Sugarcane

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou strike the MERMAN dead! He falls to the floor of the chamber, blood running from his mouth. \n\nYou see a [[dead MERMAN|look7]] here.

You cannot continue, as you have died. Your score is 27.\n\n[[Retry|lab]]\n[[Restore|begin4]]\n[[Restart|begin]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look5]]\n\nYou see a MERMAN here.

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look4]]\n\nThe footsteps are drawing closer...

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look6]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nThe MERMAN is blocking the exit to the WEST. You can't go [[that way|look5]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc2.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|begin4]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look3]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look2]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/mooredegg.png]]\nYou cannot TAKE a full-sized submarine!! Not like this, [[at least...|sub2]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou can't go [[that way!|look7]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is nothing left for you to [[TAKE|exite]].

Using (the KEYCARD), you unseal the submarine's tight surface hatch, and manage to mount and enter it. Inside you fiddle a number of luminous dials and the complicated device submerges. You guide it effortlessly through an underground sluice to safety! \n\n[][][]CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE WON[][][]\nYou defeated the Sex Chamber in 29 moves with a score of 33!\nYou found (0) parchment relics.\nYou found (0) Atlantean doubloons.\nYou found (0) saucy photographs. \nYou found (0) mandala.\n\n[[Restore|begin4]]\n[[Restart|begin]]\n\n[[End|end]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nWho do you want to [[TALK to|look6]]? \n\nYou see a MERMAN here.

THE SEX CHAMBER\nAn Adult Visions(tm) Adventure

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is nothing to [[LOOK at|exite]]!

Time passes... \n\nA door in the WEST wall slides open! \n\nA MERMAN enters the [[chamber|look5]]!

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/mooredegg.png]]\nThe submarine seems oddly light, like the shell of a waterborne larva. Its roof hatch is sealed with a [[KEYCARD READER|sub2]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nThe MERMAN cannot [[TALK|look8]] to you now.

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nWho do you want to [[TALK to|look3]]?

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nWho do you want to [[TALK to|look2]]?

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc2.png]]\nWho do you want to [[TALK to|begin4]]?

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou receive no [[reply|look7]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\n"Greetings, please give me the substance," says the [[MERMAN|look6]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nNo one [[answers|look4]].\n\nThe footsteps are drawing closer...

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou can only go [[WEST|look8]].

Time passes...\n\nThe clamor of the mermen sounds dimly from within the catacombs. The dark sea makes lapping noises where it tongues the [[dock|sub2]].

Time [[passes...|look3]]

THE SEX CHAMBER was made by me, Leigh Alexander, with my remedial and immature Twine skills, in about an hour. Seriously, the reason my job is to comment on games is because I can't really make them, and even those games I can make are limited to commenting on games.\n\nTHE SEX CHAMBER is inspired by ongoing conversations on the alienating quality of traditional games vocabulary, and by my complicated and muddled memories of trying to understand 'adult' games as a child. \n\nThis game intentionally employs a structure that frustrates the player in logical, intuitive behaviors or in knowing more about the subtext and purpose of the world. If you aren't sure whether you were supposed to have been able to achieve something or not, that was my intention. I wanted to make a game that had more ways to say no to you than yes,hoping to illustrate the sense I had when young that there must be some complex, sophisticated and mature (potentially shocking! Salacious!) universe lurking beneath the games I couldn't figure out how to play. \n\nA lot of times it was because these games were early-1990s indie freeware or shareware, and either required paid unlocks or were broken. Most of them came on disks with tens of other games and it was impossible to trace the author or to find out whether I'd one day learn to solve the puzzles or whether the game was bugged and therefore unsolvable.\n\nThe feeling that there were complicated 'adult' mysteries outside the realm of my understanding very much defined my relationship with games during plenty of my formative years.\n\nThe obscurity of authorship, wondering who made these strange artifacts, was also poignant. That's why I got some generous friends to each contribute some MSPaint art to enhance the game's creative disharmony. \n\nThank you to the following artists:\nKenny Chen (nonepic.com)\nDavid S. Gallant (davidsgallant.com/igtced.html)\nSophie Weiner (silentdraperunners.bandcamp.com)\nChris Snak Fud\n\nBerate me at:\n@leighalexander\nleighalexander.net\n\n[[Goblet Grotto|http://harmonyzone.org/GobletGrotto.html]] was a partial inspiration, but I almost hesitate to mention it lest creators thecatamites & J. Chastain be unhappy to be remotely associated with this stupid thing I made.... You should play their game instead of this. \n\nFinally THE SEX CHAMBER is also highly influenced by live-improvisational parser 'games' I make up with my partner while we're falling asleep. I am lucky to fall asleep with someone who makes me want to make things. \n\n[][][]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc2.png]]\nWhat do you want to [[TAKE?|begin4]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nYou can only go [[WEST|exit0]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou cannot [[TAKE|look8]] any more.

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nYou walked into one of the smooth, featureless walls! [[OUCH!|exita]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nThe door has a [[KEYCARD READER|exita]] on it.

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/labdeath.png]]\n\nYou quickly dart from the doorway and dash across the lab for the door that leads to the submarine dock. \n\nThe MERMEN have noticed you! \n\nThe MERMEN are chasing you! \n\n[[RUN|sub2]]\n[[TALK|lolno]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sciencemerman.png]]\nThe mermen have tails as well as feet, and are wearing labcoats and carrying clipboards. They speak in a language you do not [[understand|lab]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is nothing to [[WAIT for|exit0]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is nothing to [[TAKE|exit0]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nYou need to OPEN the door before you can [[go that way|exita]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nYou need to [[OPEN the door|exita1]] before you can do that...

