( 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

Omega | Red vs. Blue

[mybadside]

Whatever you did to me, undo it! NOW!

[Omega wobbles uncertainly on his feet before staggering over to the table. Everything is wrong! He's cold, COLD! He's only known cold as an abstraction, nothing to concern himself with unless it interfered with equipment. His skin itches, skin! He turns the communication device over in his hands before turning it on. Have one wild eyed, disoriented and frankly a little psychotic former AI.]

Whoever did this... If I find you, I'll strangle you with your own intestines!

[motherfucking_ghost]

Wait, hold on, I definitely know that psycho voice. ...O'Malley? What the fuck--aw shit, we're screwed. Doc's not here, numbnuts, and neither is Tex. So how about you do us all a favor and strangle yourself with your new-found intestines.

[mybadside]

Ahhh hello Church, what a pleasant surprise.

[No Tex... not even Doc. He's never been alone before. No, he's going to focus on Alpha, not the sluggish quiet of this fleshy mind he's in. No Tex means no one to stop him from doing exactly what he wants. He has Alpha to himself.]

Well, I guess it's just you and me then. Why don't you come over and give me a hand, for old times sake?

[motherfucking_ghost]

I can give you a bullet instead. It might take a detour through your head. Does that help?

[mybadside]

[Oh hey, remember that laugh of his. Only a little darker without Doc's influence to mellow him out.]

You'd actually have to hit me for that to happen. Though, I suppose miracles could actually happen.

Do you believe in miracles... I don't.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Yeah, it's just as creepy as ever. Hell, it's even a little creepier!]

I'll tell you what isn't a miracle--your face. Wow, I mean, I thought I'd seen some ugly people before, but fuck, man, I almost feel bad for you.

Almost.

Come into range. I could use the target practice. [He really could. There's no shame in running away in a panic if he keeps missing and Omega gets too close, right?]

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Woooah there. Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the Dome. Take it down a few notches, won't you buddy? We already have a violent psychopath outside the dome, we don't need one in here too.

Voice

[mybadside]

Should I? I would say my anger is exactly proportional to what's been done to me.

[He pauses for a moment, something else about this conversation deserves his attention... how do humans survive, having to process things so slowly. That's it, survival. That voice.]

You sound familiar. I know you.

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. ]

Voice

[mybadside]

Adjust, I don't want to adjust. I'm not one of those who cared to understand your kind, or wished to ape your monkey behavior.

[He gives a cynical snort] Someone like you? Please, I doubt any of you would have the balls to even try.

[His own brother want's nothing to do with him, you Freelancers aren't going to be any more compassionate.]

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

Yeah, well, that's your only option here. You adjust or get yourself killed because you don't know what is and isn't poisonous. Sad way for a spec ops AI to die, innit? I'll be honest. I'd laugh. Big bad ball of rage doesn't even know how to survive.

Keep be'n a jackass? No one'll show you anything except the business end of a rifle. And without Tex? I'm willing to bet that won't go how you want it.

[alaspooryork]

York, I strongly recommend you disengage. I believe I recognize this voice as Omega.

[mybadside]

Delta? Well, now this is a surprise.

[Since last he heard Wyoming had killed York and presumably you as well.]

[alaspooryork]

[Anger isn't really a part of who Delta is, and yet there's something distinctly aggressive about his tone as he responds.]

I have far more resources in this city than you, Omega. Do not attempt to threaten us.

Re: Omega | Red vs. Blue

[babyaliendaddy]

....This officially just became the best. Fucking. Day. Ever.

[Tucker's trying not to do a little happy dance when he recognizes that voice. He really is.]

Like you know how to strangle anything. You don't even know how to work hands.

[mybadside]

Ahaha, my dear Tucker... I can learn. You should consider coming down and helping me practice.

[babyaliendaddy]

Oh man, I will gladly teach you how fists can crunch bones and shit. And when you fucking heal up after about three fucking months or so, I'll be happy to show you again if you fucking forgot.

[Guess who hasn't forgotten just about anything? This guy.]

[mybadside]

And after I saved your pathetic excuse for a life.

I suppose you're still holding a grudge over that little abomination of yours.

Re: Omega | Red vs. Blue

[just_monitoring]

[Black-box is calmly seated at a table, hands clasped on its surface as he watches with bemusement what can only be another individual going through the same things he had.]

Creative ... a little messy, but given the circumstances I think that's warranted.

[mybadside]

Who the hell are you?

[His lips draw back in a sneering, almost feral grin. BB's demeanor is an immediate cause for suspicion.]

Sometimes the best way to show you mean business is to make a mess. You can't ignore the knife at your throat.

[just_monitoring]

[Oh, that sneer is a little disconcerting, and he's finding disconcerting things a little more-so considering he's in a squishy, easily stabable meatsack. He tries not to let that show through as he answers, but his expression is defnitely a little on the concerned side.]

UNSC AI Black-Box, or BB if you prefer. And you are ... ?

[mybadside]

UNSC Project Freelancer AI, designation Omega. But my name is O'Malley.

[His expression relaxes into something more neutral, but he notes that hint of concern. Good, the other AI should be concerned.]

voice

[ghostthatlingers]

[Is this for real? She'd recognize that voice anywhere, especially after the many years they've shared headspace. And now he's here. Great.]

Big if there, Omega. You'll be searching long and hard for that.

voice

[mybadside]

Texas. [Is that a hint of eagerness in his voice?]

I'll just have to find ways to enjoy myself along the way.

[ghostthatlingers]

Don't do anything stupid, they've got surveillance set up everywhere.