Behind the Green Door

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Is it too late to say I’m not happy with the ending.

I was not sure what I expected, but Michael, in the original plan, such as it was, was going to have the adjudication and accept his fate.

However, along the way he has kind of changed his mind and doesn’t want to go.

Except…

There isn’t a compelling reason to go on now that Elsie is dead, and there is no fulfilment in continuing.

Revelation one – he is not the leader of the revolutionaries.

Revelation two – there is not going to be a revolution, never was, never will be. No one is that upset with the life they have, just that they are not being told the truth about their existence.

Well, in reality, only a handful of people know they are not being told the truth.

The thimng is, as the story develops, even if there is a loose plan, ideas become more intricate and developed making outcomes possibly different.

We know that people can go outside. I want to make more of that.

But, I need to finish the story as intended and then go back and make some changes, before the month is up.

Stay tuned.

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Word written today 2,557, making a total of 45,625 words

Behind the Green Door

…

Is it too late to say I’m not happy with the ending.

I was not sure what I expected, but Michael, in the original plan, such as it was, was going to have the adjudication and accept his fate.

However, along the way he has kind of changed his mind and doesn’t want to go.

Except…

There isn’t a compelling reason to go on now that Elsie is dead, and there is no fulfilment in continuing.

Revelation one – he is not the leader of the revolutionaries.

Revelation two – there is not going to be a revolution, never was, never will be. No one is that upset with the life they have, just that they are not being told the truth about their existence.

Well, in reality, only a handful of people know they are not being told the truth.

The thimng is, as the story develops, even if there is a loose plan, ideas become more intricate and developed making outcomes possibly different.

We know that people can go outside. I want to make more of that.

But, I need to finish the story as intended and then go back and make some changes, before the month is up.

Stay tuned.

…

Word written today 2,557, making a total of 45,625 words

Behind the Green Door

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So, for the purpose of this story, we are told that Elsie and her mother come from another city.

We are also told that Michael’s mother came from another city, and, because of that, she was required to undergo a debriefing after arrival. We also learn that when she was taken away for interrogation, the secret police believed she was possibly a spy for the other city, they were a little too enthusiastic and she died.

For this reason, Michael’s father was very bitter towards the administrators of their city. It’s possible that was the reason why he formed, or joined the underground resistance movement, though it’s never quite sure what they are resisting.

Elsie’s mother who came from the same city, was not treated the same because she married one of the administrators, and it might be inferred, or believed, as Michael’s father did, that Elsie was ‘planted’ among them to relay information on them back to the secret police.

Michael never quite believed that was the case, until one night he followed her, and made a discovery that was ‘surprising’. What also was surprising was why she married him, when she could have done a lot better for herself.

Their life together plays out until her death, an event that was never fully described to him, and was a secret project of his, to find out the truth.

An opportunity arises with Miranda – and the question is, does she know?

What he does discover about Miranda, she is quite good at telling lies.

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Word written today 1,850, making a total of 35,290 words

Behind the Green Door

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So, for the purpose of this story, we are told that Elsie and her mother come from another city.

We are also told that Michael’s mother came from another city, and, because of that, she was required to undergo a debriefing after arrival. We also learn that when she was taken away for interrogation, the secret police believed she was possibly a spy for the other city, they were a little too enthusiastic and she died.

For this reason, Michael’s father was very bitter towards the administrators of their city. It’s possible that was the reason why he formed, or joined the underground resistance movement, though it’s never quite sure what they are resisting.

Elsie’s mother who came from the same city, was not treated the same because she married one of the administrators, and it might be inferred, or believed, as Michael’s father did, that Elsie was ‘planted’ among them to relay information on them back to the secret police.

Michael never quite believed that was the case, until one night he followed her, and made a discovery that was ‘surprising’. What also was surprising was why she married him, when she could have done a lot better for herself.

Their life together plays out until her death, an event that was never fully described to him, and was a secret project of his, to find out the truth.