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nYou walked into one of the smooth, featureless walls! [[OUCH!|exite]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nYou walked into one of the smooth, featureless walls! [[OUCH!|back]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nThud! You smack into one of the smooth, featureless walls. [[OUCH!|exita1]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nYou think about returning to the sex chamber. You can't [[go back|exite]] now! What about Paula?!

your friend

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/mooredegg.png]]\nThe mermen have probably found the body of their colleague in the sex chamber by now. Stay out of the lab or the mermen will take their [[revenge|sub2]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is nothing to [[LOOK at|exit0]]!

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/mooredegg.png]]\nStay out of the [[water|sub2]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nThe MERMAN is blocking the [[exit!|look6]]

[][][]WELCOME TO[][][]\n[][][]The SEX Chamber[][][]\n\n[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc1.png]]\n\nA titillating and exciting game for adults only from your friends at QuinnSoft!!!\n\n\nIf you like this game please mail $5 check or MO to QuinnSoft!!!!\n\n[[START|begin]]\n\n

"I'd rather have [blank] than a frontal lobotomy!"\n\n[[One million dollars|wrong1]]\n[[A bottle in front of me|right3]]\n[[A packet of Laramies|wrong1]]

How short is Mickey Rooney?\n\n[[Five foot two|wrong1]]\n[[A day late and a dollar|wrong1]]\n[[About $100,000, since his last divorce|right2]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is no one to [[TALK to!|exite]]

Correct! \n\n[[Next Question|begin2]]

Correct! \n\n[[Next Question|begin3]]

Correct! You got all the questions correct!!\n\n[[Enter The SEX Chamber...|begin4]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/labdeath.png]]\nYou lunge out from the doorway to attack the mermen scientists. But there are too many of them! They all turn to face you at once, descending upon you with their strange webbed hands and gaping, fish-lipped mouths. \n\nAs the tile floor drops away from you, the last thing you see is the atom smasher approaching... \n\n[[Continue|kill2]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merscientist.png]]\nYou try to TALK, but the mermen [[ignore you|lab]]. It seems they don't speak your language.

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/mooredegg.png]]\nYou flee the laboratory into the dimly-lit, briny subterannean dockside where a submersible craft is moored. The eggshell-colored vessel bobs gently upon water that looks dark emerald in the low light. \n\n[[EXAMINE|xsub]]|[[USE|xsub2]]|[[TAKE|xsub3]]|[[WAIT|waaait]]\n\n[[N|xn]]|[[S|xno]]|[[E|xn]]|[[W|xn]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/hallway.png]]\nThere is no one to [[TALK to|exit0]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nYou can't [[TAKE|look5]] that!

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\nTime passes...\n\nYou see a MERMAN [[here|look5]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou don't need any more [[SUBSTANCE|look3]]!

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nStop trying to take extra [[SUBSTANCE|look4]]! Didn't your mama teach you to share? \n\nThe footsteps are drawing closer...

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou [[TAKE|look2]] a handful of the chalky, slightly viscous SUBSTANCE and put it in your pocket.

Time [[passes...|begin4]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/takeall.png]]\nAn analysis DEVICE: Taken.\nSome SUBSTANCE: Taken.\nA CARDKEY: Taken.\n\nA dead MERMAN: You can't carry that! \n\n([[Back|look8]])

Time passes... \n\nYou hear the sound of [[footsteps approaching|look4]].

Sorry, that's the wrong answer! You must not be an adult TOO BAD\n\n[[Restart?|begin]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nHow can you [[OPEN that?!|exita]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman.png]]\n(Try "GIVE [something] [[TO someone|look6]].")\n\n

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nHow can you [[OPEN that?!|exita1]]

Time [[passes|exite]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/merman2.png]]\nYou find...\n\n[[Nothing.|look8]]

You see:\n[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/takeall.png]]\nAn analysis DEVICE\nSome SUBSTANCE\nA CARDKEY\nA dead MERMAN\n\n([[Back|look7]])

WARNING this is a game only for adults. Please verify your age by answering a few questions that will be easy for you if you are an adult. \n\nQuestion 1: What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed? \n\n[[June 28, 1919|right1]]\n[[Jan 10, 1920|wrong1]]\n[[September 23, 1919|wrong1]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/sc3.png]]\nYou already have the [[SUBSTANCE|look2]].

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/atomsmasher.png]]\n(The DEVICE) You don't know how to [[USE that|lab]].\n\n(The SUBSTANCE)You cannot [[USE that|lab]] here.\n

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/1080338_10200964690533001_341179004_n.jpg]]\nThank you for playing the latest Adult Visions(tm) title from QuinnSoft! If you liked this game, please mail $5 to my house to receive a complete version 3.3.2 featuring Paula's Letters and an extra Chamber! You can also use the Device in new ways ;-)\n\nThank you for playing!!!\n\nPLEASE LOOK AT THE [[CREDITS!!!|notes]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/labdeath.png]]\nThe MERMEN don't understand you! \n\nThe mermen scientists rend you limb from limb!\n\n[[Continue|kill2]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nYou start to turn around and then remember what Paula said about this place! You need to [[press on!|exita1]]

[img[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23376336/door.png]]\nThere is a KEYCARD READER on the door.\n\n[[USE KEYCARD|lab]]\n[[Back|exita1]]