Some mentally unstable researchers, he claims, believe that there's loot, power and glory to be found in the gaps. He believes, though, this is simply cope.

Two: There's rumors of several rats and snitches working with Upper Management amongst the staff here. They'll backstab anyone to get a higher rank. He heard a lot of names but two pop up a lot - Rex Hoffmann and Elizabeth Baker. Be careful around them.

Hm. Both are good to know in advance. You thank the Man-
Well, there was not a Man here.

Guess you'll have to find him later. You dig into your slop meal, struggling to swallow down it. The amount of effort it takes to eat it probably negates any nutritional value the slop had.
You finish right as everyone else was just finishing up. You make sure you put the tray somewhere where the kitchen staff can clean it. Guess it's time to go to your 'barracks'.

You ask a guard where the Level 0 barracks are and he points you down the leftmost hallway. Lucky you, that's where the bathroom with the cache is as well.
You'll probably check the cache out tomorrow when there's less people moving about. Time to head to your barracks.

It's not a long walk, maybe like a minute tops, so at least you can get some sloppy breakfast first thing in the morning.
You enter the Barracks alongside the rest of your Level 0 comrades - Oh.

Rows of shoddily built beds with paper thin mattresses and pillows line the walls. You can already tell it's going to be like laying on cardboard. Each bed has a small box by the end of the bed where you suppose you can keep your belongings. Luckily for you, they gave each box a bike lock so you can make sure no one immediately steals your stuff.

There's about enough beds in here to house 30 some people. You are immediately weirded out when you see a woman stumbling into the barracks. Oh no. It's mixed. You grit your teeth - That can't be good. That's like baby's first lesson when it comes to this kind of stuff. You don't let men and women sleep in the same room.

Either this is a comedically huge oversight or they don't expect you to live long enough for this to be an issue.
You keep your head low - You do not want to draw any attention to yourself. You look around to find your bed.

You'd guess the box marked with 'VIC-CRU' on the metal box is yours. You remove the unlocked bike lock from the box to see what's inside.
There's a bland grey magazine with 'A.R.C CORPORATE CATALOG - LEVEL 0' scribbled on the front of it. You guess this is how you're going to be spending that $2000 budget you were given.

You sit down on your bed, flipping through it to see what you can buy for your lab.

WEEKLY BUDGET: $2000
THINGS TO SELL: MYSTERY BAGGIE ($100), STAINED COUPON ($50)

Choose what you wish to purchase. The top four choices will be purchased, as long as you have enough funds to get said items, of course.