CYOA: Stars Beyond

You move across the pathway, trembling all the while, onto the dais. You're not sure if the phobia is a result of all the drugs or it already existed and had been temporarily repressed.

After purchasing the 'Touch Base' skill, your money decreases again. It's now at 456CP.

You may now go back to your own room much faster, having negated having to go through Foursight's room, the Garden, the CORE hall, the Rec Room, and 3 tunnels; the back of your hand now reads 48:23.

You are currently able to reach 8 rooms that you haven't been in already: Heart, Scent, Body, Speech, Impulse, Backbone, Joint, Stomach, and Skin.

Alternatively, you could revisit Ribs, Breath, or Mind.

You head down to the Scent Challenge Room.

The wallpaper is quite strange. The pictures include noses and nostrils, skunks and roses, and stink lines and oranges; the room clashes even more than Ace's.

You scan the room for anything useful.

You spy: a chatterphone with a twelve-hole dial, a machine with twelve symbols each depicting a strong fragrance, having three glowing green ticks above it beside a reset button, a giant sandpit with animal tracks on it, a black monitor with a mouse beside it, along with four buttons labelled 'Alice', 'Bob', 'Clare' and 'Dave', a hole in a wall clearly meant for putting your head through, and there's a bar chart in a pile of papers with four bars 

Test of Tracking        - | ████████████████████ 100%
                                 |
Test of Detection         | ████████████████████ 100%
                                 |
Test of Differentiation  |████████████████████ 100%
                                 |
Test of Withstanding    |████████████████████ 100%

What do you do?

You head into the 'Challenge of the Body' room. I won't bore you with the details of your skirting around the edges so as not to have to cross the metal grid walkways, nor of the long arduous journey through the crazy corridor. Okay, maybe I will...

The wallpaper is striking, being yellow on black, and depicts skeletal, muscular, and circulatory diagrams, as well as things like corpses.

The first Challenge that you notice is the tube in the floor. It has a manhole cover that's currently off, and on the inside, though dark, a wall covered in comical boxing mitts, fist facing inwards. On the floor are scattered drops of blood, and tiny white things that are presumably May's teeth.

Also present is a machine that looks like it's every gym machine packed into one, a small mobile that has number and letter buttons - with a chain preventing you from taking it, what looks like an arcade game with the name 'Stance Stance Evolution', a flipchart easel covered by a piece of paper, and what looks like a coffin.

Wait....

There's something glowing yellow behind the arcade machine.

You edge behind it, and there's a switch with a glowing light. The words are faint, but you can just about make out what they say: "...your hours are numbered, ..."

What do you do?

You check the mobile, but cannot find the progress bars anywhere. You do note, however, that the phone number of all 15 contestants are on the 'Contacts' lists, however.

Checking the flipchart, however, you manage to find the progress bars:

Test of Mimicry: Complete (100%)

Test of Withstanding: Complete (100%)

Test of Fitness: Complete (100%)

Test of Stance: Complete (100%)

When you consider the switch, you wonder if it has anything to do with the numbers on your hand...

What do you do?

I have absolutely no idea. I don't get it at all. Mystic, tag in.

The number on your hand is the time you have left in phase.

You look more closely at the words above the switch. However all they say is: "...your hours are numbered, ...". Ellipses and everything.

Despite this, you brush the word with your hand a couple of times, and accidentally flick the switch. As you do so, the number on the back of your hand disappears. When you flick the switch again, it reappears. You wonder, is there a switch like this in every room...?

What do you do now?

You pick up the phone, and ring Foursight's number. There is no reply, and a cutesy character (that obviously isn't Foursight) replies that they can't come to the phone right now. You're guessing the phone in her room is ringing...

Hang on...

At the bottom of the screen, barely noticeable, is a 'status' bar.

Status: Jailed

What do you do?

You take a look at the statuses... (stati?) of the other contestants.

Status: Deceased
Status: Asleep
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Jailed
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Roaming
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Unconscious
Status: Puzzling

Strangely enough, there seems to be a 16th slot, but no contestant in there.

What do you do?