( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 7

[contagio]

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

[venenatis]

The room, certainly. The Dome? If you truly wish to do so there are ways- but there is precious little beyond it save death. Leaving Zeus? Is impossible, unfortunately. Else we would not be here either.

[alreadybetter]

[He leans back again, his expression unsurprised]. Then I wouldn't call it freedom, or has the definition changed while I... slept.

Why is it impossible?

[venenatis]

Freedom of movement if not of agency. No one will keep you in that room but yourself.

[ Semantics, truly, but details are what she falls back on while trying to filter through what files she still has access to in order to place this face, this voice. Answers are not forthcoming save some connection to the Immune Xavier, Charles and with what she knows of his associates? It is not a comforting thought. ]

To leave a planet one needs ships. Ours were destroyed and the means of producing more- the means of returning to earth are hindered.

[alreadybetter]

[He raises an eyebrow at her nitpicking. At the mentions of interplanetary travel, his expression betrays a flicker of surprise before he manages to blank it again.]

Interesting. And yet, you were able to bring me here. I didn't realise space travel was one way only.

[venenatis]

Bifrons brought you here via Project Immunis, which doesn't concern space travel in a way that anyone other than those that run it understand. Had I answers, I would offer them.

[alreadybetter]

How kind of you.

And have none of those brought here ever tried to understand? Or is that a crime?

[venenatis]

Attempts have been made, answers have not been forthcoming for Immune or Native alike. It's a shared ignorance and all the more frustrating when we who are supposed to be able to provide answers are unable to do so.

[alreadybetter]

You seem to have a great number of factions here. Immune, Native, Bifrons, and what exactly sets you apart from the rest? Why should you have the answers?