[:The Ed Parable:]
Prologue:
"This is a story of a 22 year old man named Ed. Ed worked a perfectly average and normal office job as Employee 204. And at this job was where he only had to do simple steps, and those simple steps had him going through a cycle of the same things over and over again."
Ed is shown arriving at the office, filling a coffee cup, and finally sitting down in his personal office.
"He had his own personal office all to himself, away from the pranks and annoyances that office jobs casually have. He rarely talked to any of his coworkers, but sometimes one would stop by and greet him. Usually a younger coworker or someone that was older, but he could never remember who stopped by. Sometimes he'd be typing things on his computer, writing something down, and sending or rejecting certain letters sent through a tube above his desk."
He is seen relaxing in his chair, sipping his coffee as a canister dropped through the tube and into a catcher that his desk had. He glances over to it as the narrator continues.
"Ed enjoyed this simple job as it wasn't very hard to go through, everything was simple. Everything was easy for him, very easy indeed. He made friends with Employee 863, the two however only chatted through the chat system on H-mail. He called her Mu, due to her calling herself Mustache Girl. Weird and cute name."
It shows him sipping coffee when he gets a message from his friend, he sets his coffee down and responds to the message.
"Yup, his life was perfectly fine and good enough for him. And so, Ed was happy. But one day, something happened that changed his life forever. Ed had realized that it had been hours since he had gotten a canister, a message, or a coworker stopping by to even say hi."
Ed is shown sitting at his desk, slowly realizing that nothing had been happening.
"Shaken and confused, he sat frozen in his seat as he waited for something to happen. After an hour or so, nothing still happened so he decided to get up and find out what was going on. He got up from his desk and headed out of his private cubical to go and see where everyone was."