BradleyTheGreat Habitica 02-06-2023

Prompt: SETTING/CONFLICT - A man is at a smart home, when the hub that controls the entire house turns off for no apparent reason, causing the man to become trapped.

'''DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to areal people, companies, or products is entirely coincidental.'''

I woke up at around 7:00 AM to a voice telling me that my breakfast was ready, as I usually do. I then quickly took a shower, put on my clothes, and went downstairs to have my favorite kind of breakfast, scrambled eggs and bacon. I then asked my smart hub to read me the news.

The smart hub made its usual beep to signal that the request was successfully sent. It then began telling me the news for today.

“Good morning,” it said. “Today is June 10, 2035. It is a beautiful day outside. Now for the news. Governor Marcus Redd has announced that-“

Just then, everything went silent. The lights went off. I went up to my smart hub to see what was going on, and it just showed an error message saying “Cannot connect to the Grapefruit SmartHouse service.” The screen then went blank.

“This isn’t good”, I said. “I wonder what happened!”

I took out my smartphone and saw the time. “It’s time for me to go to work,” I said. “I’ll get this fixed later.

I then went to the front door and tried to open it, but it wouldn’t budge. “That’s not good”, I said. “I know the front door is locked if the hub loses connection for security reasons, but of course it stops working when I need to get to work!”

I then took out my smartphone and searched grapefruit smarthouse hub unexpectedly turned off. The first result on the screen caught my eye:

Grapefruit SmartHouse The Grapefruit SmartHouse service has been shut down.

'This has just got to be a hoax', I thought as I tapped on the link. But what I saw was very surprising to me:

We regret to inform you that as of June 10, 2035, the Grapefruit SmartHouse service has been permanently shut down.

This story is unfinished.