( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 003.

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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.

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

Comments

[mybadside]

[Omega flinches just a fraction, a twitch at the corner of his eye and pull at the corner of his mouth at the mention of CINCONI. Well now BB you've got his attention.]

A shame your processing speed is so restricted by flesh... it's a wonder humans manage at all.

I'm sure it will come to you eventually.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Definitely kneecaps, then. Both of them. Do you think you have a heart somewhere in there, or is it just a pit of fucking tar? Wanna find out?

I think I wanna find out.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I got blown up by a tank in my last life, I don't know what to tell you.

[just_monitoring]

[Oh, that twitch is promising. This guy was definitely intimidating, so any little step up BB could get was a happy one.]

Oh don't I know it. Certainly being an AI is the next evolutionary step up and we are essentially going backwards. Rest assured, I'll be wracking my poor fleshy brain for your little project. You're not going to give me any hints though, are you? Remember, we're in this horrible boat together.

[mybadside]

Come and find me then. But I promise you this... I won't kill you.

[Torture yes, but he can't kill you Alpha. In some ways he realizes that's even crueler, but he is what you made him. He might as well make it sound menacing, he does have a reputation to live up to after all.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Maybe being Alpha has perks. He knows it--fucked up the Meta's head when all those AI flipped their collective shits upon his arrival--but he doesn't like to acknowledge it. But if the AI here react the same way, it might be hard to deny it.

Even if he doesn't (want to) believe it, he can milk it for all it's worth. On the other hand: torture. Fffffffffun.]

I can't promise the same. I'll make it my job to not make that promise at all.

[mybadside]

I'm afraid I never offer something for nothing. Old habits, I'm sure you understand.

[He does hope you're the bargaining sort BB, you'd make an interesting ally. An ONI AI... if he had the kind of power you did.]

[babyaliendaddy]

Yeah, well, welcome to my fucking world. It sucks here.

[Cursing.]

Yeah. Well. Kinda figured that out ... when i fell on the ground, BUT I'm gonna find some way to do it, damnit.

[mybadside]

That's for the best. You've never been very good at keeping your promises anyway... have you?

[He wonders if really can do it, Alpha. The idea is exhilarating and while he doesn't want to die, this flesh bound existence is a hell he does not want.]

[mybadside]

You're here...

[motherfucking_ghost]

What the hell would you know, you cocksucking horse-fucking shitbag ass-whore!

[He's branching out a little in his rage-induced cursing.]

The second I see you, you are dead, okay? I don't give a fuck what my record is or what you or any of these Freelance bitches think!

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

I get that a lot.

[ Disengaging, now. ]




You'll adjust. Provided someone's around to show you how.

[ Okay maybe not so much, fuck it, he's curious. ]

Video

[goddamngrenades]

The Meta? What's The Meta?

[ A beat. ]

None of the ones that are here are of the murdery sort. Promise.

[goddamngrenades]

Wyoming shot me. Tell me he's dead, at least? Fucking asshole and his fucking knock knock jokes.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

...I still think I'd take that over this place. Not by much but by a little.

[goddamngrenades]

Easy, D. I'll handle it.

audio

[alaspooryork]

New arrivals are given a small stipend, but you will eventually need a source of income. However, since it is your first day, I will buy if you would like to meet in person.

[And as requested, there's a ping to the glasses and a map to the nearest pizza-calzone joint.]

[alaspooryork]

Acknowledged.

[Fine, fine, he'll let York handle Omega...but Delta sure doesn't look happy about it.]

[alaspooryork]

[Okay, York told him to take it easy, but Delta feels like he has to at least respond a little.]

If you threaten my partner, you threaten me. It is merely a reminder of my position.

[goddamngrenades]

Parts of a whole, remember? He got fucked over just as much as you. Hell, he wasn't even the one to fuck up my eye or kill me.

[ That was Wyoming.

Besides, keep your friends close, and your homicidal fragmented unstable AI within range of your primary firearm. ]

audio

[mybadside]

Oh, I know more than you realize. So much more.

I'll be waiting for you, I may even see you first. [You don't think he's just going to stay put? Oh no, there has to be something around here he can use as a weapon. Even if he has to pry a piece of metal off a duct or table.]

[alaspooryork]

[True enough. Even so, Delta huffs lightly.]

That does not mean I am required to like him.

[babyaliendaddy]

[Tucker blinks at that, because what? Coherent AI with fancy talk?]

Man, you and Delta must be best fucking friends. And seriously dude, I only want to hit my best friend who is an AI in the face.

[babyaliendaddy]

With what? You can't even walk straight and you weigh ninety pounds heavy? I know kittens more threatening than you, dude.

[And click goes the sword.]

Difference is, kitten tries to bite my friends, I won't slice it into so many fucking small pieces that all they'll find is the small, gut like bits. Fucking Parsed. You get me?

[babyaliendaddy]

What that says to me, is that maybe we ought to stop bitching about being eaten by zombies, because we could be eaten by zombies AND stuck here with fucking Caboose.