Power Suit: A Text Adventure

You've just ran out of heavy ammunition during the alien attack. All you have on you is your Power Suit and Laser Gun. You come across an old, abandoned bunker. This place looks like it has been abandoned for years, but if anywhere has the ammo you are looking for, its here. You go down a flight of stairs into a hallway. You have the option to go either left or right. Which way do you go? (set: $Energy to 20) [[Go Left]] [[Go Right]]

The end of this hallway has been walled off. There are small openings on the top and bottom of the wall, which may lead to another room. Do you climb through the opening on the top? Or crawl through the opening on the bottom? [[Climb]] [[Crawl]]

You find that the opening on the bottom is too small for you to crawl through. Maybe climbing through the top will get you through. [[Climb]]

You successfully climb through the opening on the top of the wall. Behind the wall is a room that only has a statue in it. The statue is holding something, it looks like an upgrade for your armor. You equip it and have the ability to Roll Up and crawl through tight spaces. This room has nothing left to offer. [[Climb Back]] [[Crawl Back]]

You try to climb back up, but the room you are in has a slight dip, making the opening on top is higher up then it was before. You cannot climb up, meaning the only way to get out is to use your new crawling ability. [[Crawl Back]]

You use your new ability to crawl back the the room you came in through. With nothing left on this side of the hallway, you continue to the right. [[Go to the Right Side]]

You walk through the right side of the hallway. As you continue onward, you find an area with a few small alien animals crawling around the place. There are two hedgehog looking aliens, and one that looks like a bat hanging from the cieling. Behind the alien animals is a door, which means you'll have to either sneak past them or charge up your blaster. [[Try to Sneak]] [[Guns A-Blazin']]

You tip-toe past the hedgehogs, but the bat could hear you with it's echo location. The bat swoops down and damages you a little bit. Your energy only seems slightly lower, so you continue onward. (set: $Energy to it + -1) [[Enter the Door]] [[No, That Bat Dies Today]]

You love your Power Suit, and that pea-brained little bat thing thinks it can just scratch it up like it doesn't even matter? As the bat flies back up to the cieling, you aim your blaster at it and blow it to bits. The deed is done, and you continue onward to find the ammo you came here for. [[Enter the Door]]

As you enter the door, you find another room where the end is walled off. You find another one of those hedgehog looking aliens. There is an opening at the bottom of the wall that the hedgehog crawls into. The hole is way too small for you to crawl into. [[Try to Destroy the Wall]] [[Go Back to the Main Entrance]]

You successfully hit the hedgehogs. As the bat swoops down at you, you are able to turn just in time and blow it to pieces. With no threats left in this room, you continue on through the door. [[Enter the Door]]

You fire upon the wall, but its no use. Your firepower isn't enough to take down the wall. [[Go Back to the Main Entrance]]

You remember there being a left side of the hallway you came in through and think maybe there is something that way. You return to the hallway. [[Go Left]]

You walk through the right side of the hallway. As you continue onward, you find an area with a few small alien animals crawling around the place. There are two spinebugs, and one that looks like a bat hanging from the ceiling. Behind the alien animals is a door, which means you'll have to either sneak past them or charge up your blaster. [[Sneak Past Them]] [[Fire Away!]]

You tip-toe past the spinebugs, but the bat could hear you with it's echo location. The bat swoops down and damages you a little bit. There isn't much noticeable damage, so you continue onward. (set: $Energy to it + -1) [[Enter Door]]

As you enter the door, you find another room where the end is walled off. You find another spinebug. There is an opening at the bottom of the wall that the spinebug crawls into. Now that you have your upgrade, you can easily crawl through the opening to see where that thing went. [[Why Not Just Blow Up the Wall?]] [[Crawl Under the Wall]]

You fire upon the wall, but its no use. Your firepower isn't enough to take down the wall.

