"Welcome! You must be the pest control person," the customer tells you. "We have gremlins in the house, go get 'em!," they nervously exclaim.
<<set $gremlin_count to 0>>
[[Check out the Bathroom|Bathroom]]
or
[[Enter the Hallway|Hall]]
Ostensibly you're in the bathroom now, but the toilet, bathtub, and sink are in pieces, the floor covered with dusty footprints. It is eerily silent.
<<if $holding_crystal>>
The crystal begins emanating a bright greenish beam of light, illuminating yet another a secret [[passage|garage]]
<<else>>
Puzzled by this sight, you turn [[back|Door]]
<<endif>>
<<set $gremlin_count to $gremlin_count + 1>>
In the hallway there are many doorways. Sudenly you see a flurry of movement through a large crack in the wall.
<<timed 1500ms>>
Instinctively, you grab at it...\
<<next 1500ms>>
<i>"WOW! You caught $gremlin_count gremlin(s)?,"</i> the customer shouts from the doorway. \
<<next 1000ms>>
<i>"Keep up the good work, man!"</i>
\
<<next 1500ms>>
<i>"I think they hide their treasures in old technology, ya know?"</i>
<</timed>>
From this hallway you can enter the [[Kitchen]] or the [[Bed Room]] peruse the [[Office]] or step into the [[foyer|Door]]
The kitchen is sparkling clean, there is a sink, stove and fridge along the far wall. Cupboards overhead. The black and white checkered tiles on the floor clash with the faded green wallpaper. There is a breakfast nook equipped with a shiny metallic [[toaster]]
Return to the [[Living Room]] or the [[Hall]] The Living Room has an old television set in the corner, with various wires protruding from a stack of obsolescent media playback systems. A Roku stacked on top of a DVD player which is on top of a VCR. Various discs and VHS tapes are crammed into the bit of space behind the TV. Otherwise there are a few bright pink bean bag chairs strewn about the space which is otherwise equipped with a fuzzy rust-orange colored carpet.
From this room, you may enter the [[Kitchen]] or return to the [[Bed Room]] The Bed Room has a magenta futon in it and a shelving unit stuffed with clothes, books, and assorted papers.
From the Bed Room, you can return to the [[Hall]] or the [[Living Room]] The office is, essentially, a storage closet. Cleaning supplies, various toolboxes, towels, an extra chair and a stacks of paper grocery bags.
Return to the [[Hall]] In the garage you find the source of the gremlins -- a rift in the space-time continuum! <i>"I should have known,"</i> you mumble to yourself. You sew it up, and go home, satisfied with a job well done.
THE ENDExamining the toaster more closely, you see something stuck inside it.
Do you try to [[pry]] loose this thing?
or Do you look elsewhere in the [[Kitchen]] ?Prying at the toaster, it pops up! It is a strange looking crystal.
<<timed 1500ms>>
You grab the crystal and become <<linkreplace "transfixed by it">>
As if by magic, a [[portal|Bathroom]] opens<</linkreplace>>
<<set $holding_crystal to 1>>
<</timed>>