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Day 1 - Strange Encounters

Golden specks glisten, suspended on uninvited light picking inside the room. Bastian turns over, covering his head but soon afterwards the clock pulls him back to reality.

Everyday is more of the same and more of the same just brings him back here, to his claustrophobic bedroom, with hopes of one day being able to buy his share of the prize.

He feeds his illegal pet rat MoonMoon, and after his allowed five minutes of shower he looks himself in the mirror, while fixing his two inches curls.

"Well, fake it until you make it!"

He flexed his pecks noticing they could have a bit more work done but they're getting there. After dressing is moss green uniform overall he grabs is side bag, pets MoonMoon and gets out the door. The Colony keeps growing on the southern side, but here in the north, where the first settlers arrived and where all the maintenance and service staff lives it's narrow paths and wrapper's scattered all over the floor, everyone now and then being vented out, covering Mars red dirt as they did back on Earth. Navigating the