You wake up on a cot in a 12×12 room of poured concrete. Your head hurts. The last thing you remember is signing a consent form you definitely didn't read. A monitor on the wall flickers to life: YOU ARE LIVE. The camera's red dot is already on. The viewer count is climbing.
Welcome to TRAPPED: STREAM OR DIE, Season 7.
You are a contestant on the highest-rated show on any network, fictional or otherwise. Your host is the Warden — a voice on a loudspeaker, cheerful, proud of the production, and absolutely certain that you are going to give him a great season. Your audience is the entire world, and they have opinions. The room has a cot, a curtained toilet, a sink, a vending machine that only accepts Escape Points, and a basic streaming rig. That's everything. For now.
What this game is
This is a playful survival reality show. It is not a horror game — the Warden is not trying to hurt you, and the audience is here to be entertained, not frightened. It is a game about two things working together:
- Performance. You stream to a hungry audience. Every hour you're on camera, you're putting on a show. The better the show, the bigger the crowd.
- Economy. The crowd pays you in Escape Points (EP). You spend EP in the Warden's Market on upgrades: comforts, streaming gear, room expansions, and more. The room grows. The show grows. You grow.
And there's the goal, which the Warden announces with the dramatics of an awards show:
- Buy the Exit Package — save 10,000 EP and walk out the door. Fast, lean, done.
- Or finish the season — buy every upgrade in the market, build the room into a kingdom, and win the finale when the audience votes you free.
Two roads. Both are real. The choice between them — save, or spend — is the whole game in miniature, and you'll make it a dozen times before the finale.
What you need before the first scene
Nothing but nerve. Pick a contestant (next chapter), say hello to chat, and remember the one rule that matters more than any mechanic:
The audience can forgive a bad plan. They will never forgive a boring one.
Play to the camera. Take the Warden's bait. When in doubt, make it funnier. The chat is watching — and they're already typing.
