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[> Open fusebox]

> Open fusebox

You open up the fusebox, which looks perhaps even more barren than the others. Only one fuse is in place and even it appears to be burnt.

I see no error... anymore...

[> Read Water Drop poster]

> Read Water Drop poster

You examine the poster on the wall.
The poster has a large depiction of a single drop of water. On the top, with bold red letters, is the word "REMEMBER", followed by: "Conserve every drop - WATER is LIFE"

You feel a strange sense of deja-vu.

[> Push over Blue cups]

> Push over Blue cups

Looks like someone has spent a long time, possible hours, painstakingly balancing the fragile blue porcelain cups atop one another.
It would be a shame if someone would disturb this delicate work of... HEY!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?



The cups crash down to the floor and shatter. The noise echoes in the hallway outside.
As you giggle like a maniac you realize you were probably the sort of person who enjoyed pushing over other people's card houses just to see the look of dismay and disbelief on their faces as you did.

You are a horrible person, aren't you? DON'T LOOK SO HAPPY ABOUT IT!

[> Take foodstuffs]

> Take foodstuffs
Unsure of what to take, you stuff your pockets with foodstuffs.
You have picked up:
- 1 tin can labelled "Mac'n'Cheese"
- 1 tin can labelled "Veggie mix"
- 1 plastic can of "Apple juice" (with an attached plastic straw)
- 1 "Meal Ready to Eat" labelled "BBQ Pork & Rice"

Ryan, my hat is off to you for soldiering on through that entire bloody mess of a video and DOCUMENTING it!
*salutes*

Since we have time issues like the oxygen tanks could we have game time added to the UI Wham?

Sorry but nope. Each turn is a unit of time to itself, which I use to keep track of stuff, but they would be painful to measure in minutes or seconds.

[> Look for can opener.]

> Look for can opener.

Pretty much all of the metal cans and tins you have seen so far have a small handle so they can be easily opened without a can opener, but better safe than sorry. You rummage the drawers and manage to locate a simple metallic can opener, which you store in your pocket.

I can't help it but laugh.

[> Go to break room. >Search Drawers & Cupboards.]

> Go to break room. >Search Drawers & Cupboards.

You decide to leave the maintenance room for now, and instead search for a snack in the break room. You rummage around the cabinets and discover big blue cups, plates, dinnerware, pots, pans, instant coffee powders of several sorts, and several small cans of different dried foodstuffs, such as dried fruit, dried meals and soups.

[> Put fuses down on table]

> Put fuses down on table

You decide to have a slight spring-cleaning of your pockets, and dump the burnt-out fuses onto the tabletop.

So what does the 'A' on the key mean?   

Now that you ask, I simply added it as an identifier, so that the key can be identified as "Key A" even if it leaves the player's posession. Further keys that might be collected will receive designations B, C, D and so forth until I run out of the alphabet or keys.

Nope, "E" = Equipped
Then again, it might have made sense for me to explain this stuff, but I think it's more interesting when the players don't know everything.

hey, we are also still carrying emmas oxygen bottle. It's good to know how much she has left, but we are not actually carrying it!

Ehem... There are now 3 oxygen bottles in play, yours (equipped), Emma's, and a third spare tank you found in the control room.

[> Take small components]

> Take small components

You look over on the floor. It appears that the small plastic box that has fallen on the floor contained some sort of old-looking micro chips. You have no idea what they do or what sort of machinery they belong in, but you pocket a handful of them off the floor anyway.

Your pockets are now full, you cannot carry any more items.

Sooo... When's a tax coming in to take money for using older versions of Firefox, Chrome, Netscape Navigator etc?

Oh, oh, maybe we should start adding a similiar tax to people who play online games with slow internet connections for always lagging up the games for everybody! And for people playing games on old CRT monitors, as we need to ensure the games look good on those as well as on the more modern LCD / TFT / LED panel monitors! And maybe we should tax people who have computers over 3 years old, as software manufacturers in general need to take into account older and slower computers, and thus most of them cannot and will not make the most of modern technology!

[> Grab chips]

> Grab chips

You scoop up the small white plastic chips into your palm and examine them. Each of the chips appears to have no other means of connecting to the fuses, save for a single metal wire. On all of the chips, this metal wire appears to have melted, leaving behind only a tiny blackened stump.

You pocket the chips.

[! PURANGE !]

And the winner is...

! PURANGE !
and his incredibly well drawn and atmospheric light in the dark!


Congratulations on my part as well, you gathered a total of 14 votes of the total of 27 votes cast in all categories!
Feel free to kick up the next competition when you feel ready, and sorry to everyone for posting this half-a-day late (forgot)!

@m0ds: Yeah, I write from my (bad) memory, since I'm at work! Mode7, Screen7, Killer7, it's all the same!

Well, Screen7 used Indiegogo to raise some money for Kinky Island, so unless they are soon on the forums, cursing how they have been swindled and their money stolen, I think that is a good option as well. I am planning on starting up a small fundraiser on Indiegogo myself, probably late this year or early next year.