TEST DRIVE MEME

[mourningstarmods]

LOOK AT MY UGLY, GRAPHICS-FREE MEME.

While Reserves are Open, there's no one in the game yet, so feel free to test out your muses in the setting here! Should you choose to app, you may pick threads you've done here to count toward activity (if all characters involved are in the game).

Some prompts:

1. Fetching or Vetting. Your character is either introducing an Inmate to the ship or is going to pick them up. Or they have recently returned from this endeavor.

2. Yeah, that rumble earlier? Not a big deal. Just a flood. (You pick how it affects your character.) Let somebody know if you start feeling a little funny.

Comments

Allison Young / Terminator

[mechaeschaton]

[ Why she's sending this out, when she already got the rundown from...someone? Who knows. Maybe it's a glitch. Maybe she was deliberately ignoring them. ]

This is Allison Young. 091601431706. Fleetwood Python Century: Romeo Golf 3 Beta Zulu Union 3. If you are listening to this, if you can hear me, I am a soldier. I am not a machine. [ Lie. Maybe. ] If you are holding me prisoner here, I do not accept your terms and conditions. I have done nothing wrong. [ Lie. Probably. ]

[blacksheeps]

[The robot speaks with a South African accent.] Nothing wrong with being a machine, nè? I'm a machine. Chappie's still real. Chappie used to be p'lice, though, not a soldier.

[mechaeschaton]

I'm not a machine. [ Lie lie lie lie lie ] You're the police?

[blacksheeps]

Nee, I used to be p'lice. Not p'lice anymore. Not 'ere. [With his accent, that sounds more like 'year'.]

[mechaeschaton]

What are you here?

[blacksheeps]

I'm a Warden.

[mechaeschaton]

Why?

[blacksheeps]

Because people should have a second chance, before they go to the next place.

[mechaeschaton]

Where is the next place? Is the next place John Connor's home? Have you seen John Connor?

[blacksheeps]

No, I don't know anyones named John Connor. I know Deon and Daddy and Mommy and Amerika and the man from the van.

The next place is where you go when you die.

[mechaeschaton]

America is a place, the country of the United States of America as it existed before Judgement Day, April 21 2011. [ Tilting her head. ] Where I go when I die?

[blacksheeps]

Amerika is my friend. What is United States?

Ja, the next place is where your soul goes. Since the body is temp'rary.

[mechaeschaton]

The United States of America, more commonly known as the United States, the USA, America or The US was formed when disputes between the colonies and Great Britain erupted into the American Revolutionary War.

My body is temporary, and the soul is an incorporal and immortal essence of a living thing: Life, spirit, consciousness, nephesh, sanhunqipo, ghost in the machine. I memorized the thesaurus.

[blacksheeps]

But Amerika is my friend. He can't be a country too? Country is big, the outside world, not a peoples.

Ja, consciousness, exactly!

[mechaeschaton]

Perhaps he is named after the country. Or upon Judgement Day, the atomic weapons caused some sort of damage to the country that caused it to development consciousness.

Then you are Skynet?

[blacksheeps]

I don't t'ink so, that last thing. I didn't 'ear nothing about Judgment Day, and I'm from 2016.

[Pause.]

What is Skynet?

[mechaeschaton]

Are you from Australia? Australia still has a high population of human life. Japan has floating infant robots. I understand it's quite disturbing.

Skynet is an artificially intelligence computer network.

[blacksheeps]

No, I'm from Joburg. Soweto. South Africa.

[There is a fractionally longer pause while Chappie tries to decide if that applies to him.]

Chappie is Chappie, not a network.

[mechaeschaton]

I do not have information the effects of Judgement Day in South Africa.

Chappie is a machine?

[blacksheeps]

Ja, I'm Chappie.

[mechaeschaton]

Who is your target?

[blacksheeps]

No target. Nobody here's done anything to me.

[mechaeschaton]

I don't understand.

[blacksheeps]

I can't hurt anyone if they didn't do anything to me. That's a crimes.

[mechaeschaton]

A crime?