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THE BACKSTORY:
TSIMECAs troop of rebel misfit soldiers have grown in power and numbers. We’ve learned how to hack into the Amazian Regime’s surveillance and propaganda machines to open communication with the Amazian Citizens on both sides of the divide.
The Amazian Regime considers this an act of domestic terror. All Amazian Drones are put on high alert with the directive to eliminate anyone attempting to flee into the buffer zone between East + West Amazia.
The result is all out cyber-warfare. Surprisingly, the AI powered Amazian cybersecurity system is no match for our brilliant hackers. We’re able to disable all surveillance and attack systems, while uploading looped video footage to ensure that all potential new recruits are able to flee into the buffer zone.
Hundred of rebel misfits from all walks of life were safely guided to our secret Basecamp in the Dystopian Woods. Here, we promised, they’d get to upload their consciousness to a Second Reality. Only in this alternate state of being would they finally be free to live the life they’d always dreamed of.
MAIN CAST/CHARACTERS:
Zeb, Lumi, Kat, Pyth, Farasha, Raven, Ursa, Gallo, FlamingoGo, Mantix
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BASECAMP:
Upon arrival at Basecamp, it becomes clear that many of our new arrivals exhibit the type of extreme fear and paranoia that the Amazian Regime exploits to remain in control.
General Zeb, leader of TSIMECA, tries his best to keep everyone calm, cool, and unified. A calm mind is critical to the successful uploads of hundreds of consciousnesses at once, he insists. However, it becomes clear that he suffers from pretty severe PTSD. Nevertheless, most people listen to his instructions and take the necessary steps to prepare for upload. This includes drinking a proprietary “Tracker Detox Serum” to prevent the Amazian Regime from tracking us in Second Reality.
One new recruit in particular is obviously triggered by General Zeb’s instructions. Exhibiting signs of the advanced delusions characteristic of borderline schizophrenia, Lumi attempts to convince everyone that the Amazian Regime cannot only track our every move, but also read everyone’s thoughts. According to Lumi, the only way to protect yourself from the government is to cover various parts of your body in aluminum foil.
By the time TSIMECA’s Cyber Tech Soldiers are ready to invite us all into the Upload Chamber, a palpable mix of anxiety and excitement lingers in the misty, churning, electric atmosphere generated by the nearby Robber’s Falls Hydroelectric Plant.
Nevertheless, General Zeb manages to convince us all, including Lumi to get into the Upload Chamber. It’s debatable whether our trust in Zeb or our fear of being left behind is the driving factor in the groups’ decision.
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UPLOAD CHAMBER:
A soldier named Mantix, who’d been guarding the entrance to the Upload Chamber, now helps swiftly usher us into it. As we enter the room, we’re bathed in electric green light. There’s a bar and we’re instructed to drink another serum. This time it’s an “Upload Serum”. We’re told this glowing green elixir makes the upload process less painful. Most of us do as instructed. Lumi refuses.
Suddenly, there’s robotic sounding female voice interrupts. “Live the life you’ve always dreamed. Be the person you’ve always wanted to be. It’s not just an illusion. Welcome to your new life.” The green lights start to flicker. We begin to feel intense bass vibrations permeating our body. The voice continues, “In Second Reality you make the decisions. Personality uploaded. Transfer Process Complete. Welcome to Your New Life. Welcome to Your New Life.”
An insane beat drops as the chamber fills with a disorienting fog. Lumi begins to convulse. The layers of aluminum foil accessories covering her body fall to the floor. Then she collapses to the floor as well. We all gasp. A few people rush to her side to help her up. Then the room falls dark and silent. Curtains part on one side of the chamber. Lumi stands up, acting entirely normal. She smiles and calmly lead us all into Second Reality alongside General Zeb, as if she no longer even remembered her former self.
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SECOND REALITY:
What ensues is virtually impossible to describe. We are immersed in a strangely nightmarish yet beautiful dream. We meet Kat, Pyth, Ursa, Farasha, Raven, Gallo.
Time, space, and even individuals seem to blur and mold unpredictably. Feelings of arousal, concern, elation, uncontrollable laugher, tears of joy and heart-wrenching tragedy pulse through our collective consciousness. We feel each other’s intense pain and sorrow yet somehow there’s a sense of unwavering hope and strength in our newfound unity.
At some point, we discover that the Amazian Regime has infiltrated Second Reality with a virus designed to polarize us. Their same old divide, confuse, and conquer tactics are more clear to us than ever. One by one, love stories are confused. Jealously, anger, and ultimately apathy kill off our brave TSIMECA leaders one by one.
It’s like the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet is unfolding within and around us over and over again as we battle the virus causing it all. To make matters worse, the virus seems to be tapping into our shared traumas and playing them out in ways meant to link them to the latent shame that shrouds our most secretive, primal urges and sexual proclivities.
It just keeps getting more and more bleak. As the virus kills off our last troop leader, it seems all hope is lost. The crowd sinks into darkness and mourning.
This time however, we’re not alone in our sorrow. We’re all in it together. Something the Amazian Regime in all its manipulative strategic planning had somehow never anticipated. The virus was meant to turn us against each other. Instead, it foraged an unbreakable bond between us.
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THE UNIFICATION:
What happens next is something none of us could have ever imagined.
Our collective consciousness becomes completely synchronized as we all experience the tragedy of all of each other’s losses. Past and present becomes one. The future must be better. We all want it to be better so badly. A spark of hope emerges in the darkness. In a fraction of a nanosecond, this spark sets off an atomic reaction. The surge of energy is so powerful, that Second Reality cannot contain it.
Like a solar flare, this burst of emotion sends a wave of electromagnetic energy so powerful, it instantaneously fries everything digital in all of Amazia. The entire Amazian Government as we know it, no longer exists. Algorithms gone. Bionic Billionaires rendered completely powerless.
The now directionless Delivery, Attack, Drone, Surveillance System (DADSS) run out of power and fall from the sky.
The now screen-free, brainchip-free, AR-free citizens of Amazia are forced to wake up from a lifetime of slumber. Most panic, unsure of what to do with themselves. Like infants suddenly abandoned in the wild, the lack of all familiarity activates what our elders often describe as “deer in the headlights mode.”
The rest. They ran. They ran as fast as they could. Before, they were too afraid. Or, maybe their lives were just bearable enough that they’d chosen to comply, or pretend to comply, rather than rebel. Either way they ran into the Amazian Woods. They knew full well, the chaos that would insue as the rest of Amazia woke up from their daze.
As for most of us rebels, misfit, and outcasts who’d already fled from or actively engaged in cyber-ware with the heartless Amazian Regime, it was time to celebrate our victory. Time to rave until the sun came up. Or, at least until we passed out from over indulging in all these delicious elixirs.