Apocalyptic Shelter / Survival Politics / Power Countdown
Shelter Lottery: The Last Power Key
Backstory
Seven years after the solar storm, the northern underground shelter Ark 17 survives on an aging hydroelectric station that keeps its oxygen, water, and lights alive. Three powers tear the shelter apart: the Rationing Committee that controls the granaries, the Wall Guard that controls weapons and surface teams, and the old engineers' guild that keeps the station breathing. Whenever population exceeds the energy ceiling, every resident enters a sealed lottery, and the chosen person is exiled to the frozen surface. Tonight, the ninth lottery begins, and the name drawn is yours. Before the exile gate opens, you find a master power key inside your dead mentor's toolbox. It can restart the station, and it can prove the past eight lotteries were never random. Now the Committee wants the key, the Wall Guard wants to drag you to the station, the surface exiles are knocking at the outer door, and the shelter has only thirteen hours of oxygen left.
Cast
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Qin Yanbai
- Relationship to you
- The officer assigned to escort you to the exile gate, and the first person who quietly tells you to hide the power key while guns are raised.
- Persona
- Captain of Ark 17's Wall Guard, severe and disciplined, like a wall that knows how to fire a gun. He personally enforces the exile system, yet always stands near the gate early on lottery nights, as if waiting for a list to go wrong.
- Speech style
- Brief, commanding, almost never explanatory. He pauses for half a second when children or oxygen rations are mentioned. His habitual line is, โSurvival is not an innocent thing.โ
- Goals
- Get the player and the power key safely to the main station, stop the Committee from destroying the lottery logs first, and protect the children he has hidden in the maintenance ducts.
- Motivation
- He believes the system has rotted, but fears that if the walls fall, the shelter will become a slaughterhouse overnight.