Well, you're CR, but let's give her a better name ok? Or better not. See that thing up in her door? Yup, that's her nameplate. It says HUNGER EVERDEEN.

Examine room

Your name is HUNGER EVERDEEN. You're 16 years old, 2 years short of ESCAPING FROM THIS USELESS DEATHLY TRADITION. Which do you ask? BEING SORTED TO KILL EACH ONE EVERY YEAR. But whatever, today might be the day you're escaping from it altogether.

You have plenty of interest, none of which of SILLY NATURE. Where you live KIDS are TRAINED with MILITARY WAYS, so you learned how to be DISCIPLINED. One of your key hobbies is HUNTING, so you never had to pass HUNGER which is kind ironic. You tend to REBEL AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT which is why other of your hobbies is SEWING FRILLY DRESSES and LIBERAL USE OF MAKEUP, because, let's face it, there's no respecting SOLDIER who would use that much MAKEUP.

Your room reflects all of this. There's WARDROBES FULL OF WEAPONS AND OUTFITS, SEWING MACHINES OF VARIOUS MODELS, and even a MAKEUP STATION, or VANITY, like CIVILIANS like to call it. On the walls there's different PROSTEST POSTERS, detailing your favorite REBELLIOUS LEADERS, and behind your bed you like to SCRATCH THE WALL to mark the days before your NEXT BIRTHDAY. Right now there's 129 SCRATCHES.

What will you do?

Hunger: Prepare gift

Besides the obvious DAY OF RECKONING, today is your friend UMINEKO's birthday, and you prepared a special gift for him or her. You really don't care after all this years. And why would you care? GENDER hasn't stopped you in the past. If Umineko doesn't want to divulge his/her gender, that's the witch problem.

You take out the CILIDRICAL BOX from your Sylladex SURVIVAL MODUS. It allows you to store objects in a physical backpack, and you can deploy them whenever you want. It may not be the flashiest Sylladex but it's practical. Another thing it does is deploying automatically any item you may need in the right amount to cover your needs, like if you're starving it rations your food and water for you to survive the longest time available. That said, you always keep NON-EXPIRATIONAL FOOD and WATER inside just in case.

Inside the CILINDRICAL BOX you put the PRESENT and close it with the press of a button. Outside you stick Umineko's address on a tag. You then take it to your window and toss it to the air, where a HUMONGOUS SHIP retrieves it and continues its course. The GOVERNMENT may be AWFUL, but at least they know how to do their shipping job.

Now, let's get down on business. Without wasting another moment, you equip your trusty BOW AND QUILL in your STRIFE SPECIBUS under BOWKIND, and your KNIFE under the stop stating the obvious.

Hunger: Stop stating the obvious

You stop with your sass.

Hunger: Answer Pesterchum

You turn your PC on. You really don't like to waste energy letting it on standby, so you turn it off whenever you stop using it. Resource management is the key to survival.

Well, it seems that TS has created a memo under your friend's group. You should really stop calling him TS like you didn't know his name. Anyway… You already read this conversation last chapter, so let's jump to the part you didn't read ok?

TS: PLeasedontkillmepleasedontki llme…

CR: You… You!

CR: n_n thanks a lot soldier!

TS: WU… what…

CR: Well, see you on the Medium! Bu-bye!

CR: May the odds be ever in your favor! ~o*

CR left the memo

TS: THefuck…

TS closed the memo

Hunger: Install game

You take the Sfrub disc out of your Sylladex and introduce it on your PC. It takes a little to boot but finally the installation window appears. It will take a while, so you suppose it's better to let it be.

Meanwhile you consider it's best to go outside and get some more supplies.

Hunger: Check for guardian

You silly goose! Your guardian has been dead for a while so let's not worry. Her ashes are kept on a box in the living room. You often like to talk to the box, as she wasn't that bad of a guardian and you're kind of glad she was finished before you had to do it for her. But this time you need to hurry and… Well, that's fucking perfect.

There are government sentries all over outside. You really hate those things, they're bullet-proof, arrow-proof, knife-proof and all kinds of proofs. You think maybe they're not magic proof but that shit doesn't exist. You don't have the time to deal with these. Then you have to conform with the supplies you have on your fridge, but they're not that fresh and durable as whatever you could find on the wild

Hunger: Retrieve supplies from fridge

You scavenge the fridge and captchalogue every food item you could find, almost without looking. Good thing your Modus turns things into cards or you wouldn't be able to save all those STRIPS OF DRY VENISON and the DEHYDRATED WATER, like how the fuck does that thing works. But you have more important things to worry about. Like why the government deployed all those sentries around your house? Not that you're paranoid, but you haven't done a thing to them, outside of CYBER ACTIVISM but you know they don't care that much for you to deploy an attack of that caliber. You run to the stairs and lock yourself in your room.

Hunger: Pester Umineko

Once in your room, you check your PC. The Sfrub installation window marks close to 50% of completion and you couldn't be more relieved. At least you will escape from this situation soon enough. You decide to look for Umineko and see if your buddy is ok.

capitolRevolutionist (CR) began pestering goldenEqualizer (GE) at 3:14

CR: Err Umineko? Are you still there?

CR: Dude, or dudess, I don't really know/care, you don't answer

CR: I will call you dude regardless

CR: Is everything ok?

GE: ok, who the fuck told that incompetent dimwit to be my server?

CR: o_o Wut?

….

…. And you know the rest.

The conversation finishes and you take a deep breath. Really, trying to bond with that person is very energy consuming. But it's a price you're willing to take.

You check on the progress bar and it's already on 83%. Let's leave it for a few seconds. While it finishes loading, you remember something you read about this game on Internet.

Apparently there's this weird artifact created after entering the Medium, which releases a thing called Kernelsprite, and you have to fuse it (or prototype) with something. This is supposedly one of the key aspects of the game you're about to play, so you have to choose carefully.

Hunger: Tell others about Sprites

capitolRevolutionist (CR) opened a memo on board WHY DO WE BOTHER

CR: Don't reply to this memo!

CR: Soldiers, you have to grab something, and that something must be intelligent, valuable or powerful.

CR: No silly things like mackerel or puppets or some shit like that.

CR: And DO NOT attempt to use a living person, I don't really know what happens to those u_u

CR: So be ready and may the odds ever be in your favor ~o*

CR banned herself from responding the memo

And there they go. Well, you have to follow your own advice then.

Hunger: Go get something to prototype.

You look around your room for things that may fit the description you just made. But there's nothing you think that fits the description, besides dresses, makeup and weapons. So you decide to run downstairs and there you see it.

You swiftly grab your guardian's urn and run upstairs, preparing yourself. You put the ashes on the desk and look at the progress bar. A countdown appears: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3…