( 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.

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Elrond Half-elven | Tolkien

[loveathousandyearsgone]

5.

He had experience as a soldier, and had just come from a war. From the middle of one. He was needed there, desperately so, but he saw a high need for his skills here as well. He'd failed there, somehow the Enemy seemed to have won right before he woke here. Unless the message was right and time was frozen until he was returned, somehow.

Elrond may as well have been born entirely human after all that had been done. It felt wrong, but Gilgalad's herald refused to let that stop him. He couldn't feel what earth, air, and water there was. The creatures all around were silent to him.

Teeth clenched, he slashed his sword forward, out, and down as a sharp example and called out instructions in a carrying voice.


6.

Patrolling helped a little, it got him out and about. Even if he had to wear the uncomfortable 'space suit', which had taken some adjusting. How he walked. How he fought. How he moved in general. Elrond had even taken to binding his long hair back, though only when he was in the blasted suit.

It was an easy path he was patrolling just then, and had been sent out on his own because with his skills he'd be fine. But he hadn't been raised by Feanorians for nothing, he knew better than to drop his guard, ready to put arrow to strung bow or reach for sword if they got too close. A temporary measure, but still better than nothing.

More than what some souls had.

Movement caught his eye and he immediately drew several arrows, whirling to aim - though only firing when he was certain it was an enemy and not an ally.


7. Make up your own scenario!