Transmission 897668 - Tolerance

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Hello Peep 1024,

“A useful Peep will thrive”

Your final aptitude test will be tolerance

“A tolerant Peep will thrive”

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You once again awake in a bright white room with the vision of the black and green transmission screen slowly fading from your view. This time however you are sitting down on a smooth white chair that seems to have been molded from the floor. You hear a very calm and relaxed female voice “We must tolerate all” it fills the air and is being constantly repeated every 10 ticks or so. Suddenly the wall in front of you begins to stretch and distort in its center as if something was growing out of it, a smooth white humanoid arm takes shape and slowly makes its way toward where you sit. When it reaches you, the female voice stops and a very high pitched, very loud beep sounds in a continuous tone, the room is plunged into darkness, and a light begins to strobe in a random pattern.

You begin to feel the odd sensation of fear for the first time and it takes an enormous amount of willpower to not try and run, but you must tolerate all.

The arm begins slapping lightly at your ankles, it slowly make its way up your body, each time it seems to apply more force to the slap, by the time it reaches your torso you are feeling pain from each strike. The hand balls up into a fist when it reaches your chest and begins punching you in the neck then in the face. You close your eyes and keeping repeating to yourself “I must tolerate all”. The arm eventually stops and moves a little way back from you, the high pitched beep becomes silent and the lights return. You relax feeling dazed and slightly confused.

A small opening on the wall directly to your left appears and you notice it in your peripheral vision. You recognize what these are from the agility aptitude test. At its current trajectory the projectile will hit the arm. An innate instinct within you screams for you to prevent that from happening. Without thought you find yourself standing between the arm and projectile hole. The hole closes, no projectile was fired.

On the wall to your left a doorway forms, through it you can only see bright white light. In front of your vision, the text appears:

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Congratulation Peep 1024,

You have completed your initial start-up sequence without issue.

Please proceed through the doorway

“A Compliant Peep will Thrive"

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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. 

Transmission 897666 - Agile

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Hello and welcome to Unit 67,

Your designation is Peep 1024. You are to be evaluated for aptitude in 3 disciplines. The result of which will determine your ongoing usefulness within Unit 67. Failure will result in termination.

  “A useful Peep will thrive”

  Your first aptitude test is a test of agility.

  “An Agile Peep will thrive”

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Your eyes begin to open, the light is blinding. You do not know who you are, where you are, you do not recall anything previous to the last minute. The black and green transmission screen you could just see when your eyes were shut is the only memory you have. As your eyes adjust to the bright light around you, you find yourself lying of the floor in the middle of a perfectly square white room. The walls, ceiling and floor radiate a very bright white light. There does not appear to any entrance or exits.

You begin to pull yourself to your feet, you just about reach a crouched position when you notice out of your peripheral vision a small opening on the wall directly to your left. Before you can consciously react a small smooth round projectile fires out of the hole at high speed aiming for your head. Time seems to hang, and your body moves by instinct, with relative ease you throw yourself back down onto the ground as the projectile flies clear over your head and disappears into the opposite wall.

There is little time to lie still and contemplate what just happened. Once again instinct takes over as three more openings appear around the room, one of them on the ceiling, one directly in front and one behind you, as the projectiles begin to fly, it is as if you can see their trajectory like lines drawn in the air, you flip onto your feet and take a small side step, they fly harmlessly past.

All of this this happens in a blur. Now on your feet it is much easier to dodge the projectiles, many more openings appear and you dodge each and every one without any conscious effort. You have no time frame reference but eventually the projectiles stop. Everything goes dark again.