You take a minute to consider what options you've got here, and to be perfectly honest, you think you are rather screwed. I mean, the exit's locked, it's dark in here and you're stuck with a false hobo, a slightly bombed Ms. Bartolucci and one Jerry Love. You get the feeling you'll need an emergency kit sooner rather than later with this bunch, so you get to looking. Unfortunately, there isn't one in sight, since it's pretty dark in here, and you have no idea where to look for one even if it wasn't - the station is only a single, long room, largely lifeless and featureless now that the colorful ads covering the walls, ceiling and floor have turned off.
Well, nothing to it. Better call for help.
"Perhaps we should call Ms. Bartolucci's staff and inform them of our situation?""Hm? Call them? How could they help?""Um... maybe they could figure something out?""Oh, all right."He quickly looks up the needed address and calls.
"Hello, yes, this is... it's an emergency. Give me somebody who knows about that kind of thing. Hell, give me a secretary."A few seconds pass.
"Right, yeah, this is Jerry Love. Ms. Bartolucci and I are stuck in the station - door shut on us and the power's out inside. Can you help?"He listens for a bit, nodding along thoughtfully.
"Okay, so get the chemical suits for us and yourselves, then come over and get the door open, will you? Wait, what do you mean you haven't got chemical suits? Damn it all. Well, be a peach and call for emergency services then, will you? Explain we're in here and tell them to help us out. Yeah, do that."He hangs up.
"Well, guess we gotta wait, then. They'll call up the cavalry and they'll probably help us. Eventually."Well, you're certainly in the mood for something unusual. So you go ahead and look up the story about the end being nigh or something.
Ah, looks like it refers to a particular interpretation of one of those new age religions they've got going, the Cyclic Divinity Movement or CDM. It says that they predict an end of an era to come within the next two years, but this is about as precise as they are willing to get. It seems like they can produce calculations of some kind to prove this point, a graph of the ebbs and flows of what they say is divine inspiration in humanity's history. This graph appears to have predicted many things, from the fall and subsequent renewed rise, then the subsequent, even harder fall of communism to the great economic crash of 2107. The Luminary Institute, a pro-CDM research group, has apparently created a reliable framework to predict said rises and falls in inspiration, and they predict that we will reach a depression soon, followed by a meteoric rise in divine presence.
You consider if walking on the rails might possibly be a good idea by any measure. You guess not - what if it's not as depowered as you might think? What if it shocks you? What if a train runs you over while you consider all this?
You may focus on one item of news per unit of time, obtaining additional information on this subject.
- Scientists predict tectonic activity will intensify in coming years.
- Crime is at all-time low as world police force becomes 100% engineered.
- Engineered population booming, experts worried.
- YXW frontman Joseph Greenthaal dead at 32!
The end is nigh, experts say.- Hostilities between Tau Lambda Eta Foods and Finston Network Corporation cease, refugees relieved.
Name: Jasmine Thyme Model 376
Gender: Female
Attributes: heightened senses of taste and smell, increased manual dexterity, improved intellect, unobtrusively good looks, improved interpersonal ability, slight owner fixation, cranial netlink implant.
Skills: skilled chef, proficient at maintenance and repair, proficient at making smalltalk.
State of Mind: agitated due to uncertainty, internal emotional pressure.
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Topic: (SG) Less Than Perfection - now dropped (Read 25858 times)