Agent, as you already know, Dr. Disinfo is an evil, evil man who is hellbent on hurting innocent people around the world! Recent intel suggests that he’s been planning something dangerous at a fancy hotel. Your mission Agent, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate Dr. Disinfo’s penthouse hotel room and foil his plans!
Before you proceed, you’ll need to select your equipment. Luckily, you have a great selection of tools and gadgets to choose from. However, you’ll have to choose wisely, as this stuff is expensive.
(link: "a. An electric lockpicking device that can crack any lock.")[
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(link: "b. A cologne/perfume that when sprayed upon the victim, can make them immediately go to sleep.")[
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(link: "c. A suitcase fitted with a mini rocket launcher. Be careful where you aim this thing!")[
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(link: "d. A hologram that when deployed can spawn in an exact duplicate of you, to distract enemies ofcourse.")[
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(set: $countO to 0)You're all set to go! After taking an agency owned complimentary vehicle, you arrive at your destination.
Before you lies the vast lobby of a ritzy hotel-- this is the one, alright. Now it’s just a matter of getting to Dr. Disinfo’s room. First, you need to figure out his room number. You…
(link: "a. Coerce the person at the front desk into telling you.")[
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(link: "b. Find a quiet corner and contact your team back at base.")[
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(link: "c. Hack into the hotel’s files.")[
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(link: "d. Offer a bellhop a bribe to let it slip.")[
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]Based on your answers you have been placed into: {
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(print: "UMBRA!")
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(else:)[
(print: "ORACLE!")
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}At the sight of your stun gun, she pales and quickly starts typing into her computer with trembling hands. A few seconds later, she says, “He’s, um, staying in the penthouse suite. Is there anything else I can do for you?” not wanting to provoke you to act on your threat. You tell her not to mention your conversation, and walk away.
[[Continue->third question]]Using your handy dandy communication watch, you ask your team if they managed to pinpoint Disinfo’s location while you were en route. Turns out, the promising new intern did! He’s staying in the most expensive and private room: the penthouse suite.
[[Continue->third question]]You take out your hacking device and log into the hotel’s high-speed internet. After going through a digital backdoor into their database, you manage to access the-- frankly, not very well protected-- directory of guests. Skimming through, you quickly find Disinfo’s entry; looks like he’s staying in the penthouse suite.
[[Continue->third question]]The young bellhop’s eyes widen at the sight of the crisp bill. He eagerly tells you that he took Disinfo’s (suspiciously numerous) bags up to the penthouse suite just the other day. You thank the bellhop, hand him the promised money, and go on your way.
[[Continue->third question]]As you ride up in the elevator, it stops on the third floor and a shifty looking person enters. They begin to make small talk. How do you respond?
(link: "a. Put earbuds in and stare down at your phone, acting as though you hadn’t heard them.")[
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(link: "b. Give a polite, generic response.")[
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(link: "c. Glare at them coldly until they get the message that you don’t want to talk.")[
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(link: "d. Subtly reference what you know about Dr. Disinfo’s minions and watch for a reaction.")[
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]They repeat their question again, and when you continue not to respond, they sigh and seem to give up.
[[Continue->fourth question]]The person reaches into their jacket pocket. You hear a quiet click, and the elevator grinds to a halt. Turns out you were right to be on the lookout for Dr. Disinfo’s minions! How do you get away and continue towards the penthouse?
(link: "a. Enter the secret emergency bypass code with the floor numbers, and dart out once the doors have opened enough for you to do so.")[
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(link: "b. Use your stun gun to incapacitate the minion and use their remote to restart the elevator.")[
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(link: "c. Break the light in the ceiling, then take advantage of the darkness to climb through the hatch into the elevator shaft and begin to climb it.")[
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(link: "d. Call your team for backup and prepare to defend yourself until they arrive.")[
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]They look at you uncomfortably. “Alright, then,” they say under their breath, and break eye contact with you. Easy as pie.
[[Continue->fourth question]]The two of you spend a good thirty seconds chatting about the weather. You really don’t want to be having this conversation, but it’s important that you remain as unremarkable as possible.
[[Continue->fourth question]]At the mention of Hawaiian pizza, you see them recoil. It’s so small that the average person wouldn’t have noticed, even if they were looking for it, but you’re an expert at reading body language. They recover quickly and continue the conversation. This individual might just be disgusted by pineapple on pizza, but you put up your guard just in case.
[[Continue->fourth question]]It’s a pretty standard elevator, so the code works exactly as it’s supposed to. You stopped uneven with the level of the floor you were passing, but you nimbly dive through and roll on the carpeted hallway back to your feet. You dash towards the stairwell and climb, losing the minion who must not be as trained as you are.
As you enter the top floor hallway you see a minion down the hall to your right, you dart left all the way down the hall. More and more minions pursue you as you go.
