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On June 11th 2016 Torn welcomed to its streets the 2 millionth person to register here as an official citizen, with this prestigious honour bestowed upon a young lady named MelodyQueen. A time for celebration indeed...or perhaps not.
More than one month on from that momentous day neither hide nor hair has been seen of this mysterious stranger, with very little known about who she was, where she came from, and where her bullet-ridden corpse is today. At the time of writing it has been confirmed that MelodyQueen resided within a shack during her brief appearance in the city, making four enemies and one solitary friend whilst active on the streets of Torn.
So where is she? Did this poor innocent soul fall prey to one of Torn's vultures already? MelodyQueen's status as the 2 millionth citizen means she has already been subjected to a disproportionate amount of violence, with hospital records noting her admittance on a total of 31 occasions. Yet this baptism of fire is nothing new, after all, newcomers to our fetid cesspit of a city often find it hard to survive here, and many new citizens vanish without trace after no time at all.
This is to be expected in a city as vicious as ours, but are we in danger of ignoring a more sinister explanation for this woman's disappearance? As it stands, Torn is currently home to a few thousand shy of 600,000 people, a small proportion of whom register as citizens and then seemingly drift around the city achieving very little of note. We know this thanks to Torn's unique population tracking service and its allocation of an ID number to each new individual who wishes to work, live and murder here. This system became necessary in the early years of Torn, as many criminals were able to easily evade justice by simply changing their name and haircut. But with the advent of ID numbers the people of Torn City are able to track and trace each other with ease, with one notable downside.
Special ID numbers have become a badge of honour for those who have achieved little else in life, and sadly those who have held such titles have often turned out to be frauds, hustlers or easy targets for attack. Shortly after coronation the city's thousandth, hundred-thousandth and millionth citizens were all revealed as desperate former citizens in disguise - imbeciles who ached for a chance at the glory and financial rewards holding such an ID number would bring. Each of these pathetic low-life's now reside in Torn's Federal Jail, along with the unidentified owner of the 696969th ID, who won their prestigious citizen number after indulging in a competition run by a secret underground sex cult.
One of the few individuals to acquire a milestone ID legitimately was the city's ever-present se7en, a dutiful human being with a distinguished military career, a long and happy marriage, and an astonishingly clean criminal record. se7en commits on average only 1.3 crimes per day, and this alone makes him an outstanding choice as our city's 10,000th citizen. But here his ilk are scarce indeed, so what does this tell us about the likely fate of our 2 millionth citizen, the elusive MelodyQueen?
Is she a chancer attempting to hawk her status to the highest bidder? Was she an unlucky wastrel who chanced upon this city only to find life's sweet release at the hands of a coke-addled maniac? At the moment we cannot know, but whether by methods fair or foul, it seems that most those who acquire these numbers of significance are, with one notable exception, unshakably cursed.
More than one month on from that momentous day neither hide nor hair has been seen of this mysterious stranger, with very little known about who she was, where she came from, and where her bullet-ridden corpse is today. At the time of writing it has been confirmed that MelodyQueen resided within a shack during her brief appearance in the city, making four enemies and one solitary friend whilst active on the streets of Torn.
So where is she? Did this poor innocent soul fall prey to one of Torn's vultures already? MelodyQueen's status as the 2 millionth citizen means she has already been subjected to a disproportionate amount of violence, with hospital records noting her admittance on a total of 31 occasions. Yet this baptism of fire is nothing new, after all, newcomers to our fetid cesspit of a city often find it hard to survive here, and many new citizens vanish without trace after no time at all.
This is to be expected in a city as vicious as ours, but are we in danger of ignoring a more sinister explanation for this woman's disappearance? As it stands, Torn is currently home to a few thousand shy of 600,000 people, a small proportion of whom register as citizens and then seemingly drift around the city achieving very little of note. We know this thanks to Torn's unique population tracking service and its allocation of an ID number to each new individual who wishes to work, live and murder here. This system became necessary in the early years of Torn, as many criminals were able to easily evade justice by simply changing their name and haircut. But with the advent of ID numbers the people of Torn City are able to track and trace each other with ease, with one notable downside.
Special ID numbers have become a badge of honour for those who have achieved little else in life, and sadly those who have held such titles have often turned out to be frauds, hustlers or easy targets for attack. Shortly after coronation the city's thousandth, hundred-thousandth and millionth citizens were all revealed as desperate former citizens in disguise - imbeciles who ached for a chance at the glory and financial rewards holding such an ID number would bring. Each of these pathetic low-life's now reside in Torn's Federal Jail, along with the unidentified owner of the 696969th ID, who won their prestigious citizen number after indulging in a competition run by a secret underground sex cult.
One of the few individuals to acquire a milestone ID legitimately was the city's ever-present se7en, a dutiful human being with a distinguished military career, a long and happy marriage, and an astonishingly clean criminal record. se7en commits on average only 1.3 crimes per day, and this alone makes him an outstanding choice as our city's 10,000th citizen. But here his ilk are scarce indeed, so what does this tell us about the likely fate of our 2 millionth citizen, the elusive MelodyQueen?
Is she a chancer attempting to hawk her status to the highest bidder? Was she an unlucky wastrel who chanced upon this city only to find life's sweet release at the hands of a coke-addled maniac? At the moment we cannot know, but whether by methods fair or foul, it seems that most those who acquire these numbers of significance are, with one notable exception, unshakably cursed.
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