Trash Squad Day 1 - GAME START

[chinhotta]

[ Maybe you were going about your business and blacked out, maybe you were dead. Either way, when you come to, you are in what looks like the entrance hall to a school, except for the very well secured front door. Before you can really get your bearings, a voice rings out on an the intercom. ]

Welcome, kiddos! —How does that sound? 'Kiddos'? Too daddy kink? Eh, let's go with it for now. Anyway, welcome to a once-in-a-lifetime chance at romance and passion, with fabulous prizes! Find love beyond the boundaries of time and space! Original concept, do not steal.

Pick up your tablets and get settled in! A little later today, we'll have our first heart-pounding get-to-know-you event!

—Oh, also, no violence allowed! I know some of you kids are into the murder thing, but that's not the kind of game we're running here.

[ In fact, there are several boxes of electronic tablets around the room. When you pick one up, it displays the gameplay and rules.]

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Comments

[starinhereye]

[laughs, more to himself]

Yes, I know what they are. Just not that type.

[dismemberthename]

Okay, that makes this easier. Basically it's the last level of school before you're an adult.

[starinhereye]

No, no, you went too fast. People can become adults without going to school.

[dismemberthename]

Yeah, that's true. But legally you're supposed to at least go up to high school. There's college after that, but that's not required.

[starinhereye]

That explains why it's a good demarcation. Huh . . . So, you have laws about attending school?

[dismemberthename]

Mmhm. Everyone's supposed to get a basic education.

[starinhereye]

[nods]

It's a good idea. Only the cost is a problem. So, this place is supposed to be like one of the schools you went to with other people your age, right?

[dismemberthename]

Yeah, but mostly in architecture.

[starinhereye]

And, thankfully, not in circumstances. Doesn't it make any less of a strange choice, I guess.

[dismemberthename]

Yeahhh, I promise high school is not actually arranged speed dating all the time, even if it sometimes felt like it.

[starinhereye]

I believe you. It's supposed to be a place of learning in my experience. There's just — Distractions, sometimes.

[dismemberthename]

[shrugs]

That's how it goes.

[starinhereye]

[nods]

Yeah . . . Ah, thanks for the explanation. I think I'm going to need to be brought up to speed a lot here.

[dismemberthename]

No problem. I think there are only a few of us who won't need to be caught up a lot of the time.

[starinhereye]

That's a daunting thought. I hope there's more than a few than can keep track of all of this.