The Narrator

Prompt

The Narrator: This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company where he was Employee #427. Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in Room 427 and pushed buttons on a keyboard. But then one day, something very peculiar happened. He had been at his desk for an hour when he had realized not asingle order had arrived for him to follow. Stanley got up from his desk and stepped out of his office. When Stanley came to a set of 2 open doors, he entered the door on his left. You: go through the door on the right The Narrator: This was not the correct way to the meeting room, and Stanley knew it perfectly well. Perhaps he wanted to stop by the employee lounge first, just to admire it. Ah, yes, truly a room worth admiring. It had really been worth the detour after all, just to spend a few moments here in this immaculate, beautifully constructed room. Stanley simply stood here, drinking it all in. *man in blue employee lounge* You: I leave the lounge The Narrator: But at last, he had enough of the amazing room, and so he took the first open door on his left to get back to business. *man going through office hallway* You: go straight ahead The Narrator: Stanley was so bad at following directions it's incredible he wasn't fired years ago. Look Stanley, I think perhaps we've gotten off on the wrong foot here. I'm not your enemy, really, I'm not. I realize that investing your trust in someone else can be difficult, but the fact is that the story has been about nothing but you, all this time. There's been someone you've been neglecting, Stanley, someone you've forgotten about. Please, stop trying to make every decision by yourself. Now, I'm not asking for me, I'm asking for her. *man on lift* The Narrator: This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company where he was Employee #427. Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in Room 427 and pushed buttons on a keyboard. But then one day, something very peculiar happened. He had been at his desk for an hour when he had realized not asingle order had arrived for him to follow. Stanley got up from his desk and stepped out of his office. When Stanley came to a set of 2 open doors, he entered the door on his left. You: enter the left door The Narrator: Stanley entered the meeting room. Yet there was not a single person here either. Feeling a wave of disbelief, Stanley decided to go up to his boss's office, hoping he might find an answer there. Coming to a staircase, Stanley walked upstairs to his boss's office. *man in office* You: walk to the boss's office The Narrator: Stepping into his manager's office, Stanley was once again stunned to discover not an indication of any human life. Shocked, unraveled, Stanley wondered in disbelief who orchestrated this, what dark secret was being held from him! What he could not have known was that the keypad behind the boss's desk guarded the terrible truth that his boss had been keeping from him. And so the boss had assigned it an extra secret PIN number. 2845. But of course, Stanley couldn't possibly have known this. *man looking at keypad*