An opportunity arises with Miranda – and the question is, does she know?

What he does discover about Miranda, she is quite good at telling lies.

…

Word written today 1,850, making a total of 35,290 words

Behind the Green Door

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Rather than assume that the world had no time to prepare, like some madman sending nuclear bombs to an enemy country, failing to realise it was basically creating a doomsday event, my scenario gave the world time to prepare.

It is suspected, now, in reality, that it’s possible at some time in the future for the volcanos around the world could erupt, singly or together, along with the possibility of the tectonic plates moving.

People are always predicting the San Andreas fault will cause California to break into two, one part moving out into the ocean.

It’s always possible that volcanoes can or could spew out ash and smoke into the upper atmosphere blocking out the sun, and lava and sulphur across the land destroying all before it. I chose to have them all go off, even those that have been extinct for a long, long time, putting ash and smoke into the atmosphere and plunging the planet into an ice age with unbreathable air.

It fortunately gave time to build a series of underground cities all around the world, and those near to each other to be connected, because the planet moving forward needed to have the ability to continue life without inbreeding, until such time that people could go back outside.

It’s how people from other cities can come, by special arrangement, to marry.

But, of course, with it comes the frailties of humans, a belief that those coming from elsewhere are infiltrating, spying, or whatever else humans do when they don’t trust others.

What it also means is that the leaders of each city run theirs in a particular manner, the one Michael lives in, Rule 71, regulated births to replace deaths, maintaining a consistent population level because cities were designed to support only so many.

And, generally, cities are not across what other cities are doing, whether they are following rules, or whether or not they even exist.

This and many other aspects feed into the story of our city, where marital partners come from, and how each exist.

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Word written today 2,092, making a total of 33,440 words

Behind the Green Door

…

Rather than assume that the world had no time to prepare, like some madman sending nuclear bombs to an enemy country, failing to realise it was basically creating a doomsday event, my scenario gave the world time to prepare.

It is suspected, now, in reality, that it’s possible at some time in the future for the volcanos around the world could erupt, singly or together, along with the possibility of the tectonic plates moving.

People are always predicting the San Andreas fault will cause California to break into two, one part moving out into the ocean.

It’s always possible that volcanoes can or could spew out ash and smoke into the upper atmosphere blocking out the sun, and lava and sulphur across the land destroying all before it. I chose to have them all go off, even those that have been extinct for a long, long time, putting ash and smoke into the atmosphere and plunging the planet into an ice age with unbreathable air.

It fortunately gave time to build a series of underground cities all around the world, and those near to each other to be connected, because the planet moving forward needed to have the ability to continue life without inbreeding, until such time that people could go back outside.

It’s how people from other cities can come, by special arrangement, to marry.

But, of course, with it comes the frailties of humans, a belief that those coming from elsewhere are infiltrating, spying, or whatever else humans do when they don’t trust others.

What it also means is that the leaders of each city run theirs in a particular manner, the one Michael lives in, Rule 71, regulated births to replace deaths, maintaining a consistent population level because cities were designed to support only so many.

And, generally, cities are not across what other cities are doing, whether they are following rules, or whether or not they even exist.

This and many other aspects feed into the story of our city, where marital partners come from, and how each exist.

…

Word written today 2,092, making a total of 33,440 words

Behind the Green Door

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Miranda has been different since she returned from the last reset. He had invoked the subcode by using the codeword, but there was something a little odd.

Has management got around this code and made her work harder to get information out of him. They have adopted a different tack, saying they want to turn his detective methods into a course to be taught to new detectives.

The same trick to get him to discuss the same cases on a different level.

Michael had thought if she was able to think for herself she might see the futility in her approach.

And given the discussions they have had about the definition of companion, Michael has said straight up he was not looking for that sort of companion, and that one of the reasons was that she was a lot younger than him, and the age difference bothers him.

