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The Red Stamp

The Red Stamp

City Hall can only keep one service window open. Straight track: the veteran bureaucrat's desk. Two hours in line, smug attitude, and you need personal connections, but he can hear your sob story and bend the rules. Curved track: the fully automated AI kiosk. Instant approvals and rejections, zero kickbacks, but if an edge case rejects you, there's zero explanation and no human appeal. Do nothing and the clerk's desk is wrecked; pull the lever and the kiosk is smashed. What do you do?