( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 8

[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. 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.

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Nat~ 8D

[neversurrender]

Steve is pushing his cart down the cereal aisle, pausing every couple of steps to pick up a box of cereal and examine it. The box in his hand resembles something like Coco Pebbles and he drops it into his cart. He starts back down the aisle when he catches a familiar flash of red hair out of his peripheries. His first instinct is to ignore it. There have been multiple times in the past when he's allowed himself to get his hopes up, only to have them dashed when he realizes who he thought he saw wasn't really there at all. He grips the cart handle tightly, willing himself to move on. And...well, he's always been a glutton for punishment.

Instead of moving on he ends up swinging his cart around and heading off in the same direction as the redhead. He's halfway down the next aisle when he sees her just standing there looking around as if nothing is wrong. As if they hadn't been kidnapped and brought here against their will. She's always had the better poker face.

His approach is a little hesitant as he realizes that she might not know who he is. She could be from a time before meeting him, or like Loki, from an alternate universe altogether. But none of that stops him from pushing his cart up next to her and giving her a small smile.

"Hey stranger."