Chapter #1Hell's beginning. by: Skewer   Ugh... You hate mornings. Eyes stinging, you go through your morning ritual: making coffee, having shower, getting dressed. However, this won't be an ordinary day.
You work at the city council, and have been getting damned tired of going to work recently; a bunch of radical feminists have been picketing, with the occasional lapse into violence for the past week. Apparently, they're disgruntled that the council didn't impose a new law requiring all businesses of 20 employees or over to have an equal number of females to males.
Luckily no one knows that you were one of the main opponents of that proposed legislation. You're far from a sexist but, by your logic, if businesses are forced to employ an equal number of each sex then more likely than not, a skilled employee is going to be passed over due to an arbitrary an unnecessary law. If a business is discriminating on the other hand, that's of course a different story.
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SHIT! The car isn't starting. Luckily you are usually first in to work, so you shouldn't be late. Besides, it saves petrol.
After the 40 minute journey you finally arrive. Odd... the feminists are especially eager today - outside at 8:15! You wonder how you're going to get into work this time; apparently some male employees have come under assault before - no serious injuries, but definitely not very pleasant.
After assessing the situation, you just decide to leg it - after all, though you may not look physically fit at first, you're a marathon runner and martial artist; getting past should be easy.
You start running, but then it happens,
"HEY! It's him! That's the main guy who was against the new equal employment law!"
Uh oh... somehow, they found out about you. This could get very ugly - you had already flanked half of the unprepared crowd, so there was no chance of going back in the other direction, you had to try and push on. You dodged a hand lashing out to grab you.
Looking up you saw a lot of very angry faces. If they caught you, they'd probably rip you apart!
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