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There were corridors with side rooms that had little "challenges" like on some of those reality tv shows...such as slicing open a melon on a charging bull's horns and feeding the remnants to a vicious toothy plant. Another was some sort of...not-exactly zombies?...guarding a egyptian-style treasure? In the corridors was various merchandise for webcomics, mostly t-shirts.

A big one was putting on scuba equipment, and gathering up to three creatures that could breathe underwater. I remember something that looked - and was - almost human, a creature that was almost a badger, and something shaped like a manta ray. I do not remember the point of all of these challenges.

The creatures - who'll I'll dub the aquanids because they could all breathe water - were genetically engineered...pets? Not-quite-humans? Who were, for no adequately explained reason, seemingly better than humans, excluding that they had no ability to communicate audibly. They all had coloration oddities that pointed them out. The fuzzy ones tended to have brightly colored tongues, the manta-shaped ones (who could fly/glide as well as swim) were all one bright color, the humanoid ones all had a skin color not thus far found on humans naturally.

It's possible one of these was the prize.