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You didn't fail high school – you were always smart enough to coast – but everyone knows you didn't reach your potential. Your mother thinks you're smoking weed too. You're not but you are drinking early, and you let her think it was weed just to mess with her. (Burnout lent you some and you lit it up briefly & then flushed it, just for that)

The result of all this is: forced to get a job, getting bar work at the Zon, and eventually drifting away from home to squat in Dega Street while pretty, popular, perfect Quinn goes on to Vance. Dad keeps up contact with you – your mum no more, and they broke up anyway – and you hear she's doing so well, the little bitch.

There's a 35% chance you drift into sex work before 2008 and with your misanthropic attitude, you actually make a decent living off that (it takes all sorts). It's too late if you try in 2008, when the Zon has to cut stuff. 10% chance that on the way home from work, you're run over by a drunk Zon patron who thought he was still cool to drive, and in half of those you'll GO TO 0. The other half, with you crippled, isn't much fun.

Take that pack and if you draw a 4 of Spades: good news! You and 'Burnout' meet up one day by chance and hit it off, and you stay together into your old age whatever other path you've taken here – both dropouts together, a warm emotional rut that gets you through the grim times before you inevitably GO TO 0.

But otherwise, through choice and chance, you've lost.

AND SO ON.