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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Warden! [He sounds thrilled. Having friends is really novel, okay? Trustworthy friends who stick with you and might detach you from a wall.]

I'm really not sure...if enough people came, you might try pulling. At the very least I have this blighted itch on my nose. [He isn't really asking for that. That would be silly.] Surely there's some way to switch it off?

Hello, Anders. [ She sounds amused. Lots of amused. But also worried because what happens if his limbs grow tired, will he still be stuck? ] If we weren't strong enough to pull you off, we risk breaking your limbs in the attempt.

What do you think of being rendered unconscious instead? [ That would probably work, wouldn't it? RIght? ]

That's true, and I do need those. [A light chuckle on those last few words, followed up with a contemplative sound. If there's something he's still doing, he does need to switch it off. And if he can't sort out how to end it himself, then...]

That does seem like it might be the best way to stop whatever is causing this, at least long enough to get me back to the laboratory. Do you think they can undo it, the, er, geneticists? Or have I foolishly cursed myself?

I suspect that you would not be the first to exhibit such a strange...side-effect, and we will take you back to them and insist that they find some way of suppressing this. [ If she ends up insisting at knife-point, well. They've put Anders in a dangerous position and she doesn't trust the geneticists here much to begin with. ]

I will find something to promote sleep and then...find Hawke, perhaps, and see how we might get onto the wall in order to get you off.

I'm not that high up, really. Just...stuck. But thank you, I'd really appreciate that. [Getting him down AND getting Hawke. His two favourite people.] With any luck, the solution won't include an even more incapacitating side effect. Promise me you'll use me as a battery to something useful if I end up petrified, will you?

I promise we will not leave you to simply lie around like a human golem. [ Her tone is amused but really she'd rather not think about having to turn Anders into a battery. It sounds like it would end up rather upsetting for everyone involved. ]

About high up are you? Just your own height or higher than that?

[ She's already on her way to pick up whatever they might be able to use to get him to pass out quickly. ]

Either way you're likely higher than I am tall. Perhaps I can get a ladder in this 'plaaastic' they use as a crafting element here.

[He's only making the joke because it's you, Warden.]

I'm not really high up at all, just very firmly stuck to the wall. And I'm not sure if I'd trust plastic to a ladder, a lot of it seems quite brittle, doesn't it?

You said that, didn't you? [ Kallian sighs. This place is so strange that she distrusts anything that isn't the worst case scenario now. ] Alright. Should we keep talking while I find a vendor for this potion in a box?

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