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[ At noon on Wednesday, Riley's standing ready in the dining hall, with a clipboard and a big smile to anyone who shows up. She's set blank stacks of paper on the table, but we'll get to that. As promised, there's some basic snacks as well as some tasty banana bread. Snacks for everyone! ]

Welcome everyoooone~! Thank you so much for showing up. This is a new and confusing experience for all of us, but I'm sure if we strive to stick together and cooperate, it'll help us foster the most productive environment that we can. [ Bright, bright smile. ] So! I've gathered all of you so we can share any discoveries and compare basic information that might give us any idea of why we've been brought here. Good? Okaaaay!

[ That smile never leaves her face. She sets something down from her clipboard and starts passing out that blank paper. ]

Sooo, following my example, if you could fill this out, that...can be a good starting discussion!

[ Her example is essentially a survey. Wonderful penmanship, again. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ well i hope youre ready to get a really weird one from THIS GIRL ]

Name: Shilo Wallace
Hometown: Largo City
Last Known Date: October 2057
What You Last Remember Doing: Leaving my room to go visit my mother's grave
Anyone You Know Here: No
Previous Knowledge Of The Phantom: None

[ There's A Lot To Unpack Here ]

Where, um...is Largo City?

[ Looks at the other responses. ]

Oh, it used to be called New York City.

[ riley.exe has stopped working ]

...Come again?

They renamed it to thank GeneCo for saving humanity. Dad complains about it sometimes.

What's GeneCo?

[ she's going to regret this. ]

They make replacement and designer organs. And pretty much control the city.

I'm sorry, designer organs? How can you just make- how can organs be designer?

Oh, you know... colors, designs, things like that. They run commercials for them outside from the GeneCo blimps.

Different...colored...

[ Riley's carefully practiced smile twitches. ]

We're talking about the same things, right? Organs. Lungs, livers... All that?

Mm-hm.

[ And with the exact same cadence one might give to any other commercial jingle: ]

Lungs and livers and bladders and hearts! You'll always save a bundle when you buy our GeneCo parts!

[ ... if you let her get to the second half she will but uh. ]

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Oh, that's a catchy one.

[He's gotta teach that to Marius.]

[ no it's not!!!! ]

[ Ask her later for the whole thing, there's more! ]

[He absolutely will, GeneCo sounds like a barrel of laughs.]

[ hey uh what the fuck ]

What the hell is that?!

[ suddenly sheepish ]

It's... the jingle from their commercials?

[ Hhh. Hoooo boy. Oh boy. ]

Shilo, I'm just going to say upfront, this is really weird to me.

... Yeah, I can see how it would be if you're from before GeneCo.

Let's get away from all the...GeneCo talk. [ She's had enough for right now, thank you!!! ] Can you think of anyone, anyone at all who'd maybe...want to abduct you? Someone who could be working with the Phantom?

No, I... I've never even been outside the house, and I live there alone with my dad. And he's just a doctor... I can't exactly see him having enemies.

[ the joke is that, with neither of them knowing it, Shilo Has Not Stopped Talking About GeneCo ]

[ this'll be funny! to put together later!! ]

Um. Never? Not even once?

No, I... it's dangerous out there, even if you didn't inherit a blood disease.

[ she doesn't sound not slightly bitter about this? ]

Oh. Um. I... I'm sorry, uh...

[ oh this is above her pay grade ]

[ Shilo takes a step back, putting up her hands. ]

No, it's... that's weird too, huh?

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