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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.

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1) You have just woken on a table in one of the city's Cloning Facilities.

You have just woken on a table in one of the city's Cloning Facilities. You are the Prime, or first clone of your kind and the scientists are particularly smug about how you turned out because they reconstructed your DNA based almost entirely on historical records. You are their newest and greatest creation.

You are immediately sedated, given a red jumpsuit and ID card and ushered to a huge room that is lined wall to wall with cubicles. You are given a number and are told to wait. The sedative slowly wears off and by the time you get called to a cubicle you have many questions. The citizen that processes you in is wearing Green and explains matter-of-factly that all of those memories in your mind are in fact a glitch. You were never meant to remember a past life. Your new life is here, as a Troubleshooter for The Computer. The best thing you can do is ignore the glitch and serve The Computer and Alpha Complex to the best of your abilities.

If you continue to argue, you will be escorted to a room with no windows and a single, unbreakable vidscreen. There you will watch The History of Alpha Complex, narrated by popular Talk Show Host, Teela O'Malley, as many times or as many hours as it takes for you to accept reality.

When you have been thoroughly educated, you sign a seemingly never ending stack of paperwork. The Green clearance bureaucrat then hands you a Mercantile Enterprise (ME) card and a Personal Digital Companion (PDC) and you are sent on your way. You have 24 hours to assimilate to the Complex before you must report for duty at 0800 hours at Internal Security Headquarters in the IE Sector.

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

In a bid to win sympathy and new recruits, the Frankenstein Destroyers - a secret society within Alpha who sees all bots as enemies, has uploaded a virus that is affecting all bots within the complex.

For the next twenty four hours, every bot you see will be the enemy. Your assigned Personal Digital Companion(PDC), a personal communication device, has turned on you and is intentionally misfiring your texts, phone calls and videos. The Bouncy Bubble Beverage machine in the cafeteria is shooting out bottles at passers by at high speeds. The high tech vacuum cleaner used to vacuum your clearance level's common room is attempting to suck up everything in sight. Elevators are trying to coerce people to climb out, so they can behead them. That adorable Petbot you purchased last week is trying to tear your throat out. That Guardbot from the Armed Services Sector is attempting to take out citizens, one by one. Autocars are driving themselves, right onto sidewalks and through windows...

Will you fight for your right to exist or hole up somewhere safe until the chaos passes?

Do not fear, citizen! The Computer and it's high advisors are working to restore order.

In the meantime, be safe and beware of bots and traitors!

3) 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.

4) 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.

 

Feel free to explore the Complex, but beware!  Traitors are everywhere.

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Just an FYI, we've changed the sample requirements on the application to the following:

Samples
Please provide links to two samples of prose or action spam logging with four or more comments from your character. Action spam samples must be substantial enough to convey the character's personality and/or way of thinking. These samples can be linked from other communities, memes or museboxes. You may also link these samples from the Alpha Test Drive Meme.

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Provide one link to a prose log with four or more comments from your character (see specifications above) and provide a log sample (200 word minimum) with an introspective example of how your character would act/react within Alpha Complex's game setting.

One more announcement.

The rules have been updated to allow more flexibility in applying for second and third characters.

Under Playable Characters, rule #9b has been updated to say the following:

The player must have met activity check requirements for the current activity check period for each of their current characters or wait until successfully passing their first full activity check period for their most recently applied character before applying for another.

As a reminder, the minimum activity is as follows:

Minimum activity level is one network or log starter and 10 network comments or 5 log comments in a thread begun by another player. If you do not have 10 network comments in one thread, you may substitute two separate threads as long as combined they equal 15 network comments from your character. This is required for each character, per activity check.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me here, via pm or on plurk at samame.

Player Plots

I just wanted to drop a note about player plots. You are welcome and encouraged to develop your own player plots and side plots with your characters. I'm here to answer any questions you might have about the setting/ environment but otherwise, you are free to do what you'd like. The only thing I ask is that if there is going to be a large amount of destruction - a city block or more, or npc casualties - just run it by me first. Also, please be courteous to your fellow players and make sure to check with them first for permission if their characters are directly affected.

That said, I'm also trying to make a concentrated effort to give every character a side plot to get them more involved in the complex itself - either with a secret society plot or something that might effect the whole game. So if you have an idea for anything, or a circumstance you'd like to see come into play from the Computer itself or the world, please feel free to hit me up. I am already implementing some plots that were discussed in the plotting post before the game reopened. I'm excited about what the Specials are getting up to. My goal, however is to give every character their day. Though of course if you feel your character doesn't need these side plots, you are free to choose not to do a side plot.

Hacking

Alpha is bound to draw hacking characters with a need for information. Below is a basic guide for hackers on what is accessible and non-accessible on the network. As a player, please assume that most secret society communication that isn't encrypted with the Specials tag is hackable and can be used against you by hacker types, unless you select the tag [no hacks]. If a post is hacked by a curious hacker, they will be required to indicate that they were there in some way with an ooc comment, or icon.

Skill Level: High

Internal Security Reports - Clearance BLUE and lower

Free Enterprise encrypted communications

Purge encrypted communications

Corpore Metal encrypted communications

Specials encrypted one-on-one communication (with express permission of all players)

Skill level: Medium

Anti-mutant encrypted communications

Anti-specials encrypted communications

Psion encrypted communications

Pro-tech encrypted communications

Skill level: Low

Deathleopard encrypted communications

Frankenstien Destroyers encrypted communications

Psion encrypted communications

Mystics encrypted communications

Unhackable items: Nameless encrypted communications, Illuminati encrypted communications, Alpha Complex communications/information INDIGO and above, most Specials communication.

Items readable to all: Unencrypted items

I'll add this information to the mod journal for new players reference soon. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to comment here or contact me via pm or plurk.

If you have a hacker character, feel free to indicate their skill level on this post also for other players' reference.

Thank you!