( 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]

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.

[babyaliendaddy]

Saved my ... listen you sonnvabitch, you took my goddamned kid and nearly got him killed!

[mybadside]

Yes, I borrowed your brat, and for a noble cause too I might add... but I wasn't the one who put the bomb on board.

Oh, you should have seen the look on his face when the ship went up in flames. Precious really.

Still, if I were you, I'd really be mad at one responsible for the bomb. I know I am.

[babyaliendaddy]

Pretty sure I'm gonna stay mad at the goddamned AI who put my kid on the damned ship in the first place. Noble cause, my ass.

[mybadside]

If you want to hold a grudge.

Just remember... if you attack me, it isn't you I'll take my vengeance out on. It'll be your friends.

I'll make them suffer and put it up on here for you to enjoy.

[babyaliendaddy]

Yeah, I kinda do.

[And now, get all of Tucker's disbelieving snort.]

With what, meatbag?

[mybadside]

[low frustrated growl]

I'll just have to get creative.

[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?

[mybadside]

You make a persuasive argument. [Don't fuck with Tucker. At least not right now.]

Still, I'm hardly going to just stand by if say, one of your friends decides to try to prove himself by killing me... now am I?

[babyaliendaddy]

Glad you think so, cockbite.

[He snorted softly.] If one of my friends is trying to kill you, and I'm gonna guess that'll be Church, you'd better fucking hope I can talk him out of it and not encourage it.

[mybadside]

Let me ask you Tucker, how do you think the fool will handle having blood on his hands?

Think he'll be able to sleep at night?

[babyaliendaddy]

I think that as long as no one pushes him to that, he won't feel the need. And I don't think you really want to see what happens when he gets pushed too far. You won't like it.

[Ugh. Laser Face.]

[mybadside]

Oh, I have a pretty good idea of what happens when our dear Church is pushed too far... [eventually, Alpha breaks.]

[babyaliendaddy]

Yeah that was before your fucking Director pushed him in too many directions. Once you break something down, guess what? You get to deal with what's leftover. And if you remember it all?

Ooooooh mother fucker. I would not walk that road.

[Pause, and a slow smile behind Tucker's helmet.]

But you go right ahead and try there, O'Malley.

[mybadside]

What was left was little more than an empty shell, one that's deluded itself into thinking it's human. Or a ghost... pathetic.

[Epsilon is another matter. Messing with crazy is dicey at best.]

[babyaliendaddy]

Says the one that sounds like a goddamned cartoon villain.

[Tucker snorted.]

[mybadside]

Not my proudest moment... but I worked with what I had.

[DuFresne's extreme pacifism made it difficult to properly express himself.]

[babyaliendaddy]

You know ... I should have expected this from the dick side of Church.

But guess what, fragment, you're still not man or AI enough to be as good as the real thing. You're not like Delta, who made his own damned way.

[mybadside]

[He growls threateningly.]

That's rich coming from you Hero, you're not even a real soldier. You're just cannon fodder for bored Freelancers.

The only thing of value you've ever done is fall in a hole and get knocked up.


And you only survived that because of me.

[babyaliendaddy]

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

[mybadside]

Five years... and I suppose you'd have me believe you've become the great hero of legend in that time?

[babyaliendaddy]

Bitch, please. I do what I gotta do, nothing more. But guess what, chips-for-nuts, I'm still gonna get farther than you, because I'm not a total douchebag.