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What was that? Annie turns around.
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That came from the hallway. She steps outside her office to see where this noise is coming from. Everyone else had already gone home and she was about to leave as well so this was weird.
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She opens the door to the room across the hallway. On a desk in the corner sits a terminal. <needs image of a dumb terminal for people who aren't retro nerds> The reception desk has one of these. They always use it to order office supplies.
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The text on the terminal blinks. She had never used one before but taking a quick look can’t hurt...
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\[Screen:\]
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Hello, anyone there?
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This is Jack from CryoCorp Outpost 53. I got woken up from cryogenic sleep and am stuck down here. Please respond or send help.
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Type reply: █
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She sits down in front of it. The thing has a bunch of buttons with letters, should be easy enough...
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hello
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The beeping noise stops.
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*ChatGPT Feedback:*
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*More sensory detail here. Maybe about the chair, but most importantly about the terminal. What does it look like? What does the keyboard feel like (after all, this is the first time she would be typing on one)?*
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*Could be a comment about a satisfying click-clack or something...*
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*Also, a comment of my own: A short description of the room can’t hurt. Like this, it’s just a room with a desk in it. Might as well have been all that’s in the room (which is kinda what I originally imagined, but that would be boring... Should be a room with a function other than holding a terminal forgotten by IT)...*
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i am going to get help
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Thank you. Appreciate it.
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That took a while to *type?*... The letter buttons are arranged in a weird order... Annie looks around. A phone! She picks it up - no signal. Weird. Maybe it’s disconnected. She puts it down and rushes back to her office and picks up her phone... Strange electrical noises. She tries to dial a number but nothing happens. She drops the receiver back on the cradle and returns to the terminal.
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i cant call anyone the phone is only making weird noises
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That’s probably because I am connected through a modem on the same line. I’ll disconnect. I will dial in again in a bit.
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Tue, 2106-06-01, 19:16
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AgriWorks Login: █
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She walks back over to her office and picks up the phone - but who to call? Her coworkers would probably make fun of her or be annoyed. Also, this place, *CryoCorp Outpost 53*, she had never heard of it. The only one who might know more about that place is her grandpa, as he had thoroughly studied the plans of the city in his spare time back in the day. So she dials his number...
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<Missing dialog here:
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* reveals that CryoCorp Outpost 53 is unreachable because it is outside of the dome
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* his dad had mentioned it in passing when talking about the old world and attempts to overcome the impending doom of humanity
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* explanation of what "cryogenic sleep" is
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* his dad had thought that it was a ridiculous idea that could never work
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Slowly, she sets the receiver back on the cradle. What would she tell Jack? What could she do for him? And there was an outside world? A whole world, much bigger than the city, that she had never heard of and would never see? She gets up. While leaving her office, she glances at the terminal in the other room but the text hadn’t changed. She goes to the reception area to find some snacks. A cup of juice and a cookie later, she returns holding two additional cookies in her hand. She paces back and forth between her office and the terminal room while taking small bites of the cookies. One cookie disappears, and then the other one. And then she paces some more...
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Annie looks up. That had to be the terminal again. She walks over.
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Hello again.
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She sits down in front of the terminal.
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hello i am really sorry but we cannot help you we cant get to outpost 53 its outside
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Hm. Okay...
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Annie doesn’t know what to say. She feels bad about it, but there really is nothing she could do.
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is there anything else i could help you with
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Let me think for a moment.
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More dots followed. A lot more.
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Then this:
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Sorry for taking up your time.
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I think I might be able to improvise some tools down here. If I had a repair manual for the door, I think, I could get out. Do you think you can get your hands on one?
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i dont know where would i find it
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You are in the city under the mountain, right? The dome city?
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yes <name of city>
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If memory serves right, there is a library in the city center. They should have it. I need the repair manual for a CryoCorp B33FY-AF Bunker Door.
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yes but how would i get a book to you
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They should have a digital version of it... You are not very familiar with computers, are you?
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no
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Are there any computer people you could ask to send me one?
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not sure they would do that my grandpa might but he doesnt work here
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Any computer hooked up to a modem and a phone line should do. If he knows his way around computers - and has access to one - he will be able to do this.
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whats a modem
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A modem is typically a small device that allows a computer to connect to the telephone network so that two computers that are far away from each other can be connected - like the computers we are using right now.
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i think he has one
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Great! Could you please ask him if he can establish a connection to <phone number> at 300 baud?
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i think he would love to do that its his sort of thing but it will take a few days
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Thank you - I never asked your name...
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annie
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Thank you, Annie!
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I can hold out down here for quite a while, don’t worry about a couple days. I’ll check back on Friday evening if I don’t hear from you or your grandpa before then. Is that okay?
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are you safe down there
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Yes, the bunker seems to be holding up well and I have plenty of food for now. I just wish I could get out of that damned door and see the light of day.
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ok thats good
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"The light of day", Annie thinks to herself, "what does it look like?"
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I have to go now, the bunker’s daily phone usage quota is running out. Thank you again and looking forward to talk to you and your grandpa.
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The manual I need is for the CryoCorp B33FY-AF Bunker Door, this modem can be reached under <phone number> at 300 baud.
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I will connect back to this terminal on Friday if we haven't established contact before then, okay?
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can we talk tomorrow i have questions
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We can tal
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Tue, 2106-06-01, 20:07
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AgriWorks Login:
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"Is that a yes or a no?", Annie wonders, still slightly puzzled by the whole situation. She starts reading all that's still on the screen. "The light of day", she quietly says to herself.
