( 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

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

None you'll be trained with until you can tie your own shoes. Seriously. We need to master the basics of movement and dexterity before you tackle things with bullets, plasma bolts, and blades.

Re: Video

[babyaliendaddy]

Nope, got sword, will stabbity-stab-stab. And swishfoosh.

[babyaliendaddy]

Dude. Seriously. That was so five years ago. Get up with the times.

Video

[goddamngrenades]

...Double check something for me. Will it actually cut anything or is it just a holographic projection of what it should be? Everyone else got their weapons replaced with toys.

[babyaliendaddy]

...Pretty much, yeah. But at least we chose to be in this one, so step in the right direction? Kinda?

[originalcopy]

Let's just say seeing you Vogue takes a bit more imagination than seeing you at a computer.

Re: Video

[babyaliendaddy]

...You have got to be fucking with me. How the hell are we supposed to fight zombies with fake weapons?

[He turns on the sword, and he tries to cut through one of the table legs.]

Voice

[originalcopy]

Thanks, but a room full of me once a lifetime is enough.

Video

[goddamngrenades]

We use the guns they give us. I expect they keep all the good shit for their own research.

[ Fingers crossed, here. Maybe they've started fucking up and not paying attention to what gets through? That'd be awesome. ]

Survey says?

[originalcopy]

Oh well... if it's by choice. [eyeroll]

Re: Video

[babyaliendaddy]

Are they SHITTY guns? Because if they are -

[and the table falls into two pieces. Tucker lifts his sword and kisses the hilt.]

I love my biometrically locked sword. Yes, I do.

Video

[goddamngrenades]

Not half bad-

[ He heard a clunk. That was a clunk. god BLESS the clunk. ]

Hide it. Hide it NOW you are in the heart of their research center they will take that shit from you if they can. Of course they also have cameras everywhere so...yeah. Hide it. I'll get you a ride out of there.

Re: Video

[babyaliendaddy]

[...where do you hide a sword that can swing down to a hilt and not have research guys steal it? You stuff it down your armor pants, that's what you do.]

Got it. Get me the FUCK out of here.

Video

[goddamngrenades]

One good thing about this place-

[ You know who's on the run? York's on the run. ]

Motherfucking Hoverbikes.

[babyaliendaddy]

Listen fucktard, we're not just fighting to fight anymore. Some seriously dick people have been trying to fucking kill us. Right now, they've been using us as fucking stalking goats. So yeah, choice is kinda fucking important.

Re: Video

[babyaliendaddy]

Dude ... you can totally pick up chicks on hoverbikes.

[And yes, that's Tucker running too.]

Video

[goddamngrenades]

You're gonna want to hang a left once you hit the hall, take the first set of stairs down, and then head right. That'll take you not out the front but to a side street.

[ Chicks? Several. Or just one dude in power armor with a sword in his pants, which is the aim here. York's never that far from the bifrons building when new people pop up, by the time Tucker's hit the alley he'll be turning down to meet him. ]

Voice

[mybadside]

Yes, yes... but it's always good to have something to look forward to.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

...Do I wanna know? I don't think I wanna know.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

If you manage to not threaten anyone with visceral murder for a week [ baby steps are important. ] I'll teach you how to throw a knife.

Voice

[mybadside]

A week you say? [Have some grade A creepy laughter. Dark and rolling with no small pinch of unhinged to it.] I keep the knife.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

[ He's never before had a sound roll through him like oil and blood, thick and violent and viscous and leaving a filmy residue after. But that laugh? That laugh is it.

Jesus. ]

Two weeks and you get to keep the knife.

Voice

[mybadside]

[He considers the deal carefully. Two weeks. Two weeks... trapped in flesh and dealing with idiots and fools. Still, imagine the potential. And he only specified visceral murder. There were many other forms of murder he could threaten, less enjoyable certainly but...]

Deal.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Deal.

[ Is this what it feels like to sell your soul? Well he's not got much of one seeing as he's already died but. Omega is not satan. Omega is part of the same person that gave him Delta, that made Theta. He's just...really violent and really angry and York knows why. He's got a right to it.








that doesn't make it any less fucking creepy, jesus balls. ]

So. We'll come get you.

Voice

[mybadside]

I will be ready to accompany you when you get here.

[He will walk out of here unaided. He doesn't care how many times he falls, he will at least walk by the time they arrive.

He has to consider that this is simply a ruse after all. A trap and that they will try to kill him as soon as they enter the room. He wonders how difficult it would be to smash the monitor, or even just tear one of the cables loose.]