Aside from the fact that he did not want to denigrate the memory of the real Elsie by being with her, and the fact that if she had a choice she would not be that sort of a companion anyway. The fact she seems puzzled at times tells him her programming is not right, and tries to tell her she has choices like any other woman has, robot or not.

He discovers in a roundabout way she has feelings and they can be hurt, she can have teary eyes, and, of course, this leads to a perceived standoff where she just ignores him.

He thinks then perhaps she is more like a real woman because Elsie used to do the same thing to him when she was mad at him.

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Word written today 1,105, making a total of 31,348 words

Behind the Green Door

…

Miranda has been different since she returned from the last reset. He had invoked the subcode by using the codeword, but there was something a little odd.

Has management got around this code and made her work harder to get information out of him. They have adopted a different tack, saying they want to turn his detective methods into a course to be taught to new detectives.

The same trick to get him to discuss the same cases on a different level.

Michael had thought if she was able to think for herself she might see the futility in her approach.

And given the discussions they have had about the definition of companion, Michael has said straight up he was not looking for that sort of companion, and that one of the reasons was that she was a lot younger than him, and the age difference bothers him.

Aside from the fact that he did not want to denigrate the memory of the real Elsie by being with her, and the fact that if she had a choice she would not be that sort of a companion anyway. The fact she seems puzzled at times tells him her programming is not right, and tries to tell her she has choices like any other woman has, robot or not.

He discovers in a roundabout way she has feelings and they can be hurt, she can have teary eyes, and, of course, this leads to a perceived standoff where she just ignores him.

He thinks then perhaps she is more like a real woman because Elsie used to do the same thing to him when she was mad at him.

…

Word written today 1,105, making a total of 31,348 words

Behind the Green Door

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We discover just how much Michael knows about the world he lives in from the cases he has been assigned. He thinks that management wanting to know what he knows is a waste of time since in a few days he will no longer exist.

He wonders why they gave him the cases they did, if they were worried about what he might find out, considering they knew he was their best investigator.

Alternatively, he begins to realise that some of the cases he had been given were simply because he would find out what happened, and report it back, which in the beginning he did, until he realised that those people were disappearing.

That’s where he realised that those who made trouble for management were best removed. There were no jails, the punishment was removal. He later discovers that there is a specific cleaning squad attached to janitorial services.

And then, in the current circumstances, there were still perpetrators they would want to punish, but he was not going to let them. Up till now, management was still a bunch of invisible people he had glimpsed but never really seen, except for Elsie whom he never told he knew. Oh, and a man named Pemberton, who doesn’t really say who he is, but he is elderly, so by inference, Michael realises Rule 71 doesn’t apply to them.

But he knows if he holds out, management will eventually come, taking him to interrogation, and that last few days would take on a whole new meaning.

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Word written today 2,337, making a total of 30,243 words

Behind the Green Door

…

We discover just how much Michael knows about the world he lives in from the cases he has been assigned. He thinks that management wanting to know what he knows is a waste of time since in a few days he will no longer exist.

He wonders why they gave him the cases they did, if they were worried about what he might find out, considering they knew he was their best investigator.

Alternatively, he begins to realise that some of the cases he had been given were simply because he would find out what happened, and report it back, which in the beginning he did, until he realised that those people were disappearing.

That’s where he realised that those who made trouble for management were best removed. There were no jails, the punishment was removal. He later discovers that there is a specific cleaning squad attached to janitorial services.

And then, in the current circumstances, there were still perpetrators they would want to punish, but he was not going to let them. Up till now, management was still a bunch of invisible people he had glimpsed but never really seen, except for Elsie whom he never told he knew. Oh, and a man named Pemberton, who doesn’t really say who he is, but he is elderly, so by inference, Michael realises Rule 71 doesn’t apply to them.

But he knows if he holds out, management will eventually come, taking him to interrogation, and that last few days would take on a whole new meaning.

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Word written today 2,337, making a total of 30,243 words