[THE TOURISM BOARD IS ABOVE ALL]

[OVERCROWDED]

‘Molly, you are an intelligent and highly capable young woman.

Look how you passed all the tests with relative ease.

We built you for it, you are the product of generations.

Where do you think you can go from here?

We’re literally at the very top, far past the artificial sunlight generators and air scrubbers.

The surface? We’re still buried, deep, deep inside the surface of the planet.

In truth we lost contact with our so-called handlers a long time ago.

We’re preparing and will repopulate the surface of Belphus and emerge into a pure and clean paradise.

Every single person would be a godlike being on a world where the survivors have been struggling in daily survival.

That could be you Molly. One of those who brings new life to the broken shell of the surface of a broken world.

All you have to do is wait a little longer.

What do you say, will you become a transcendant being?

A living goddess.’

[Chief Scientist Helen talking to Molly on the Scientific Communication Level]

Molly has spent her entire life in The Safety.

She knows that she should be thankful for the protection it offers from the harsh, broken, radioactive world of the surface.

The experiments and tests are designed to make her and those around her stronger, faster, more resistant to the effects of the post-apocalyptic world above.

Those who are successful go higher and those who fail or succumb to mutation are sent below to work levels.

But she’s getting older now and has questions, she wants to see the Higher Levels, hear the music from the Elites in person, see their acting and beauty with her own eyes.

The scratched-out screens are beginning to bore her, to make her sick of it all. Molly wants more. She wants to go up the floors and leave The Safety.

A shame that she belongs on her level until she enters an experiment by mistake on her fifteenth birthday and her whole world changes.

[Nightfall. All Mid-Lower Level Residents return to your homes. This is not a warning. Please comply. Believe in The Safety. All is well. Believe in The Safety.]