You wake up and find yourself lying in a bed in what looks like a hospital room. The door in front of you is closed, there are no windows and nothing in the room feels familiar. You see five cameras around, they seem to cover every millimeter of the room. There are no medical devices, just a screen with a system that shows heartbeat, blood oxygenation and other medical information. The date in the system: February 27, 2031. Your last memory records the year 2019. Your heart rate accelerates on the screen. The room has no windows. You notice that you have a chip implanted under your skin in your right arm. You see a button next to the bed.
"Where am I? I need to find someone to help me understand what is going on".
[[Press the button]]
[[Get up and open the door]]A red light comes on. A few moments later, the door opens and an automaton enters. "Hello, Alix, how can I help you?"
[[Ask to see your family->Ask to see your sister Lilly]]
[[Ask where you are]]You leave the room, you see a corridor and, at the end of it, an automaton seems to be waiting for you. "Hello, Alix, how can I help you?"
[[Ask to see your family->Ask to see your sister Lilly]]
[[Ask where you are]]"Do you have information about my family? Can I call them?"
"I will notify your family that you are awake again, Alix. Please return to your room."
[[Wait in your room->Wait for your family]]
[[Ask to go home]]"Oh, you know me. Do you know where I am? Why am I here?"
"You suffered a severe trauma that left you in a coma for 3841 days, according to my records. You are at Clivertown General Hospital. The procedure now is to notify your family members."
"Do you have information about my family? Can I call her?"
"I will notify your family that you are awake again, Jaime. Please return to your room."
[[Wait for your family]]
[[Ask to go home]]Lilly arrives in the room. Your sister is visibly different from when you last saw her. The expression on her face is enigmatic, it seems to carry a mixture of relief and concern.
"Alix, I thought this day would never come! You woke up! You don't know how much I asked for this to happen!"
"I'm so happy to see you, Lilly! Where is Andie and the kids? I feel completely lost, the last memory I have is of the protest at the train station. What happened? When can I leave this place and go home?"
Lilly stays silent. You would like to enter her mind to understand what is going on. She smiles discreetly.
"Do you remember our own childhood version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin">''Pig Latin''</a>, Jaime?"
[[Yes, of course!]]"I am feeling better and would like to go home. Where is the doctor responsible for my case?"
"I'm an S745, a model trained to be a doctor. I am responsible for your case. You are not allowed to leave the hospital. But a family member will come to visit you."
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[[Decipher the message]]"I cannot speak here. We are completely guarded. You were one of the victims of the repression that day. You probably lost your memory of the latest events, but the police were testing a new weapon to contain protests. The repression was more severe than we expected, some people were seriously injured. You have had a serious intracranial injury and have been in a coma for the past ten years. And a lot has happened."
"You were considered a high-risk offender. I need to change the code of this chip on your arm before anything else. The only way to escape is hacking the system, and I already know how to do it."
You notice that Lilly has a needle in her hands. She rests her hand gently on your arm and inserts the needle into the chip. And again she speaks the secret language of your childhood.
"This needle has a chemical substance that interferes with the data transmission signal of the chip. They will not be able to receive new data from your chip. There is an automaton in this building that is modified to bring you a message that will guide you to the way out. But you will have to be quick, the cameras in the halls that lead you to the exit will stop working only for one minute".
An automaton enters the room.
"It's the end of visiting hours. Come back tomorrow again."
Lilly says goodbye and leaves the room.
[[You lie down and wait.]]The hours pass and you take a deep breath and try to prevent your heartbeat from reporting your anxiety.
On your screen, the clock reads 2:37am. The door opens and an automaton - exactly like the one that had been in the room before - enters.
"It's time. You have 2 minutes. Pay attention to my instructions: Get out of here and (css: "color: orange; font-size: 100%")[''turn left'']. Go down (css: "color: orange; font-size: 100%")[''two floors''] and enter the fourth door on the right. Open the ventilation pipe on the floor on the left and follow it. When you leave you will see a door with a password to leave, the password is (css: "color: orange; font-size: 100%")[''XVBL372'']. You will find a garage. Get into the car with (css: "color: orange; font-size: 100%")[''STLO21''] license plate. It's already programmed to drop you off at the meeting point. GO!"
