Eutology Foundation

1,000 light years from Earth's solar system, you sit down at your desk and turn on your computer. The Human Adjacent Resources Department opened at 4:00 am, Earth Standard Time and it is your job to collect and summarize [[data]] on the newly discovered intelligent and bestial Human Adjacent Species, as well as [[mediate]] conflicts between coworkers. The manager is keeping an eye on you, better get to work. (set: $more to false) (set: $talked to false) (set: $alert to 0) (set: $void to false) (set: $USB to false)

With the progressor squads heading out, we've been getting more data on hasbeens than ever before. Better take the time to summarize the field observations. Your eyes skim the folder of incoming reports and a few catch your eye. [[Goblin.pdf]] [[Dragon.pdf]] [[Dragonborn.pdf]] [[Kobold.pdf]]

As a proud employee of the Human Adjacent Resources Department, it is your duty to handle issues between employees at the Eutology Foundation. The manager really likes seeing the employees focus on mediation. [[Case 1]] [[Case 2]] [[Case 3]] [[goback]]

"Dragon: Bestial Hasbeen discovered on Pi XO54, a planet in close proximity to Alpha GB 37, a major Eutology headquarters. Few human traits left, massive size, scaled, winged, produces flammable natural gas. Genetic evidence reveals [[More...]] [[Summarize<-- Take it easy, just summarize and be done. ]] (set: $alert to $alert +1) (if: $more is true)[[keepreading<--Keep Reading]] (if: $more is true)[[check]]

These intelligent hasbeens have recently rejoined the Human Empire with the help of our progressor squads! The extremely hot environment of their home planet lead to the adaptation of fireproof scales and a more reptilian appearance overall. Rumors have it that some can breathe fire, but this is yet to be confirmed. [[goback<-- Summarize]]

These scaled, humanoid hasbeens retain a small level of social intelligence and the abillity to use tools, however, their high levels of aggression register under the bestial category. [[goback<-- Summarize]]

(set: $more = true) "Hey!" You whip your head around to see your manager glaring down at you. In an obnoxiously condescending tone, they lecture you about spending too much time reading each individual report. "Skim and summarize, skim and summarize. If you can't handle that, just go work on [[mediate<--mediation.]] [[Go back-->goback]]

What next? [[Goblin.pdf]] [[Dragonborn.pdf]] [[Dragon.pdf]] [[Kobold.pdf]] [[mediate]] (if: $more is true) [ (if: $alert <= 0)[ [[chat]] ] ]

Similar to [[Kobold.pdf<-- Kobolds]], these hasbeens are somewhat intelligent, but count as bestial due to hyper aggression. [[goback<-- Summarize]]

"Genetic evidence reveals that the dragon hasbeens may have been genetically edited on purpose in some way. Our team initially suspected remnants of the Morgana Corporation, " (if: $alert >= 3) [Oh No! The manager bursts into your cubicle and drags you out of your chair! Before you know it, you are [[captured]]] (else:) [ [[Continue]] [[goback]] [[Summarize<-- Everyone knows Morgana Corp was bad, just summarize and be done ]] [[check]] (set: $alert to $alert+1)]

"However, further investigation lends itself to the idea that _____________________________________________________________________ This information has been Voided _____________________________________________________________________ (set: $alert to $alert+1) (if: $alert >= 3) [Oh No! The manager bursts into your cubicle and drags you out of your chair! Before you know it, you are [[captured]]] (else:) [ (if: $USB is true)[ [[Hack]]] [[goback]] [[Summarize<-- Try to forget this]] [[check]] (set: $void to true)]

Eh whatever, who cares what Morgana did. You summarize your report, dawdle aimlessly for a few boring hours while pretending to be busy, and go home to your normal life. [[Welcome back to work beloved Eutology Foundation staff<-- Try Again?]]

