DAY 00

[thecomputer]

[Good afternoon, Citizens!

Your consciousness blurrily returns as the transport tube your comatose body was stored in opens up, admitting you access to an unfamiliar room. One wall is covered by vertical tubes, one occasionally sliding open to admit another confused person. The wall across from you has a sign saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB", with an arrow pointing at a red doorway in the corner. The wall to your right contains an unlabeled, dusty, and poorly-lit hallway with blue walls, floor, and ceiling. You can't see the end from here.

Somewhere on your person, you will find a thin, smartphone-sized object that wasn't there before. One side of it is lit up with a red background and a number of disabled menu items. Most of the screen is taken up by another message saying "PROCEED TO CENTRAL HUB".

What is this place, anyway? And who are these people stumbling in through the transport tube array?]

[[Beyond the three prompts below, anyone may start their own prompts to mingle or go off and do their own thing or whatever else they want!]]

Comments

[plentyfriendly]

[Phi carefully looks over the rules once they're brought up, immediately realizing the PDC must be that phone.

...There are two things in here that already worry her. Well, aside from this AI's choice of presentation. The rat was at least kind of cute.]

"All participants who are eliminated from the exercise will be executed"... and there are a few rules that are there and that you're not telling us?

[thecomputer]

I'm sorry, Citizen, that information is not available at your current Clearance Level.

[plentyfriendly]

So we don't get to know those until one or more of the five Communists are dead, unless there's some other way of increasing it.

[It's more of a statement than a question...]

[thecomputer]

For the purposes of this exercise, it is safe to assume that the only way to increase your Clearance Level is through the identification and elimination of enemy communists.