[[Leave the room]]You leave the room and walk to the end of the hall. You see two exits. One on the left and one on the right.
[[Take the left]]
[[Take the right->Wrong code]]
(set: $counter to 10)
You have (css: "color: purple; font-size: 150%")[|amount>[$counter]] seconds left!
(live: 1s)[
(set: $counter to it - 1)
(if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "Wrong code")]
(replace: ?amount)[$counter]
]You see a ladder. You are in the right way. You need to go to another floor. Time is running out!
[[Go down one floor]]
[[Go down two floors]]
[[Go down three floors]]
(set: $counter to 10)
You have (css: "color: purple; font-size: 150%")[|amount>[$counter]] seconds left!
(live: 1s)[
(set: $counter to it - 1)
(if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "Next Passage")]
(replace: ?amount)[$counter]
]
You are on the wrong floor and an automaton notices your presence. He accompanies you back to your room and sets a motion alarm on your door.
You were unable to leave the building. It is difficult to have agency over your own life when surveillance is everywhere.
[[Try again.->You lie down and wait.]]"Great, I see the ventilation grid!"
You remove the grid and access the ventilation area. At the end of it, you enter an operating room that is locked. To get out, you need to know the code that opens the door.
(set: $counter to 20)
You have (css: "color: purple; font-size: 150%")[|amount>[$counter]] seconds left!
(live: 1s)[
(set: $counter to it - 1)
(if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "Wrong code")]
(replace: ?amount)[$counter]
]
(set: $password to (prompt: "What is the password?", ""))
(print:$password)
(if: $password is 'XVBL372')[(go-to: "Unlock successful")](else:)[(go-to: "Wrong code")]
You are on the wrong floor and an automaton notices your presence. He accompanies you back to your room and sets a motion alarm on your door.
You were unable to leave the building. It is difficult to have agency over your own life when surveillance is everywhere.
[[Try again.->You lie down and wait.]]You were unable to leave the building. It is difficult to have agency over your own life when surveillance is everywhere.
(css: "color: red; font-size: 150%")[YOU LOST!]
[[Try again.->You lie down and wait.]]You hold your breath... the door makes a total of seven audible clicks. It's opened.
You see a garage a few meters ahead of you. Cars are completely different from what you knew. None of them have steering wheels. The wheels are fitted on axles that appear to be retractable.
"Woow, autonomous cars with a flying system! I couldn't imagine that we would have this technology in just ten years! Ok, I need to find the right car. What was the license plate that the automaton gave me?"
[[Wrong code<-SLTO21]]
[[Left the building<-STLO21]]
[[Wrong code<-STOL21]]
(set: $counter to 20)
Hurry up! You have (css: "color: purple; font-size: 150%")[|amount>[$counter]] seconds left!
(live: 1s)[
(set: $counter to it - 1)
(if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "Wrong code")]
(replace: ?amount)[$counter]
]You get in the car and the dashboard lights automatically turn on. The car accelerates to a gate. It scans a car's code and opens. You see the street outside of the hospital. The car's tires retract and when you notice, the car is gliding over a street totally unrecognizable to you.
The car goes through dark alleys until it reaches the entrance to what appears to be a clandestine country road. 45 minutes down the road. Through the window you can see an otherworldly landscape full of cactuses and rounded beige rocks that brought you memories of Joshua Tree. Suddenly you start to hear the sound of helices flying over your vehicle.
"Stop now and identify yourself or I will shoot the vehicle"
The voice doesn't appear to come from an automaton. It's a police officer who patrols the region and noticed the lights of your car from above.
[[Stop the car]]
[[Check the car dashboard]]The helicopter lands next to the car. The guard gets out of the helicopter.
"This area has controlled access, what are you doing here? Put your right arm out of the car."
