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

[ossifragant]

The only advantage one can have is staying ahead of the game. Who knows how possible that is.

[YEAH you're talking to one of those people right now....]

[decrees]

I don't know. It might not be possible at all, but there's no way to know right now.

[Greed....]

[ossifragant]

[Look, he's not going to come right out and say it, that would be stupid.]

Maybe we'll get lucky and put a stop to this early.

Probably not.

[decrees]

My hopes aren't high, unfortunately.

[Things never seem to go his way, after all.]

It would probably be best to figure out exactly what we're dealing with before making plans.

[ossifragant]

That's my thought as well.

[Really, Greed's luck is complete shit in this regard, too. This is just more bad news.]

We'll need the luck. It's all we have.

[decrees]

I'm sure we'll be able to figure something out once we know more about what we're doing here.

[ossifragant]

You have more confidence than I.

[decrees]

This isn't about confidence, it's about necessity. We will find a way to work through this because we need to.

[Apparently it's that easy.]

[ossifragant]

[....he's pretty sure it's confidence saying that but okay.]

Here's to getting to the bottom of this sooner rather than later.