( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 6

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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. Toss in the odd memory blanks and the everpresent logo of Bifrons incorporated and it's enough to make someone paranoid.

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. You know the story of Noah? No? Now you're living it.  Sealed portions of the districts are overfilling with water, flooding streets, fields, and select city blocks. Do you climb up to get to safety, shut off the water, or find a way to break down the barrier to the next sector over? 

3. Genetic Altering. What it says on the tin. Except...it's not quite gone right, has it? Are you supposed to spit acid when you hiccup?  Are your insides acid resistant? No? Oh dear.  Warped experiments gone wrong, your augmentation has twisted around on you for horrific or hilarious results.

4. Memory Glitch. No one knows your face. You don't exist on the network. In fact...you're not all that certain you are who you think you are anyway. Haven't you always lived here?  

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. Outside the Dome You're out and about without an armed escort, suited up against the atmosphere and dysthropes.  It's supposed to be a green sector in this run down shell of what used to be a suburb, right? Nothing could possibly go wrong

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

Comments

[ohmygodshivs]

The proper tools to thoroughly clean and maintenance guns were even more rare than food, back on their world. It was little wonder that the guns they did have were all worth shit compared to well-maintained ones back before the world drowned in mushroom-zombies. Joel watched the young teen as she settled herself in front of her hoagie. The two of them had gained a good twenty pounds, right around their middles, since waking up here.

Joel's hands were full of a nice fat hoagie too, although he took the time to swallow before he spoke. "Brat. Don't talk with your mouth full," he teased her. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes crinkled even further, a subtle indication of his mirth and that he was actually teasing her and not just being a dick.

"We're all civilized now, right?" Joel gave a soft chuckle before he took another, unnecessarily large bite of his sandwich.

[gotsjokes]

"I don't get that.. like, this guy told me I shouldn't steal but then.. we were stolen .. so - uh - how can we be civilized in an uncivilized world? Besides.. fuck you." She laughed before she stifled it with another large bite of her sandwich-"Mhhhm~ Mmmm!" A small sway left and right to give him some sarcastic body language to go with her mouth.

He wouldn't take her sass anymore negatively than she would him calling her a brat, and they seemed to like pushing their boldness with one another in that department. Maybe tomorrow she'll give him the finger. Ellie snorted between bites.

[ohmygodshivs]

Joel wiped his fingers off on a napkin (what a luxury), then licked a small glob of mustard from the corner of his mouth. Before he answered her, he took another large bite and took his time chewing and swallowing. They were both far too used to chowing down their food as fast as possible whenever they had it. It was a hard habit to break, and not one he was eager to break truthfully. They were both still in the honeymoon stage of plentiful food.

"We don't got to steal to survive any more." Joel wasn't telling her not to, nor going into the moral equation of whether they should or not, it was simply a statement for her consideration. The reason he even took this job was to get some money for them to buy a house and settle in -- maybe discover together what normal could be now. "Just don't go gettin' into trouble."