AIRPLANE SEQUENCE



WINNING CASE NO 1

SEAT 3B

You are sitting in an incredibly luxurious Air Zalagasa FubAero 7-11
seat 30,000 feet over somewhere which you don't know where it is.

>EXAMINE THE SEAT

It is an incredibly luxurious FubAero ComfoMat (TM) Air Zalagasa seat,
equipped with a recline button, a headphone socket, a light switch and a
stewardess call button.  A pocket in front holds literature.

>PRESS THE RECLINE {ANY} BUTTON

You hear a tiny metallic voice whispering nearby.

>LISTEN TO THE VOICE

You cannot hear it clearly without the proper equipment.

>LOOK IN THE POCKET

The seat pocket contains a set of headphones, a copy of Ai-Ai Life, the
in-flight magazine of Air Zalagasa, and a safety card.

>GET THE HEADPHONES.PLUG THEM INTO THE SEAT.

The voice is now a little louder but still unclear.

>WEAR THE HEADPHONES

You hear an announcement.  "Welcome to seat {WRONG SEATNUM}.   Your
luxury Air Zalagasa flight has been equipped for your convenience with
ComfoMat (TM) electrically-controlled seats.  For your safety and
comfort, the controls located at your passenger station have been
centrally disabled at this time.  We will be making this facility
available to you after take off, or when we have reached our cruising
altitude.  Or possibly when we have served dinner. Or  when we feel like
it."

>READ THE MAGAZINE

No.

>EXAMINE THE MAGAZINE
A card falls out and flutters underneath your seat, which has been specially
designed so that anything which flutters underneath it cannot be retrieved.

>EXAMINE THE CARD

This is a shiny card showing happy Zalagasans in a shiny Air Zalagasa
airplane to which all sorts of terrible things are happening. 
The first picture shows a happy smiling stewardess making an announcement
in very very small type.  The second picture shows some happy, smiling
Zalagasan passengers removing false teeth, sepctacles, ornamental nose
bones and so forth.  The third picture shows
some Zalagasans who are almost certainly happy and smiling but you
can't be sure because they are all bent double clasping their knees.
The fourth picture appears to have been chewed by a llama so you can't
tell what the happy smiling Zalagasans which it undoubtedly showed are
actually doing.

>READ THE SMALL PRINT

The small print coming out of the stewardess's mouth says "M'baka
n'ka umtogo bokaki m'Great Big Plane Crash n'gaga five minutes,
okaka m'sidli ik ik togo paku."

>PRESS THE STEWARDESS BUTTON

Your seat reclines slightly, remembers that it has been centrally
disabled for your comfort and safety, pauses, and returns to its
full upright position.

>FEEL UNDER THE SEAT

You feel the edge of a card.

>GET THE CARD


Taken.

>EXAMINE IT.

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