Post by paperflowers on Dec 29, 2009 19:51:02 GMT -5
welcome to the dollhouse
The year is 2017. Technology isn't safe. Rossum is imprinting the world. Can you escape, or will you be trapped?
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The technology to imprint people has been around for years; it's been used in the Rossum Corporation's Dollhouses across the globe, taking people who have had enough of life and turning them into 'actives' or dolls, pandering to the needs of the rich and famous by imprinting them with new personalities. They don't just think they're someone else, they are someone else.
But it's not just people who have willingly signed up to it who are being imprinted now; the technology has got out of control, and Rossum Corporation has the power to imprint everybody. And they are. If you pick up the phone and it's the wrong person on the other end - imprinted. If you're standing in the street and someone has a portable device - imprinted.
No-one knows who is and who isn't themselves anymore. For those who have had their mind wiped, they might as well be dead. For those who are still free, it won't be long before they're dead too. The imprinted people have one goal, and one goal only: kill everyone without an imprint.
But there are those who escape. They call themselves Actuals, and they're congregating in Los Angeles. With their real names tattooed on their backs, proving that they're not simply a wiped person inprinted with the necessary personality to inflitrate the resistance base camp, they're on the run. They have two goals: stay alive, and find the Dollhouse.
Most of the Dollhouses across the world have used the active technology inside their dolls' minds to turn them into what have become known as 'butchers'. These people are Rossum's personal army: they go out onto the streets and imprint as many people as possible using wave devices, or they seek out small pockets of Actual resistence gangs and kill them. In the end, nobody is safe.
But not the Dollhouse in Los Angeles. Adele DeWitt severed all connections to Rossum as soon as she realised what the technology Topher Brink had created so many years ago was going to do to the world; she isolated the Dollhouse completely. Some of the dolls have their original personalities back - Sierra and Victor - with those who will be of most use are being returned to their former selves daily, while others are imprinted with skills that will help the people left inside survive. All the dolls have some self-awareness now, even if they're not yet their original personalities. Echo, with the help of Paul Ballard and Boyd Langton, is leading the resistance; she wants to find a way to reverse the imprints, and set everybody free again. It's what she's always wanted, right from the beginning. Dr Saunders, aware that she is a doll, has returned to the Dollhouse, while Topher is going mad with the knowledge that his technology has caused the terror that the world outside faces - it is left to Ivy to run the imprints now.
But nobody trusts the technology. They're all aware that at any moment, something could go wrong with it, and they'd be wiped, or butchers, just like everybody else. But they've worked hard to stop that happening; signals don't work in the Dollhouse, meaning that remote wipes cannot be used, thanks to tech supplied by Alpha, of all people. Nobody can get out - and nobody can get in.
Or so they thought. But some of the Actuals have found a way in, with the rest following not far behind. However, also returning to his "birthplace" comes the Dollhouse's most persistent attacker: Alpha. Will the Actuals find refuge in the Dollhouse, or an executioner's cage?
Together, the Actuals are returning the former actives of Los Angeles to who they were before and they will fight; there is a cure, they just have to find it. They don't know how yet, but they're not going to stay trapped forever.
The year is 2017. Technology isn't safe. Rossum is imprinting the world. Can you escape, or will you be trapped?
canons | rules | faces | advertise
The technology to imprint people has been around for years; it's been used in the Rossum Corporation's Dollhouses across the globe, taking people who have had enough of life and turning them into 'actives' or dolls, pandering to the needs of the rich and famous by imprinting them with new personalities. They don't just think they're someone else, they are someone else.
But it's not just people who have willingly signed up to it who are being imprinted now; the technology has got out of control, and Rossum Corporation has the power to imprint everybody. And they are. If you pick up the phone and it's the wrong person on the other end - imprinted. If you're standing in the street and someone has a portable device - imprinted.
No-one knows who is and who isn't themselves anymore. For those who have had their mind wiped, they might as well be dead. For those who are still free, it won't be long before they're dead too. The imprinted people have one goal, and one goal only: kill everyone without an imprint.
But there are those who escape. They call themselves Actuals, and they're congregating in Los Angeles. With their real names tattooed on their backs, proving that they're not simply a wiped person inprinted with the necessary personality to inflitrate the resistance base camp, they're on the run. They have two goals: stay alive, and find the Dollhouse.
Most of the Dollhouses across the world have used the active technology inside their dolls' minds to turn them into what have become known as 'butchers'. These people are Rossum's personal army: they go out onto the streets and imprint as many people as possible using wave devices, or they seek out small pockets of Actual resistence gangs and kill them. In the end, nobody is safe.
But not the Dollhouse in Los Angeles. Adele DeWitt severed all connections to Rossum as soon as she realised what the technology Topher Brink had created so many years ago was going to do to the world; she isolated the Dollhouse completely. Some of the dolls have their original personalities back - Sierra and Victor - with those who will be of most use are being returned to their former selves daily, while others are imprinted with skills that will help the people left inside survive. All the dolls have some self-awareness now, even if they're not yet their original personalities. Echo, with the help of Paul Ballard and Boyd Langton, is leading the resistance; she wants to find a way to reverse the imprints, and set everybody free again. It's what she's always wanted, right from the beginning. Dr Saunders, aware that she is a doll, has returned to the Dollhouse, while Topher is going mad with the knowledge that his technology has caused the terror that the world outside faces - it is left to Ivy to run the imprints now.
But nobody trusts the technology. They're all aware that at any moment, something could go wrong with it, and they'd be wiped, or butchers, just like everybody else. But they've worked hard to stop that happening; signals don't work in the Dollhouse, meaning that remote wipes cannot be used, thanks to tech supplied by Alpha, of all people. Nobody can get out - and nobody can get in.
Or so they thought. But some of the Actuals have found a way in, with the rest following not far behind. However, also returning to his "birthplace" comes the Dollhouse's most persistent attacker: Alpha. Will the Actuals find refuge in the Dollhouse, or an executioner's cage?
Together, the Actuals are returning the former actives of Los Angeles to who they were before and they will fight; there is a cure, they just have to find it. They don't know how yet, but they're not going to stay trapped forever.