At the end of the hall a minion walks into a room and the doors slowly inches closed behind them.
You race for it and burst in just as it is closing. You've entered the penthouse suite, but its been converted to a laboratory with equipment, wires, and computer everywhere.
And in the middle of the room: a giant pizza shaped rocket, poised to destroy the whole city. The guards chasing you rush in a surround you.
WHAM!
you're smacked in the head and blackout.
[[Continue->fifth question]]You feel a bright light on you as you slowly wake. You find yourself strapped down to an operating table. A figure emerges from the darkness, clapping slowly. Doctor Disinfo. Do you:
(link: "a. Pretend you’re just a pizza delivery person.")[
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(link: "b. Remain silent. He’ll never break you.")[
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(link: "c. Flash your most seductive smile.")[
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(link: "d. Spit at him.")[
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]The minion falls to the floor. You dig around in their pocket and take out the remote, shaped like a little pizza slice. You press the “pepperoni” button, and the elevator begins to rise again. You pocket the remote to bring back to base-- you’re sure the tech experts would love to duplicate this for your agency’s use.
As you enter the top floor hallway you see a minion down the hall to your right, you dart left all the way down the hall. More and more minions pursue you as you go.
At the end of the hall a minion walks into a room and the doors slowly inches closed behind them.
You race for it and burst in just as it is closing. You've entered the penthouse suite, but its been converted to a laboratory with equipment, wires, and computer everywhere.
And in the middle of the room: a giant pizza shaped rocket, poised to destroy the whole city. The guards chasing you rush in a surround you.
WHAM!
you're smacked in the head and blackout.
[[Continue->fifth question]]With a single well-placed punch, the plastic shatters and the light flickers off. The minion gives a yell and lunges blindly for you, but it’s too late. You’re already scrambling up through the roof of the elevator and emerge into the dim shaft. Calling upon the strategies you learned during training, you nimbly climb the metal cords connecting the elevator to the mechanisms above.
As you ascend up the elevator shaft, you finally reach some doors that you can climb through. You enter the doors and slowly descend to the floor.
Now that you're in top floor hallway, you see a minion down the hall to your right, you dart left all the way down the hall. More and more minions pursue you as you go.
At the end of the hall a minion walks into a room and the doors slowly inches closed behind them.
You race for it and burst in just as it is closing. You've entered the penthouse suite, but its been converted to a laboratory with equipment, wires, and computer everywhere.
And in the middle of the room: a giant pizza shaped rocket, poised to destroy the whole city. The guards chasing you rush in a surround you.
WHAM!
you're smacked in the head and blackout.
[[Continue->fifth question]]You know they’re nearby already, so it won’t be long until they come to your rescue. You press the mayday button on your communicator, then get into a defensive stance. The minion tries to tackle you, but you dodge out of the way and use their momentum to pin them against the wall of the elevator. The scuffle continues until a minute or so later, when the elevator door opens and your teammate helps you subdue the minion for good.
Your teammate mentions that they are needed elsewhere in the hotel to gather some other information of Dr. Disinfo's operation. You part ways.
As you enter the top floor hallway you see a minion down the hall to your right, you dart left all the way down the hall. More and more minions pursue you as you go.
At the end of the hall a minion walks into a room and the doors slowly inches closed behind them.
You race for it and burst in just as it is closing. You've entered the penthouse suite, but its been converted to a laboratory with equipment, wires, and computer everywhere.
And in the middle of the room: a giant pizza shaped rocket, poised to destroy the whole city. The guards chasing you rush in a surround you.
WHAM!
you're smacked in the head and blackout.
[[Continue->fifth question]]He doesn’t believe you. He’s your nemesis. You’ve fought before countless times. In retrospect, that was kind of a silly tactic. Nevertheless, you tell him that someone at this address ordered a pepperoni with extra cheese and you need someone to sign for it. Disinfo finds this ridiculous, but goes to check if any of his minions ordered the pizza.
[[Continue->sixth question]]Your stony silence intimidates him. Uncomfortable, he goes to find some guards as backup.
[[Continue->sixth question]]He raises an eyebrow. Pouncing on the moment, he tells you how he’s always harbored an admiration and attraction for you. You bat your eyelashes coyly. He rushes out to grab a bottle of wine he’s been saving.
[[Continue->sixth question]]Disgusted, he spits back at you and misses. Pathetic. He goes off in search of a towel.
[[Continue->sixth question]]While he’s gone, you:
(link: "a. Strain against your bonds. Surely your bulging muscles are strong enough to break them!")[
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(link: "b. Reflect on the poor choices that brought you into this situation.")[
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(link: "c. Survey the room for something to help you escape.")[
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(link: "d. Activate the tiny hidden explosive in the heel of your shoe. Drastic times…")[
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]You break the leather straps! Freedom at last! Unfortunately, the second you do, alarms begin to blare. Uh oh.