As you exit the hole in the wall, you see another one of those bat aliens swoop down at you. Its very close, you may not have time to properly aim at it. [[Try and Shoot It Anyway]] [[Try to Dodge It]]

You are able to duck and avoid it in time. You have a better shot at the bat now. [[Leave It Alone]] [[You Messed With the Wrong Guy]]

You lift up you Laser Gun to fire, but its too late. You fire, but miss, hitting the wall of the room you are in. The bat attacks your helmet and flies back to the ceiling. (set: $Energy to it + -1) [[Leave It Alone]] [[Another Day, Another Dead Bat]]

You have absolutely had it with these bats messing up your Power Suit. Its your pride and joy, your baby! As the bat flies off, you are able to get a better shot at it, and blow it to smitherines. As the dust settles, you notice glowing blue door at the end of the room. [[Go Through Door]]

You decide to leave it be, its not worth the ammo. At the end of this room is a glowing blue door. [[Go Through Door]]

As the bat flies off, you are able to get a better shot at it, and blow it to smitherines. As the dust settles, you notice a glowing blue door at the end of the room. [[Go Through Door]]

A rush of air greets you as you step into a massive vertical cavern. The hollow pillar extends above you into inky blackness. The only ways up seem to be a (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[rickety system of catwalks->Ascent Catwalks 1]] or a rough set of (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[stone platforms->Ascent Platforms 1]] hewn into the column.

The first catwalk creaks underneath the weight of your suit as you inch across it. There's a small flight of stairs, but they've been torn off the wall. You're going to have to jump up to the next catwalk. Unfortunately, the catwalk is infested with a pair of spinebugs. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Fire at the first spinebug->Ascent Catwalks Shoot Bug 1]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Fire at the second spinebug->Ascent Catwalks Shoot Bug 2]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Leap without shooting->Ascent Catwalks No Shoot]]

You kick off from the ground, hurtling through the air and only barely manage to catch hold of the lowest platform. You almost lose your grip as a venemous spinebug slithers around from the underside of the platform, but a quick pull sets you on your feet, ready to deal with the beast. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Blast the spinebug with a plasma volley->Ascent Platforms Blast Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Leap over the spinebug->Ascent Platforms Leap Bug]]

A volley of plasma bullets vaporizes the first spinebug. The other spinebug hisses and retreats into a recess. It's undoubtedly going to attack you if you (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[leap up->Ascent Catwalks Bug Vengeance]], but there's not much other choice.

A few well-placed plasma bullets reduce the second spinebug to a steaming pile of goo. The first spinebug hisses. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Blast the first spinebug too->Ascent Catwalks Shoot Bug 1 Anyway]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump over it->Ascent Catwalks Bug Vengeance]]

A well-timed jump places you right in between the two spinebugs. They hiss and charge you from either direction. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Shoot the spinebug in front->Ascent Catwalks Bug Behind]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Shoot the spinebug behind->Ascent Catwalks Bug Behind]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to jump away->Ascent Catwalks Escape]]

As soon as you land on the new catwalk, the remaining spinebug is upon you, all teeth and quills. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to blast it->Ascent Catwalks Bug Fight]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to jump over it->Ascent Catwalks Bug Jump]]

Another round of bullets melts the other spinebug, leaving you to (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[jump to the next catwalk->Ascent Catwalks 2]] in peace.

You spin your cannon arm to face one of the spinebugs and unload several rounds of burning plasma into it, obliterating it instantly. A hiss from the other spinebug gives you no warning as it slams into you, sharp quills tearing your armor. You recoil, trying to get the beast off you but the railing behind you gives way and as you prise the spinebug off, your foot slips and you fall headlong (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[into the darkness...->Ascent Bottom]](set: $Energy to it + -1)

Seemingly at the same moment you'd touched down, you're off again, rocketing through the air just as the spinebugs converge on you. That was way too close. Your breath comes in short gasps as you land on the (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[next catwalk->Ascent Catwalks 2]].

You start firing, but the spinebug is too close. It takes a few shots but doesn't go down; instead it leaps at you! Your lightning fast reflexes put your cannon arm between the beast and yourself and you watch in horror as it bites down into a fuel line, igniting itself. You throw the burning spinebug into the abyss and wrap some tape around your blaster. Your suit reads lower energy now, but at least the path to (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[the next catwalk->Ascent Catwalks 2]] is clear.(set: $Energy to it + -1)

You leap , but the spinebug catches hold of your leg at the last second. You land on the (t8n-time:1s)[[next catwalk->Ascent Catwalks 2]] violently, smashing the spinebug into paste under the weight of your suit, but notice to your dismay that it damaged your left boot. The energy levels on your HUD look lower than they were before...

