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	<title>Max Blaster and Doris DeLightning Hints</title>
	<body bgcolor = WHITE font color = BLACK>

	<h1>Max Blaster and Doris DeLightning Hints</h1>
	<p>
	Note: Even reading the questions to these hints may reveal some spoilers. Don't say you weren't warned. Answers to questions are printed in white-on-white; select them to reveal their content. Where there is more than one level of hint, the first line of the answer will suggest a solution, and then later lines will get more explicit. (Woo woo.)
	</p>
	<p>
	In many cases there are alternate solutions that are not mentioned here. These are left as an exercise to the player.
	</p>
	<p>Hints that are specifically dependent on which character you are playing are color-coded: <font color = BLUE>BLUE</font> for Max, and <font color = RED>RED</font> for Doris.
	</p>
	<UL>
	<LI><a href = "#pirate">The Pirate Lizard's Ship</a>
	<LI><a href = "#scientists">The Evil Scientists' Lair</a>
	<LI><a href = "#director">The Director's Office</a>
	<LI><a href = "#landed">Landed on Venus</a>
	<LI><a href = "#prison">Imprisoned! [Doris]</a>
	<LI><a href = "#prisonm">Imprisoned! [Max]</a>
	<LI><a href = "#escape">Escaped! [Doris]</a>
	<LI><a href = "#escapem">Escaped! [Max]</a>
	<LI><a href = "#datacenter">In the Data Center</a>
	<LI><a href = "#xenoscience">Xenoscience Dome</a>
	<LI><a href = "#museum">The Museum</a>
	<LI><a href = "#laboratory">The Laboratory</a>
	<LI><a href = "#weapon">Defeating the Final Weapon</a>
	</UL>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "pirate">The Pirate Lizard's Ship</a></h2>
	<p>
	<b>Help! I don't seem to be able to defeat the Earthling!</b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Fool! Don't you know no one defeats Max Blaster?</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "scientists">The Evil Scientists' Lair</a></h2>
	<p>
	<b>Help! I don't seem able to defeat Doris DeLightning!</b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>She's new, but she's feisty.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You're out of luck here too. Sorry.</font>
	</p>

	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "director">The Director's Office</a></h2>
	<p>
	<b>Help! I can't avoid being paired with this obnoxious partner!</b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Yeah, the Director seems pretty set on it. Perhaps you can get rid of him/her later.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>I want the Director to upgrade my blaster.</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Looks like the department budget's been cut. You'll just have to wait until later.</font>
	</p>

	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "landed">Landed on Venus</a></h2>
	<p>
	<b>I can't get the ship back in the air!</b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Nope, it's pretty seriously crashed.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] How do I know which way it is to the Xavian headquarters?</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It's pretty hard to see through this jungle. Maybe you need a better view.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There sure are a lot of trees around here.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Climb a tree.</font>
	</p>

	<p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] How do I know which way it is to the Xavian headquarters?</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It's pretty hard to see through this jungle. Maybe you need a better view.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hey, the WLPD didn't just assign you that rocket belt out of an interest in keeping you fashionable, you know.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try UP or FLY.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] How do I cross this gorge?</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You're still wearing the rocket belt, aren't you? (The Director would have a stroke if you lost such a valuable piece of equipment.)</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>FLY WEST.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] How do I cross this gorge?</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hmm. For inexplicable reasons Doris wound up with the rocket pants (not that they don't look good on her). Perhaps you have something else that would help, though.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No, not the blaster.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>That force generator takes on a number of interesting shapes.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Possibly the rod shape would be useful. And if you're really lucky, Doris won't even say anything rude.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>TURN GENERATOR ON. SET DIAL TO ROD. PUT ROD ON GORGE. W.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[DORIS] Vine!</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The problem is, you can't really get a grip on the snake. Maybe if you could just push it away at the right time...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The TK device can repel things.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But in order for this to be useful, the snake has to be in the right position to be killed.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Wait until the snake is about to eat you for lunch, then POINT TK AT SNAKE.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] Snake!</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Arr. Rookies. Oh well, maybe you have something that can resolve this situation.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Yup, blaster it is.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>SHOOT SNAKE WITH BLASTER.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] Eeagh! Quicksand!</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Perhaps you have something you could use to get you out of here.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No, not the blaster.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You need something with a large surface area...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Such as, for instance, a disk of force.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>TURN GENERATOR ON. SET DIAL TO DISK. DROP DISK. UP.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[DORIS] Yay! Max is trapped in quicksand!</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Of course, you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't have a tiny soft spot for the guy. You want to save him. Admit it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No? Okay, never mind.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>All right, all right, sorry. You know the vine snake? If you don't have the vine snake under control, you'd better solve that problem first.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There, now: the thing about a snake that's just like a vine is, it's just like a vine, and, by extension, sort of similar to a rope. Maybe if you offered it to Max, he'd be able to climb out.</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "prison">Imprisoned! [Doris]</a></h2>

