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Starvation Warning

low health due to starvation · self-termination ban

System alert that flags Milk's starvation while forbidding her from dying of it on purpose.

Story so far

Milk wakes to blinking warnings: her health levels are low due to starvation, she is not allowed to self-terminate, and if she expires due to starvation she will be saved and time will be added to her Indentureship contract. She mutters "Oh, fuck off," eats one of her Sustenance Pellets, and the warnings all vanish.

The alert quietly establishes how long she had been asleep and how thoroughly the dungeon has closed off every exit — she cannot fight, cannot leave, and cannot even starve her way out of her contract.

Role

The alert that shows the dungeon has foreclosed even suicide as an escape from indentureship.

Relationships

Milk — Wakes to it after sleeping through an unknown stretch of time.
Indentureship — Extends her contract if she dies of starvation.
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Chapter 33
  • System alert that flags Milk's starvation while forbidding her from dying of it on purpose.
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