This catwalk seems marginally more stable than the last, but that gives you little comfort as you find the rocky outcropping ahead blocked by a floating death-lobster. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Distract the death-lobster->Ascent Distract Lobster]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump around the death-lobster->Ascent Jump Around Lobster]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Look for an alternate route->Ascent Alternate Route]]

Taking careful aim, you ricochet a few shots off the death-lobster's backside. Although the plasma does no damage to it's armored exoskeleton, it turns away to face the perceived threat, giving you a chance to (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[leap past it->Ascent Platforms 3]].

You jump towards the wall and kick off, hoping to circumvent the death-lobster. Unforuntately, it catches one of your boots in it's mandibles as you pass, tearing off an armor plate. Your suit squawks a warning at you as you (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[land on the next platform->Ascent Platforms 3]], your energy levels dropping noticably from the rupture. (set: $Energy to it + -1)

A quick scan of the environment shows a tiny platform you overlooked before. It'll be a hard jump, but you might be able to avoid the death-lobster altogether. * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump high->Ascent High Jump]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump straight->Ascent Straight Jump]]

You unleash a white-hot barrage of plasma rounds into the spinebug, which collapses into a steaming heap of char on the platform surface. Green goo leaks out of the smoking husk as you step around it. Free to make the next jump uniterrupted, you propel yourself up to (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[the next platform->Ascent Platforms 2]].

A discharge of power through your suit's legs rockets you high above the spinebug just as it leaps, hissing and clawing. You reach for the next platform, but in your hasty takeoff you failed to align your jump correctly. Your fingers brush the lip of the platform, but you can't quite get a hold. You feel a lurch in your stomach as you plummet down, crashing in a heap at the (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[base of the cave shaft->Ascent Bottom]].

You see a (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[rusty ladder->Ascent Rusty Ladder]], an (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[uneven rock wall->Ascent Rock Wall]], and a few (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[broken steps->Ascent Broken Stairs]] that lead upward.

This platform shakes and drops dust particles everytime you take a step. You get the feeling you should find a new place to stand sooner rather than later, but the path ahead is obscured by the armored form of a floating death-lobster. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Distract the death-lobster->Ascent Distract Lobster]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump around the death-lobster->Ascent Jump Around Lobster]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Look for an alternate route->Ascent Alternate Route]]

After a long and taxing climb in darkness, you find yourself pulling yourself onto one of the (t8n-time:1s)[[rickety catwalks->Ascent Catwalks 1]] you saw earlier.

You heave yourself hand-over-hand into the darkness until you feel the edge of an alcove large enough to stand in and pull yourself up. To your surprise, the lowest rock platform is just above you. The indent you're standing in is invisible from the door you came through when you first surveyed the cave. A venemous spinebug crawls across the platform right into your line of view. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Shoot the spinebug from below->Ascent Platforms Blast Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump up to the platform to get closer->Ascent Spinebug Platform]]

The broken stairs only go partway up the cavern wall and you can make out the door you came in higher up. If you could get back up there, you'd be able to continue up the catwalks or the platforms. Unfortunately, a floating death-lobster hangs menacingly in the air between you and the faint blue glow of the door. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-arrive:"blur")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Blast it->Ascent Lobster Blast]] * (t8n-time:1.5s)[[Wait it out->Ascent Lobster Wait]]

You silently leap up onto the platform. The spinebug spin around as your feet make contact, vibrations shuddering through the platform. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Torch the spinebug->Ascent Platforms Blast Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Leap over the spinebug->Ascent Platforms Leap Bug]]

Your shots bounce harmlessly off the death-lobster's thick exoskeleton. It swoops at you, angered by your attack. * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Leap over it->Ascent Lobster Leap]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Duck under it->Ascent Lobster Duck]]

You hold yourself motionless while the death-lobster scans the environment for movement. Finding nothing of interest, it turns away, giving you the opportunity to (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[jump past it->Ascent Retrace]].

