WEEK 1

[akudamods]

So, the first day is over. You are confined in various ways for the foreseeable future. There are two overseers you can bother, and pods they want you to get into, but many of you would rather do anything else. Honestly, even the flurry of posts on social media don’t seem particularly interested in talking up this prospect; when searches for the titles start to get results, they’re mostly about the posters’ own avoidance or occasional morbid fascination. There are even one or two newly taken pictures of the particularly outrageous and photogenic poses. At least photos are rare enough that you can be confident not every move is being watched. Conditions are much better than Saturday to wander all the way down to the Execution HQ Ruins, take the shuttle to the police station, or investigate other parts of the setting. As the weather forecast said, Sunday and Monday are smoggy and sunny.

What will you do?

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Comments

[saucerous]

Let me see if I follow.

You think someone would go along with and complete the "six weeks" of treatment and then try and go off on their own? Or do you think they'd betray the rest of us?

[Betray here is maybe extremely liberal, given that none of them really know each other yet at all.]

I'm pretty sure those big metal creatures would take care of it.

[intimations]

Close, but not quite. I was talking about the risk to whoever's in charge... but you already have your opinion on that, I see. Well, I can understand your point if they're that confident in their toys. But it seems like we've gotten quite a few dominating associates with us right now.

Wouldn't the risk of collateral damage be pretty big?

[saucerous]

If they can monitor all of the Akudama closely, they must be confident in their ability to stop anything before it gets out of hand.

[But Marcille's brow is drawn together; that assumption can't stay in place for too long. There's just too much about the way this city seems to work that doesn't feel...right. It makes her squeamish.]

... No, I don't think they really care about the people here. They're too dismissive about what could happen. That's the only explanation, unless all of us are innocent.

[Even from the few short days she's had here, that seems like an impossibility.]