Sept/Oct Test Drive Meme

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Alpha Complex Test Drive Meme

Please feel free to take a Test Drive to see if the environment would suit your character! All potential players are welcome.

It may be your first day in Alpha Complex or your hundredth, either way, you are in serious trouble.

Scenario One
Your character has been accused of treason!

Whether the accusation is true or not, you are a wanted citizen!  Do you turn yourself over to IntSec (Internal Security) for questioning?  Do you make a run for it and go AWOL?  Will you fight for your right to exist or hole up somewhere safe until the chaos passes?  Do you become The Fugitive and try to prove your innocence?  Or are you guilty as hell and seeking help from friends or other parties who would be willing to assist you for a price? 

Beware of the security cameras everywhere - some of which actually work - and being spotted by citizens who might be willing to turn you in to gain points with The Computer or to prove their own loyalty.

Scenario Two
Your character has been given the mission to hunt down a traitor!

It is your job to hunt down and apprehend the traitor by any means necessary.  If you fail or refuse, you might be accused of being a traitor yourself.  It doesn't matter if the person you are hunting is innocent or had good reasons for their treason.  It doesn't matter if their crime was major or some minor form of treason, Friend Computer wants their head.  You have twenty four hours to complete your mission.

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Work Together. Turn On Each Other. Survive.

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Comments

[duelo]

He's not really expecting — or looking — for conversation when he sits down beside the girl dressed in the same ugly red jumpsuit he's wearing, her hair pulled to the side in a braid. It's just that the seating in the commissary is both very much divided by color and fit to burst; they're practically packed in like sardines.

Accusations of treason fly through this place with more consistency than literally anything else he's observed to this point, so it doesn't surprise him that there's a list of accused traitors that morning, not unlike every other morning. He severely doubts that anything ever comes of most of those accusations, though.

When he hears her speak up from his left, Derek turns his head to look at her, more than a little glad to have a legitimate distraction from the slop in front of him which is pretending to be food. He gives her a sympathetic smile. "Hey...I'm willing to be most people on that list aren't traitors. If no one has proof, you're good. I wouldn't let it worry you too much. Looking at someone the wrong way is treasonous, but hard as hell to prove. You'll be all right."

[stillplaying]

That's okay. Katniss doesn't want conversation. For all she feels alone and lost, incapable of making sense of any of the memories in her head, she doesn't want to talk it out. She doesn't want words of comfort or reassurance. She doesn't want someone to try to fix her or tell her that she isn't a traitor. Truth be told, Katniss can't say for certain what she wants. Never to have awoken in that room here? Never to be given those glitched memories to begin with? Except she thinks that those memories might be something she deserves anyway.

Talking is strange. It still feels as if she hasn't talked for a long time now. Like she had chosen to take a vow of silence or something. In her glitched memories, it makes sense. Because in those memories, she stopped talking after her sister's death. But those memories can't be right because she doesn't have burns covering her body like she should. Nothing makes sense.

When Derek turns to look at her, Katniss narrows her eyes at him in return. She hadn't meant for anyone to reply. Her words were to herself. Katniss doesn't care about any advice he might offer. It doesn't change her own opinion. That maybe she should be turned in for treason. He doesn't know her. He doesn't know what she's done. "What?"

[duelo]

His eyebrows lift in response to her expression. "...you said you weren't a traitor," he reminds her. Maybe she was talking to herself and he should've just minded his own business, but why let some potentially innocent kid beat herself up over something probably stupid that'll get overlooked in favor of something more heinous later, anyway? Obviously, he doesn't know her or anything, but to look at her, she's nothing special. She's smallish, looks malnourished to a point — or maybe she's just always that lean, he wouldn't know — and he can't really picture her doing anything all that damaging in this place. Home might be another story, because it seems like it always is, but they're not home. They're here. And here, everything is treasonous. The likelihood of her even being out here having the chance to contemplate it instead of already rotting in jail — or whatever it is they do here for that sort of thing — suggests to Derek that whatever she did probably wasn't that bad.

So he shrugs. "And I was just saying that if you're not already arrested, you're probably gonna be just fine. It's practically impossible to not be a traitor in this place. Like I said, if you look at somebody the wrong way, that's potentially treason. So, you know...don't stress it too much unless they send the guardbots after you."