Suzan M. Tobias in accounting has stolen 3 fries from my lunch literally every Thursday for the past two months. I have spoken to him numerous times but he does nothing but laugh at me when I try to............... [[mediate]] (if: $more is true)[ [[check]] ] (set: $alert to $alert -1)

Tom N. I've been letting a coworker stay in a property that I own, but I think they are only able to pay rent through some really suspiscious means. I've caught them trying to sell spiders and weed to my children, poaching endangered species of fish and insects, and for some reason introducing invasive species of plants to the area! I really don't know how to handle this situation, last time someone said something rude to them, they beat them over the head with a net! (set: $alert to $alert -1) [[mediate]] (if: $more is true)[ [[check]] ]

Dr. Ivo R. I"ve come to make an announcement, Shad Owens the Hedgefund manager is a big astromapping failure who slept with my wife! (set: $alert to $alert -1) [[mediate]] (if: $more is true)[ [[check]] ]

You plug the USB into your computer and immediately the voided text appears. "The Eutology Foundation may be responsible for the genetic altering. I have worked with Eutology for years, and I know damn well that nobody is going to read this far. 'Skim and Summarize,' amirite? My team uncovered something while observing the dragons. There's a hidden base on this planet, its a lab, built by Eutology. The dragons are not bestial. We took one down and studied its brain, it is more than proportionally large enough for higher level brain function, it even has an exagerated frontal lobe for rationality! But they act besti" You hear the shout of the manager, and their thundering footsteps. [[HideEvidence2<-- Hide the evidence!]] [[Get out!-->getout]]

You peek out of your cubicle and see an aquaintance of yours, an newly hired IT operator strolling by. He waves as he passes you. [[goback<-- Wave back and keep working]] [[Hey Simon!]]

"Hey how're you doing?" [[hbu<-- I'm doing alright, how about you?]] (if: $void is true)[ [[help<-- Actually, I could use a hand if you are free]]]

"I'm actually doing really awesome man!I've been working on something that I'm super proud of, but it's a bit of a secret." [[Tell me!]] [[goback<-- Alright then, keep your secrets.]]

You tell Simon about the voided info and he squints back at you. "I'm not one to tell you your business, but I don't think you should be looking through that kinda stuff." [[goback<-- Eh, you're probably right. Anyways, see ya.]] [[insist<-- Aww come on, please? Surely you can help me out?]]

(if: $talked is true) ["Okay fine, here, don't tell anybody I'm involved with this though." Simon hands you a USB drive and walks off. [[goback]] (set: $USB to true) ] (else:)[ "No dude, I really can't. What are you even looking at anyways?" Despite your protest, Simon reads the full page and his face goes pale. He bolts down the hall calling for the manager. [[Tackle]] [[Run]] [[HideEvidence]]]

As you try to sack Simon, the last thing you hear are the manager's thundering footsteps and the hum of a Eutology Foundation Enforcement Drone firing into the back of your skull. You're dead before you hit the ground Monday's, amirite? [[Welcome back to work beloved Eutology Foundation staff<-- Try Again?]]

Your heart pounds in your chest as you make a mad dash for the door. Mechanical whirring and alarms blaring surround you as enforcement drones of all varieties hunt you through the cubicle halls. As you burst out into the main hall, you look around and examine your options... [[Concert<--Music blares to the right...]] [[Dock<-- The dock is to your left...]] [[Door<-- There's the front door!]]

You frantically type into your computer and manage to void all of your work and history just as the manager arrives. They glare down at you and interrogate you on you lack of progress today. But when they turn and ask Simon what exactly he saw, he pulls out a flash drive, slides it into your computer, and to your shock, everything you voided pops up! At a snap of their fingers, the Manager summons enforcement drones to escort you into their office. [[captured]]

"Alright, it's basically a program that can recover data that has been deleted. When computers delete things, they don't actually 'delete' it, they just forget where the data is in their systems. So this program basically finds the location before the data is overwritten! Pretty cool, right!" [[goback<-- I guess... Anyways, bye.]] [[WOW!]]