	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] I don't even have any stuff! How am I supposed to get out of here with no rocket belt?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>What would really be convenient right about now would be a parachute. See anything very wide and flat-shaped around here?</font>
	</p>

	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you tried looking at the hole?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's that leaf. If only you could get it off the twig.</font>
	</p> <p>
	<font color = WHITE>You'll need something sharp with which to cut it free.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you tried checking out the contents of the debris pile? (Yeah, with any luck Max is having to do something even more sad than picking through Xavian garbage, but you can bet it's not going to appear in his press release.)</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>CUT LEAF WITH SHELL. JUMP.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] How do I book my vacation to Lesser Featherton?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try waiting until the Director raises your salary to a reasonable amount.</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "prisonm">Imprisoned! [Max]</a></h2>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] How do I leave the nest?</font></b>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You could just climb out.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But the guard might interfere.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>So it seems you need to distract the guard somehow.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If only you could make the guard think you were already out of the nest...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>This Max Blaster Action Figure at least sounds like you (sort of).</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you tried exploring the settings? Maybe there's one that will give the guard the wrong impression.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Open the zipper in back, then try flipping the switch. Now pull the cord a few times.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you set the switch to make Max speak English, and set the dial to 5, the Max action figure will announce that he's escaped from a prison. Maybe that'll distract the guard.</font>
	</p>

	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] How do I get my teeth to be even shinier?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Surely that's impossible.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] The guard ignores my alter ego!</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hmm, as long as the voice is coming from inside the nest, the guard's going to ignore it. What if it were outside?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Apparently the doll isn't convincing with such a wimpy voice. (You do have a very resonant and manly sound, it's true.) Have you noticed anything that picks up and magnifies sound in the area?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>How about the hole in the tree?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try setting the action figure to say its line about escaping prison, then throw it into the hole. While the guard is distracted, you can get away.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>From the top, then: TAKE ALL. OPEN ZIPPER. FLIP SWITCH. SET DIAL TO 4. THROW ACTION FIGURE AT HOLE. OUT. S.</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "escape">Escaped! [Doris]</a></h2>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] There are lasers in my way.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Yes, but perhaps you can turn them off.</font>
	<p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There <i>is</i> a control box in view.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>See that Temporary Laser Override button? Maybe you could hit that with something.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>THROW NUT AT BUTTON.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] There's an interesting box here. I want some field rations.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Max would be proud to see you adjusting to alien customs and eating hearty of the strange native foodstuffs.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Okay, maybe not. Anyway, the problem seems to be that it's out of reach.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Fortunately, there's a stepladder in the north storeroom; with its help you should be able to get at the boxes.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hmm, this doesn't get you all the way to the top. But there is a gap here... </font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>...which you can't put your foot in. Maybe if you had something else you could wedge in there to help you up.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you don't have anything you could use, try checking out the perch area...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Get the pipe.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Insert the pipe in the gap, then climb it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Now from up here you can't open the top box, but maybe you can put it somewhere where you <i>can</i> open it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>From the top: N. TAKE LADDER. S. DROP LADDER. CLIMB LADDER. PUT PIPE IN GAP. CLIMB PIPE. X BOX. PUSH BOX. D. You may now help yourself to the spilled pills.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] There is a guard in my way.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Perhaps you could distract him with something.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Do you have any way to affect his immediate environment?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you noticed the vents around here? See how they're laid out?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There should be one just above his head.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you found the vent controls?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Perhaps you could control the airflow to cause something to fly out and hit him.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Such as for instance a food pill. (If you don't have a food pill, look around.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>If you still can't find it, check out "There's an interesting box here...")</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>In order to make the food pill hit the guard, though, you'll need to be able to reach one of the vents.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The vent in the north room is lower than the vent in the south room.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you stack things up, you should be able to reach it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But you also need the vent in the south room to be closed so that the object in the vent will fly along and not fall out there...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And you need the vent above the guard to be open...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And you need the whole thing to happen slowly enough that you can place the pill in the vent, then get to the bend in the corridor in time to take advantage of the guard's distraction.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And you need the whole thing to happen slowly enough that you can place the pill in the vent, then get to the bend in the corridor in time to take advantage of the guard's distraction.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Leave the north vent open. Set the south vent to closed (PRESS SOUTH), and the exit vent to open (PRESS EXIT). Set the air speed (PRESS FLOW) to the lower of the two numbers. (The unit switch is a red herring). Climb the boxes and put the food pill in the vent, or throw it in there (this is randomized and may not work every time). Then go to the junction, and wait until the guard is disabled.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] It would be convenient if Max would show up with his blaster.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Agh! Where did that thought come from?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Get a grip on yourself. Next you'll be swooning and waiting for him to rescue you, just like all the alien women you've read about.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Oh, I see, that was a purely tactical consideration, was it?</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "escapem">Escaped! [Max]</a></h2>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] What the heck is a phrenological scan?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Something to do with examining the shape of a head.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Too bad <i>your</i> head is too handsomely shaped ever to be mistaken for a Xavian's.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Of course, there is that mask of the Xavian leader that you got from the nest.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>PUT MASK IN HOLE.</font>
	</p>

