Shift in the Fazcade

Day 1

I look around the giant lobby with wonder, this place is massive. How am I supposed to find anything? The message on my phone said to go to the Fazcade, where the heck is that?

"Ugh, is there a map or anything?" I groan as I look at my shoes.

I hear a mechanical whirring growing louder as if coming in my direction; I look up and see a white robot holding out a folded map toward me.

"Hi, please take this map." It tells me.

I look at it confused.

"Take a map." It repeats.

I take the map slowly and, as quickly as the robot came to my aid, it rushes off in a different direction.

Guess that was lucky. Okay, let's find this Fazcade. I open the map and follow it to an elevator up to the Fazcade. I enter it and push the little bear shaped button. I guess there's only two floors to this place, that's not terrible.

This place sure is quiet in the morning, guess they don't open for a couple more hours. The doors open and another girl close to my age stood outside the elevator with a bored expression.

"You must be the new girl, I'm Anastasia. I'll be working here with you for the next two weeks." She tells me in a disinterested tone.

"I'm Cheyenne, nice to meet you. And only two weeks? Where will you be going after that?" I ask her.

She sighs, "Does that really matter? Your uniform is in the employee area behind the prize counter, go change and I'll give you the tour."

She walks away from me after pointing out the prize counter. I follow her instructions and enter into the employee's room. There was a red shirt and pair of black and white checkered pants hanging on a locker door.

"Explains why they needed my sizes." I whisper as I check the shirt and pants. I see a bathroom off to the side and enter it to change. 

I come out in my uniform and put my old clothes as well as my purse in one of the empty lockers, I'll have to pick up a lock after work today.

I step out of the employee's room to see Anastasia leaning against the prize counter.

"You'll get a nametag...eventually." She mutters as she walks toward the game area.

"These are all the games, you don't really have to worry about them, there's a maintenance bot that fixes them if they break. At the end of the day, you just have to sweep this area and clean up any trash. There's two floors, the stairs are over there." She explains as we walk.

"There's karaoke rooms, you'll see the keys to them in the employee's office. If they get rented you'll have to clean them after the people leave. So look forward to that." She tells me as we circle back toward the prize area.

"Obvs there's the prize counter, count tickets, give prizes. There's token dispensers over there, if they break, call the repair bot." She sighs.

She walks us toward a giant dancefloor with a huge stage at the front.

"This is the only animatronic you'll usually interact with." She tells me as she pulls back the curtain slightly.

I could see him resting on his stomach, his round sunglasses still on.

"This is the DJ. DJ Music Man or DJMM if you prefer, whatever, I don't care." She tells me as she lets the curtain fall closed again.

"Does he normal sleep if the pizzaplex is closed?" I ask her.

She groans loudly, "He's supposed to! But I don't who designed these things, because he always bothers me when I'm trying to close and go home."

"When you say the only one I'll usually interact with, are there others that come in?" I ask her.

"Yeah, sometimes the other guys show up, but they won't bother you. Ignore them and they'll ignore you. That's basically everything, today is Thursday and we're closed. They'll email you your schedule. Make sure you wash your uniform, pretty sure no one's washed that yet." Anastasia tells me as she walks toward the elevator.

She pushes the button and leaves before I can ask anymore questions. I sigh and roll my eyes, guess I'll go change and head home.

I walk back to the employee's office, redress in my clothes, and fold up the uniform to bring home. I shove it into my bag and walk back into the arcade area. I look back at the curtain for the DJ and see his sunglasses looking toward me through the curtain he held open.

I smile at him, "See you tomorrow, DJ."

He nods and tucks back behind the curtain.

I chuckle and push the button to go downstairs. As I stepped into the elevator I could hear quiet beats coming from behind the curtain. Not sure if I'm excited for this new chapter in my life or just happy to be making money again.

*Writer's note: So sorry, I've been obsessing over Baldur's Gate, but this seems like a good place to start. I'll get another chapter out later today or tomorrow. First story I'm actually posting, so hope you'll enjoy it. ^^*