"Hello, welcome to your new role, please click this button when you wake up. This message will repeat 2 more times in ten minutes."
As Sally began to come to, she felt sick. Her head felt like it was splitting into a million pieces. She opened her eyes to a dim white light.
Where was she?
The room she was currently in had no windows. The walls were concrete and sterile looking, and the floor she was laying on was cold and hard. The room had little to nothing in it. It seemed like a prison cell, but something was wrong...
"Hello, welcome to your new role, please click this button when you wake up. This message will repeat 1 more time in ten minutes."
Sally looked behind her, and she saw a pa system above her. She also saw a small phone charger connected to some exercise machine. She tried to walk over to check it out only to find her ankle was chained to something... the chain disappeared into a hole in the ground.
"Hello, welcome to your new role, please click this button when you wake up. This doors will soon open."
Doors? Sally hadn't seen any door in the room. Suddenly, a space in the wall across her started to open up giving her a passage to exit her room from. The tight ankle bracelet went slack from its initial state. She can now move from her position. She left her room and found herself into a small hallway that led to a bright light at the end of it.
She walked out the hallway and looked around. She saw 19 other people of various ages around her coming out of similar hallways. They were separated by at least 10 feet apart from each other. In front of each them, there was a phone.
It was Sally's own phone in front of her. She quickly grabbed it and found it close to dead, but still working... except all features were removed from her smartphone but two apps on it.
"WELCOME, you have been graced with the opportunity to better human society." A generic voice boomed from some unknown location.
"We're going to be running a series of tests which you all will participate in."
"If you choose not too, then we will have to remove you from our tests."
"These tests will involve all the people you see before you, and will include using your phone."
"On it, the one app we have installed will be what you will use to interact with our tests... however the limited power of your phone was an intentional choice we've made."
"If you wish to be involved in every test you must charge your phone using the device in your room, you may return at any moment you wish to charge your phone."
"The tests will start in 30 minutes. Do with your time what you wish to."