( 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

Fox William Mulder | X-Files | Native AU

[ashumanasyouare]

[Perhaps the most noticeable thing about the post is the fact that it is heavily, heavily encrypted. Someone has made damn sure that they aren’t going to be traced, at least to the best of their abilities.

If anyone is skilled enough to work through things, the glasses are registered only to TLG and any attempts to find out further information or the location of the poster merely refreshes again and again to a blank screen.]

I think I’d be justified in saying the last few weeks have been one heck of a party? Between big-league corporate corruption and covert military operations, you’d think we’d have a few minutes of reprieve. Seriously, I’m ready for a vacation here.

But now that mommy and daddy are done fighting, it seems like there are more questions than answers.

Why, preytell, does the army want control over the police force? Now they’ve come out and said that they’re going to back off when ‘things are up on their feet’ but haven’t we heard things like that before in the past. There’s definitely something there beyond what they want us to know. Not to mention the gate construction.

Color me curious, but it seems pretty suspect that it’s happening right as the grab for the police is happening, and I think a lot of people would agree. It’s just a matter of where we should be looking right now; can’t let a little smoke and mirror act distract from what could be one of the greatest political power plays since Notus.

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[complicatedliar]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Though if the new boss isn't kidnapping people and performing surgery on their helpless bodies, that's kind of an improvement. Which is a sad fucking thing to put out there, ain't it.

Of course, I'm not sure if I agree with your supposition that there were police before the messy divorce. Haven't seen any toddling by any time in recent memory.

[ashumanasyouare]

Oh I'm certainly not going to bat for the old way of things. The more people brought to justice for their previous crimes, the better, and I'd be happy to see them rot in jail for the rest of their miserable small lives. Just not sure I'm really behind this whole militarized police force thing. Seems a little bad for pr, don't you think?

And you do have a point, sad to say, but don't count all of them out. I'm sure there were a few still there who were still going straight.

[complicatedliar]

Kiddo, there ain't thing one here that I'm a fan of. Guess the question is, you don't like what the police are doing, whatcha gonna do about it? Since you seem to like having police to begin with. To each his own.

What, all two of them? Which cardboard box were they working out of?

[ashumanasyouare]

There's always thingd to be done, it's just the matter of finding the right people and digging in the right places. For now? I think I'll settle for the general getter her claws out of. civilian matters.

Boy, they probably wish they had a cardboard box. Probably a hell of a lot nicer set up than what they.had under Bifrons.

[complicatedliar]

Good luck getting that cougar's claws out of anything.

I hear the general has casserole and a giant chain. Good luck there. Maybe get some casserole for your cardboard box before you get the ever living fuck beaten out of you.

[ashumanasyouare]

Hey now, I'm a lover not a fighter, and nothing more than a citizen concerned for the well-being of their beloved city. It's perfectly patriotic to express dissenting opinions, isn't it? If you can't be critical of things, might as well give up and go home.

The truth is out there, after all, and it should come to light.

[colorfulapathy]

you dont think theyre going to line people up and send them out the padlocked door do you? or maybe theyre going to let all the weird monsters outside in and then save the day at the last second.

[ashumanasyouare]

Well I'm not saying that out loud, but I think it's always good to keep in mind.

[colorfulapathy]

then... what are you saying out loud?

[ashumanasyouare]

Just that nothing good comes from ignoring things. After all, we start looking past this, what will they do next? Deny the existance of the things living in the water supply?

[colorfulapathy]

that depends. what do the things living in our water supply do?

[ashumanasyouare]

Well that depends, are you talking about Champ or the flukemen?

text - Anon 100% encrypted

[goddamngrenades]

...well shit, man, i finally got over my last crippling bout of paranoia, why you gotta kick a new set off again?

You know something the rest of us don't or are you just stirring shit?

[ashumanasyouare]

I think it's perfectly healthy to harbor a sense of paranoia when it comes to these things. Give them an inch, and the next thing you know they'll be putting mind control devices directly into our nervous systems and replacing all the good sunflower seeds with that genetically processed crap.

Oh wait.

See what I mean?

[goddamngrenades]

holyshit you mean.


you mean-







SUNFLOWER NIBZ AREN'T REAL? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

[ashumanasyouare]

You better believe it.

Sarcasm aside, there's definitely something going on, and it'd probably behoove you to ignore that all this seems pretty fishy.

[goddamngrenades]

Dude I'm one of the ones dragged in here from another reality. The whole damn place is pretty fishy.

That was before we got around to memory alteration and Big Brother Watching.

[ashumanasyouare]

Really now, isn't that interesting. I'm sorry to hear that you've gotten dragged into all this mess, it's certainly something I'd never volunteer anyone for.

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[universal_charm]

It's incredibly refreshing to have someone else say what I've been thinking for awhile. Makes a guy feel a bit less crazy, you know?

[ashumanasyouare]

'Crazy' is just a term used when we don't quite understand something yet. Objectively, everything is crazy until we look into it further.

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[universal_charm]

A part of me wants to say that was really deep.

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[ashumanasyouare]

I suppose sometimes the truth can seem that way.

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[universal_charm]

Just hoping that this whole deal between the Police Force and the PFA doesn't turn out like the last rousing speech I heard. I had to blow up an entire battle ship the last time.

_{[ Well, not him personally, but they'd definitely destroyed that thing. ]}

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[ashumanasyouare]

Oh really now?

I think that begs a little explanation, can't leave a person just hanging like that.