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As she reads the section with the bunker door and the phone number, she reaches for a pen and some paper and writes them down - whoever works here hopefully won’t mind (she had never seen anyone enter or leave this room). As Annie continues reading, she hears a quiet clicking noise and the terminal turns off with a flash of the screen. A tiny red light illuminates the letters "RDY" on the side.
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__Setting:__
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* Post apocalypse
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* (What happened?)
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* Just enough time has passed for no living memory of how the world used to be to survive, slightly more than a century
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* Always need to watch out for <reason of apocalypse> when outside
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* In some areas, the landscape has been turned into a toxic wasteland
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* Weapons can be looted from various locations (guns, rifles, grenades, MANPADS, ...)
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* Slight retro-futurism
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* Computers:
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* Personal computers are rare
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* ~~Not sure which type (Altair 8800 / Commodore 64 / IBM PC)~~ IBM-PC-like but with big boi floppy drives and running INUX (as everything else)
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* Business computers are typically "mainframes" that are logged on to using dedicated terminals
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* UNIX-like systems dominate everything that can run them
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* INUX lol
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* Cars:
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* Mostly electric cars but they are oldtimers
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* Early summer
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* The story starts on Tue, 2106-06-01
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__Locations:__
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* Underground City
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* Needs a name
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* Location details:
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* Built inside a gigantic hermetically sealed dome under a mountain
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* Past its prime but most things are intact
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* Semi-automated public transport system (trains, trams) to get around
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* Can theoretically be used to enter/leave through big air locks but nobody has ever done that since the first inhabitants arrived
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* Food (mostly algae and weird plants) is being farmed in big halls adjacent to the dome illuminated by hermetically sealed light shafts
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* Circumstances:
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* People have been living completely isolated from the outside world for generations
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* People mostly go about normal lives, they have "normal" jobs
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* Waste water is recycled in a closed loop
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* Slight water scarcity due to slow treatment process
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* Relies on external facilities for electricity
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* Background information:
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* Inhabitants never arrived in the numbers that were expected so while there are a lot of people there, many buildings/homes are essentially time capsules
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* Hydro Power Station
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* Miraculously still works without ever being maintained
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* In dire need of repairs
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* May or may not present a risk of flooding for everything downstream from it depending on whether that could contribute towards the story
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* Ruin City
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* Your typical post-apocalyptic ruined city
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* Located on the coast
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* Rusty cars and other vehicles in various stages of decay
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* Some almost functional, some falling apart
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* Buildings in various stages of decay
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* Sky scrapers that would fit right in in Horizon: Zero Dawn or The Last of Us
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* Apartment complexes
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* Decaying but mostly usable roads
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* Everything was left behind, definitely worth looting
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* Two groups and some individuals that have taken up residence there
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* Fierce rivalry
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* Some sort of antenna tower that can be repurposed for long range communication
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* Retro-futuristic data center
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* Located on an island
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* Used to be some sort of national archive backup
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* Contains vast amounts of knowledge on all sorts of things
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* Somehow, the protagonists need to get at that knowledge
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* Buildings are in bad shape but some things are still running
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* Including the automatic security system (gotta love them turrets)
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* Cryogenic bunker
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* Built by CryoCorp (slogan: Preserving The Future)
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* An attempt to get people to survive beyond the apocalypse by freezing them in "preservation chambers"
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* All except two have failed and the contained people have perished or escaped
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* One of them automatically interrupts the "cryogenic sleep" of the contained person in an attempt to save the life of the contained person before a breakdown
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* The last one is still intact and working
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* Has enough supplies to last the contained people for a couple weeks
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* Annie
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* From the underground city
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* Completely technologically inept but also incredibly curious
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* Works at an agriculture organization - AgriWorks - that is kind of a mix of a company and a regulatory body
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* Has a tendency to stay late
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* Is seen as a bit of a dreamer by her coworkers
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* Will have to figure out how to interact with a terminal on her own at the start of the story
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* Her attention gets pointed to it by the dude from the cryogenic bunker sending a message and spamming the BEL character to get attention/help
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* Wants to see the outside world once she realizes that such a thing exists
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* Possible ending for her storyline: She either gets a plane going and flies somewhere else to explore the world or dies in the attempt - maybe left ambiguous
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* Annie’s grandpa
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* Also from the underground city (Who would have guessed?)
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* Has studied the plans for the city *a lot*...
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* Knows a few bits and pieces about the outside world - things his dad told him about his childhood
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* By no means a computer genius but he knows how to use one
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* Annie’s grandpa’s dad
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* Was 8 when the apocalypse happened and he moved into the underground city
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* Jack
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* A dude from the old world
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* Starts out in the cryogenic bunker after his cryogenic sleep gets interrupted
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* Either knows how to drive a train or has another important skill (whichever the gal doesn’t)
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* Used to live in the ruined city
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* Wears his CryoCorp shirts and jacket with pride - this might become a problem for him later
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* A gal from the old world
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* Starts out in the cryogenic bunker
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* Either knows how to drive a train or has another important skill (whichever Jack doesn’t)
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* Used to live in the ruined city
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* Likes to hide the fact that she came from the old world - this might be relevant for the story, or it might not :)
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* The Nomad
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* A dude who wanders the world
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* Experienced survivalist
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* Has had good and bad human encounters
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* Has seen places across various countries
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* Electronics Tinkerer
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* has a drug problem
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* relevant for the story because he is an absolute computer genius
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One morning, Annie gets awoken at work by her coworkers who find her asleep at the terminal. The coworkers should say things like "Oh, Annie the computer expert? Why the sudden carreer change?"
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While she won’t find it funny in the moment, it’s nothing mean-spirited or anything the like.
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