[9] Good and Evil

[Friend or Foe]

Ashe
Kaden
Piper
Sage
Sophia

They all stood, side by side, in front of the entrance to the underground tunnel. There was a single stone door that waited to be opened, to grant the five players access. They were missing a sixth, but they had no time to wait.

Kaden stood in the middle of the four beauties. Piper and Sophia to one side, Sage and Ashe to the other. He wasn't sure how he had gotten to the 'leader' position, but somehow, Kaden found himself being the one to nod to the doorkeeper to open it.

"Everybody stay together," he said aloud, "Move as a group."

The door began to slowly open. The five all stepped in, side-by-side. Sage and Ashe were holding hands. Piper and Sophia were...not.

They were in a tiny room, but unlike the other rooms of the tiny, it was completely artificial and made of a kind of foreign metal. In front of them were five seats, all with a helmet on them. In front of that was a television screen. It clicked on immediately at the same time the door behind them closed.

"Hello, contestants," Kai Demolic said into the camera. "This is a pre-taped recording, so please don't bother wasting time trying to find me. You have one more task before you reach me and bring this story to a close. Sit down...and you will understand me."

Everyone looked around, but slow began to sit even as they discussed aloud.

Kai continued. "My real name is Gregory Rogers...a mundane, boring name I was given by parents who couldn't grasp the miracle they had brought into the world. As I realized by the time I was a teenager, my gift of overbearing intelligence had granted me something nobody else had...a limitless future. I could do anything I wanted and get away with it. Anything. At first I was like you all...concerned with the greater good. I wanted to make the world a better place. But as I grew up, I saw how the world really was...there is no good or evil. There are strong and weak...smart and dumb. No matter if I chose to be a saint or a criminal, the result is the same...money, fame."

The five people were all sitting in the chairs by now, helmets in their hands, just listening to the speech. Sometimes someone interject with a sarcastic remark.

"What I'm going to do now, is show you all what you are capable of. You are all just kids...it's easy to throw words around like good, evil, justice and truth. But it's a whole different matter when you are faced with the cruel reality of your situation. You will put your headset on...and you will be faced with what you can become. All it takes, children...is one bad day."

The helmets activated at once. The chairs locked the players in.

They were alone, battling their own demons.























(Your character will now visit themselves in the future...a future where they have become the exact thing they are trying to stop. They will find themselves the opposite of what they stand for, and must discover what it was that changed them. By discovering this, and even arguing or submitting it, you will pass the test. You get ONE roleplay...and feel free to use as much as length as you need.)