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[> examine maps]

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> examine maps

You examine the maps. Wonder what they depict?

[> Travel East again and go through the door.]

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> Travel East again and go through the door.

You curse the damned machine and its mysteries. However, the smoke seems quite troubling and you decide it better for your health to vacate the area. You head EAST.



The door opens easily despite the rust in its hinges. You enter a new area very similiar to the one yous just left, except smaller. There is a ladder down into a deep pool of water (though the water level is lower than in the previous area), a door to the WEST where you came from, another similiar door to NORTH and a glass case with some sort of maps in it on the NORTH WALL.

Madness! There are no girls on the internet! Ti... GTF... wait, wrong forums. Sorry, nevermind, just lurking around the thread, watching, waiting...

[> hit the D switch in hope that it will cut the power of the machine]

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> hit the D switch in hope that it will cut the power of the machine

You click the D switch. The machine remains unresponsive.
You HOPE really, really hard that this is doing somehing good, and not causing some sort of extremely important machine to go haywire.

[> Travel back to the machine and hit "Emergency Stop"!]

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> Travel back to the machine and hit "Emergency Stop"!

You press "Emergency Stop". The button makes an understated click but you are not sure if anything happened.

[> read instructions for machine]

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> read instructions for machine

You are quite certain that if such instructions existed in this game you would have exhausted any and all possible opportunities to find and study such a tome before interacting with any heavy machinery.

The lack of documentation makes you quite irate, or perhaps you are just cringing at the smoke now spewing from the machine.





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> Travel East

You travel east.

[> press button C]

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> press button C

The button makes a satisfying click and...
All the lights on the controls go off, and the A and B buttons pop out automatically. There is a disheartening metal screech from somewhere deep in the bowels of the machinery and you hear a loud and distinct POP of electrical components turning from useful equipment into smoke-emitting machines.

You have a feeling this little mishap might haunt you in the future...

Any plans to start a seuqel, VV(W)G?
[EDITED, because I don't know how to type  ]

@Selmiak: you do realize you are playing an adventure game of sorts? Also: have you ever tried to start your car while it was already running? I have, it was not a wise thing to do...

I'll post the results of your button pushing later today.

Okay, I'm starting to feel like a troll or an angsty teenager, so I'll stop spouting my madness after this.

@Atelier: Actually I'm not thinking of the middle / dark ages, I'm going even further back to the glorious Roman empire around 2050 years ago. They actually did put criminals either into a colosseum for a good show, or made slaves out of them, with no moral issues or thought about "human rights". While I'm not a fan of raping and pillaging, you have to admit they had some good things going on back there.

Sorry for ranting guys! WHAM, out!

Battle Royale, anyone? But hide th cameras, or they'll steal them

I approve of this.

@Creed Maladay
As I said above: prisons are ineffective as you eventually get out of them. When criminals are released, their criminal record keeps them from jobs and ensures their lives remain miserable. It would be better to do something else with such individuals. I say we reinstate the roman colosseum!

No, seriously! What was the name of the Schwartzenegger movie where they did something similiar? THAT would be awesome entertainment!

I followed babar's link as well, cannot find it either.
Is there a difference between certain accounts? I'm not deleting my account, though, just curious. 

As far as I know, you cannot delete an account. I looked around my own account out of curiosity and couldn't find a way either.

Why do you need to delete the accound? Why not just change it so the e-mail and other information is hidden/incorrect and just abandon it?

@Chicky: I personally believe that punishments for crime should be tougher all around. I truly want to believe that the majority of us humans are civilized and "good people", and that those few who break the law and loot and riot should be punished so heavily that they will either be removed from the society or forced to conform.

Maybe I am naive, maybe I am, as you say, "and angry teenager with a rant", but still I want to believe.

I want to add that I believe the only reason people defend actions like this, or seek to lessen the punishments for criminals, is due to these people being criminals on some level themselves. I see no other reason to defend such activity, which has no place in a civilized society's streets. If people want violent entertainment, let them have an arena and televize the figts, actually, lets just put all criminals in an arena and commercialize their deaths. This would be fine by me. Radical, tough, extreme, but hellishly effective.

Feel free to disagree, but think about it. Do we need prisons? Do we need to pamper criminals? Or could we put these creatures that are closer to beast than a person to some sort of use that could serve the rest of us?

[> Press button B on the machine]

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> Press button B on the machine

You backtrack to the machine and press the button labelled "B". The button makes a satisfying click and lights up.
The buttons A and B are now lit. Button C is not lit. Switch D is in the "ON" position and is lit.

You begin to hear an unhealthy grinding metal noise.

I believe a person who disproportionately causes harm to others for personal gain should receive as much punishment as is appropriate.

Look at this picture (link):
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/london_riots/bp23.jpg
"Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)"

Just to be safe, look at the whole gallery:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/london_riots.html

Now ask who did this and why. Why did the 89 year old barber and thousands of others have their businesses and lives ruined?

I'll just wait until you have your answers to those questions.

. . .

Now that you do have answsers to my questions, I believe you've answered your own one as well.

I don't know and I dont care. I just hope as many rioters as possible suffer as much as possible.  8)

Yay! I was in the credits! 
The ending was a tad abrupt, but the game was still quite funny! Thanks verywierdguy!

The finnish newspaper (rag) "Iltalehti" had a small story in which they listed some of the rioters who had been accused already: 11 year old child (too young to take any responsibility), schoolhteacher (good luck having any credibility in your job now), high-school student (missed her exams due to being in jail for a week, has a rich father)...

The list just goes on!

These were not young people without jobs. These are idiots with functional lives who just noticed a chance to have a spot of "fun" and get free stuff while having "fun".

I've been keeping track of the news and I've noticed one really great thing: the media are publishing NAMES of people who have been convicted of looting and rioting. This is GREAT!

I think all who are caught and found guilty of looting and violence should get their names and faces and even home addresses posted all over the media and the internet. I can imagine the future of these people, going into job interviews and getting turned down due to their criminal history so they will have to live in misery for the rest of their short days.

Ah, if only the world were so perfect...