( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 7

[contagio]

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. Pet Adoption. Maybe you have the perfect genetically engineered pet in mind. Maybe you found a stray little escapee--do you keep it or turn it in? There's a reward if you let Bifrons know where the potentially dangerous little bugger is at, after all.

3. Alterations. Feel like you need an edge in the city? Find yourself injured and looking at options? Why not consider genetic alterations or, better yet, upgrading to a better, healthier you? Be warned, some of the side effects can be a little unpleasant.

4. Network Glitches. Strange garbled messages keep trying to come through in audio and text, but no way to track where they're coming from. Do you try to make contact? Compare notes with others? Surely it's nothing to be concerned about, right?

5. Dome Glitches. What was that in the window? There, again, in the bathroom mirror! Is that another you, living another life? Or maybe you spot an ominous shadow lurking around in the corner, something like a dysthrope but...worse. You're not going crazy, are you? Others see it, too, don't they? Oh, I wouldn't touch that reflective surface if I were you, or you might end up thinking you're living in that strange other world.

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

Booker DeWitt | Bioshock Infinite

[amonglions]

5: And where did that other dog come from? Who is he?

[Well this place was certainly no Columbia - at least, before Booker showed up and did a number on it. But he was pretty sure there were no undead monsters running around Columbia because of him.

...Okay, there might have been three if you wanted to get technical in your definition of undead monster. But still. Here he was just as normal as the next person who was sent here for lab rat reasons. Nothing separated him from the crowd. Which was how he liked it. He was actually even enjoying the fact that he didn't have vigors anymore. All that hand deformation or possibly hallucinating was starting to get to him.

Among other things.

So when he was minding his own business, walking down the street looking through shop windows, he was surprised when he saw something...familiar. And yet not.

Booker stopped dead in his tracks, staring into some kind of business's lobby - really he was focusing on the more immediate reflection staring back at him.

...He could have sworn...

Suddenly looking incredibly nervous - which was odd on a guy like Booker DeWitt - he tried to get the attention of the nearest person; it didn't matter if they had been accompanying him or just passing by.]

...Did you just see that?


7: Or WILDCARD if you want idc

Aradia Megido | Homestuck

[deathsadorablehandmaid]

waking up

It's not the first time Aradia has woken up in an unfamiliar setting, wearing unfamiliar clothes, with hazy memories as to how she's gotten there. What is interesting, however, is that she can't understand why. The chains and loops of time, which she was once able to read like a book, are closed off to her. She can neither hear the voices of the dead, nor does she know what role she'll play in this new awakening. It's disorienting, to say the least.

Aradia's attention falls on the transmission, the only other sound in the room besides her own breathing. Death and destruction? It sounds like the end times.

Perfect. She can't wait to explore.

network

[Time to try out these communication-glasses. She's set up a handle and is sending messages out to the network, eager to meet new, maybe alive, friends. Messages from apocalypseArisen appear in red text, without any accompanying images or audio.]

hello!
i must say the ambiance of your planet is very nice
although everyone here seems so sad
why?

Natasha Romanoff | MCU

[pickingup]

When Natasha wakes up, she looks over what she's been left with. It's all suspicious. She leaves the glasses, but takes her clothes and slips out of the building as quietly as she can. From what she's gathered, it's not HYDRA, but that doesn't mean it's any better.

Once she's outside, she looks at what people are wearing and does her best to fit in.

She slips through crowds like she knows where she's going, like she has any idea what this place is, but the more she walks, the more strange this place seems and she finds herself keeping an eye out for anything familiar.

As she walks, she comes across stores selling clothes and food and she spends a good amount of time perusing and listening to the conversations around her. After a while, she finds the casino and its bar and continues her watching there, carefully casual.