You stand in front of a familiar blue door, slowly realizing you're right back where you started: the entrance of the cavern. Once again, the (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[rickety catwalks->Ascent Catwalks 1]] and (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[rough stone platforms->Ascent Platforms 1]] present your only options forward.

As the death-lobster swoops in to maul you, you swiftly jump into the air and kick off from the wall behind you, spinning through the darkness at breakneck speed. The gyros in your suit activate after a moment, stabilizing your flight and slamming you feet first into solid ground. (t8n-time:1.5s)[[Something behind you seems familiar...->Ascent Retrace]]

You duck underneath the death-lobster as it launches itself towards you, morphing your suit into a mechanized ball which allows you to roll at high speed underneath the lobster. As you hit the edge of the platform, moments before you would go spinning into the void, you violently unfold from ball-form, springing forward in a daring leap that just barely places you on a stable ledge. [[Something behind you seems familiar...->Ascent Retrace]]

In front of you is another glowing blue door, identical to the first. As you approach, it spirals open, leading you into (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[a new vertical cavern->Enter Descent]], this one with walls made from some amber secretion.

You jump high, hoping that verticality will give you enough space to land on the narrow platform. Unfortunately, your jump falls too short and you're left falling an uncomfortable amount of time until you crash into the (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[bottom of the cavern->Ascent Bottom]].

Forgoing height for pure lateral distance, you rocket straight over the void. For one wrenching moment you think you won't make it, but then your hands catch hold of the platform and you hoist yourself up, panting. From here it seems to be a (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[simple jump->Ascent Platforms 3]] up to the platform the death-lobster was guarding.

This cavern is also arranged vertically, but this time you can clearly make out a door down below. A (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[sequence of bridges->Descent Bridge 1]] crisscrosses the descent, but there are gaps you might be able to (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[drop through->Descent Drop]]. Assuming the death-lobsters don't catch you as you fall past, that is.

You leap for one of the gaps along the edge of the passage, grabbing onto the wall as you begin to drop. Sparks fly from your steel-tipped fingers as you rush downwards. A death-lobster swoops out at you, tearing a chunk out of your shoulder pad as you fall past. Another comes up from below, smashing into you and throwing you onto a bridge. You have no time to catch your breath, though. A spinebug is crawling towards you. (set: $Energy to it + -2) * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to shoot it->Descent Shoot Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Run->Descent Run]]

You drop down to the first bridge. A death-lobster hovers just below. You'll have to slip past if you want to continue downwards. * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Drop right->Descent Lobster Right]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Drop left->Descent Lobster Left]]

You empty a full magazine of plasma bullets into the spinebug before it goes down, centimeters away from your boot. Green goo seeps out, sticking to the sole of your armored foot. Yuck! You gingerly step over the puddle and (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[drop down to the next level->Descent 2]].

With the spinebug nearly upon you, you turn and run in the opposite direction, the mechanized legs of your suit quickly outpacing the predator. Unharmed, you vault over the edge of the bridge and (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[drop down to the next level->Descent 2]].

You drop right past the death-lobster. It bellows and charges you, but you slide past its mandibles a split second too soon for it to get a bite and land safely three bridges down. A spinebug hisses at you from overhead, but is too far to do any damage now. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Fire upwards at it anyway->Descent Useless Bug Shoot]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Continue descending->Descent 2]]

You drop to the left of the bridge, avoiding the death-lobster altogether. There seem to be no obstructions between you and the (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[next bridge down->Descent Bug Fight]].

You drop down to the next bridge unscatched. A spinebug occupies this one and it rushes to greet you with a faceful of sharp quills. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to shoot it->Descent Shoot Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Run->Descent Run]]

You're getting close to the door. It's only one level down. There's a few platforms in the way you can just barely see. They could have spinebugs crawling underneath... * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump straight for the door->Descent Jump Straight]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Drop to the nearest platform->Descent Near Platform]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump to a platform halfway between you and the door->Descent Halfway Platform]]

A few rounds of superheated plasma eviscerate the bug and you watch in satisfaction as it turns to charred goop. * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Continue Descending->Descent 2]]

A straight jump sends you flying over the unknown platforms and sliding down the wall of the cave. Sure enough, there was a spinebug attached to one of the platforms. It takes a swipe at you as you fall past, but misses. You land in front of (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[the door->Descent Door]].