[[Continue->seventh question]]In your contemplation, you realize that the restraints are slightly too big for your slim wrists. With a little work, you manage to weasel your hands free. A moment later, your legs are free too. As soon as your feet touch the floor, an alarm begins to ring.
[[Continue->seventh question]]Your eyes fall upon a very attractive classy pen on the table next to you. Pens rock! You reach for it and manage to pick the lock on your bonds with the pointy tip. As soon as you’re free, however, an alarm begins to ring.
[[Continue->seventh question]]You realize this is actually an extremely reckless idea and will result in you blowing off your foot. Panicking, you manage to kick the device free and send it sailing into the air. It lands on a computer control panel. A few seconds later, it explodes. With the destruction of the computer system, your restraints pop open. Unfortunately, an alarm also goes off.
[[Continue->seventh question]]An alarm blares. You:
(link: "a. Hide behind the door. They’ll never find you there.")[
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(link: "b. Stand in the middle of the room. They’ll never take you alive.")[
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(link: "c. Get back on the table and pretend you’re still a captive.")[
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(link: "d. Start screaming.")[
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]You stand behind the door in your perfect hiding place. Several minutes go by and nothing happens. Just as you begin to feel foolish, the door swings open, and two guards rush in. The first place they check is behind the door. Darn.
Luckily, you swing the door back in their direction and
SLAP!
the door knocks both of them to their feet unconcious.
[[Continue->eighth question]]After a few moments, two guards burst in. Upon seeing you, they stop cold, sizing you up.
You stare them down and just as fast as you lift your fists up, the bodies of these goons fall to the ground defeated by your furious flurry of fists.
You're good, you're really good.
[[Continue->eighth question]] After a few moments, two guards burst in. They slowly approach the table, eyeing you. When they get close, you leap up! Unfortunately, the guards shove you back.
You recover and size them up.
You stare them down and just as fast as you lift your fists up, the bodies of these goons fall to the ground defeated by your furious flurry of fists.
You're good, you're really good.
[[Continue->eighth question]]When two guards arrive, they find you screaming at the top of your lungs. Even when they approach you, you continue bellowing out a primal sound that could wake the dead. Finally the air in your lungs runs out and you’re forced to take a breath.
Before the guards can rush you, your windpipes explode with volume, and the two guards run out of the room clutching their ears.
[[Continue->eighth question]]You make your escape, free from the clutches of Doctor Disinfo at last!
But as you leave you hear a loud buzzer noise from a nearby room. You walk in, noticing that the room is empty.
As you look around the room, you notice two empty chairs are in front of a large screen. The goons from earlier were probably sitting here, but what's on that screen?
As you get closer to the screen, your heart drops. A humongous red and white rocket pointing up towards the sky. Next to the screen there is a door that says "Rocket Room." Wow, all of this is so convenient.
In front of the screen, there is the control panel. You see several levers, wires, a large red button and many blinking lights. How are you going to disable this rocket?
(link: "a. Access the location system and reconfigure the launch path to hit an empty spot in the ocean.")[
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(link: "b. Press the large red button on the control panel.")[
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(link: "c. Grab a pair of pliers and cut the power source to the control panel.")[
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(link: "d. Decide that the control panel isn’t worth your time and start hitting the rocket’s blasters instead.")[
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]Your fingers fly deftly over the controls, typing in coordinates in the center of the Pacific. The realization that you’re about to sentence thousands, perhaps millions, of ocean life to a watery pizza grave flashes through your mind. However, like a leaf in the breeze, it soon flits away as you spot a colorful blinking light. PRETTY LIGHT!
[[Continue->ninth question]]Your hand hovers over the button and you hesitate and examine the situation. It’s a large red button. Deciding that’s reason enough, you slam your fist down. It feels great.
[[Continue->ninth question]]As one hand grabs the pliers from their wall mounting, the other reaches for the cord connecting the control panel to the wall. As you pull the cord towards you, the plug is yanked out of the wall and the panel shuts off. Well that was easy. You use the pliers to cut the limp cord anyway, just in case.
[[Continue->ninth question]]You make your way into the "Rocket Room" and pound your fists against the metal of the rocket. After several minutes you stop to examine your progress. Upon discovering that you haven’t even scratched the paint, you take out your handy wrench and begin to hit the rocket with that. Finally, the battered metal gives and you admire the lovely hole you’ve made.
