>>5193333"Congratulations on your success, you double human insect." JEFF intones. <span class="mu-g">The gasping noises in the room have quieted down to a shallow, but steady breathing.</span> "Now, would you kindly leave my CORE room? The life support unit is rather sensitive and I will garnish your wages if you do not leave."
"Wait, wait, I just have one question before I go!" You slosh forward through the now waist-high water, cat and dog in hand. Before you can go any further, that firm and wet grip goes around your knife-bearing wrist again.
"I need you to leave, please, you scare the hell out of me and you're probably going to get sick if you breath in too much water-"
"I just want to help that woman before I-"
"No more questions and get out of here quickly-"
>SCREAM>SCREAM>SCREAM"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<span class="mu-s">AAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAaaAAAAAAAAAAaaAA-!</span>" YOU ROAR DEAFENINGLY. JEFFERY RECOILS FROM THE SHEER VOLUME AND RELEASES YOU. "STOP TALKING! I JUST HAVE A QUESTIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!"
"OKAY, OKAY! WHAT'S THE QUESTION?"
YOU WIPE YOUR FACE A FEW TIMES BEFORE YOU FIND YOUR VOICE AGAIN. "Who or what is that lady stuck in there?"
"<span class="mu-b">She is very important, she's been there since I woke up under Overseer Thirteen, and I don't know anything else.</span> Confirming her identity now would mean disrupting the attached life support unit and I cannot let that happen."
"Isn't there anything that I can do to help???" There's a metallic smell coming from all this water.
"You can't. There's nothing you can do right now."
"..."
"Alright, listen. I can give you a SECOND PUZZLE, double up on CORE MAINTENANCE. It is much less BLOCKY than the first. Hhhhhh, it already stings right after being restored, but-" JEFF recomposes himself. "This test is designed to fully exploit the capabilities of your waterlogged mind. It goes as follows:
'Bring me to blood and I will drink it to the drop. Bring me to flesh and I will remove the impurity. Bring me to metal and I will bite down with red-hot joy. Bring me to the iron cage and I will behave as I must. Bring me further, my friend, far into the heat and light.' What Alphabet Company is this?"
>Answer?>Ask? (Write in.)>Scream. (This is a repeatable free action.) <span class="mu-r">WARNING: OVERLOAD IMMINENT.</span>>Leave quickly. (This ends the CONNECTION.) 