Townagotchi V1.0 Text-Only

Townagotchi
Unimaged Version 1.0
By Savestate

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72 hours ago, every settlement on the planet containing more than a hundred people was engulfed in an apparently-impervious dome of invisible force. The domes do not interfere with electromagnetism, and their edges appear infinitesimally thin- for now, global communications networks remain mostly intact. Some function of the domes regulates their internal atmosphere, as confirmed by multiple brief experiments, so suffocation shouldn’t be an issue either.

32 hours ago, small egg-shaped devices began to appear within the domes. Each ‘Townagotchi’ device is linked to one dome, the dome in which it appeared, and has great power over the dome. A Townagotchi recognizes only one user, the first to touch it, and will not respond to anyone else. It has been confirmed that a user’s death will not free up their Townagotchi.

The Townagotchi device has only three buttons and a ‘HARD RESET’ switch. This should be enough to operate a menu system, but I guess the mysterious alien threat needs to be shoddily-made, too. Each button can be mapped to only one function, and the controls cannot be remapped without that scary reset function. Never use it.
The reset doesn’t rewind things or bring back the dead, it just erases all matter within the dome (and incidentally has helped confirm that the domes are complete spheres, there’s no tunneling under).

You are one of the people trapped in a dome.
You have your dome’s Townagotchi.
Choose three Functions.

Feed
Distributes all necessary inputs for a town’s function. Includes foodstuffs, but also commercial goods, raw materials, water, and electricity. Active across all layers of distribution, filling warehouses, shops, and homes alike with necessary and desired supplies. Limited to replication of that which has previously existed on Earth. You can control the specifics of what is produced, disallowing certain goods or forms of distribution.

Heal
Mends and cures a town. Erases trash, debris, sewage, and miscellaneous filth, from landfills to the grime between bathroom tiles. Resolves environmental and ecological problems, reversing flooding or draught, culling or expanding plant and animal populations. Humans generated by this function do not possess knowledge of any existing human culture or society. Repairs and maintains city-scale infrastructure, individual structures, and individuals. Appears to reverse aging, but even continuous activation has been proven insufficient to prevent all forms of death. You can control the specifics of what the Healing acts upon.

Scorn
A tool for punishment and control. Can be used to teleport people outside of the dome, including the Townagotchi user. Mass evacuations are not recommended, given the lack of infrastructure and supernatural support. Can be used to impose varying levels of guilt, pain, or fear upon all dome inhabitants according to behavioural criteria. Can be used to delete matter within spherical volumes of almost arbitrary size. This use of the function cannot pass through the boundary of a dome, but uniquely does work outside a dome. The moon is gone, if you haven’t noticed.

Play
A somewhat mysterious function. When activated, it removes inhibitions and facilitates leisure activities for several hours. The maximum duration of a single activation is as yet unknown, but definitely exceeds 32. People under this effect appear significantly less inclined towards all varieties of productive effort, especially analysis and exploitation of the effect. Demonstrated results of the effect include, but are not limited to, complete physical transformation (persisting after the effect ends), spontaneous generation of snacks and toys, manifestation of anonymous friendly entities, and lasting acquisition of minor supernatural ability. If this function can be wielded properly, it is our best path to breaking the domes.

Connect
A bridge between domes. When activated, it opens a set of portals to the next or most recent dome to activate the same function. The portals appear along the surface of the dome, and vary wildly in size. The connection ends once either dome activates its Connect function once more. Townagotchis continue to function normally when transferred between domes; that is to say, they maintain the connection to their original dome. It remains possible for a Townagotchi user trapped in a foreign dome to portal home.

Expand
Escape from this disaster, or the abandonment of Earth? Expands the internal environment of the dome without altering average luminosity or other environmental qualities. New terrain is generated outwards; from inside, the dome appears to simply expand. You can control the specifics of the new terrain, but it will always be an even, omni-directional expansion. Rate of expansion appears effectively unbounded. One dome reported an internal area comparable to the whole of Earth before contact was lost.