As the sun rose over the sprawling metropolis of New Utopia, its inhabitants began to stir. The once-great experiment in human society had reached its climax, and all was not as it seemed.
Professor Pocketwatch, the brilliant and slightly unhinged mind behind the utopian project, stood at the forefront of the chaos. His wild gray hair stood on end asประก he gazed upon the teeming masses.
“It's not working, I tell you! It's not working at all!” he exclaimed, waving his arms wildly as he addressed the gathering.
The crowd, a sea of identical, smiling faces, looked on in confusion.
A faint murmur spread through the crowd as they began to realize that their carefully constructed utopia was, in fact, a never-ending cycle of beige-colored drudgery.
Next chapter: The Utopian Uprising
“We've been here for 27 years,” one of them said, her voice laced with desperation, “and it's all just... beige.”