( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 7

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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. 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

Red | Transistor { Sanctum AU }

[tothecountry]

network post; heavily encrypted

[ It takes her a few times to get out what she wants to say. The first few attempts: ]

It's like we're conditioned to never care about anyone

It's like we have zero attention span here. What goes away can be replaced. Well I don't believe

[ Are erased; unseen. She tries again. ]

It's a funny place, this city. Out with the old, in with the new. Some of us don't want the old to go away. We shouldn't have them taken from us. --R


action

[ Meet Red. Just Red, no last name needed. District 1's new darling on the music scene. With the voice of an angel, her self-written songs will soon be played throughout the city. Her first single is out now. Maybe you've heard it played somewhere? Or seen the ads featuring her face? She knows most of the elite won't read anything deep in her music, but if she can get some people to think and not be sheep, then good.

What intrigues people about Red is the mystery. She plays her cards close to the chest and let's people interpret things as they will. She hasn't taken well to the celebrity lifestyle and spends most of her time holed up in her apartment. Recent events have made her disinclined to talk, but today she heads out to do some shopping. She starts in D1, but eventually she ends up at the memorial in D3, reading some of the names of the fallen. If only there was a place for the names of those who have disappeared since the dome was finished. ]