Ruby's Quest: Chapter 6 - Uncover Secrets in the Maintenance Room

1. Ruby Quest: Chapter 6

2. Ruby is in the maintenance room. • >open the metal drawer • There appears to be something inside.

3. Look out the window and scout the surroundings. • Put on GLOVES (do we still have them?) and pick up the severed hand to see if there's anything under it. • Get Tap from Tom

4. >Look out the window and scout the surroundings. • At this angle Ruby can't see much in the small adjacent room, save for three things: • 1. Some sort of dummy on a post. • 2. A large red stain on the opposite wall. • 3. A round device on the wall -- looks like a clock. • >Put on GLOVES (do we still have them?) and pick up the severed hand to see if there's anything under it. • Ruby uses her gloves to pick up the icky hand, but there's only stains underneath it. She can't tell how it was severed, but it looks fairly fresh. • >Get Tap from Tom • Ruby calls to Tom, who tosses his tap through the hatch for her.

5. fill one glove with purple drink and tie it off.

6. Ruby attaches the tap to the container of purple liquid, which now seems ready to dispense. • >fill one glove with purple drink and tie it off. • The gloves are too thick and sturdy to just tie off with the thin string. They certainly wouldn't keep the liquid in.

7. put severed hand in pneumatic mail chute.

8. >put severed hand in pneumatic mail chute. • Ruby puts the disembodied hand into the pneumatic chute.

9. As soon as the chute's door closes, the sound of loud pneumatic pressure comes from the tube. The hand quickly and messily travels up the tube and out of sight.

10. use toms *ahem* condom to hold the purple stuff

11. >use toms *ahem* condom to hold the purple stuff • Ruby calls Tom to the hatch and explains that she needs his condom. • Tom gets an odd look on his face.

12. Explain what we intend to do with it

13. >Explain what we intend to do with it • Tom's expression changes, but passes the condom through the hatch nonetheless.

14. Ruby unwraps the condom and fills it with the purple liquid, which smells unpleasantly plastic.

15. In a somewhat unpleasant move, Ruby tips the condom upside down and pours out the purple liquid into the funnel. • The LED display changes after a moment.

16. put on the gloves and take some of the blood from the box (like scoop it out or just get some blood someway) and put it in the sampler

17. >put on the gloves and take some of the blood from the box (like scoop it out or just get some blood someway) and put it in the sampler • Ruby uses the gloves to drip a quantity of blood into the funnel, which prompts a new LED display.

18. This gives me an idea. Why not put the blood of the zombie inside the sampler and see what happens.

19. >This gives me an idea. Why not put the blood of the zombie inside the sampler and see what happens. • Ruby flecks some of the spilt blood into the sampler, which displays yet another new prompt.

20. Have ruby use the glove and collect a sample directly from the head.

21. >Have ruby use the glove and collect a sample directly from the head. • Ruby crawls out of the hatch to get a sample from the head itself.

22. That's odd.

23. ask tom if the head was still there when he was in his cell just before.

24. >ask tom if the head was still there when he was in his cell just before. • Tom insists he was just in the other room and the head was still there. He definitely didn't see it come through here. • Tom speculates that if it went anywhere there would be a blood trail. He suggests perhaps it simply dissolved like the rest of the body.

25. Tom's looking a little uneasy again.

26. might wanna go get some fresher air.. • Kiss if appropriable

27. >might wanna go get some fresher air.. • Ruby and Tom move back into the prison room for fresher air. • >Kiss if appropriable • Ruby contemplates kissing Tom, and wonders if he might get the wrong idea.

28. Tom begins vomiting.

29. Tom says he is having excruciating, sharp stomach pains. He says he wasn't feeling this before. It's very sudden.

30. Sample the blood. Use on checker.

31. >Sample the blood. Use on checker. • Ruby dabs some blood up on one of the fingers of the glove and excuses herself. She promises to be right back.

32. Back at the sampler, Ruby inserts a sample of Tom's blood and the LED triggers a familiar message. • Maybe the machine isn't made to analyze blood.

33. Ruby considers her options carefully. Tom's suddenly sick and there are no doctors around. This could be serious.

34. LOOK BEHIND YOU

35. >LOOK BEHIND YOU

36. Nervously wave.

37. >Nervously wave.

38. ...it's just a mirror.

39. try mixing blood with the purple stuff.

40. >try mixing blood with the purple stuff. • Thinking of no other way to do it, Ruby pours a little of the purple stuff from the tap to the floor, then flecks blood onto it from the glove. • It hisses and smokes violently. It smells caustic, like burnt plastic.

41. use PURPLE STUFF on FISH

42. >use PURPLE STUFF on FISH • Ruby goes back to the other room, retrieves the last two fish from the tank, and touches one of them to the purple puddle. • It sizzles and smokes visibly, and the scales start to dissolve slightly.

43. That little eye token... would that fit into the missing spot on the circuit board? • use FISH on ANALYSER

44. >That little eye token... would that fit into the missing spot on the circuit board? • No. The disc is thick and circular. The missing spot on the circuitboard is small and square. • >use FISH on ANALYSER • Ruby, feeling a bit disgusted, mashes up the fish as best she can to get it to fit in the funnel.