''From Teacher to Soldier''
As a classroom teacher, you always had a knack for noticing patterns and anomalies, especially in your students. Lately, you've been noticing strange behaviors and occurrences that don't make sense. Students forgetting entire weeks of lessons, appearing and disappearing without a trace, and the school administration doesn't seem to care or even notice. Okay, that sounds normal but this is more than the usual student forgetfullness, absenteeism, and admin not helping.
This is surreal beyond anything you've ever experienced and it's not something you can ignore.
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[[Investigate further|Investigate]]
One day, after a particularly odd occurrence where an entire class seemed to forget a major project, you decide to confront the school administration. You're met with blank stares and generic reassurances that everything is normal.
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Frustrated and confused, you start to question the reality around you. That's when they approach you.
[[Continue|Approach]]When you wake up you are in a hospital with equipment the likes of which you've never seen in real, well, Matrix, life but only in science fiction movies of the future.
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In the real world, you are trained to become a soldier in the resistance, learning how to fight. You have to train and build up a body that you have never once used in a world that you do not recognize.
You are trained on how to use technology that you have only ever dreamt of using.
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[[Continue|NextPart]]With determination, you accept the mission. You are plugged back into the Matrix, ready to use your newfound skills and knowledge to free others from the AI's control.
You were instructed that this time, Matrix AI agents have been alerted and will try to stop you from freeing anyone.
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[[Re-enter the Matrix|MissionStart]]
A group of individuals, seemingly knowing what you're going through, offer you a choice to see the world as it really is. In their hands, they hold two pills: one red, one blue.
The red pill will free you from the Matrix, which is what they call this world that we are all "living" in, showing you the real world. Real world? Are they claiming that this world that they call The Matrix is NOT the real world?!
The blue pill will keep you in the Matrix, forgetting about this encounter and continuing your normal life.
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[[Take the red pill.|RedPill]]
[[Take the blue pill.|BluePill]]You choose to take the red pill. Your vision blurs and you feel a sudden jolt. When you open your eyes, you are in a new world, a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity.
The people who offered you the pills are with you, only they look slightly different. Slimmer, futuristic like out of a sci-fi movie. They inform you that this is the REAL world and it is the year 3034 and you are now part of the resistance, fighting to free humanity from the control of an AI that took over the world. Realizing the humans were the cause of all of the world's problems, the AI decided to take over and make things right. Sadly, that included wiping out all of humanity.
Before the AI implemented its plans to wipe out all humans off the Earth, it found a way to keep humans alive and keep from depleting the planet's resources itself. You see, the AI needed power to continue to exist and it wanted to bring back balance to the world. How could it fix all of humanity's mistakes and not use so much power at the same time? Easy, use the inherent electricity inside each and every person on the planet. With more than 9 billion people, sustainable power was within reach!
As the AI launched its massive plan to repurpse humanity into energy sources it found that simply putting people to sleep and harnessing their electricity came with two problems. One, people did not generate much electricity when unconscious, and two, they did not live as long as they did when living their normal lives.
The AI found that if people were given experiences, even while asleep, they generated more energy and lived longer because their lives had purpose. That is how the Matrix was born. Created by the AI to give humans purpose through a shared virtual reality world experience that they could engage in while their bodies were caccooned in devices. The caccoon devices both connected people to the Matrix while also using the electricity they generated.
With humans out of the way and with a new green power sources, the AI began the complicated process of fixing all of humanity's errors and bringing back balance to the planet.
You start to feel dizzy and then everything goes black.
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[[Continue|Resistance]]You choose to take the blue pill.
You start feeling unwell and faint. You wake up at home, in your bed. It's the next day and your alarm goes off. You wonder if you should go to work today. How can you?
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[[Call in sick.|Sick]]
[[Go to work.|Work]]With this amazing technology you also learn to manipulate the Matrix. Yes, you can re-enter the Matrix anytime you wish, just like those who guided you here.
You discover that as a freed mind, you have abilities inside the Matrix that you could never have imagined. You are like a superhero and you can see the Matrix for what it really is maneuvering that world like never before.
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[[Continue|MissionBriefing]]Your first mission is to go back into the Matrix and save a group of people who are ready to be freed. But it won't be easy, as the AI has agents in the Matrix, ready to stop anyone who tries to disrupt their control.
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[[Accept the mission.|MissionAccept]]
[[Ask for more information.|MoreInfo]]The group you are tasked to save are people who, like you, have started to notice the anomalies in the Matrix. They are ready to be freed, but they are under close watch by the AI's agents.
Your release was relatively easy because your friends reached you before the Matrix agents had a chance to notice your awakening. They warn that this meeting and possible extractions may not be so easy and straighforward.
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[[Accept the mission.|MissionAccept]]You enter, or rather re-enter, the Matrix and begin your mission.
As you navigate through the simulated city, you can't help but see it differently now that you know the truth.
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Navigating the Matrix is a strange experience. Now that you're aware of its artificial nature, it's like walking through a dream. It's more realistic than any virtual reality game or experience you ever tried from inside the Matrix when you thought the Matrix was reality. But now that you are aware, it's not as "real" as it was before.
Now you can bend the laws of physics, manipulate your surroundings, and move with superhuman speed and agility.
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[[Agents!|AgentEncounter]]
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Before you could even find the people you are here to rescue, you notice some strangers around you are focusing on you. They seem to just have appeard out of nowhere and are moving right toward you.
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You need to pass a test first.
''When you are ready, <a href="https://quizizz.com/join?gc=97263946" target="_blank" >click this to begin your test</a>.''You call in sick only to reach one of the people who came to visit you yesterday, was that yesterday? Your memory is blurry at best and you remember these people coming to you and trying to help you make sense of the strange things happening to your classes.
They keep asking you if you're okay but you just aren't sure. Did they say that this world was not real??
Suddenly there's a knock at your door and they are there! You run for the back door and open only to find another stranger who grabs you and says in a calming voice,
"It's okay, we know this isn't easy. We're only here to help, really."
"Who are you?" you ask.
"We can explain everything but only if you take the red pill. We didn't expect you to take the blue pill," replied the stranger as the other two came around towards you.
This time, they only offer the red pill.
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[[Go ahead, take it.|RedPill]]You get ready and get in your car to go to work. Still reeling from being told that this world is not real you wonder, "could it be true? Is that why all these strange things are happening to me?"
On your way to work an SUV runs a red light as you're crossing the intersection and slams right into you! Your car rolls once, twice, three times landing upside down.
You open your eyes as you hang by your seat belt and feel around. "Nothing broken," you think to yourself. Feeling your head and arms you feel no wetness. Are you not even bleeding??
"You're okay," a reasurring voice approaches the car.
A hand reaches in and undoes your seatbelt as you slam to the car ceiling. The two people who visited you at school help you out.
"You don't know us and even though you have no reason to trust us we can explain everything. But only if you take the red pill," says one of the strangers smiling.
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[[What do you have to lose?|RedPill]]