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Jenny: Hurry up, Feather! Let’s get Jim there.

Task: Go through the unknown room, falling into one trap.

Jim: Kitchen… Well, it makes sense. Lots of food. The rat could have eaten something rotten. And there’s always something boiling or stewing – hence the humidity. Did you find the rat here?

Jenny: Yes, we caught it here.

Jim: Let’s have a look. Feather, you’ll have to examine the mousetrap. The cheese can be moldy there, you understand.

Jim: Not a single speck of dust here. Even on the top shelf and in darkest corners. Not every hospital has such sterility. A rat wouldn’t catch anything in this kitchen. Any other suggestions?

Jenny: Jim, you said, these rats were brought by Jack. Maybe our rat is from the same pack as those in the box, but…

Jim: …But you found it before Jack. And he brought me the ones he could catch, but took all the equipment off them first.

Jim: And so, Jenny, we had three main questions. Who created these antennas?

Jenny: Why did the rats get sick?

Jim: And whether or not the same person is responsible for these events.

Jenny: What do you mean?

Jim: It’s not like Jack to keep an entire pack of rats just to admire it. And it wasn’t just the sickness he got so upset about, it was something going wrong with his plans.

Jenny: Did someone poison the rats on purpose?!

Jim: On purpose or not, we can’t rule out such possibility. Until now we considered nature to be the main suspect in spreading this sickness, but what if a human is responsible?

Jenny: I think... It’s just an assumption… No, it’s nothing. We shouldn’t waste our time on this.

Jim: Jenny, speak up. We’re having a brainstorming. Any suggestion can bring us closer to the solution.

Jenny: Fine. We should start with a place rather than person.

Jim: That’s interesting…

Jenny: There’s definitely mold in two other places in the house: the attic and the basement.

Jim: And that covers two thirds of our human suspects.

Jenny: The first one is Jack himself, right?

Jim: Only through carelessness. He might have mixed up or forgotten something. Maybe the rats that were living in the basement for a long time ate some mouldy bread or cheese or who-knows-what…

Jenny: Then why wasn’t Jack affected?

Jim: He’s not an actual rat, just in a figurative sense. No matter what labels he’s using, Jack is still human, and it takes a lot more time for a human to get infected.

Jenny: Is the second one Ryan?

Jim: Right.

Jenny: But why? Did they have a quarrel?

Jim: I can’t remember Jack crossing Ryan’s path. Maybe there wasn’t any particular reason at all. Was it just academic interest? Is he experimenting with rats? With Jack?

Jenny: And who’s the third?

Jim: We should never charge the Puppeteer off. Anyway, we still don’t know why rats started running around the house in the first place. And without the actual cause all our talking is just mere guesswork. All three of them had an opportunity to do it. But what about reasons? Who knows? We’ve already wasted too much time, I’m afraid. I should go back to my patients.

You completed Jenny’s task. You received some points of freedom and some tokens.

Jenny: Feather, the Puppeteer would never harm animals. Don’t you think he’d find another way to teach Jack a lesson?