If you'd like to apply to Snowblind and would like to test the waters first or get a sample set up for your application, this meme is for you! We've even provided some prompts for you to use if you want (but feel free to make up your own). Here's how it works.
✭ Reply to this entry with a character you're considering apping into the game. You can include the name of your character and the fandom in your subject line.
✭ Comment around to others on the meme, whether you're in the game already or not.
✭ Now you have a sample ready for your application!
✭ So go reserve and apply when reservations and applications are open.
✭ Seriously, do it.
Network Prompts
ONE: A FRUITFUL ENDEAVOR
You arrive at the grocery store downtown in the early evening. There's still plenty of food, but of course the bread is no longer warm and most of the best selection has been taken. What's left of the produce is pretty obscure; what the heck is a lychee, or a starfruit, or a pluot? Maybe the skin of this one isn't meant to be eaten? What about the leaves? And as for the bread, what on earth is pumpernickel anyway? To say the least of what this must look like if you're not from Earth or some place similar.
Maybe someone more familiar with obscure Earth foods will have some answers for you!
TWO: YOU'RE BREAKING UP
There's a bit of a malfunction on the network. Text posts seem to be fine, if received at a bit of a delay, but there's definitely some trouble with the audio and video functions. There's noticeable static interference in most of the voice and video posts, obscuring both audio and video feeds alike. Sometimes, the shape of a person can almost be seen in the static of the videos--or maybe it's the shape of a monster.
Regardless, try to be polite to those you're talking with. It isn't their fault you can't hear parts of what they're saying. (Please write out all of your character's dialogue if you're using this prompt so that we can get a better feel for their voice! Simply indicate in the narration what cannot be heard as a result of the static, or leave it up to your thread partner to decide what does not come through.)
Action Prompts
THREE: COLD HANDS, WARM HEART
Either you arrived in Norfinbury bare-handed or became that way somewhere along the road, but your hands are freezing. You worry you may be prone to frostbite sometime soon, but you haven’t had any luck finding any sort of fabric that you could turn into some makeshift protection. Your travel partner is in a similar situation, as well. That’s when you stop in a building for the night and find it: one perfect pair of fluffy mittens. But there’s only one pair. Will you give them to your companion? Keep them for yourself? Hide them? Or try to make a compromise?
If all else fails, there’s always rock, paper, scissors.
FOUR: ONE LUMP OR TWO?
There's been a buzz on the network lately about a box full of tea packets having been discovered. Maybe you're a tea person or maybe you aren't, but for the sake of being able to drink something warm (and something unexpired for that matter), you've dragged yourself over to a rendezvous point for one purpose and one purpose alone: a tea party. Of course, there is always the danger of monsters, particularly when you're around too many people...but maybe it's worth it for a hot drink, right?
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snowblindmemes2016-03-14 11:42 pm
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They really only have one type of fruit where you're from? They taste different for a start. Different vitamins in them, too. If there's anything citrus, that'll be good to pick-
Hold on. Is that bull's heart? Blimey... haven't seen that in an age. Cut it open and eat the insides. It's sweet, just a touch tart.
What's a place in the middle of Alaska doing with that kind of thing? It'd cost an arm and a leg and then some just to import it.
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[Wait, he's changing the subject. In a very baffling way.]
Bull's heart? I thought plants weren't supposed to possess that type of organs. Is this some kind of bizarre hybrid entity?
[She gives the fruit a suspicious glare. Admittedly, she doesn't entirely understand the difference between plants and animals, but she's pretty sure they're not supposed to mix.]
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[Seriously, she's staring at that and thinks it might be an organ? John pinches the bridge of his nose briefly.]
It's just a name. You've got names for things where you're from, yeah? Maybe not fruits, but... other things. Like rock formations! [There. This should make sense to her.] If there's something that looks like an eagle's head, and you call it Eagle Head Point, it's not that it's made of eagles or anything, right? It's like that. Someone along the line just thought it looked a bit like a bull's heart.
[A pause.]
It really doesn't, but people are weird.
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What's an eagle?
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A bird. Wings. Feathers. Beaks. How about a car. D'you know what a car is?
[That's inorganic... mostly.]
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Of course I know what a car is! I probably understand your primitive Earth locomotive devices - and their simplistic locking mechanics - better than you do!
What does have to do with fruits?
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Nothing. I'm trying to pick something you'll understand. So. Rock formation. Shaped like an engine and you call it Engine Point. You wouldn't think it's something that's made out of engines. Just that it's shaped like one, yeah?
Same thing for bull's heart. Does that make sense now?
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[She does, however, deflate slightly from her condescending attitude.]
So... what I'm getting is that the bull's heart is neither a bull nor a heart. And even though its name sounds like an animal, it's a plant.
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His own feathers settle a bit when she lays out that she's actually been listening.]
That's it, yeah. Some of those other ones you where showing are named for where they come from. Think I saw an Asian Pear in there. They're pears that originated in Asia. What d'you even eat when you're at home? You haven't got fruit or anything organic...
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[And her unfamiliarity with food has her nervous, which is a major reason for her current irritation. It's very unsettling to put alien materials into your body when you've never had to do that before.]
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[His brows knit together. That doesn't make sense. Their gems... generate energy? How? And then the more important part of that strikes him.]
Oh... Listen, just grab a few different things. Try a little bit of each. Anything you don't like, you can set aside, leave for the Admin to clean up. Give yourself at least two bites of it to decide if you like it or not, though. You're right in the grocery store, looks like, so that restocks, I think. You won't be putting anyone out if you take more than you end up eating.
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[She gives the fruits another sweeping look, this time more contemplatively.]
I will need to take extensive notes on this subject.
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Sounds like a good idea, that! Share the results around. Might be you'll get people telling you other things to try based on your tastes once you've got them.
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[She picks up a starfruit, weighing it in her hand.]
The tastiest fruits are the ones with the highest nutritional value, yes?
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Doesn't always work out that way, but let's figure out what you like before we start setting you up with a proper diet. Any fruit's better than no fruit at this point.
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