First Mission

[foremostpatriot]

I don't know where I was, but this has to be the worst designed prison I've ever been in. If they're trying to make me feel at home, they could put me in a barracks, not a suburb I'd expect from my younger days. And what are these pictures supposed to be? I have my eyes in all of these

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[rainbowbrush]

You're not in a prison, not really. It kind of feels like one sometimes, I guess.

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[foremostpatriot]

!

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[foremostpatriot]

...and not a cardboard box around. Damn.

[foremostpatriot]

Mind elaborating?

[mutantsponge]

There's not a way out of here. Not one that anybody's been able to find yet, anyway.

[foremostpatriot]

I already know the box isn't going to be there. I really need to find one.

So what happens when you leave the town?

[mutantsponge]

You don't leave, that's the weird thing about it. I tried to walk on out this morning, but I just ended up on the other side of town. It was like the road looped back in on itself or something. Same thing's apparently happened to other people, too.

A couple of us are tryin' to find a way to leave for real, though. Somehow.

[foremostpatriot]

The more I hear, the more it sounds like VR. I don't like this.

[mayfield_mods]

Morning, hun.

[foremostpatriot]

What.

[mayfield_mods]

Sleep well?

[foremostpatriot]

...Yeah.

[jillsandwiches]

Barracks? Are you a soldier, too?

[foremostpatriot]

Too? You don't recognize me?

[He stares for a bit before he almost topples to one side. A muttered curse before he simply covers his right eye with his hand.]

[jillsandwiches]

Should I?

...Are you okay?

[foremostpatriot]

Most people do.

Fifty years with one eye? Depth perception is a pain.

[sycophanticdick]

It seems that they repair damage when they bring us here, sir.

[foremostpatriot]

Does anyone remember how we got here? This is starting to sound uncomfortably like VR training. I'm too old for more training.

[sycophanticdick]

No, sir, I went to sleep at my base and woke up here the next morning. From what I've gathered, that's a typical experience. For those of us who don't think we're natives, at least. If this is VR training, then I'm not sure what we're being trained for, sir.

[foremostpatriot]

You raise a good point. From the looks of things, urban combat is the obvious answer, but why they chose something sixty years old is strange.

You're a soldier, then?