From below, you hear the distant jingle of a soda machine.
scout1 walks up the curving stairs to meet you.
[ ROME ]: Assassin_A says, "damn, facepunchers are trying to kill me in the orphanage"
Li'l Mary [to scout1]: My mommy's DEAD!  I wish you were.
scout1 lunges at Assassin_A!
Assassin_A steps aside and sends scout1 sprawling.
scout1 starts attacking you!
You rush scout1 in a berserker attack!
Assassin_A slices viciously at scout1 with his lotus nodachi.
[ queued 'down' ]
scout1 backs away from Assassin_A, hands raised.
Assassin_A shoves at scout1, who jumps easily aside.
scout1 swings her bruce springsteel wildly in Assassin_A's direction.
[A#*s] Scout1 grimaces; Assassin_A carves a chunk from her abdomen.
You head down the curving staircase into the lower level.
I don't understand that.
:(:(:(:(:(  Ruined Lobby (orphanage) 2:26pm
:(:(/--\:(  This must have been an impressive lobby at one time, but it seems
:(<>()__<>  to have fallen into serious disrepair. The ceiling extends up to
:(:(/]:(\_  the second floor, giving the room a cavernous feel.
:([/:(:(:(  A HELPFUL SIGN is posted here ('read sign'). Blood is splashed
            across the wall and part of the floor.
There's a leg of scruffy Billy on the floor.
Tiny Connie, scruffy Billy, and little Buffy are lying on the ground here.  Garry is standing here, moving to above.
[ Exits:  north  *east(double doors)  *south  *west(front door)  up ]
Garry heads up the curving staircase.
You're not attacking anything, Rambo.  Relax.
You mount the staircase and head up.
scout1 starts treating her wounds with various cremes and jellies.
:(:(:(/\:(  Upper Lobby (orphanage) 2:26pm
:(:(/- |:(  The stairs from the lobby wrap up the wall here into a walkway
:(sa() |`'  that winds around the room, overlooking the lobby below.
:(:(\__/:(  There is a doorway where the walkway ends on the northern wall
:(:(:(:(:(  leading into a hallway. Another open doorway leads into a dark
            hallway south. A plaquard on the heavy wooden door to the west
 reads 'Administration Office'. A staircase leads down.
You rush scout1 in a berserker attack!
[ queued 'kill' ]

Little Sammy is lying on the ground here.  Li'l Mary, scout1, and Garry are standing here.
[ Exits:  north  south  *west(door)  down ]
scout1 starts attacking you!
Assassin_A takes a slice at scout1 with his lotus nodachi.
[ ROME ]: Minerva asks, "how good are they?"
[ queued 'powerattack' ]
scout1 says, "HEY HEY HEY"
scout1 throws a clumsy blow at Assassin_A.
Garry walks down the curving stairs.
[A# s] Scout1 grunts as Assassin_A carves a chunk from her back.
Assassin_A rears back and winds up for a power lotus nodachi attack.
tehguy walks up the curving stairs to meet you.
[ ROME ]: Assassin_A says, "some help would be nice"
Li'l Mary [to scout1]: Sister says touching my pants is a sin.
You stop fighting scout1.
Assassin_A backs away from scout1, hands raised.
[s/A] Assassin_A deflects scout1's hard right.
[ ROME ]: Minerva says, "im in the mines right now though :("
scout1 backs away from Assassin_A, hands raised.
[ ROME ]: jackson says, "i can go"
tehguy lunges at li'l Mary!
[A###s] Scout1 goes limp as Assassin_A rips open her arm with a gout of gore.
scout1 crumples to the ground, gasps out her last breath, and dies.
[ ROME ]: jackson says, "come"
Li'l Mary steps aside and sends tehguy sprawling.
Li'l Mary throws a clumsy blow at tehguy.
Garry walks up the curving stairs to meet you.
tehguy takes a slice at li'l Mary with his bruce springsteel.
[ ROME ]: Assassin_A says, "I killed one"