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✖ MOD JOURNAL ([personal profile] contagio) wrote2015-01-06 01:57 pm
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( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 7

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.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-06 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh? What do you smell like?" Wrath leans on her cane, bending as much as she can to offer the puppies her other hand. All the licking and nipping just makes her laugh.
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-06 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Like one of their genetic ancestors, probably," Caine puts his hands on his hips and watches the puppies leap around Wrath. They were certainly dog-shaped, but who knew how they were engineered. For all he knows, they took a strawberry and introduced canine genes into it.

"People like me don't entirely lose traits of their genetic ancestors, that includes scent sometimes."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-06 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're part puppy?" She doesn't sound disbelieving, more like she wants to make she she's understanding correctly. She knows stuff like that happens with plants and animals, obviously. Humans not so much, but it's possible. She wouldn't put anything past Bifrons at this point.
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-07 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"More than part. I'm more dog than human, if you want the truth."

The blue one starts gnawing on Wrath's cane, and Caine is quick to bend down and pick it up. "Hey, hey there, that's not yours."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-07 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
She squints at him, still smiling. "You look pretty human to me," she remarks. Then coos at the puppy. "Yeah, you don't want to eat that. It's got a nasty metal center."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-08 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Trust me, it's just for looks," he snorts softly and puts the puppy down. It goes right back to attempting to eat the cane, so Caine sighs and picks it up again. "He'll only learn if he gets to it, but I'm sure that wouldn't be so great for you."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd be okay. I'd be more worried about his mouth." She shakes her head. "Since the nasty metal center is a sword."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-09 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
A little wrinkle forms between Caine's eyebrows and he looks down at the cane. The puppy seems to follow suit and burrows his nose into Caine's armpit. Suddenly it's not so interesting anymore.

"...A sword," Caine nods faintly. "Seems a little archaic."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Wrath shrugs. "I'm not allowed to have a gun, and I'm not in the army any more so I can't get my plasma arc blade replaced, so this is what I get. Kills people just fine when it needs to."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
...Caine is forming a picture of why this woman isn't allowed to have a gun. It's both related to her not being in the army anymore, and the flippant way she talks about killing people with her cane.

"You need to kill people often enough that you need a sword in your cane? This planet is rougher than I thought."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah. Better to be prepared. It's not paranoia when they're actually out to get you, you know." She shrugs again. "Had some riots a couple weeks ago. Several compliance teams came after me. First time I had to use the sword, and I was glad I had it."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-09 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Caine could agree with the paranoia part. He really wasn't ever unarmed if he could help it either, but it did help that he didn't need a gun or a knife to take care of business.

"What are compliance teams?" he asks, tilting his head and furrowing his brow a little. How paranoid this woman is depends on how real the threat is, but Caine isn't discounting anything for now.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Four man teams. They take you in to see the happiness officer. And they take out all your non-compliant thoughts and leave holes behind."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-09 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Non-compliant to what, though?" Caine's no stranger to holes in his memory, but he's wondering how something like that could be achieved-- and, more importantly, why.
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Company policy." She shrugs. "To what they want you to do."
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[personal profile] runtofthelegion 2015-03-09 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
The hairs stood up on the back of Caine's neck. That didn't thrill him to hear-- because it could really mean just about anything. Companies, industry, life culled to improve the lot of a handful.

"Knew there had to be something wrong with this place."
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[personal profile] pain_train 2015-03-09 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he must be Immune. She's getting better at figuring this stuff out. "If you ask the other Immune, they'd probably say a lot is wrong." Wrath shrugs, smiling like what can you do? "I don't think it's perfect any more, but it's home. Is full of good people who do their best."
Edited 2015-03-09 14:03 (UTC)