	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] How do I get past <i>this</i> guard?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Obviously strolling by casually and whistling a little tune isn't going to work. Not when your face is known all over the galaxy.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you can distract this guard with something else. Do you know what he might want?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you explored the rest of the area?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you been to the kitchen?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hmm, there seem to be some Xavians nearby... maybe if you could hear what they were saying that would help.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The speaker might be revealing, if only you could figure out how to turn it on.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>FLIP BLACK SWITCH, then listen for a while.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Sounds like that guard might be expecting his lunch pretty soon.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] What do I do with the kitchen machinery?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you're not sure what your goal is, explore more and, if necessary, read the preceding section.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Okay, corknut butter and jelly it is. How hard could this be?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The machine is constructed of a number of components, each of which will do something to a piece of bread as it moves along a conveyor belt. Your job is to get two pieces of bread along the belt, with the correct contents on them and without any incorrect contents (such as worms, chocolate sauce, etc.) You also need to avoid mangling the bread and destroying the structural integrity needed for a good sandwich. Some of these machines are on and some are off, controlled by the lever on the panel.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The silver button loads new bread onto the conveyor. Mm, bread.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The red button resets the machine to its initial state.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you examine the appliances, you can work out which is controlled by which lever. You may want to note the correspondences.</font>
	</p>

	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I can't find the wedge of lime!</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you tried searching the gin and tonic supply case?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Stop reading the hints for problems you don't have, Max. There's no time to mess around like this! Xavia is about to invade!</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] There's no corknut butter in the lineup!</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Nope, you'll have to get the tube from elsewhere.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And then you have to get it into the machine. If only there were a hole in the casing.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Which there is, after the blender activates.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>In order to get the corknut butter out of the tube, you'll need it to be stomped by the pressor.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And you need to put it in the lineup immediately before the slice of bread, so that it will be squeezed onto said bread.</font>
	</p>

	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But if the pressor activates, a slice of bread will be damaged also.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But if you arrange it so one of the pieces got the frozen tofu worms dumped on it, then it'll be protected from the heat ray.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>So, for the complete walkthrough:</font>
	</p>

	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>SET LEVER TO 1. PUSH SILVER. Z. Z. Z. Z. PUSH RED. PUSH SILVER. SET LEVER TO 3. Z. SET LEVER TO 2. PUT TUBE IN BLENDER. SET LEVER TO 1. Z. SET LEVER TO 4. SET LEVER TO 2. SET LEVER TO 1. SET LEVER TO 3. Z. Thank goodness for modern labor-saving devices, or that might have been really time-consuming.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I wish Doris weren't so stand-off-ish.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you should try being nice to her. Get her a gift or something. Women love that stuff.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Of course, maybe you should be concentrating on saving the Earth, instead.</font>
	</p>
	<hr>

