You prepared to leave for some higher education. It wasn't a conventional high school like most of 21XX-era education, but it remain reminiscent of those 19th Century schoolhouses. Higher emphasis placed on the natural role of mankind; strict adherence and observance to the idealism of a true republic citizen. Each student learned how to kill and defend his country. Or whatever what's left of it.

As you finish your hygiene routine, you wipe the scuzz from your own eyes and the reflection before you reveals:

>A hateful creature, distrustful of reality itself
>A snobbish loon, proud of his intellect
>A crippled vegetable

You sense a dimension of otherworldly phenomena breaking into your own decaying, fallen world