( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 002.

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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.

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. What are you going to do?

2. Failed Upgrade. One of your upgrades is more wrong than right. How will you cope? What exactly is different? Who will help?

3. Mission outside the dome. You've come under fire. The strange things are coming towards you. Luckily, you have your suit, your teammates, and a lot of firepower. Or are you stranded on your own, looking for someone to come to the rescue? Perhaps you're the rescuer.

4.Infected Something bit you. Now you're turning into them, and all you can hear is a high-pitched squealing in your head, like a frequency you just can't quite hear. Do you tell your loved ones, or do you wait? Do you trust your doctor?

5. Military training Everyone's got to start somewhere. You're training the green folks, maybe you're one of the newcomers yourself. Maybe you haven't even touched a gun before in your life. Either way, you'd better start now.

6. Chance encounter makin' my way downtown walking fast, faces pass--you get the point. You bump into someone! Shopping, or strolling in a park? Maybe just lunch in a cafe?

7. Glory to the Network! Network post. Text with general queries, say what you have to say to the entirety of the whole city.

7. Wildcard: Whatever you want. Mix and match, switch and swatch, make something else up entirely!

Comments

[drainedaway]

[ It's not like he likes it here, but he doesn't hate it. He's not dead and that's kind of the upside to all this bullshit. He's not dead and he's not stuck worrying about croats and stupid bitchy big brother angels. He's free. He can do what he wants even if the nightmares sometimes get a little rough. He's got a good thing going here and so he's not gonna fuck it up. When they get missions Cas'll go on them because he knows that you can outlive being useful real damn easy. He doesn't wanna lose his place here. He's got a spot at the table and that means playing ball sometimes. Dick's nice enough to get him some goody bigs lately. Romeo thinks he's hilarious. Mike likes to pretend she doesn't like him. Things are good here.

He's moving today. Moving because Lyida thought it'd be a good idea to detox his body like that. It sucked. It still sucks. Everything hurts and he feels sick still. It's only been a few days since she started her force detox when she had control his body. She flushes his drugs and shaved his face. He's got a stubble, but it's not what he had before which was glorious. Stupid girl. She didn't know the first thing about Cas. All she understood were her own needs. He took good care of her body and she let his go through this.

There's a frown when he spots the familiar shoulders of--himself. He's ahead of him and it's kind of weird. At first he's not even sure he buys this. This could be some sorta weird Sanctum fuck up. They did shit like this all the time. His approach his slow and he honestly can't resist. He touches his shoulder and spins Castiel around to look at him. His head tilts back and his eyes go wide. ] Whoa. What makes this moment even weirder is that I'm totally sober right now.

[falteringly]

[ His confusion does not make him slow. It's less than a millisecond, and he's closing his fingers around the wrist of the hand on his shoulder, yanking the body forward as he raises his palm. He could be dead. Yet, the hesitation is just as abrupt when he gets a good look at the face staring back at him, and Castiel is caught in a whirlwind of even more questions without answers. This... copy could be dead had he the power to back it, but that is a slowly shrinking hope as the minutes tick by. ]

You... [ With those eyes wide and the cadence of his words, his first thought feels as impossible as it is real. Jimmy? No. There's something beyond that, something Castiel can almost recognize beneath the exterior, and he instantly releases him, taking a step back. ] You are me.

[ Some strange alternate version who carries himself completely different, who is hardly familiar even to Castiel, and it makes him wonder how long he's been like this. ]

What happened to you?