSIONS'' and another ''RECORDS before 1990s'' as well as the student assistant at the front desk.//
[[Enter ADMISISONS|adminWrong]]
[[Enter RECORDS before 1990s|adminWrong]]
(if: $hasPizza is false)[[Talk to front desk... the person not the actual desk|admin1]]
(if: $hasPizza)[[Raise the glorious pizza in the air like a trophy.|adminClear]]
[[Leave the library|campus2]](set: $sus to $sus + 1)
LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
What?... No, my stomach is growling because I'm hungry.
//She has never seen a student this out of touch before.//
[[Ah yes, of course. Hunger.|adminLoop]]LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
Listen, maybe you could do me a huge favor. Could you go over to Reggie's next-door and pick-up one of those small personal pizza with olives and Italian sausage? Here, it only costs $8.40 but keep the change as a delivery fee.
//She hands you a crisp green paper rectangle with a little man painted in the center. Small number tens adorn each corner alongside tiny symbols laid throughout. One of them looks like the Grobulon word for control, but the thought passes.//
[[I accept the mission! //take the money//|adminFood1]]
[[I currently cannot.|adminLoop]]LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
Thank you so much, please hurry, I feel like I'm going to pass out soon.
(set: $hasMoney to true)
[[Leave the building.|campus2]]GRUMPY FLOUR COVERED MAN
Lucky for you, someone prank called us and asked for the exact same order. I swear... I'm gonna get those punks. Anyways, here's your change. Have a good day sir.
//He hands you the beautiful pizza and a handful of coins with sauce on them. You could use the residue on the change for analysis!//
(set: $hasPizza to true)
(set: $hasChange to true)
[[Thank you! //Take the money and pizza.//|pizzaLoop]]GRUMPY FLOUR COVERED MAN
It's a pizza man, c'mon... I don't have time for this.
[[Of course, sorry.|chef0]]GRUMPY FLOUR COVERED MAN
I don't have time for your balogna. Go bother someone else!
[[//Walk away//|pizzaLoop]]//You stand in the corner of the restaurant and look around.//
[[Approach the powder-hand man|chef0]]
[[Approach the frantic student|hacker0]]
[[Head back to the main plaza|campus2]]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Please come back with an appropriate ID.
[[//Walk away.//|libraryLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Typing. Next?
[[What are you typing on?|hackerQ1]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Listen, unless you can magically walk into the admissions office and change my schedule, you literally can't do anything for me.
(if: $adminVisit is true)[[I don't have the power of a warlock, but I can get into that room.|hackerQuest]]
[[I'd like to help, but I don't know how to.|hackerQuest]]
[[I am a being of science, not magic!|hackerLeave]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Piss off. Go get your kicks somewhere else.
[[//Whoops//|pizzaLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
A computer. Next?
[[What is a computer?|hackerQ2]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Go to the library to find out more, bucko.
//She's clearly starting to get irratated.//
[[What's a library?|hackerBad]]
[[Okay, will do.|hacker0]]LOW WADGE SMILING LADY
Oh thank goodness! Give me that please! Keep the change.
//She swipes the pizza furiously, leaves a note saying "be back in 15", and runs outside.//
(set: $adminClear to true)
[[Look around.|adminClearLoop]]You pan across the inside of the buidling and notice two doors in your immediate vacinity. One labeled ''ADMISSIONS'' and another ''RECORDS before 1990s'' as well as the student assistant at the front desk.
[[Enter ADMISISONS|adminRoom]]
[[Enter RECORDS before 1990s|recordsRoom0]]
[[Leave the administration building|campus2]](set: $visitAdmissions to true)
//You scan the room and see a small plastic rectangle with a glowing screen.//
(if: $hasUSB is true)[[Use the USB on the computer|adminRoomGood]]
[[Stare at the curious device.|adminRoomInfo]]
[[Leave|adminClearLoop]] //Scattered through complex webs scattered amongst the shelves, you weren't sure if humans, spiders or both were able to produce webs to trap their prey. You run your fingers through boxes of paper, shining disks that reflect rainbows, and eventually find the dustiest box of all. In it are little rectangles and outside a label reads "Floppy Disk Records". You excitedly, but quietly grab one and stash it away.//
(set: $hasFloppy to true)
[[Continue|recordsRoomLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Listen, I was stayed up too late on a side-project I'm working on and slept through my alarm to sign up for classes. Now I'm in MATH 200244 and not MATH 200128. If I don't fix it and switch my classes this quarter, I have to replan my whole 4 years. Normally, I would just mess with things remotely, but I need a physical link to the school administration computer to access anything. If you get this USB into the computer, I can return the favor on anything school related. Grade changes, class swaps, a better looking ID photo, you name it. So can you help me or not?
