Transmission 897667 - Reasoning

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Hello Peep 1024,

“A useful Peep will thrive”

Your next aptitude test will be Reasoning

“A Reasoned Peep will thrive”

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Your eyes begin to open, the light is blinding. This feeling is now familiar. You once again find yourself lying down in the middle of a bright white room. You sit up and can see In the middle of the wall in front of a large shiny black surface. The surface flickers and bursts into life and colour, a man dressed in a green suit and red tie starts dancing to some light ‘game show’ music on the screen, he has bright yellow hair that appears to be stuck to his head and bright white teeth. With a cheesy grin on his face starts singing:

“Peeps of the Sanctum, Listen to this tale, Once this world was free from order and it began to fail. The Three rose from the Light of the Universe and bought us back alive. Now the Three are giving you a chance to surely Thrive!”

Now speaking in a cheesy game show hosts voice while the music continues to play in the background.

“Welcome to the game show with the most! ‘Reason for your life’ I ammmmm your host, the one, the only…. Joooohnnnny Threeeeeeeee”

You get to your feet as the music abruptly ends and you can hear clapping and cheering from what sounds like an audience.

Johnny signals for the audience to be quiet and walks to the center of the screen and turns to face you with a serious expression. He seems to be looking you directly in the eye.

“Hello Peep 1024, I hope your enjoying your stay in Unit 67, if not it might just kill ya…” he erupts in fake laughter which seems to extend from his stomach all the way to his eye brows, the audience also laughs along. The laughter abruptly cuts off and he once again holds a serious expression.

“Now before we begin let me give you a quick rundown on the rules. Below your feet you will notice on the floor there are three circles”

You look down and the floor has changed, there are three circles, one green, one yellow and one red, they are just large enough to stand in. They have writing in them “Affirmative”, “Negative” and “Irrelevant”.

“OK 1024, I will ask you a series of questions after each you will have 30 ticks to stand in the circle that correctly answers the question. Failure to stand in a circle within the allotted time frame will result in termination, incorrect answers will result in termination.”

He waves his hands in front of him and out of the air a card seems to appear, like a cheap magic trick. He begins to read from the card.

“Question 1. Is your designation Peep 1024?” A bright red timer appears on the screen and starts counting down from 30 ticks. The horrific game show music is back and Johnny Three starts once again dancing around sending the audience wild with excitement.

This seems like an easy question, you have been told you are Peep 1024, it is one of the only things you know for sure, the black and green transmission screen told you so. So you stand on the Affirmative circle.

The timer ends and the music stops. Johnny Three runs up the screen so his face fills it and bright white teeth are almost blinding, in hushed tone he says “OK folks, That was just the warm up, lets see how 1024 did" with a massive grin on his face, he yells "1024, Yooooouuuuuuu Thhhhhrrrriiiivvvveee!” and you can hear cheering and clapping from the audience.

Johnny then spins round and seems to appear back in his original position with the camera panned out, he has another card in his hand. Silence fills the air.
“Question 2. Starting at star quadrant 14 Gamma 5 Sigma 6, if a solid object travels 4 hundred million light years in any one direction, will it collide with any other solid objects?”

This question at first leaves you stunned, how are you supposed to know that!? The timer is ticking down rapidly, it currently stands at 20 ticks left and you have not even started to answer the question. You stand there for another 10 ticks and are beginning to get an odd feeling of stress and panic which you have never experienced before. You shut your eyes and wait for termination.

Suddenly your mind is filled with information as your subconscious serves up the answer. The human home world of earth is located directly in that star quadrant, there are multiple star systems in striking distance of that quadrant and 400 million light years in any direction will almost certainly hit something. However this question is flawed in many ways and strikes you as largely irrelevant as there is no end objective and not enough information to possibly make an informed decision. You look at the timer 3 ticks remaining. Quickly you jump onto the irrelevant circle.

The timer ends and the music stops. Johnny slowly walks up to the camera, his shoulders hunched and shaking his head. When gets close enough that only his head is in frame he looks up, winks, and a broad smile slowly grows on his face. He says into the camera “That was close one! but Yooooouuuuuuu Thhhhhrrrriiiivvvveee!” the audience erupts into wild applause, Johnny spins around and once again is back in his starting position with a question card in his hand.

He speaks in his jovial tone “This is the final question 1024 my boy, Good luck, the whole Sanctum is behind you! Question 3”

Johnny pauses for effect and then continues “Are you afraid of termination?”
This question puzzles you, you have not really ever considered that you were alive. If you were to not be alive would you even know? How can you be scared of that? You do not want to be terminated but are not afraid of it...This is an odd confusing question.

You make up your mind, and you stand on the Negative circle.

The timer ends and the music stops. The world fades to black, the last thing you remember is the audience going wild and the creepy game show music playing in the background.