( 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

[theburn]

"Well, yeah. Obviously. But you'd think that would be reason to more evenly disperse your resources. You've got a slum area where anyone could hide. All it takes is one infected person to hide out there and..."

Yeah, he didn't need to elaborate. He tapped his fingers against the back of the bench idly. "Not that I actually care, except y'know, stuck here."

[noonecomestosaveyou]

"Human cities since the beginning of recorded history have had slums, Lawrence." She doesn't argue the point about ease of infection, because he's right. What can be done about it is the question. "The only thing to stop it is absolute authority. Which, granted, is something I gather you're entirely comfortable with."

[theburn]

"Yeah, and look how quickly the Black Death spread," he says dryly, although his air of amusement never fades. He tilts his head to look at her when she said that, smile twitching at the corner of his lips. "It depends on the authority," he says, looking thoughtful. "I'm not about to hand that much power over to just anyone."

[noonecomestosaveyou]

"No. I suppose you're not." Even Charlie had hardly earned his regard, she supposes. No, it took something singular. Something like Soleil. For she had been singular, without question. the only difference was that while Lawrence probably felt something affectionate with that sentence, Stanton only felt relief.

"But if you miss the voices in your head so dearly, I gather there's an implant that puts the network directly into your brain."

[theburn]

"It's a pity you never met her," Lawrence said quietly, smirking at the thought. "I think you'd have liked her." Everyone did, in the end. She was just like that. Everyone, eventually, came around.

He gave her a questioning look at that. "Interesting. I'm kind of a one-AI type man though. I figure this one would be slightly more difficult to cute out of my head if I needed to as well."