So that really only leaves us with the fire stairs:
You decide to go back to the fire stairs.
You've got to face the Visible Man sooner or later!
As you walk up to the doors, you gulp. He's still banging on them from the other side.
He sure doesn't give up easily!
You ready yourself to open the doors.
Choose your weapon. But remember, you can only use an object that's on your inventory list!
Stink bomb?
Noise bomb?
Laser? ?
No weapon?
You steady the laser and fling open the doors.
The Visible Man barrels through. He reaches for you with his slimy hands. Bare muscles clutch for your throat.
"Take that!" you yell, firing the laser at his face.
"Arghhh!" his bubbly voice screams. The beam of light is blinding him. He tries to close his eyes. But he can't—he doesn't have eyelids!
He covers his face with his hands, and you duck past him and onto the stairs.
But you hear his squishy footsteps behind you...
Thinking fast, you turn and fire the laser again.
The Visible Man keeps charging, but he's blinded by the ruby rays of the laser. He starts to fall. You duck out of the way.
Just in time! He tumbles past you, falling all the way to the bottom of the stairs.
You swallow nervously when you see
the result.
It's bad to fall down the stairs when you have no skin.
Your walkie-talkie suddenly crackles to life.
"Great job!" Peedee A.'s voice announces. "You froze the Super Computer again."
"Does that mean it's dead?" you ask hopefully.
"Not really. Just knocked out for a few minutes," Peedee A. explains. "The Super Computer was controlling the Visible Man. After that fall, the Computer's going to have one big headache!
"So—can I leave now?" you ask.
"You can try," Peedee A. tells you. "But I doubt there's time. Just watch out for the—"
Then the tiny voice is consumed by static.
A new voice takes over the walkie-talkie.
The Super Computer!
"Very clever, human!" it booms. "But I'm not done yet!"
"Oh, yeah?" you shout. "I'm winning so far!"
"Let's see you win against this!" the voice roars.
Water suddenly starts spraying from the ceiling. It gushes from the sprinklers above, soaking you.
"Hah!" you laugh. "A little water never hurt anyone."
But then you hear a rushing sound building above you.
It sounds like more than just a
little water.
The roaring increases. Water starts to roll down the stairs. In seconds, it's as if you're standing in a rushing stream.
You tear down to the first floor. The sooner you're out of this place, the better!
You run as fast as you can. But you hear a torrent building behind you.
Can you make it before you're crushed by the water?
Can you make it to the door? Roll to find out. (7.)
You leap down the stairs. You can barely keep your balance in the rushing water. A huge wave roars behind you, big enough to crush you.
But the door to the first floor is right in front of you. You fling it open and shut it behind you just in time. The water crashes against it, but then flows on down into the basement.
You made it!
There, about a hundred yards away, is the main entrance to the hall. Escape is right in front of you!
Except for one
big problem.
Between you and the doors looms the giant motorized skeleton of a Giganotosaurus. It's standing next to a pool of bubbling tar like the one its ancient bones were found in.
You shiver as you remember what your field-trip guide told you earlier that day:
"Sort of like a Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger!"
The huge skeleton was scary enough back then, when everything was normal. You remember the way its huge jaws chewed and chomped. Each of its teeth is over a foot long!
Now the skeleton is perfectly still, as if someone turned it off. But you have a feeling it could turn back on. The Super Computer forced you down here for a reason!
Should you run for the exit? Or go back to the second floor? Maybe there's something helpful up there.
Run for the exit?
Go back to the second floor?