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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.
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And to hide his own bloody resentment, which is harder to do than he thought it might be. Still, it wouldn't be rightly fair if he was openly hostile to the Erik before the incident on the beach, now would it?
So, he supposes he can allow himself some measure of civility. For the moment.]
Hello Erik.
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[Erik's expression betrays a moment of shock. But not for the reason Charles might think.]
Do we know each other? How do you know my name?
[Says the not-yet-met Charles, still a Nazi hunter Erik.]
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[Well now...this was unexpected, an Erik who didn't even know who he was, an Erik sometime before they had even met.
This made it harder to place the burdens of his own past on this Eirk.]
Yeah, we know each other, we've met before, but not in the same order as I was expecting.
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[He doesn't like the thought of a stranger knowing more about him than he remembers telling, or will tell... yes, this could get confusing.]
And was it a passing acquaintance?
[He had recognised a certain reserve in Charles initial greeting. Hopefully it was due to lack of familiarity, rather than anything else.]
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[Knowing Erik the way he does, Charles is only all too aware of the fact that having someone aware of intimate information concerning him caused him to react defensively. So he's not going to take that route unless he has to.]
No, it's a unique relationship...friendship...kinship, whatever you prefer, but we are no simple acquaintances.
[In fact, it couldn't be more complicated.]
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A unique relationship. I suppose I can trust you then?
[And the twist to his words is perfectly obvious.]
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I certainly consider myself more trustworthy than most.
[Though he was tempted to point that question back at Erik...civility was so difficult.]
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