He scans your chip.
"This is weird, I can't access your information through my system. You will come with me."
[[Get into the helicopter]]"This is the last warning, stop the vehicle or I will shoot!"
You can take control of the car from the dashboard. On the screen you see the image from the upper camera showing the patrol helicopter. It flies just above the car. You could try a risky maneuver to bump against the helicopter to bring it down.
"It's a person, not an automaton. If I bring the helicopter down, the guard may not survive."
You feel a chill down your spine and have a few seconds to make a decision.
[[Take down the helicopter]]
[[Stop the car]]
(set: $counter to 20)
You have (css: "color: purple; font-size: 150%")[|amount>[$counter]] seconds left!
(live: 1s)[
(set: $counter to it - 1)
(if: $counter is 0)[(go-to: "Stop the car")]
(replace: ?amount)[$counter]
]You feel the impact and see the helicopter losing control and falling in front of you. You press a button to speed up and get out as quickly as possible. Five seconds later, you hear an intense explosion. It's gone.
The car stops a few miles ahead.
"It must be here. It's dark, how can I find you, Lilly?"
You hear the sound of footsteps approaching.
[[Hide]]
[[Call your sister->Hide]]The guard takes you to an intelligence center near the desert. You enter a room and a device scans your retina.
You have been discovered and sent to a maximum security prison.
It is difficult to escape when surveillance is everywhere.
(css: "color: red; font-size: 150%")[YOU LOST!]You join the resistance with your sister. Here begins a new - and dangerous - journey. The past that you still remember can be erased. Your life now is to fight the oppression of a regime that wants to control every inch of our being applying daunting technologies such as facial recognition, DNA's tracking system, wearable devices that can read your thoughts, automatas and drones.
You don't conform to your virtual fences, the underworld is now your territory and each new day without being discovered is a victory. Good luck.
(css: "color: red; font-size: 150%")[GAME OVER]You wake up and find yourself lying in a bed in what looks like a hospital room. The door in front of you is closed, there are no windows and nothing in the room feels familiar. You see five cameras around, they seem to cover every millimeter of the room. You feel like you are waking up from a nightmare that seems to have just begun. You notice that you have a chip implanted under your skin in your right arm.
The door opens. Andie and her kids come in and hug you. She warns you that she is ready to fight to get rid of the charges against you. To make you free again.
Inside you feel an uncomfortable throbbing. Freedom is a meaningless word.
(css: "color: red; font-size: 150%")[GAME OVER]The light from a flashlight is getting brighter. You see Lilly heading to the car.
"Alix, it's me. Are you okay?"
"Lilly, I'm here. A guard spotted me halfway, I don't know if he sent any signals to other patrols. I put the helicopter down, he's dead."
"Oh God, I'm sorry Alix. We have to be quick, if the guard got to send any signal this region will be full of patrols in just few minutes."
[[Follow Lilly]]Your sister guides you through the cactus forest and suddenly opens a trapdoor on the ground.
"This is one of the hiding places of the resistance. Since you fell into a coma, Alix, things have gotten much worse. I was protesting for free elections and transparency. Now there is no protest possible. The government has created a security and surveillance system that is virtually ubiquitous. Privacy is over, freedom is over."
"Where's Andie and the kids, Lilly? Are they well?"
"Yes, they are gone this week, they went to visit your mother-in-law. I ended up getting the news of your awakening first. (sighs) You have been marked as a risk agent. You won't get your life back, Alix, not in the way you want it. But you can risk going back and facing the government-controlled legal system. If you can prove that you were accidentally at the protest, perhaps you will have a chance to live with your family again. I won't go back, the ideals that I have been fighting for are even more threatened. You have a chance here to join the resistance and live outside of this fucked system. But it will probably mean not seeing your family for a long time".
[[Take the risk. There is no life without freedom, and there is no freedom under complete surveillance->take the risk]]
[[Life is only one. If you conform to the system, you may be able to live with your family again->conform]]