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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.
Merrill | Dragon Age 2
[ Merrill's sitting cross-legged in a garden. Well, she thinks it's a garden. There are flowers and bushes and things! (It's not a garden; it's the memorial park in D3.) She's not sure what all the names on the walls are all about. Maybe they're gardeners who have worked here? Oh, but that's an awful lot of names. So maybe not. But the little fountains are nice to listen to, and she reaches out, plucking a flower from a flowerbed. ]
{ walking around }
[ After getting kicked out of the park by security guards for picking the flowers, Merrill wanders around, frowning faintly at the pavement under her bare feet. She lifts her eyes to see nothing above. No blue sky or sun. What a horrible place this is! Eventually she stops, expression curious as she looks in a shop window. Inside are knee high leather boots. How tall they are! How would your toes ever find the bottom? She presses her hands against the glass and stares until a salesperson comes out and tells her not to lean on the glass. Such a lot of angry people in this city! ]
Could you tell me where the alienage is?
[ The salesperson says they don't know what she's talking about and heads back inside. So Merrill turns to passing people to ask. ]
Excuse me, do you know where the alienage is?
second prompt
That is until Piper hears one asked herself. It makes her turn, the source of the voice quite close by to her. Even though someone is asking a question it sounds like a strange one )
The- what?
no subject
[ She looks apologetic even asking. ]
It's the place where your elves live together.
[ Is this city really so different that it doesn't have an alienage? Where are the elves meant to go? Oh, Creators... are elves not allowed in the city? Is she breaking a rule? ]
There are elves here, aren't there? I mean, beyond me. Obviously.
no subject
Lady you're the only elf I've met. Here.
( Maybe there was an alienage there or- a place where the elves lived. Calling it an alienage didn't quite seem right. Or nice )
You didn't come from there? Or here?
( Duh, not if she was looking for it )
no subject
[ She starts wringing her hands and babbling. ]
I came from Kirkwall, and I'm pretty sure this isn't it, not unless they've built a lot of new buildings. But I lived at the alienage there and I thought that was where I should go here too, at least to start. But I haven't seen any other elves either, which is why I thought they might be at the alienage and not out in the city. Though I suppose some would have to be. Where would they work if not out in the city? I just wish I knew whether or not I was the only one here. That would be very sad.
Oh, ir abelas, I'm talking too much again.