Capitalism, Hey!: pep!pep!

[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 uniform, 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 on the mineral line, you notice a problem with a conveyer belt. You can either attempt to fix it, or leave it for the next shift.

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

While working in the coal mines, another worker knocks a bundle of dynamite down into a crevasse on accident. You could probably retrieve it if you climb carefully. What do you do?

EVENT TURN-IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 2

[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, you develop BLACK LUNG DISEASE. Your entire family finds them self having constant, incredibly painful coughing fits. Even when there's no pain, you find yourself gasping for breath when even the least bit exerted.

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

Flooding in one of the caves has cut down coal production, putting your factory in danger of shutting down. You find yourself out of a job for the remainder of the year.

As a result, you all become horribly emaciated as you use up the last of your food stores. You're barely eating enough to make it through the week, and at almost all times the pangs of hunger strike you almost unbearably.

Your family is STARVING.

EVENT 3

[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 TURN IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 3

[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) - 1 UNIT
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 - GOLD MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 2000 MONIES.

Your family is STARVING.
Your family has BLACK LUNG DISEASE.

HAPPINESS: 20

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN-IN

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

Your book...doesn't really tell you much about black lung or how to treat it. Other than, you know, "don't be around coal". Oh well...

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

Due to your lack of clothing, exposure takes its toll on you. Your entire family now has FROSTBITE.

EVENT 3

[idolpro]

There's a man seeking asylum in your home. He tells you there are mafiamen after him, but if he can just hide for awhile they won't be able to find him. What do you do?

EVENT TURN IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 4

[idolpro]

Re: YEAR 4

[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) - 3 UNITS
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 1 UNIT
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 - GOLD MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 2000 MONIES.

Your family is STARVING.
Your family has BLACK LUNG DISEASE.

HAPPINESS: 100

Will you pay taxes this year?

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

Your BLACK LUNG clears up due to you working now with gold and you're no logner starving, but...

You get evicted.

It's so, so cold. Your family will find themselves unable to speak coherently, mumbling and shivering constantly, as they fumble in pain at trying to complete the simplest of tasks. They now have HYPOTHERMIA.

You also develop FROSTBITE, from exposure.

All of your sicknesses are adding up, and if something isn't done about this...your bodies can't take much more. You'll be dead before the year ends.

THE END.

[idolpro]

...

Your extremities blacken and die off, painfully. That's the first to go. You shiver yourself to death, falling into a long, deep sleep before you can find out how much of the rest of you dies. At least it was a peaceful death. You even felt happy and warm at the end.

But then you awaken the next day. You're sure you died! You must've. But...is this a second chance? Even with large swathes of your body simply dead and black, you've gotten a second chance!

Or maybe not, because you almost immediately find yourself caught in the middle of a massive prison riot that ends up engulfing the city when combined with a sudden worker's revolution and military intervention.

The last thing you see before you're shot dead in the streets are the soldiers who don't particularly care what side you're on or how dead you are.

Proceed to ENDGAME.