This platform is luckily spinebug-free, but you can see one crawling on the next platform over. * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to jump to the door->Descent Jump Past Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Snipe the spinebug->Descent Snipe]]

You land on the platform just as a spinebug crawls up from underneath. It's not at an angle where you can easily shoot it. * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to jump to the door->Descent Jump Past Bug]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to shoot it anyway->Descent Snipe]]

The door spirals open, admitting you onto a balcony overlooking a long, narrow hallway. The walls are made from the same golden amber, but the floor is cracked and broken, with spinebugs slithering in and out of crevices too dark to see into. From the ceiling, multi-eyed alien birds blink at you threateningly. Seemingly left with no other choice, you (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[drop down into the hallway->Hallway Entry]].

You jump past the spinebug and land in front of (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[the door->Descent Door]].

You blast at the spinebug, but it crawls out of range after absorbing a few shots. It should be wounded enough to give you time to (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[get past->Descent Jump Past Bug]].

It feels unsafe down here. Looking around, you can see the balcony you dropped from has some room underneath. * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Explore underneath the balcony->Hallway Dead End]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Push deeper->Hallway Bird Encounter]]

You take a few steps under the balcony, but immediately hit a dead end. There's nothing back this way. The only way to go is (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[forward->Hallway Bird Encounter]].

As soon as you start down the hallway, the alien birds you saw earlier screech and divebomb you. * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump back and shoot them from the side->Hallway Bird Shoot Side]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Fire straight upwards->Hallway Bird Shoot Up]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"shudder")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Keep running->Hallway Bird Run]]

You leap back and fire a torrent of plasma into the first pair of birds, reducing them to ash. Then a third bird drops at you from above, giving you only a split second to react. * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Dodge->Hallway Bird Hit]] * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Keep shooting->Hallway Bird Shoot 2]]

You stand directly underneath the screeching, dive-bombing horrors and unload a stream of plasma straight up. Moments later, three charred birds drop at your feet. Free of further disturbance, you (t8n-depart:"flicker")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[press on->Hallway 2]].

You manage to run underneath the first two birds as they smash into the floor. That explains why the ground in here is so damaged! You're not so lucky with the third one, however, which curves it's path to tear your shoulder with it's axe-like wings. You kick it away and (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[continue->Hallway 2]].

At the end of the hallway, you find a (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[wall with some handholds->Hallway Tube]].

You try to morph into ball-form and roll out from the bird's assault, but it reads your gambit and alters it's course to smash into you from behind, sending you skipping across the hallway floor. You barely manage to avoid a spinebug before coming to rest (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[against a wall with some handholds->Hallway Tube]].(set: $Energy to it + -1)

Spinning your cannon arm upwards, you continue the barrage. The first few bullets tear through the bird, stunning it long enough for you to score a headshot, dropping it instantly. Safe, you (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[press forward->Hallway 2]].

As you reach the top of the wall, you find yourself staring down a huge pipe in the floor. An angry buzzing emanates from the pipe. * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-down")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Try to jump over->Hallway Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Wait to see what comes out->Hallway Tube Bugs]]

Just as you're about to try jumping over the pipe, a swarm of giant gnats pours out, gnashing their teeth and buzzing like bloodthirsty mosquitoes. * (t8n-depart:"pulse")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Blast them!->Hallway Shoot Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Roll under the swarm->Hallway Roll Under Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"rumble")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump over the swarm->Hallway Jump Over Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Retreat->Hallway Retreat]]

You fire into the swarm, but for every gnat you cut down, another takes it's place. You can't keep this up forever; it's a stalemate. * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Roll under the swarm->Hallway Roll Under Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-down")+(t8n-arrive:"rumble")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump over the swarm->Hallway Jump Over Tube Bugs]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Retreat->Hallway Retreat]]

