You were driving along this rural road in the middle of the night, past farmer's fields, when suddenly your car sputtered and died. After trying vainly to start it, you reach for your cell phone - but it's dead, too.
That's when you see a bright light shining down on you. But you don't hear the sound of a helicopter - just a strange hum and your car lurching as it rises into the air...!
You're dimly aware of being stripped while surrounded by other people standing in line and being put on a conveyor belt. Warm jets of water bathe you, following by scrubbing by creatures in white suits, then rinsed and dried. Next are several injections - although in one case, it feels like they're pumping big something into your right arm while a golden beam shines down on your face as you black out. When you awake, you're dressed and sliding into a room where a creature in a jumpsuit asks you a series of questions. And while you can understand the questions, you just have no idea what language they're in, it's no language you've heard before.
Finally, you slide out at the end then very docilely allow yourself to lie down in a padded box. One of the attendants hands you, of all things, a Monopoly playing piece in your favorite color. As you look up, the lights flicker...
...Instead of the warm overhead lights, you see a gray metal ceiling high overhead, your statis box having slid out of the rack and is now laying in the aisle. A crack in the metal wall near you is letting in sunlight, and you can see grass and trees beyond, but there's something odd about the trees. Weariness overtakes you, and you fall asleep.
Congratulations, you now know that there is intelligent life out there in the galaxy. Sadly, it's kidnapped you and you're now in the belly of a crashed interstellar freighter on a desolate but fortunately inhabitable planet. You are one of the first to awaken out of the stasis boxes, and by the look of things, you've been here for a while.
The weirdest thing, however, is someone left a Monopoly game in your statis box.
I'm looking for at least four players. Interested?
That's when you see a bright light shining down on you. But you don't hear the sound of a helicopter - just a strange hum and your car lurching as it rises into the air...!
You're dimly aware of being stripped while surrounded by other people standing in line and being put on a conveyor belt. Warm jets of water bathe you, following by scrubbing by creatures in white suits, then rinsed and dried. Next are several injections - although in one case, it feels like they're pumping big something into your right arm while a golden beam shines down on your face as you black out. When you awake, you're dressed and sliding into a room where a creature in a jumpsuit asks you a series of questions. And while you can understand the questions, you just have no idea what language they're in, it's no language you've heard before.
Finally, you slide out at the end then very docilely allow yourself to lie down in a padded box. One of the attendants hands you, of all things, a Monopoly playing piece in your favorite color. As you look up, the lights flicker...
...Instead of the warm overhead lights, you see a gray metal ceiling high overhead, your statis box having slid out of the rack and is now laying in the aisle. A crack in the metal wall near you is letting in sunlight, and you can see grass and trees beyond, but there's something odd about the trees. Weariness overtakes you, and you fall asleep.
Congratulations, you now know that there is intelligent life out there in the galaxy. Sadly, it's kidnapped you and you're now in the belly of a crashed interstellar freighter on a desolate but fortunately inhabitable planet. You are one of the first to awaken out of the stasis boxes, and by the look of things, you've been here for a while.
The weirdest thing, however, is someone left a Monopoly game in your statis box.
I'm looking for at least four players. Interested?