	<h2><a name = "datacenter">In the Data Center</a></h2>
	<b>How do I avoid being attacked by the cleaning robot?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>That should be easy, since there isn't one.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>This space intentionally left blank.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>And this one.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] I don't know the password to this computer system.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Well, it's not going to work to just guess, obviously.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe there's a hardware solution.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you searched the wiring of the computer?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The security module seems to be interfering with your attempts to get in.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>BREAK SECURITY MODULE, then type any password you like.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I don't know the password to this computer system.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>That's okay, you're Max Blaster. You always guess these right.</font>
	</p> <p>
	<font color = WHITE>Seriously, just TYPE (whatever word comes to mind) ON KEYBOARD. Doris is going to love this.</font>
	</p> <p>
	<font color = WHITE>Okay, so she didn't love it. She's kind of hard to soften up.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] All right, it looks like I need to get over to that other building.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's a cable that runs over there. Wonder what it's for?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There seems to be some kind of intra-dome delivery system. If only you could control it, maybe you could ride the package to the other dome.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try checking out the list of programs on the computer.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I don't understand this computer.</font></b>

	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No, but Doris does.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Perhaps you should ask her for help.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>DORIS, RUN DELIVERY.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] Okay, the stuff with the computer's done... what do I do with this package?</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Hold onto it (and Doris) and ride to freedom.</font>

	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>GET PACKAGE. GET DORIS. OUT.</font>

	</p>
	<hr>

	<h2><a name = "xenoscience">Xenoscience Dome</a></h2>
	<b>What are these brown knobby objects?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You could try one and see.</font>
	</p>
	<b>I can't find our stuff in the Earth Artifact Cultural Research Center.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe the account book will tell you where things are stored.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you tried looking behind or searching the counter?</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] There's this perch I want to get onto.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You could jump...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>...but you don't quite make it. You're definitely going to need a lift.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Funny, Doris doesn't want to carry you. Must be all those protein-rich space dinners that have increased your musculature so impressively. Maybe you should lift her, instead.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] There's this perch I want to get onto.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's always Max. He should be able to lift you.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] Doris is gone and I'm stuck at the bottom of a Vertical Junction.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You need something to help you up.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You could climb your force rod.</font>
	</p>

	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>SET DIAL TO ROD. PUT GENERATOR ON PERCH. CLIMB ROD.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Unfortunately, that only gets you half-way.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But there are also some objects -- like the sign on the wall -- that provide a good handle for an experienced adventurer like yourself.</font>
	</p><hr>
	<h2><a name = "museum">Museum</a></h2>
	<b>What am I trying to do here?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Somewhere around here is the bomb you brought from Earth, which you need to destroy the Xavians' secret weapon. The only problem is, they were a little <i>too</i> impressed with its disguise, and they put it away somewhere here.</font>
	</p>

	<b>The museum door is locked.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe they left a key somewhere nearby.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try looking in the booth.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>ENTER BOOTH. TAKE CARDKEY. OUT. PUT CARDKEY IN SLOT.</font>
	</p>
	<b>I can't find the bomb.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you checked out the Mars room?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Note that there's a door to a back area, to the east.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Yes, it's locked, but you can unlock it with the card key again.</font>
	</p>
	<b>There's a barrier when I want to go north.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But there's also a gap underneath it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No, you can't wriggle beneath. You'd need to shed a few pounds before that would really work, not to mention that pesky internal skeleton.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You might be able to use the gap to get some leverage, though.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Now where have you seen a potential lever around here?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's always the straight stick from the Past Xavian History exhibit.</font>
	</p>
	<b>I don't think the lacquer is going to help matters.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe somewhere around here there's a way to remove it.</font>
	</p>

