You are Dirk Dredger, fresh out of college with a Marketing degree and ready to make your impression on the world. You’re not sure if you want to start your own business or work for someone else, but you know you need to start earning an income soon (you have all those student loans to pay off now).Unfortunately, just when you are about to make a decision that will ultimately determine your future, a huge spacecraft arrives from the planet Krjiktron-1 to launch an assault against Earth. After blasting much of civilization with its death-beams, the spacecraft is successful in destroying most of life as you know it.
Homes, businesses, governments are all obliterated, leaving little remaining to be salvaged. Sure there might be a few survivors, and yes it’s safe to assume your student loans have been absolved, but your education has become virtually worthless following a collapse of the entire commercial system, your family has likely been killed, and you really have nowhere to go and nothing to do except wander through the global wreckage that has been left behind by a most unexpected attack from outer space.
Feeling hungry, you start scrounging around for food, rummaging through the rubble of a dilapidated McDonald’s restaurant. You find a handful of fries and a couple Chicken McNuggets, but food is obviously sparse. Then you proceed to look around for a comfortable place where you might be able to sit and enjoy your paltry meal.
As you’re about to bite-down into your first McNugget, however, a loud noise thunders from the sky above you, a great wind picks up, and lights begin to flash all over the immediate landscape. Looking up, you see the same giant spacecraft that had devastated Earth only hours ago.
A booming voice then descends from the massive structure, addressing you in your own language, and, incredibly, using your full name: Dirk Dredger. The voice gives you two options: 1) you can join the race of Krjiktronites on Krjiktornite-1, living forever as their slave, serving them in the most demeaning capacity known on their planet—an advertising consultant, or 2) stay on Earth, where you can work for yourself as a marketing analyst in a non-existent market and where you’ll probably starve to death within a short period of time.
Faced with this devastatingly difficult decision, do you choose to leave the Earth behind and join the Krjiktronites as an enslaved advertising consultant on their home planet?
This is what happens if you do.
This is what happens if you don’t.
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