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( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 7
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.
Hiro Hamada | Big Hero 6
[The encryption in question is heavy, but if you're good, you can still find a couple of sloppy weaknesses to exploit - as if it were thrown together in a hurry. Get through that and you'll find a device registered to an alias by the name of Lucky, which is no help at all if you're looking for the identity of the person at the other end of this communication.
But they kind of type like they're fourteen or they're moving too fast to give a shit about punctuation and things. Maybe both.]
ok but what does the thing they put in your spine actually do
like im sure these people know what theyre doing if they can drill new hardware into your CENTRAL NEROUS SYSTEM without paralyzing or killing you, if you ignore the part where they did it without asking because thatll give an ethics panel hives for 30 years
but why
no, let me amend that:
OH MY GOD!!!!! why
what is it made of? how does it work? and WHAT DOES IT DO kinda important like is this mind control or are they gonna plug you into a big machine or what, what is it for, and i would like an answer that's not bifrons approved and watered down here
a.k.a. the truth cuz the details are kinda fuzzy and i have some concerns
text. encrypted right back at you bruh
anyway. encryption is more or less like using a dog whistle only one that's calibrated weirdly and makes ridiculously handsome playboy engineers show up. a "dog" whistle, hah. ]
'i have some concerns'
i think im gonna nominate that for new city motto
rn i'm p sure it's something like 'mistakes were made' which is also an atrocious understatement
anyway, chronologically:
1. who knows
2. who knows
3. who knows
4. sometimes yes
5. not yet but u can use them to plug things into u which can be fun
6. who knows
we did have a guy researching them but
he disappeared so
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yells
um well i was actually joking about the mind control but i guess you're....
not
you're not joking about the mind control
oh god
[No more texts for like 20 or 30 seconds ok because he may be trying to NOT FREAK OUT holy shit and then -]
you can't just say 'he disappeared' all casual like 'the cat peed on the carpet' ok do you mean he disappeared or do you mean 'they executed the ethics panel and also probably that dude'
together they could destroy or save the dome by themselves
well
less assuming direct control and more of the general memory tampering, personality altering, new phobia installments, occasionally violence inducing kinds
you know
p much everything else u could do
what ethics panel
idk they told us he went back home but who knows
this whole place is a cat's worst nightmare
give it some red bull and 36 hours w/out sleep and see what happens
i say weirdly specific because
your makin it sound like you actually saw this happen or something
....
are you for real tho seriously
by then they've made a blimp, a remote controlled tiger, and they're arguing jaeger designs
not personally had it happen
i mean
that i know of
like i said
'i have some concerns' should b on the currency here
says the guy named 'lucky'
p shit pseudo for this place
dont worry it doesnt happen often
none of this is at all helpful but at least it's cool as shit
thanks i feel 100% less like peeing myself now except not really
p.s. dont knock the pseud.
you know who i am? probably not?
then its doing its job
thats all that matters
not actually sure what you'd do w a blimp in a.... domed. city.
it's like finding a joke in the middle of a horror movie
yy ur fav is gonna die but at least they had a happy moment just beforehand
unless ur watching saw
or friday 13th
or maybe chainsaw massacre
hopefully we're in smth like jaws or doom
well jaws prob isnt horror anything w rich dreyfuss cant rly b horror
[ anyway. what was he saying? ]
js ur choice there is p horrible
not like i know who u r or anything anyway this is a big city
lotta ppl
not rly looking for new friends tbh
ones i have r annoying enough
to show off ur blimp building skills duh
just looking for info so thanks for that i guess
it's freaky as hell info and now i have the heebie jeebies but still
thanks
now how do i go home
but how would it even fly there's no space who wants a grounded blimp
congrats
not trying to scare u on purpose
just giving u the info u asked for
R U D E hiro's best robot bud is a grounded blimp. sort of
well that's...
[Cue thirty second radio silence.
shiiiiiiit]
are you sure???
what are people supposed to do instead then, just get over it and kill zombies or???
HAHA shit i didn't even think of that
since nobody here can go outside the bubble
but more or less yeah smth like that
i make a bunch of gadgets and shit to pass the time
got a cat
aside from the zombies and the occasional riot and tech advancements it's p normal
well i guess riots weren't rly abnormal back home either so
have an encrypted tex from "LINGORMR"
1) Sex toys
2) So they can wipe your memories and put new ones in at will like any good crypto-fascist corporate dystopia would want to.
All the brain scrambling you could ever want, booboo.
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wait
do people actually
do they stick their
you know what im gonna ignore that first bit let's talk about the second bit because i thought we were here to fix the zombie apocalypse not get our brains rearranged in a blender
is that not what this is about
because if not i would like to get off the crypto-fascist corporate dystopia ride and demand a refund
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Come on. Think about this for a minute, booboo. Are you going to trust the motherfuckers that kidnapped you and implanted gross sex toy mind wipey shit in your spine to be straight with you about why they did those things?
Join the club. We're forming a class-action lawsuit.
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[But there's a long pause between messages as he digests a couple of sticking points that are bugging him, mainly:]
buuuuuut i also dont remember saying anything to you about being a 'kiddo'
be real did you get past my security
and if so, seriously? get out of my stuff
im on YOUR SIDE screw those guys
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1) Everyone's a kid to me.
2) Thanks for saving me the snoop time.
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ok you know what i'll give you that one i hecked up
i hecked up good
what are you tho a ninety year old geriatric or do you just have a serious complex
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Duh.
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I'm gonna take that to mean you do, in fact, have a serious complex
wait is this what you meant by replacing your memories
did they make you think you're a dragon
ok pardon me but: holy shit that's actually
kinda
hilarious
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So don't give me that shit, cause I'm just gonna fuckin laugh.
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but serious question:
did they make you dragon-sized glasses special
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as if it's not you know
really weird
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Says talking meat sack that functions by stuffing organic compounds into its food hole, digesting them inefficiently, and then pooping out the waste.