( MEMES ) TEST DRIVE >> 003.

[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.

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

Action

[goddamngrenades]

...What?

[ Dibs on. Him. How does that even work? ]

Wanna explain that?

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

Not trying to. I honestly want things to work but it's not always in my 'nature.' Besides it runs in the family, so I guess it goes both ways on that.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Yeah, I know how that can be. Maybe it'll work out alright here?

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

For what it's worth, she cares about you, a lot. I have seen how she acts when you're not there to have her back. She can't always say it, and maybe that's because of all the shit she went through, but she does feel it.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

It's...complicated. The whole thinking she's dead and letting go- and then dying. And then I'm dead but she's not and we're here. It's hard.

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

I know complicated, it's sort of the story of my life. Just don't let that stop you. She's worth it and, you are to. You tell anyone I said that and I'll kill you.

7.

[skateboardiness]

[Theta doesn't sound the most sure of himself speaking to groups of people he knows nothing about on the best of days, and waking up human is really not helping right now.

But he needs to find North, if he's around. So he is going to have to make the post. He just isn't going to use video for now. ]

Im....Im looking for someone.

Hes tall. Not the tallest but hes really tall...uh, he's blonde?

He thinks his nose is big... and that his eyebrows don't look like they're there sometimes....

[A lot of how he identifies North is really not going to work for human identification purposes, so he is literally using how North thought of himself. Because that is totally how other humans would see him too, right? Oh wait he forgot the big one.]

There might be a lady with him! They look alike. She's shorter, though.

[AND MEANER BUT IF SHES HERE AND HE DOESN'T KNOW, THEN HES NOT SAYING IT OUT LOUD.]

7.

[goddamngrenades]

...Theta?

[ Now that's not a voice he'd expected to hear. At all. Ever. Then again he'd thought the same about Delta not long ago and-

Jesus christ they gave the kid a body. They gave the KID a body and brought him here? Jesus. ]

Theta it's York- do you remember me buddy?

Re: 7.

[skateboardiness]

Yeah! I do.

[Oh. OH. There's more than a little hope creeping into his voice at that.]

Is Delta here?! Is he....uuuh...

[How do you ask if your brother is now a human, its kind of a strange question. All things considered.]

[goddamngrenades]

D's here, so's North and Carolina. Are you all squishie and human now?

Re: Action

[babyaliendaddy]

You're my Freelancer, at least until Wash gets back. Then I'll let Simmons and Grif fight to the death over who gets to have you as a Freelancer bud.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

...No one will ever hear it from me.

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

Good. She's the closest thing I have to family, don't even try to figure out how awkward that is for me.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Hey, uh, kid... You lose your parents or something? [Guess who's going to have to try and watch his language THIS GUY.] Or guardian or whatever? It's not really safe out. Like, ever, as far as it sounds like.

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Cross my bullet ridden heart.

[alaspooryork]

[Well. Now there's a voice that Delta is glad to hear, though it's more than a little surprising.]

Hello, Theta. Agent North is here. I have seen no sign of Agent South as of yet.

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

So how long have you been here?

Action

[goddamngrenades]

Um. Thanks? I guess.

[skateboardiness]

North is here? Great!

[ It even gets a smile,though he sobers up pretty quickly at York's query.]

Yeah, I am. I...I really don't like it.

[You'd think being bigger would be less scary than being a tiny AI, but no. It's worse. It's a lot worse.]

[babyaliendaddy]

...seriously, why am I not surprised that you already have a plan? I just hope it's better than the other hundred that sucked.

[goddamngrenades]

I know it's different, T, and it's scary. I'll let North know you're here and we'll come get you, okay?

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Four months and some, I think?

[hatesgoodbyes]

I think you are confusing my plans for the stupid as shit Blue Army plans you guys always used. My plans are outstanding.

Voice

[hatesgoodbyes]

Well if you've lived that long maybe this isn't completely impossible.

[skateboardiness]

Uh, North's... kind of like a guardian?

[Host works better. By a lot.

Also he is trying NOT to think about how squishy he is right now Church, you're kind of not helping.]