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Text Adventure Playthrough #2: Spider And Web
>yes
“And you didn’t carry metal past it. Stop wasting my time.” He punches a control, harder than necessary.
...glaring light—
[Hit any key.]
White Junction
You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to the southeast.
So the red lines are metal detectors? Should we hide all in the gap?
You can try…
Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)
You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.
“Yes, yes, but we did search the space above the missing panel…. four times. Whatever your mysterious package is, you didn’t leave it up there.” He touches a control.
...glaring light—
[Hit any key.]
Yes, let’s.
> n
> jump
> put all in gap
> get package
> d
> e
> se
EDIT: Oops! Undo. 
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)
You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.
“After all that, the bloodstains, you think we didn’t search the space over the ceiling gap? Four times, in fact. We didn’t find anything.” He reaches for his controls before you can speak.
...glaring light—
[Hit any key.]
So let’s do the by now boring jump-package sequence again and go to the red line and then look at the ceiling web.
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
>x ceiling web
To the southeast, beginning above the boundary line, the ceiling is lined with scan-web in addition to the lighting strips. The web’s wide spacing indicates a metal-resonance scan.
I think this is where our engineer steps in. Abnaxus?
But the scan scrambler didn’t work last time, I think. Again:
>connect scrambler to switch
>turn on switch
>look at scan
Abnaxus, what is missing?
>connect scan scrambler to toggle
You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch turns orange to confirm the match.
>switch toggle
You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler’s status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine begins within it.
>x scan scrambler
It’s a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency… or so the theory is drawn. It’s active and humming faintly. There’s a minus link on one edge, which is connected to a toggle switch.
So it’s active?
maybe
>point scan scrambler to ceiling web
>se…
If it doesn’t probably better to undo…
In my mind we’re a seasoned spy.
^ This.
And all the puzzles stem from the fact that our character knows a LOT more than we do.
I love unreliable narrators in fiction (especially if they show/tell what really happened later on). 
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
It’s a good game, isn’t it. Much more interesting than I thought.
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
>point scan scrambler at ceiling
That’s not a verb I recognize.
>se
You step across the line and continue down the corridor.
—glaring light…
[Hit any key.]
Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair)
You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man behind the desk.
The man nods with consideration. “And off you went, through our secure zone like a scalpel through cheese. A plastic scalpel,” he adds, smiling at you, “so I don’t know why you turned on that charming countermeasure device. Even if you had been carrying metal, your orange miracle could only have hidden it for a few minutes. Thus—you had none. At least our scan-web keeps spies from carrying guns with them when they stroll through our bases.” He pauses a moment. “Or does your side have nonmetallic guns now?”
I think this is where our engineer steps in. Abnaxus?
One afternoon, an engineering student was riding across campus on a shiny new bike. He ran into a friend of his, also an engineering student, who said, “Wow! That sure is a great bike. Where did you get it?”
“Well, the darndest thing happened,” said the first engineering student. “A girl came riding up to me and got off the bike, threw off all her clothes, and said that I could have anything that I wanted.”
“Wow,” remarked his friend. “That’s great. Good move. Her clothes probably wouldn’t have fit you anyway.”
So it’s active?
maybe>point scan scrambler to ceiling web
>se…If it doesn’t probably better to undo…
I think wilco nailed it, if not maybe we should try eating some more inventory items, that`s my professional opinion as an engineer
LOL, Abnaxus. I can see where your sig comes from.
Back to the game. I don’t understand this at all. We carried the same stuff as last time, right? And now we get through, although the device is useless because we don’t carry metal objects.
> no
EDIT: Or maybe we didn’t know what was in the package, were not allowed to open it, and therefore couldn’t be sure it wasn’t metal.
Sometimes, when I clean the rooms, I get a little curious and… erm… you know… snoop through our guests’s stuff. - This Bed We Made
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