[[Continue->ninth question]]You emerge into the hallway and you see everything has gone crazy. Goons, technicians, henchmen, all of running like chickens with their heads cut off, and all of them scrambling to find out why their rocket plan isn't working. You've got to get downstairs ASAP. Scanning your environment you see a couple options:
(link: "a. You see a vent system that probably runs through the whole hotel. Crawl in and make your way through the air conditioning system.")[
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(link: "b. There’s an exterior window just down the hall. Bust out the window and rappel down the side of the building?")[
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(link: "c. There’s what appears to be an elevator with a plaque on it, reading: DR. DISINFO’S PRIVATE ESCAPE ROUTE, DON’T USE UNLESS YOU’RE DR. DISINFO. Looks like it might be the express option for you!")[
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As you pry open the grate of the air duct cool wind washes over you. Its about to get chilly. You climb in on your stomach, crawling, your arms tucked in front of you. After a short time you come to the main shaft that runs vertically down the whole building. A service ladder runs all the way up and down. you climb all the way down to the ground floor vents. Through the grate you see you’ve made it to the ground floor. Carefully prying it open you emerge.
[[Continue->tenth question]]CRASH! Glass shatters at your feet. You drop the lead pipe you used to break the glass. You hook up your rappel line, tying it off to the window frame. Just as you’re about to drop down, a guard stops. She stares at you, cocking her head to the side, confused. You raise you index finger to your lips. “Shhhhh”. You wink and disappear out the window. When you get to the bottom you find yourself on the roof of the lobby. You kick through the glass skylight and continue through to the lobby interior.
[[Continue->tenth question]]With a smirk you press the button and the doors whoosh open. You're greeted by a small pod with a strap in char and two buttons: down or up. You lock in and press the down button. The doors begin to close and just as they do Dr. Disinfo appears through the crowd. “HEY-” he manages to yelp before the doors shut. The pod drops and you feel your stomach lurch. Within seconds the door opens to the hotel lobby.
[[Continue->tenth question]]oh hey there's nothing here yet. i told you not to click me!
now go back with that bendy arrow in the top left.
don't worry, you won't lose any progress.
i still love you tho
(link: "d. shh nothing here yet pls dont click me lol")[
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]You make it to the hotel valet. Unsurprisingly, there’s nobody there to take your ticket. You see plenty of vehicles by the curb, each with a Dr. Disinfo insignia. Quick! Which one will become your new getaway vehicle?
(link: "a. A slick matte black Aston Martin, presumably belonging to Dr. Disinfo.")[
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(link: "b. A van filled with all the tech you could ever need!")[
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(link: "c. A dashing red convertible with chrome highlights.")[
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(link: "d. A low profile Prius.")[
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]Trying to pull open the door, you find it, surprise, locked. “I’m sorry, ” you whimper as you brace your elbow and smash through the glass. Climbing through the window you sit in the driver’s seat, pop open the dashboard below the steering wheel, and connect the two red wires, hotwiring the car.
[[Continue->last]]What a find! You didn’t you’d be finding the coolest car ever on this mission! You climb in the driver’s seat and look behind you to see the trunk of the van is adorned with screens of all sizes, each flooded with lines of code, technical readouts, maps, graphs, apps… its a techies dream. You pop open the dashboard below the steering wheel and connect the two red wires, hotwiring the van.
[[Continue->last]]With the grace of an fennec fox you slide across the hood of the car and hop into the driver’s seat. You pop open the dashboard below the steering wheel and connect the two red wires, hotwiring the car.
[[Continue->last]]Ah yes the mark of a true agent: the most unassuming and nondescript car imaginable. You get in the Prius and sit at the wheel. You pop open the dashboard below the steering wheel and connect the two red wires, hotwiring the car.
[[Continue->last]]In your rearview mirror you see Dr. Disinfo burst through the doors of the hotel. Furious, he launches himself onto the vehicle, clinging to the hood. Looking at the steering wheel you see a shiny red button right in the center. Dr. Disinfo screams “DONT YOU DARE DO IT!” You don't know what it does. Do you press it?
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With your most winning smirk you look straight at Dr. Disinfo and press the button. A rumble. You can feel the vehicle transforming around you. “NO!” Dr. Disinfo screams, holding ever tighter to the hood. Wings slide out on either side of the car. The wheels fold in, locking in a vertical position as the vehicle rises off the ground just a few inches. You floor it. Dr. Disinfo, grasping for any kind of hold on the hood slides off and falls to the ground. Pull back on the steering wheel and the car lifts higher off the ground, the ubran sprawl far below you. Dr. Disinfo picks himself up and shakes his fist violently at you as he sees nothing but a speck on the horizon fading into the crimson sunset.
[[Continue->finish]]You smirk at Dr. Disinfo and slam on the gas. Your vehicle screeches out of the hotel valet with all the roar the engine can muster. Swerving left and right to shake him off, you narrowly avoid oncoming traffic. Bit by bit he’s slipping off. One last swerve should do it… one final tug of the steering wheel and Dr. Disinfo is hanging on by his fingertips. “This is just the beginning.” He says just before falling off the hood. and rolls across the ground. Dr. Disinfo picks himself up and shakes his fist violently at you as he sees nothing but a speck on the horizon fading into the crimson sunset.
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