A Fax Machine

A Fax Machine is located in the Clan VIP Lounge after a deluxe fax machine has been used.

When "Used"

You approach the fax machine. Loathing wells up within you and fear clutches at your heart... What do you want to do?

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Receive a Fax

• With no photocopied monster loaded:

You notice the fax machine ringing, so you wait for the incoming fax. It turns out to just be a blank sheet of paper, so you throw it away.

• With a photocopied monster loaded and no photocopied monster in inventory:

You hear the fax machine ringing, so you walk up to it to see what's coming in. The top half of a document prints out, but then the stupid thing jams and starts beeping at you.

You get the jam cleared and hit a bunch of buttons trying to get it to continue, but all you manage to do is print out a copy of the last thing somebody tried to fax out. Oh well.

You acquire an item: photocopied monster

• With a copy loaded and a photocopied monster in inventory:

You sit for a while waiting for an important fax, but one doesn't show up. It's probably just as well. The infernal machine probably wouldn't have worked, anyway.

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• With a photocopied monster in inventory:

Send a Fax

You pop your photocopy into the tray, dial the number (you know, the number of the person you're trying to fax this to) and press SEND.

You hear a dial tone, followed by some beeps, followed by a recorded voice telling you you needed to dial 9 first.

You try again, dialing 9 this time. You hear another dial tone (actually, it's technically the same dial tone as before) followed by some beeps, then some screeching, then silence. Your photocopy slowly slides into the machine and a little LCD readout flashes '1/1 PG MEMORY'

You have no idea what that means. Did your fax get sent? Is it going to be sent later? You feel anger well up inside you, and decide it's probably a good idea to leave the VIP Lounge before you take a golf club to that stupid machine.

References

"Loathing wells up within you and fear clutches at your heart..." is a reference to the title of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.