(if: $adminClear)[[I'll ask the lady to help when she's done with her sustinance.|hackerClear]]
[[I will take this yu-es-bee and infiltrate the computer for you. //Take USB//|hackerNotClear]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Cool, bye then.
[[Leave|pizzaLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Oh nice! If she's not there, just slither in, plug in the USB, and get out! I should be able to swap everything in time before they notice.
[[I cannot slither in my current form, but I will make haste.|hackerThanks]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
You'll have to find a way to get into the admissions room, but if I knew I would have gotten in already.
[[Don't worry, I'm good at recon. ''wink''|hackerThanks]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Interesting word choice, but good luck. Oh, here's the USB you need to plug in.
//She hands you the small plastic chip while typing with the other hand.//
[[Take the USB and leave|pizzaLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Hey nice job, whatever your name is! I fixed my schedule and everything is back on track. So, what do you need from me now that I'm hooked up to their system? We don't have too long before they unplug it, so we have to act fast.
[[I need an ID. Er... a new ID for a new photo.//smile//|hackerHelp0]]//You hold the little plastic given to you and notice the device on the desk has small openings on the side that just might be the access points. You try inserting the USB, but it does not enter. Fear that it might break if you force it, you flip it to its opposite side and plug it in. No good. Even though you've exhausted all options, you flip the USB back to its original side and plug it in out of desperation. For some reason, it inserts properly this time and a small icon appears on the device in front of you. There are some pages appearing up on the screen, but it's all giberish. There's nothing left to do here.//
(set: $plugUSB to true)
[[Leave|adminClearLoop]]If only you could hall this complex device for research, but you'd draw too much suspicion.
[[Leave|adminRoom]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
I hear you. It took me forever to find the right photo for mine. Let me just take your photo right here.
//The plastic rectangle in front of her flashes a blinding light.//
KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
There we go... slam in some random information... Oh yeah, what's your name again?
[[Grobulon-429|hackerHelpSus]]
[[Skid Mark|hackerSkid]]
[[John Smith|hackerJohn]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Never heard a name like that... but here you go Grobulon-429. Thanks for your help.
(set: $hasID to true)
(set: $name to "Grobulon-429")
[[And thank YOU!|pizzaLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Never heard a name like that... but here you go Skid... 'giggle' Mark. Thanks for your help.
(set: $hasID to true)
(set: $name to "Skid Mark")
[[And thank YOU!|pizzaLoop]]KEYBOARD SLAMMING GAL
Here you go John Smith.
//She puts up two fingers on each hand to mimic the English quotation mark.//
Thanks for your help.
(set: $hasID to true)
(set: $name to "Grobulon-429")
[[And thank YOU!|pizzaLoop]]SILENT FEMALE LIBRARIAN
Thank you... $name.
//She gives you a judging look behind her glasses.//
Here you go.
(set: $hasBook to true)
[[I promise I will not deconstruct this precious artifact.|libraryLoop]]//As you look around you notice the room is quiet. Clearly no one has stepped foot in here for years, the perfect place to call for evacuation.//
[[Leave the room|adminClearLoop]]
[[Flick your nose for evacuation|final0]]A bright light flashes around you and your body shakes slightly as you teleport out of the dusty room.
[[Report|final1]]{(if: $hasBook and $hasChange and $hasFloppy)[You have accomplished your mission and have collected all 3 items. Well done Grobulon-429](else:)[You were not able to collect all 3 items. Mission failed. We'll get them on the next one.]}
You were almost caught $sus times.