"Yeah! It can even bypass stuff that has been like encrypted or corrupted! I really love working on this kinda stuff on the side, because all the problems around here are so simple I can solve them in seconds!" (set: $talked to true) (if: $void is true) ["[[help<-- Oh really?]] "] (else:) [ [[goback<-- That is awesome, well see you later!]] ]

"You have been busy today, haven't you?" The Manager pauses as if they were asking you a question, but the gag between your lips prevents you from responding at all. "It was so simple. All you had to do was come in to work, write a summary, resolve some issues, chat at the water cooler, and go home. And yet, you failed to do even that simple of a task. You got nosey, stepped out of line, and now you don't get to go home. Eutology has been so good to you, so good to all of us. And you go around our backs, thinking you've found a crack in our beautiful image, and you try to tear all of our work down." You struggle and protest, but you can barely even move. "Well, I think you'll be much more useful to the foundation now anyways. Valentine needed new subjects anyways." As consciousness leaves your body, somehow you know that the nightmare has only just begun... [[Welcome back to work beloved Eutology Foundation staff<-- Try Again?]]

You manage to void everything on the computer! But just as the manager steps into your cubicle, you remember the USB drive that unvoids things, still plugged into your computer. Oops. [[captured]]

Wait! You can't just leave without knowing what is really going on! [[Read just a bit more!-->readmore]] [[Run<-- Like Hell I can]] | | | | [[Save]]

"bestials because Eutology is controlling them!" That's all you remember, up to the point the Manager drags you out of your cubicle and into their office. [[captured]]

Thinking quickly, you download the PDF onto the USB drive! As soon as you pull it out, you dive out of your cubicle! [[Run]] (set: $save to true)

To your right is a huge crowd of people enjoying a concert! Thinking quickly, you slip into the dancing masses, pushing past people and causing more of a disturbance than you thought you would. As you push towards the middle of the crowd, your head bursts with pain as a hydraulic piston rams itself into your gut. People scream as the manager desparately tries to maintain control. As you collapse backwards, you stare up into the cold, gunmetal carapace of a battle droid you have never seen before. It marches towards you as you struggle for breath, and you choke out, "Wha- what the hell are you?!" As the machine draws its lance, a deep synthetic voice fills the halls "I am EDN." Check out the podcast that this story is based off of! shorturl.at/qsA34 !! Also click here to [[Run<-- Try Again! (don't worry, not from the beginning.]] You're so close!

You make a mad dash towards the dock as lasers fire at your back. You see a cargo ship being boarded as it prepares to launch. Just as the door closes, you slip on board and feel the ship take off! You take a moment to relax, before feeling a blade pressed against your throat. "What the hell are you doing on our ship?!" [[Explain]]

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You explain everything that you have seen, that the Foundation is involved in some really shady shit and that as soon as you had any idea of what they were really doing, they tried to kill you! The three people before you deliberate on what to do with their stowaway. They seem to think that if what you say is true, then that would change everything. The captain turns to you and simply asks, "Do you have any proof?" [[...no]] (if: $save is true) [ [[YES]]]

It takes a long time, but the crew decides to turn around and deliver you to the Manager. You shout out everything you can before the manager gags you, but nobody seems to listen... [[captured]]

A smile dawns on your face as you pull out the USB! The captain plugs it into the ship's computer and together you read all about the sins of the foundation. If you want to learn more about the world, check out the podcast, Dungeons and the Homosexual Agenda! This was a little side story, but we have 3 full episodes out now if you are interested! :D <iframe width="424" height="238" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9dM02xE4YGE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> shorturl.at/qsA34 You and your new crew set out from that moment, dedicated to exposing the Foundation for its sins. Only time will tell if you succeed...

You look over your shoulder at the manager (if:$alert>=3) [THEY'RE COMING RIGHT FOR YOU! [[captured<-- Reason]] [[Run]]] (if:$alert is 2) [They're glaring at you suspiciously, might want to [[goback]]] (if:$alert is 1) [They've got their eye on you] (if:$alert is 0) [They aren't paying attention to you] (if:$alert is -1) [They aren't paying attention to you] (if:$alert <=-2) [They seem confident that you are working on what you need to, but don't dawdle]