( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 8

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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. Bifrons Annual Gala. All the creme de la creme--and the Immune--are invited to the Bifrons annual gala, filled with food (real meat!) and drink (sunshine in a glass!) and expensive clothing you could want. Do you have anything to wear? Are you going to use this opportunity to schmooze, to sneak around to find some answers while everyone is distracted, or be an awkward wallflower? Or scoff at home about how everyone is so concerned with these silly events instead of cures?

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. Down with the Sickness. Something's going around. Is it a cold? The flu? Something worse? Are you immune to it, or just lucky? Are you sitting in a hospital waiting room, hoping to get seen, or just holed up in bed with the sniffles? Someone should bring you some soup and keep you company! Or complain with you.

5. Sewer Run. There's something (or somethings) lurking beneath the streets of Proles. You and other lucky people have been picked out, given a gun and a flashlight, and told good luck. What do you find down there? What finds you? Was that a cot and some discarded tablets in that alcove?

6. Outside the Dome. You're out and about without an armed escort, suited up against the atmosphere and dysthropes. Nothing could possibly go wrong...until it does. Was that a dysthrope moving...or a person?

7. WILDCARD. Choose your own adventure or create a cocktail from the presented options! The choice is YOURS.

Comments

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[sorryitasedyou]

[Ah yes, if only she actually knew who you were and remembered how things were left, FDR...]

What? No. Sorry, can't say I do.

[She'd remember a hottie like that, ok?]

How - how do you know me? Do you know Jane or maybe Thor?

[bigvessel]

[Maybe there are small blessing to be found here then.

Nope. Well. Okay, I know of Thor. Never really met him though. And I don't know Jane. Don't think there's a Jane here. Just. You. I know you for you.

[Maybe that's a rough way to start.]

Or maybe you just look familiar...

Hey. How about a drink? I could use a drink. I bet you could use a drink.

[sorryitasedyou]

[If she squinted, he almost seemed flustered by her. It was flattering in a way and far more confusing in another.]

Know of Thor as in Thor's here or just me?

[Aka she's got more questions than answers right now and it's frustrating.]

A drink sounds great. Just, uh, tell me where to go and I'll see what I can do about not getting lost.

[Upside to having clothes, didn't make her venture outside awkward.]

[bigvessel]

Well, he's here. I don't know him though. You-[Used to live with him. But that's not going to be very comforting right now.]

District three, right? I'll send you directions to a place nearby. [directions here.]

I'll see you in a few, Darcy.

[sorryitasedyou]

[Huh. Well that’s interesting… and very trusting. She’s tempted to ask how he knows that she’s not some sort of serial killer, but he seems to know a lot more about her in this place than she did - now isn’t the time to be picky over where the info’s coming from.]

Okay, yeah - I’ll be there as soon as I can be. [She’ll worry about the Thor part and the rest of the weirdness later. So, without waiting much longer, she packs up what little she has and follows the directions. It’s weird, this whole place is veeeery weird - almost unrealistic. Like she’s walking on a movie set. It takes her a little longer than what might be considered normal, finally making her way to his door. She hesitates for a moment, hand hovering before actually deciding to knock. Fingers and toes crossed she doesn’t end up regretting this.]