Greetings, Employees, and welcome to your first day here in Playtime! We’re certain that in the days to come you’ll find your new family here every bit as loving and supportive as your own. Feel free to wander the halls! Sit in the mess for lunch! Or watch our children play and learn to their little heart’s content. Join the Innovationists, where the bounds of science are continually pushed. Or join the Counselors of Playcare, whose diligence and care for our children will help shape a brighter future, just you see. Now, every part of you has your part in that future, so should you come back tomorrow feeling unhappy for where you are, or what you have done… worry not, for your supervisor is here and happy to listen! And…
Should you come back… years later… your conscience finally getting the better of you. May you descend into the dark and the dust, finding all that awaits you are incomprehensible horrors… each hungry for your return, each eager that they might find you. Perhaps they’d smile at you from a shadow, their smiling mouths full of teeth and meat and plastic, watching and waiting patiently for their turn at a warm welcome. Or perhaps they won’t allow you such time to figure your place in the world you’d left. A world that’s theirs now.
Welcome home.
