You flip the pages of the book.\n\n -- -- --\n\n<font color="yellow"><i>It is no secret; deep within these pages lay secrets. It's as easy as falling. Although, as it usually is with falling, there's a chance you'll die. Maybe you should try to find a way out?</i></font>\n\n -- -- --\n\nDo you want to [[continue reading|Shifts2]], or\ncheck out the other [[books|Books]]?
You continue reading the book called "Shifts," although most of the passages don't seem to make sense.\n\n -- -- --\n\n<font color="yellow"><i><<print either("The room is a metaphor. You can look and look, but there's no elephant.", "Everything falls, everything falls.", "The way the pasages look at me; I feel so naked. It is only by sheer will that I endure.","Tea, biscuits, and crumpet strings.", "What do you want, a Login?","Is it peanut-butter-jelly time yet?","This root cursor subtle strings leer hawk.","2+2=5","Gipsy Danger is a walking nuclear bomb and the giants that try to defeat it are wasting their time.","Gipsy Danger dies in the end.","Curious, still? Haven't you had enough?")>></i></font>\n\n -- -- --\n\nYou can choose to [[read on|Shifts2]],\nput the book down on the table and check out the other [[books|Books]], or\n[[throw|ThrowShifts]] the book at the door in frustration.
The scratching goes on, as if it's taunting you to investigate further. You see that you are just about two steps away from picking up the paper.\n\nYou thought you feel a [[shiver|GotAdmin3]] run down your spine.
Frustrated with its seemingly nonsensical ramblings, you throw the book at the closed door and it makes a loud BANG!\n\nYou notice a piece of paper fall out from in between the pages onto the floor.\n\nCurious, you decide to walk towards the door to pick up the piece of [[scrap paper|GotAdmin1]].
<<if ($fromcomputer is "yes")>>\n<<set $fromcomputer="no">>\n<<print "You decide to turn of the computer.">>\n<<endif>>\nYou look around and see grey walls around you. There is a window closed on one side, draped by a cream-colored curtain. Just below the window stands a table, where rests a monitor and a keyboard, connected to the tower computer that's under it. Several books are also scattered on the left side of the tabletop.\n\nOn the opposite side of the room is a door. It is closed.\n\nFrom here, you can:\n\nPart the [[curtain|OpenCurtain]].\nTurn on the [[computer|Computer]].\nCheck out the [[books|Books]].\nTry to open the door.
terminal\n\n<-- hit restart
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You pick up the scrap and see a single word written on the sheet:\n\n[img[cimatar]]
You try to break the glass with your bare hands, the only benefit of which are the feelings of pain and frustration. The futility of this makes you question life.\n\nYou decide to give it up, close the curtains, and just [[look around the room once more|Room]].
You part the curtains, and you can see that it is night-time. The window is made of square-shaped glass and there are narrow grills that partially block your view to the outside. Still, you can easily perceive an almost-empty street down below: there is a white, fluffy dog sitting on the far side. It seems like it's waiting for something.\n\nYou can\ntry to [[break the glass|BareBreak]] with your bare hands,\nor just [[close down the curtains|Room]] and look around the room again.\n
You pick up the book called "Shifts" and flip through its pages. You find a sentence on the first page:\n\n ------\n\n<font color="yellow"><i>\nIt could be Winter. For all you know, it</i> should <i>be Winter.\n</i></font>\n\n ------\n\nYou skim through the rest of the pages and find that there are more writings.\n\nYou can\n[[flip|FlipShifts]] through the rest of the pages, or\ndecide to check out the other [[books|Books]].
A fact easily obscured by the considerable darkness in the place you're in.\n\nYou realize that you're alone in a small [[room|Room]].
<<silently>>\n<<set $fromcomputer="no">>\n<<endsilently>>\nIt is the middle of [[Summer|Intro 1]].
<<silently>>\n<<set $fromcomputer="yes">>\n<<endsilently>>\nYou push the power button on the computer.\n\nThe monitor lights up, and you are greeted by a familiar screen:\n\n * * * * *\n\n<font color="yellow"><i>WELCOME!</i>\n\nLOGIN:\t\t<<textinput $login>>\nPASSWORD:\t<<textinput $password [[Submit|Login]] >>\n\n[[Shut Down.|Room]]</font>\n \n * * * * *\n
You walk towards the door.\n\nAs you get closer, you suddenly hear a light scraping on the other side.\n\nIt sounds like there were sharp claws [[scratching|Got Admin2]] on the wood.
The scratching sounds steadily grew louder and more desperate. You can hear the hissing of whatever creature is making the noise. Or perhaps it was pained breathing?\n\nYou press on, stopping just inches before the door. You can hear the scraping sounds gradually diminishing.\n\nYou kneel and pick the piece of [[scrap paper|GotAdmin]].\n\nThe scraping stopped.
Glis·sé \n<font size=-1><i>by John Leuven</i></font>
<<if ($login is "AvonClerker") and ($password is "cimatar!")>>\nThe screen changes in to a blue desktop, indicating that you were logged in successfully. The system appears to use a fairly easy-to-understand interface, and it doesn't take long for you to learn how to operate it.\n\nLike most computers it has several menus and options, however you focus only on the ones that seem to be important to you right now:\n\n\n<<else>>\nAs you enter your login and password, the screen fades to black, displaying the lines:\n\n * * * * *\n\n<font color="yellow"><i>Incorrect Login or Pasword.</i></font>\n\n[[Back|Computer]]\n\n * * * * *\n\nIt seems guessing will get you nowhere.\n\n<<endif>>\n\n
You rummage though the pile of books; there are three here on the tabletop. There's a yellow-covered one with the title "[[Glissé|BookGlisse]]" emblazoned on it, a red one called "[[Shifts|BookShifts]]" and a Blue one called "[[Kyne|BookKyne]]."\n\nWhich one do you read first?
You pick up the book called "Glissé" and flip through its pages. You find one single passage on the first page:\n\n ------\n\n<i><font color="yellow">It is the middle of Summer.</font></i>\n\n ------\n\nYou skim through the rest of the pages and find them blank. You decide to check out the other [[books|Books]].