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SWOOSH!
"Hey! Watch out!" yells Mario as a flood of bright green fizz spurts up in his face. The famous plumber and his brother Luigi are fixing the royal soda dispenser in the Mushroom Palace, and Luigi just turned the machine on by mistake.
"Sorry," says Luigi, poking his head out from behind a large pink and orange pane."Hey, Mario, you're all wet!"
"Thanks for telling me," grumbles Mario as he wipes the sticky soda off his mustache. The two plumbers have been working all morning. It's a big job because the soda machine has 365 flavours and takes up an entire wing of the castle.
"Say, Mario," Luigi askes as he fiddles with one of the valves. "How come the king needs 365 flavours of soda?"
"His doctor told him he had to change his diet," answers Mario. "So he drinks a different soda every day."
"Gee, I wonder what he does on leap years," says Luigi.
"Plorp!"
Yoshi, the brothers' dinosaur friend, stomps into the room and begins to slurp up the overflowing soda.
"Hey, Yoshi, try some of this," Luigi shouts and squirts a stream of brown soda into Yoshi's mouth.
"Gorp!" Yoshi licks his lips and sighs happily.
"Quit fooling around," says Mario. "The king wants this fixed by lunch time. And turn off that stupid radio."
Luigi's radio is blaring loud rock music.
"But that's my favourite new station," Luigi complains. "WMUSH. They play mushroom rock. And they use real rocks, too!"
Just then the music stops. "Drink Fungus Up!" says the radio announcer. "The soda that springs up overnight!"
"Have you ever tried Fungus Up?" askes Mario over the noise of the radio.
"No," says Luigi, "but it sounds good."
BRZZT! BRZAAT!
A strange static noise interrupts the broadcast.
"Ow! My ears!" says Luigi.
"DORP!" Yoshi cries painfully.
"I told you to turn it off," Mario yells over the noise.
"Okay, okay." Luigi walks toward the radio.
"YEOW!"
Luigi turns and sees Mario standing over a pipe with a geyser of purple soda hitting him in the face.
"Help!" yells mario. "A gasket burst on the Lichen Cola. Quick! Get me a soda spanner from my tool box!"
"Okay," says Luigi, turning to the next room to get the tool box.
BRZZT! BRAZZT!
The strange static noise from the radio gets louder.
"ZORP!" yells Yoshi, covering his ears.
"Get me that spanner!" shouts Mario.
"What do I do first?" Luigi cries.
- Each pattern is a code that tells Luigi how to move. Start Luigi on any square in the top row. Then move according to the pattern in that square. Keep moving from square to square until you get to the last row.
If Luigi lands on a radio, turn to page 100.