	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] Argh, I'm trapped in the giant eggshell.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Too bad you don't have a primitive tooth at the front of your head, to chip your way out, just like a baby Xavian.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you could grow one.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you got the teething corknut?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>This could prove problematic...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>...since there is no giant eggshell trap.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I'm having trouble with the combination of water and lacquer.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you can protect the bomb from getting wet somehow. </font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>For instance, if you could protect it with a force field or something.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's always the sphere setting on your force generator.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>In order to get it inside, you'll have to start out with the generator in some other configuration, though.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>TURN ON GENERATOR. SET DIAL TO DISC. PUT BOMB ON DISC. SET DIAL TO SPHERE. There: handy protective bubble!</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] I'm having trouble with the combination of water and lacquer.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you can turn off the rain.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you checked out the area of the light jungle?</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>There seems to be a switch.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But, naturally, you can't reach it from here.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Time for the TK device.</font>
	</p>
	<b>I keep being chased by the animatronic Xenosaur.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>That <i>is</i> a problem.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>These are the things that ate all the mammal life on Venus, you know.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Except for the squirrels.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Aw, cute fuzzy squirrel...</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Maybe you could observe the squirrel's behavior very closely and emulate it when in the presence of the Xenosaurbots.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You're going to need to know just what aspects of the squirrel's behavior are critical.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you found the zoologist's study notebook?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you been into the University wing yet?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If not, try reading the hints on the University wing.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Okay? Good. Now, note down the squirrel's behavior patterns in the notebook.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>With the Uranian Squid-Ink fountain pen, naturally.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>SHAKE PEN. UNCAP PEN. LICK NIB. OPEN NOTEBOOK. SKETCH SQUIRREL. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. CAP PEN. SW. EMULATE SQUIRREL BEHAVIOR ON PAGE THREE. WAIT. EMULATE SQUIRREL BEHAVIOR ON PAGE EIGHT. DUCK. OPEN HATCH. TAKE BATTERY FROM XENOSAUR.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = RED>[Doris] I hate squirrels.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>So it's in your way -- maybe you could lure it into moving. Have you seen anything nearby that a squirrel might like?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>But if you just hold up the acorn, the squirrel can't see it. So maybe you need a way to make it appear larger.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Put the acorn in the image projector, then turn the projector on.</font>
	</p>
	<b>Now that I've pulverized the Hope Diamond with the giant nutcracker, what am I supposed to do with the diamond dust?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">Diamond dust has many applications in industry.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">For instance, it is used for polishing things, or so you've heard.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">But this is all kind of irrelevant.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">Since you have not, in fact, pulverized the Hope Diamond.</font>
	</p>
	<b>How do I get out of this Museum?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">There's an opening above the stack of stuff.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = "WHITE">Maybe you could reach if you climbed up on the pile.</font>
	</p>
	<hr>
	<h2><a name = "laboratory">Laboratory</a></h2>
	<b>What am I trying to do here?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Your mission is to break into the Xavian research lab, and try to find some way to overcome the screen that protects the secret weapon, so that the two of you can get in and destroy it. Oh, yeah, and it would be nice if you could provide yourselves with some means of getting off-planet when you're done. Unless you really want to take that vacation to Lesser Featherton, after all.</font>
	</p>
	<font color = RED><b>[Doris] There is a laser camera thing trying to shoot me.</b></font>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you examined how it's put together?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The whole thing seems dependent on a really rather tenuous cable connection.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If only you could get at that and affect it before the cannon had a chance to shoot you. Too bad you don't have longer arms.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's always your TK device, of course.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>POINT TK DEVICE AT CABLE.</font>
	</p>
	<font color = BLUE><b>[Max] There is a laser camera thing trying to shoot me.</b></font>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>As you once told a fan, in any gunfight the important thing is to be the one who shoots first.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Actually, maybe it was your agent who said that. But it sounds good.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>SHOOT CANNON.</font>
	</p>

	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] I can't reach the doorway.</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No -- and the wall is pretty sheer, too.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Looks like you'll have to blast your way in.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Unfortunately, the wall is pretty dense in spots -- though with a little investigation, maybe you could find a place where it isn't.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>HIT EAST WALL. SHOOT REGION.</font>
	</p>
	<b>Okay, so how do I disrupt the outer screen?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you checked out the note in the coopicles area?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It sounds as though they're still having trouble with the screen. Perhaps you could find out more in the Screen Theory room.</font>
	</p>
	<b>How can I read the microdot?</b>
	<p><font color = WHITE>The writing is too small. You need to make it larger.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>If you're Doris, you can use the image projector. Otherwise, you can put the microdot into the viewmaster from the Earth Artifacts Cultural Center.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>PUT MICRODOT IN VIEWMASTER. LOOK IN VIEWMASTER. READ WRITING.</font>
	</p>

