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Caffeination
(an odyssey in search of chemical enthusiasm)
Michael Loegering (2003)
Release 0 / Serial number 030914 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 
Standard interpreter 1.0 (4F) / Library serial number 991113

>restart
Are you sure you want to restart? y


Time grinds to a halt as the morning wanes.  Your pre-work caffeination fades,
quietly draining the color from the world replacing it with low-toner
photocopies of reality.  At 11:00 am it is doubtful you will have enough energy
to make it to your 1:00 pm lunch break without the aid of a strong chemical kick
in the pants. Possibly, if you are clever enough, you can locate some strong
coffee, the elixir of life, before you collapse. It is time to go in search
of...
[  Caffeination
]





                  (an odyssey in search of chemical enthusiasm)











Caffeination
(an odyssey in search of chemical enthusiasm)
Michael Loegering (2003)
Release 0 / Serial number 030914 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 

Your Cubicle
The florescent lights flicker overhead giving your work area a ghastly pallor.
Your "work" was finished more than half and hour ago and all possible personal
stuff has been completed. The day is still young, but as your caffeination
wanes, your ability to cope with the trials of being a data entry "specialist"
likewise shrinks.

Obvious exits:
  West

You can see a SpineMaster 5000 (tm) chair and a work area (on which are a coffee
cup (which is empty), a computer and two quarters) here.

>
[OK, the odyssey is in search of enthusiasm?  That doesn't bode well on several fronts.]
You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.

>[And neither does 'Release 0']
That's not a verb I recognise.

>x chair
The SpineMaster 5000 (tm) must be a conspiracy between office furniture
manufacturers and chiropractors because it is impossible to adjust one of these
chairs into a position that does not make your back hurt.  They are all over the
office, but you seem to be the only one who has a big problem with them.  Still,
even with the back pain, it beats walking when you are really beat.

>x coffee
You can't see any such thing.

>get cup
Taken.

>x quarters
You can't use multiple objects with that verb.

>get quarters
quarter: Taken.
quarter: Taken.

>x computer
Beneath the sundry sticky notes, held in their places by umpteen pieces of tape,
lies the vampiric screen.  This is the beast that saps your life essence,
contributing to your expensive and total addiction to "CaffeiNation" beverages.
There is a brown, sticky film over the keyboard, evidence of past jittery hands.
 The screen shows a spreadsheet half-filled, but the cursor doesn't move when
you jiggle the mouse.  It must be locked up again.
The computer is currently switched off.

>[The computer is off, but there's a spreadsheet on the screen.
You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.

>
[And it's half-filled, but the introduction said I had finished work for the day.]
You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.

>
[You know what?  You lost me.  If you pay no attention to detail in this, I don't trust you with any
That's not a verb I recognise.

>[more of my time.]
That's not a verb I recognise.

>quit
Are you sure you want to quit? y