As the swarm converges on you, you morph into ball-form and roll underneath. The giant gnats try to change course to get you, but they bump into each other and go careening down the hallway out of control instead. Ahead, you see what you came for: A (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank]! It's suspended above a pool of molten amber which steams and bubbles unpleasantly. You have no doubt it's highly caustic. * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump straight for the Missile Tank->Hallway Fallway]] * (t8n-time:1s)[[Look at the environment to find the best way across->Hallway Observe]] * (t8n-depart:"slide-up")+(t8n-arrive:"shudder")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Dip your foot in the boiling liquid->Hallway Stupid]]

You try to jump over the swarm of gnats, but they easily rise into the air with you, cutting off your path midair. In a moment they're upon you, ripping at your suit and battering your body. You fall to the ground and (t8n-depart:"slide-right")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-right")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[crawl out of the swarm's reach->Hallway Retreat], your suit blaring warnings at you.(set: $Energy to it + -1)

From a safe distance, you observe the swarm. It seems to be able to rise higher easily, but not descend. * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Reapproach the swarm->Hallway Tube Bugs]]

You jump for the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank], realizing too late that it's just slightly out of reach, held up by a sequence of pillars extending from the molten liguid seething below. It's into this liquid that you now plunge. You suit beeps high toxicity warnings at you and ryour HUD is lit by flashing red power drain indicators as you heave yourself out of the sludge.(set: $Energy to it + -1) * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump across the pillars->Hallway Last Jump]] * (t8n-time:1s)[[Look at the environment to find the best way across->Hallway Observe]]

The (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank] looks too far away to reach in a single jump. Instead, you can see a sequence of pillars holding it up. If you take your time, you can probably (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-left")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[jump across the pillars->Hallway Last Jump]].

Sure enough, the boiling amber melts away part of your boot as soon as your foot touches it. Your suit energy drops slightly. (set: $Energy to it + -1) * (t8n-depart:"slide-left")+(t8n-arrive:"slide-up")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Jump straight for the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank]->Hallway Fallway]] * (t8n-time:1s)[[Look at the environment to find the best way across->Hallway Observe]]

You deftly leap across the pillars one by one until you come to rest on the pillar with the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank]. * (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Gently release the Missile Tank locks->Missile Obtain Gentle]] * (t8n-depart:"shudder")+(t8n-time:1.5s)[[Wrench the Missile Tank free->Missile Obtain Violent]]

You carefully disengage the locking mechanism on the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank] and slot it into your cannon arm. A new meter appears on your HUD: (text-colour:red)[Heavy Ammunition - 5] * (t8n-depart:"rumble")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:2s)[[Blast your way to freedom!->Win]]

You grasp the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank] firmly in both hands and twist it until the locking mechanism distorts and peels away from the pillar. Throwing aside the ruined locks, you hoist the (text-colour:red)[Missile Tank] into the air and slam it into your cannon arm. A new meter appears on your HUD: (text-colour:red)[Heavy Ammunition - 5] * (t8n-depart:"rumble")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:2s)[[Blast your way to freedom!->Win]]

You take aim at the highest point of the cave and cycle your cannon to (text-colour:red)[Heavy Ammunition Firing Mode]. You take a deep breath, Then fire. The air splits as a plasma rocket blasts forth from your cannon arm, obliterating the amber ceiling overhead. Before the debris can settle, you fire another missile, this one smashing even further into the ceiling, sending clouds of dust and soot raining down. Another missile, and another, and suddenly a shaft of light breaks through, unveiling a new passage. Your final missile breaks all the way through and you leap into the new zone. You're not at the end of this maze yet, but you'll get there. (t8n-depart:"dissolve")+(t8n-arrive:"dissolve")+(t8n-time:5s)[[You know it->Energy]].

//Thanks for playing ''Power Suit''!// //Your suit has $Energy out of 20 Energy remaining.// (if:$Energy < 20)[//Replay the game to see if your can complete the adventure without losing any energy!//] (if:$Energy is 20)[//You managed to complete the game without taking any damage! ''True Bounty Hunter!''//](if:$Energy < 20)

ENERGY DEBUG NODE: energy set to 18. (set: $Energy to 18) (t8n-time:1s)[[Click to continue->Energy]]