Capitalism, Ho!: ☆ZRAEL

[idolpro]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your clothes, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME%, in the year %CONTEMPORARY%. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing a recent high-profile murder having been solved: despite confusion on the part of the authorities conducting the initial investigation, it turns out the victim had been tragically murdered via gun in the knife.

What do you do? ]

Comments

YEAR 1

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: NO RECOMMENDATIONS

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1800 MONIES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN-IN

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

While working in the mines, someone asks you to pass you a pack of dynamite. Do you hand them the ones with the SHORT-FUSE, or the LONG-FUSE?

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

You have an infestation of rats. What do you do?

EVENT TURN IN

[idolpro]

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Ohhhhhhh I hate this.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

Well we should DEFINITELY buy ONE EIGHT OF AN AUTOMOBILE, right.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Yeah, for sure. What could be more useful!

Seriously though, we should prioritise food and medicine, right.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

Yeah, probably. Maybe books just for something that helps the happiness junk.

[ considers ]

What do we do 'bout the rats and stuff? Can we get like, poison for them? I guess the dynamite doesn't matter much which we do right...? Long fuse prolly gives us more time not to get blown up.

You wanna steal from someone? Or see how it goes first?

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Sure, books seem like a good option for happiness.

[hm]

I dunno anything about dynamite so I'll trust you on that. As for the rats, can't we just set traps for them or something? This place is so tiny that they can't have a lot of places to hide.

And stealing... we should only do that if we decide to pay the taxes, I think. Wouldn't wanna risk getting into trouble with the authorities.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

Are we throwing double birds to the government and skipping tax day, then? Or nah?

[ ALSO SHRUGS ]

I dunno nothin' about dynamite either, I'm just guessing. But sure... you handle the rats, I'll handle the boombooms.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Let's skip tax day, yeah. I don't feel like supporting the government today.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

Nice. So we're gonna get food and medicine, probably for the rabies you're gonna get trying to trap rats, books... we should prolly get clothes.

So that'll be 1500, and we get 300 to save.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Should we spend some of it on housing so this shack doesn't totally fall apart? Though if it does, we won't need to worry about the rats anymore.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

Can we adjust stuff...? Maybe we can do like... 800 on house, 200 on meds, 50 on clothes and 100 on books. And just eat rats instead of buying food, if we're trapping and not poisoning.

That'll bring it down to 1150, even.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Yeah, that works. Let's do it.

EVENT 1

[stakesthesame]

Gonna hand them the LONG-FUSE dynamite.

Event 2

[avestan]

In a house this small, it really shouldn't be too hard to hunt them down. Failing that, we'll try building rat traps, you can make pretty effective ones out of trash wood and string. And we'll eat whatever rats we catch.

Re: BUDGET TURN-IN

[stakesthesame]

HOUSING - 800
MEDS - 200
CLOTHES - 50

LUXURIES - 100 (books)

650 left over

fuck taxes

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

We're totally gonna get the plague.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

Who cares, we've got medicine.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

I guess that's true... hope it doesn't screw us over and be like, whoops, it's only special medicine! Too bad so sad.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[avestan]

I mean, we're probably getting screwed over in this one no matter what we do.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[stakesthesame]

... yeah, probably.

We need happiness to win, right? so... we should probably get more stuff, next round.