Panacea

Jim: I can’t put the code word out of my mind. It’s so strange. Feather, can you go through the challenge while I’m dealing with the vault.

Task: Go through the Living room in the «cache» mode less in 50 seconds.

There are just a few seconds on the timer clock. Jim rushes to the vault, brings the recorder to the identifier and puts a tape on. Puppeteer melancholic voice says "Bunraku". For a moment it seem to you that there is slight mockery in his intonations. No, that’s nonsense. Identifier lit in green - the voice was identified! Jim exhaled with relief.

Jim: We got it, Feather!

The last click.

Jim: The vault is ope...

BOOM!

You hear a dull sound of explosion from the depths of the iron box. The explosion weak enough not to hurt people of things outside the vault, but strong enough to completely destroy all its’ content.

Jim: But why?

The Puppeteer: Jim...

It’s not the tape. The voice is coming from the loudspeakers.

The Puppeteer: Willing to save their skin poisoned many inhabitants of the house. But you Jim got caught on the other side of the medal – a willing to save the others’ lives.

Jim: I don’t understand...

The Puppeteer: Jim, you get used to rely on the others. But the others got lazy. Your problem is that you started trust each other too much. This puzzle had one solution from the very beginning.

The Puppeteer: Doctor, do you think that you will break free like one company of friends holding hands and singing "Kumbaya”? No, Jim, that won’t be like that! Are you capable to get out of the house alone? We come to it, as we come to life - one by one , and we’ll go out of the house as well as die. Take the pill and learn your lesson.

Jim: I did exactly what you told me! I followed all your hints step by step!

The Puppeteer: Hints... They are like breadcrumbs, and like breadcrumbs all you can do with them is to brush them out of the table. You’re always in a hurry. Even if you, calling yourself followers, do my tasks, you never see what the point of them is. May be it’s time for you Jim to stop and think about it?

Jim: I’m a fool! «Can you stop for a moment and give others a chance»! All those «excess clues»!

Silence...

Jim: « Do not bother me in vain»!

Jim: That wasn’t the key from the vault...

Jim: What was the word ciphered in numbers? That was the phone cipher, right? And “bunraku”, what’s that? A theater… a puppet?.. If I just asked Tan! If I just stopped...

The Puppeteer: The vault would open by itself in time. But you decided to use the explosive.

Now you see the sneer in the puppeteer voice without a doubt.

The Puppeteer: Feather however showed eagerness. That’s why you, feather, will be rewarded. Not so big though that it was in the vault. Just one first aid kit. That will be enough for you. Just for you. Will you share it with the other inhabitants? Or with Jim, who put you into all that the same way as he did with his younger brother.

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

You wonder, if Jim can handle it? What lesson did he get? Go through the premium quest set "Disputable issue ".

Jim: I made a mistake. But I could not do otherwise . I try to help everyone, who can blame me for that? I’ve made an oath. We should not forget the lessons that Puppeteer gives us, even bygone ones. We all were tested for patience in due time. You can keep the first aid kit, Feather. And take more healing balm. You’ve already suffered and I cannot put your health at stake again.