	<b>How can I control the prototyping machine?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It seems to require a data cube of some sort.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's a cube in it now, but that might not have everything you want on it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There's always the silver cube from the coopicles area.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Of course, some of these items aren't very useful.</font>
	</p>
	<b><font color = BLUE>[Max] This gaussrifle barrel doesn't fit on my blaster!</font></b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Right, because your blaster isn't a gaussrifle. Go figure.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Don't worry about it. Not everything the Xavians do is useful to Earthmen.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Those granola nut things are pretty good, though.</font>
	</p>
	<b>My spaceship is too tiny to be useful!</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Yeah, I get that spam all the time too.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Fortunately, there is a control for a full-sized model around somewhere.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Check out the Flight Laboratory.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you looked at the wire?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>There seems to be a remote control that will call the full-sized one.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>That's all you need for now. You can summon it when you have to.</font>
	</p>
	<b>My waveform generator just makes a hissing noise.</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>You need to also tell the prototyping machine <i>what</i> waveform it's supposed to generate. (Very fussy, this Xavian technology.)</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you don't know what waveform you want it to use, you'd better figure that out first.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>What do you want the waveform for, anyway?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try reading the sections on the Screen Theory Lab and the Botany Lab.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Once you've got the right waveform on the recordable data chip, you can use that with the prototyper to get the right waveform on the waveform generator.</font>
	</p>
	<b>What can I do in the Screen Theory Lab?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>This looks like a good place to test out their protective screen, doesn't it?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you read the note on the auxiliary control panel?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It seems that the screen is less reliable on squares 4 through 6 for some reason.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Of course, those squares are nearest to the Botany Lab. Maybe something there is interfering.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Try experimenting with the plants in the Botany Lab. (See the next section for more details.)</font>
	</p>
	<b>What's up with the Paleo-Ornithology Lab?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you been there?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Don't read on until you find it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>No, really, I mean it.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>So you're saying you've really gotten inside?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Liar.</font>
	</p>
	<b>What's going on in the Botany Lab?</b>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>They seem to be doing some work with artificially-stimulated seeds over here.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>They make noises when they grow -- waveforms, one might say.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Something they're doing over here makes a noise that interferes with the experimental Screen in the Screen Theory Room. If you could duplicate that noise, you'd be able to shut down the main screen around the weapon.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Too bad you can't see the screen from the Botany lab.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Unless you could somehow get one to appear in there.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Have you examined the lever on the screen projector?</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>It seems that it could be set to higher numbers than 6-- that is to say, the grid extends into the territory of the Botany Lab. Try setting it to 7, instead.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Having problems with the Safety Override? Go away and read the microdot.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>So if the Override is turned off and the screen is projected at square 7, you can see it in the Botany Lab while you experiment with the noises made by growing plants. (Don't laugh. In this job, next week you could be doing dentistry on a Neptunian slugworm.)</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>Now you just need a way to collect the waveform that's made.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>The recordable datachip might be able to pick this up, used in combination with the slot in the pot.</font>
	</p>
	<p>
	<font color = WHITE>If you don't know what to do with the datachip, try acquainting yourself with the Prototyper.</font>
	</p>
	<b>Why does the potato keep flickering out of existence?</b>
	<p><font color = WHITE>It's a Venusian teleporting potato.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>Yes, really.</font>
	</p>
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	<h2><a name = "weapon">Defeating the Final Weapon</a></h2>
	<font color = RED><b>[Doris] How do I get the bomb up to the level of the weapon?</font></b>
	<p><font color = WHITE>You could just let your partner solve the problem.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>But depending on your feelings, that may not be entirely satisfactory.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>It would be nice if you could get the bomb up there without a person attached.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>Possibly the rocket pants would work for unaided flight.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>Have Doris remove the rocket pants (or remove the rocket belt yourself, if you are she), and then put the bomb in them.</font>
	</p>
	<font color = BLUE><b>[Max] How do I get the bomb up to the level of the weapon?</font></b>
	<p><font color = WHITE>You could just let your partner solve the problem.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>But depending on your feelings, that may not be entirely satisfactory.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>It would be nice if you could get the bomb up there without a person attached.</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>Have you looked at Ch'awwwk's dome?</font>
	</p>
	<p><font color = WHITE>It seems there's a window in the side.</font>
	</p>

	<p><font color = WHITE>Perhaps you could throw the bomb in through the window.</font>
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