Capitalism, Hey!: ☆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 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? ]

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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 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 2

[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 TURN-IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 2

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

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

LUXURIES: 100 spent on FURNITURE. You have 20 HAPPINESS.

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) - 1

CURRENT JOB - SECURITY GUARD - 2400 MONIES.

NEW CRIME ABILITY: HEADHUNT - You can now use your connections to commit street justice! For one unlawful brutalizing and narcing on of any CRIMINAL unit a year, you can confiscate their luxuries!
Current criminals are:

BARiTONES (HUGE CRIMES)
WILD CITY (HUGE CRIMES)
AlcheME! (HUGE CRIMES)
future is now

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN IN

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

You were ORIGINALLY supposed to fix the conveyor belt that the previous shift left for you to handle, but you're SECURITY now. Since you've got friends in high places, you can HAVE A SHIFT SCHEDULED TO FIX THIS BELT.

Choose a unit. (LiliS and BAD END=DEAD END may not be chosen.)

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

A family has stolen dynamite from the mine! Do you let them go, or pursue them? You will probably fine, but they won't be.

EVENT TURN-IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 3

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

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

HAPPINESS: 20+20+60+220= 320

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 1
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 3
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 4
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 1
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 8
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 4

CURRENT JOB - SECURITY GUARD+ - 2600 MONIES - 200 STOLEN + 800 REMAINING = 3200 MONIES.

CRIME ABILITY: HEADHUNT - You can now use your connections to commit street justice! For one unlawful brutalizing and narcing on of any CRIMINAL unit a year, you can confiscate their luxuries!

Current criminals are:

BARiTONES (HUGE CRIMES)
WILD CITY (HUGE CRIMES)
AlcheME! (HUGE CRIMES)
future is now

Will you pay taxes this year?

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

Despite literally all the fucking money you have, YOUR FAMILY IS STARVING. What are you . . . what are you doing.

You have become emaciated, and cannot think of anything else but food.

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

You are STRUCK WITH THE PLAGUE. But you don't have any medicine . . . even though you're so fucking rich . . .

You are now RIDICULOUSLY SICK, and can barely even move a finger.

EVENT 3

[idolpro]

I don't actually know what happens when you fail a clothing necessities roll.

Well, all your clothes become either threadbare or you ate them, possibly resulting in them not being super agreeable with your stomach. (Your FANCY CLOTHES are ok. They're fancy. Why would you eat them. They bring you joy just to look at them.)

You BECOME A DEGENERATE OF SOCIETY, much like THE DOODLEMAN. Unlike THE DOODLEMAN, you gain FROSTBITE.

Die.

EVENT 4

[idolpro]

Yeah, actually, if you don't fix all this shit you are literally gonna die.

EVENT 5

[idolpro]

ALSO THIS IS REALLY JUST INSULT TO INJURY BUT SOMEONE STOLE FROM YOU TOO! DANG.

Now instead of 3100 . . . you have 2900 . . . how are you going to survive?????????

TURN IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 4

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

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

HAPPINESS: 20+20+60+220+20+60+220= 620

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 1
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 3
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 4
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 1
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 8
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 4

CURRENT JOB - SECURITY GUARD+ - 2600 MONIES + 200 REMAINING = 2800 MONIES.

CRIME ABILITY: HEADHUNT - You can now use your connections to commit street justice! For one unlawful brutalizing and narcing on of any CRIMINAL unit a year, you can confiscate their luxuries!

Current criminals are:

BARiTONES
WILD CITY (HUGE CRIMES)
AlcheME! (HUGE CRIMES)
future is now
avante en garde (HUGE CRIMES)

Will you pay taxes this year?

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Someone killed . . . like . . .

All of your employers.

Literally all of them.

. . . . Yeah.

Well . . . you should do something about that, right?

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

Someone made off with a shitton of dynamite, too! Damn! Are you even working?? I guess it doesn't matter since all your employers are dead, but!

Now you're ???head??? of security! What are you going to do about all this!

THE END.

[idolpro]

You...

You manage to not die. You lose your job due to the untimely murder of EVERYONE WHO COULD BE EMPLOYING YOU, which really sucks? What sucks even more is the prison riot that breaks out a few days later, at the same time as the workers of the city rise up in revolt against their masters. You contemplate joining, but the military rolls in and a peppering of non-lethal shots to your limbs and the loss of one (or both) of your eyes dispels that thought from your mind basically immediately.

You run. You run so far away, and surprisingly...you get away? You lick your wounds, manage to avoid infection, and despite your suddenly diminished vision, you manage to get a new job as a security guard at a nice gold mine run by a nice forest-y lady and her kid.

They have benefits!