Humanity by Charles Painter

Humanity

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"Humanity"

Hallway is a room. "You stand in the empty hallway of the Humanities building. It's raining heavily outside. To your north is more classrooms, to your east is the locker bay, and to your west are the bathrooms." The note is in the hallway.

The description of the note is "The note had been stapled to the bulletin board in a hurry. It's been printed from somewhere. THERE IS NO ESCAPE, it says." 

Classrooms is north of the Hallway. "You arrive at another set of classrooms. The glass doors leading to the outside won't budge."

The class door is a locked door. The class key unlocks class door.

The class door is west of the Classrooms. The window is in classrooms. The window is fixed in place.  On the window is a bloodstain. The bloodstain is fixed in place.

The description of the bloodstain is "It looks like a handprint has been smeared down the window of the door..."

The description of the window is "The window leads into the classroom, but it's too dark to see in there."

Locker Bay is east of the Hallway. "You stride into the locker bay. A light above you flickers on and off ominously. As you glance outside into the rain, you think you spy a figure, but the hallucination is gone in a second."

The sandwich is in the Locker Bay. The rusted locker is in the Locker Bay. The rusted locker is fixed in place. The rusted locker is a closed openable container. In the rusted locker is a paper and the class key.

The sandwich is edible. After eating sandwich: say "You munch down on the sandwich but quickly spit most of it out. It's terrible, it must have been lying there for a long time." The description of the sandwich is "It's a PB&J that's sogged through the bread a bit." 

The description of the rusted locker is "It's an abused, old locker. Much of the paint is peeling off. It looks like you could open it without much difficulty."

The description of the paper is "It's a handwritten note. Someone has scribbled HELP all over the paper."

The description of the class key is "It's key that's used to open classrooms here at Saint James. You wonder why it was in a locker..."

Room 002 is west of the class door. "You enter slowly into the classroom. It's pitch black in here, and smells terrible. You accidentally kick something."

A corpse is in Room 002. The corpse is fixed in place. A sphere is on the corpse. 

The mutation is a person in Room 002.

Every turn when the player can see the mutation:
say "A monstorous, grotesque mutation [one of]twitches spasmatically [or]moves slowly[as decreasingly likely outcomes] towards you."

The description of the sphere is "It's a bright sphere that glows with a strange light. Something about it is vaguely familiar."

The description of the mutation is "It's a humanoid figure, but it seems to be lacking flesh and eyes. It's large fang-like teeth are yellow like corn and stained with blood."

After taking sphere: say "You grab the sphere in both hands. Suddenly, the light from it grows, and you're blinded for a moment."; award 100 points.

Bathroom is west of the Hallway. "The door to the bathroom creaks open. It smells worse than normal in here. The floor is wet, perhaps a toilet has flooded."

The stall door is a door. The stall door is west of the bathroom. The mirror is in the bathroom. The mirror is fixed in place. On the mirror is writing. The writing is fixed in place. The cell phone is in the bathroom.

The description of the stall door is "It's a door to one of the bathroom's stalls. It's the only one that's closed."

The description of the mirror is "It's one of the stock mirrors purchased by the school. There's a small crack going up the middle."

The description of the writing is "Someone has written I'M SORRY on the mirror. It appears to be written in blood."

The description of the cell phone is "It's an older flip phone. It's running low on battery. There's a text message that hasn't been sent. It says CALL 911 GET THEM OVER HERE."

Commode is west of the stall door. "You enter the cramped stall. The bad smell seems to be coming from here."

The toilet is in commode. The toilet is fixed in place. The toilet is a closed openable container. A hand is inside the toilet.

The description of the toilet is "It's an inexpensive toilet. It's been through a lot of use."

The description of the hand is "It's the hand of someone that has been severed entirely. It's grown pasty from sitting in the water."

Every turn:
if score is 100
begin; say "You wake up in your bed at home, covered in sweat. You glance at your alarm clock. It's two in the morning. Convinced it was all a dream, you close your eyes and fall back to sleep..."; end the game in victory;
end if.