( 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

[just_monitoring]

[BB couldn't care less about Tucker's personal problems, but that comment about punching AIs makes him regard the feed with a hurt expression.]

Now whatever did an AI do to you to deserve such awful behavior?

[babyaliendaddy]

Oh man, you do not even know. I had some mad crazy AI take over some Freelancer's brain, and they always DO! and try to kill me, all my goddamned friends, and kidnap my kid. Multiple. Times. And then the ones that are actually my friends? Keep fucking leaving me.

AIs! Who the fuck thought that was a good idea!?

[just_monitoring]

[BB harrumphs and crosses his arms.]

Sounds like you've just been hanging out with the wrong kind of AIs, either that or you did something to provoke them. I can assure you we are the best idea and are very devoted to keeping you lot out of trouble you're so capable of putting yourselves into.

[Not that he's biased or anything.]

[babyaliendaddy]

I have never fucking provoked a goddamned AI in my life! ...without reason, anyways. And they're always provoking me first.

[Blink, blink.] Wait, you're an AI?

[just_monitoring]

[BB doesn't look convinced.]

Yes, or at the very least, I was before being so rudely woken up here. Black-Box, UNSC service number BBX 8995-1, I would say at your service but I'm not keen on having your fist in my face.

[babyaliendaddy]

[Tucker blinks at that, because what? Coherent AI with fancy talk?]

Man, you and Delta must be best fucking friends. And seriously dude, I only want to hit my best friend who is an AI in the face.