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THE TEST DRIVE

Like it or not, you've been dragged from your world into the sanctum. It's a pretty nice city, all things considered--sci-fi, high-tech, glamourous.... Except, of course, for the giant dome encircling it, and the threat of glitching, contaminated zombies at your door. Looks like humanity's built itself a fortress that looks suspiciously like a cage, too.

The object of this meme is to get people familiar with the world of the Sanctum, and to try to see if their characters would fit in a sci-fi utopia such as this. Here are your options:
1. Intro: Waking Up. Make your intro post, folks. You wake up in a strange place, and get a strange transmission to go with it. There's a pair of glasses connected to some sort of communications network, but otherwise not much else in the room with you. What are you going to do?

2. Environmental Glitching. Why the hell is it so hot inside the dome? Wasn't it just the perfect temperature yesterday?

3. Genetic Altering. What it says on the tin. Want a go? Want to suffer the side effects? Want to keep someone you love from getting something done?

4. Memory Glitch. Nobody seems to remember you. Literally. Not your housemates, not your coworkers, not your friends. It's like you never existed.

5. Military Training. Everyone's got to start somewhere. You're training the green folks, maybe you're one of the newcomers yourself. Maybe you haven't even touched a gun before in your life. Either way, you'd better start now.

6. Network Glitches. Strange messages are coming through the network, embedded in posts from other users. Beyond anonymous and completely untraceable, these posters claim that Bifrons has changed more about you than you know. It's suggested that you look into past dealings with Kilo to gain better understanding of what you're up against. Do you investigate?

7. Wildcard. Choose your own adventure or create a cocktail from the presented options! The choice is YOURS.

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Sorry. There's never been a good time to bring it up.

I don't think that was a good time, either.

Protip: there is never a good time to do or say shit here. There's just time.

I'm getting that, believe me. You just, what, wanted me to be ready for people to think I'm dead? Oh, wait. They already thought that.

Ready for people to think you're a clone. Again. Sorry.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Just what I needed, to be the elephant in the room.

Nope. That still goes to Tex. And the director.

So basically there's a herd. Is anybody not an elephant?

Delta seems to be getting along with everyone pretty well.

Good for him.

[Sigh.]

I don't get it. Why isn't he an AI?

I don't know. He, Theta, Tex, and Alpha are all in human bodies. Epsilon? Got a- well. The most advanced kind of human looking robot they have.

which is a sexbot.

[One moment please.............................................

SNORT.]

With a user manual. On how all the bits and bobs function.

Is he using it?

I don't know i haven't asked. It'd be hilarious if he didn't look like, you know, a younger version of You Know Who.

Yeah. [Awkwarddddd.]

Please tell me people aren't actually sleeping with each other.

I think we're a fucked up enough little dysfunctional family without throwing sex into the mix.

Just checking. I didn't want to find out later.

Well that's not entirely right. Apparently the Alpha- church? and tex. Have a thing going. Which I don't want to even get into.

That's fucked up.

Tell me about it. I mean- they're not human so everything's sort of different with them anyway.

Guess who already knew that one!

[Still weird.]

Anything else crazy going on?

Director's working with bifrons and is, according to their PR firm, 'old man sexy'. He's got a fanclub. I think it's the accent.

I am really, really sorry I asked. Nobody's shot him yet?

He's our mole. I've got him under surveillance. The second he gets up to his old tricks? Bang.

Besides, Tex is weirdly protective of him. Most come from being a part of his head.

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