Aeon Directive: The Interview

Aeon Directive: The Interview is a single, continuous evaluation in an isolated testing sector of the AEON DIRECTIVE, the final system deciding who may enter The Building, humanity’s last refuge. You answer 50 questions with only YES or NO while watching for changes in the rooms around you. Your decisions and observations shape two scores: Compliance, which measures how well your answers align with Directive standards, and Perception, which reflects how well you notice and respond to environmental distortions.

The evaluation

After each question, anomalies may alter the testing chamber subtly or dramatically. Chairs can slide across the floor, boxes can vanish and objects can appear in new places. You may also encounter Replicants: figures that look like you, standing in the wrong place in a still, unnatural posture.

When you detect an anomaly, you must stop answering and select RECALIBRATE. Failing to do so lowers your Perception Score, while incorrect or undesirable answers lower your Compliance Score. If either score falls to a dangerously low level, the system permanently removes you from the interview, with no recovery.

Deeper into the facility

Keycards grant access to additional rooms as the test progresses. Each new area brings greater opportunity and risk, and reality becomes more unstable the deeper you go. Failure in either category ends the evaluation entirely.

The testing sector

The environment uses a retro-styled black-and-white aesthetic reminiscent of early surveillance systems and abandoned office archives. Cold lights, silent rooms and minimal furnishings make up the testing space.