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

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Justice, huh? I like that. There's a lot of injustice in this cold, secular world we've been put in and it's high time the young ones started helping shoulder some of it.

[He nods in approval.]

Name's Clay. Clay Puppington. I'm a proud dad of one, dad of another, and I'd like to return home to my family anytime soon now.

[absolutejustice]

You're absolutely right! This world is full of injustice, so it's all I can do to right whatever wrongs I encounter.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Well you'll certainly see plenty of 'em soon enough. Didn't you hear? We've got godless communists among us!

[absolutejustice]

Oh, good, I was wondering if anyone knew about that! I've never even heard of communists before.

[stinkingdeadendjob]

You've never heard of a communist? [Well color him shocked. But hey, that's alright. He'll just put on his dad pants and do a bit of educating.]

Okay, well, you see, Seryu... Communists hate us for our freedoms and righteousness. They want to destroy our individuality and us with their bombs. That's why in my day, we built bigger bombs and stopped questioning authority, just to be on our toes.

[Makes sense.]

What I'm trying to say is that they are not people like you or I, so it's okay to do as the scary robot says and kill them.

[absolutejustice]

[Seryu is listening carefully.]

In other words, they're enemies of justice, right?

[stinkingdeadendjob]

Pretty much, yeah.

[He says it so matter-of-factly.]

Communism and injustice go hand in hand together like church and state. You just can't separate one from the other.

[absolutejustice]

...Then rest assured, when we find these Communists, I'll see to it that they face justice.