Capitalism, Hey!: BARiTONES

[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?

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[purrrnicious]

[The face of someone who's been away from the dorm for a night and was going to stay! Away!! Forever!!! Except then suddenly pulled into a game.]


. . .Okay, I'm not working in any stupid mine.

BUDGET TURN IN

[idolpro]

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

Your home has an infestation of rats. What do you do?

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

HAPPINESS: 120

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
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) - 3

CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1800 MONIES + 200 REMAINING.

Will you pay taxes this year?

EVENT 1

[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 2

[idolpro]

The COPS ARE LOOKING FOR THE LANDLORD. Uhhhhh! Where did he go! What did you do.

You are UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MURDER.

TURN IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 3

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

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

HAPPINESS: 120
LUXURIES: 0

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 - PANHANDLER. YEARLY INCOME - 500 MONIES.

NEW CRIME ABILITY UNLOCKED: MURDER - Now...you've lost it. You know you can kill. You can take another unit's entire yearly income with this.

But, you know, they die.

Will you pay taxes this year?

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

ALL YOUR SHIT WAS STOLE?

At least you still have that happiness. . .

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

You are STILL NOT PAYING FOR HOUSING, which is fine except when everything starts getting run the fuck down - pipes breaking, house structure getting tanked, that kind of thing. It really doesn't help when a freak accident occurs during YOUR SHIT GETTING STOLE where your 8/8 of an automobile was apparently just RUN THE FUCK INTO THE WALL and now you have A GAPING ASS HOLE THERE.

Well, what the fuck.

EVENT 3

[idolpro]

A tax collector comes to your door. You are under arrest. What do you do?

TURN IN

[idolpro]

YEAR 4

[idolpro]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - You're in jail.
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

HAPPINESS: 120

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 - PRISONER. YEARLY INCOME - 0 MONIES.

NEW CRIME ABILITY UNLOCKED: RIOT - This enables you to SERIOUSLY HARM OR KILL a random number of units (up to 5, and you can specify which 5 you'd like to get hit), but you will escape jail and receive 300 happiness in addition to a large amount of luxuries.

No taxes this year.

EVENT 1

[idolpro]

You're in prison.

That's about it.

EVENT 2

[idolpro]

You learn that another family is in jail with you.

You COULD work together to RIOT, get 7 units seriously harmed or injured combined, and both make out with 400 happiness and a large amount of luxuries.

If you BETRAY them, more units will die.

I mean, you can only win, here.

TRUST?

EVENT 3

[idolpro]

Ruby Sour's sources find that it's AlcheME! that did the deed. The stealing deed.

Aw shit.

TURN IN

[idolpro]

THE END.

[idolpro]

You stay safe. You survive. You win.

You put your trust in the family imprisoned alongside you, and together you charge into the heart of darkness. And you come out the other side in one piece.

You clash with a worker's revolt, and the military arrives to stop you, but you refuse to let yourself die. Not here, not now.

What the prisoners do next is up to them -- you and your stalwart allied family part ways, with each of you off to live new lives and have new adventures away from this place. You recover from your sicknesses and wounds, though the scars never quite fade.

Proceed to ENDGAME.