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: WAKEY WAKEY You're drawn out of your slumber when your tablet emits an earsplitting SCREECH. No amount of shaking it or hitting it will get it to shut up for five whole minutes, but at the very end it cuts itself off what sounds like a piercing scream. Well, that was weird. Maybe you should check in on the network - someone might have an idea of what that was. Or maybe they'll be just as lost as you are. At least you can all be confused together...
TWO: DON'T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE... It's past curfew, and you've been locked in for the night. But for some reason, you just can't manage to get to sleep. Nightmares giving you grief? General insomnia problems? Well, at least you've got the network to keep you company. Maybe you can get someone to tell you a bedtime story.
Action Prompts
THREE: INCONVENIENCE STORE Congratulations, you've managed to stumble upon the Mallard River Market! But you're not alone. Among the shelves of junk food (just as well-stocked as you would expect from any normal store) you'll find one - or more! - other people there with you. Here's hoping you're not both after the same box of Frosted Toaster Pastries, because things could get ugly fast. Don't linger too long, either; at 7PM, you'll be compelled to leave whether you want to or not and will only have about an hour to find somewhere to take shelter...
FOUR: RUN RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN It's late. It's cold. There's a bunch of snow around you and you can sort of make out vague shapes in the distance that might be buildings, but in these conditions it's hard to tell. Regardless of what they are, though, you're going to want to hustle - if it hits 8PM and you're still outside, you're not going to make it through the night. Perhaps that person up ahead can help you? Or - if you're already safe and sound - maybe you should head outside to get that poor soul struggling outside in to shelter before they freeze. Good luck!
[ Two can play the dark circles under their eyes game, bub. The look Tim gives Alex is juuuust disdainful enough to register if he's looking for it, but at a casual glance it just looks like one of his mildly-disinterested sleepyfaces.
He's getting really good at this passive-aggressive sarcasm thing. He could give lessons. ]
You got any more? Spooky stories about - you know, about weird internet videos? They're my favourite. Can't get enough of 'em.
[ The flattest, deadest stare in the history of ever goes here. INCREDIBLE. ]
[Alex's expression doesn't change from his resting bitchface usual flat stare, but you can tell by the way his voice shifts two steps towards freezing that this is the last person he wants to be talking to right now.]
[ The thing about snowhell is that you're about ten minutes away from freezing/starving/being eaten by grues at all times. It means you have to take every single opportunity presented to you while you still can.
And if said "opportunities" are actually just "moments in which it is possible to be a dick to Alex Kralie, who is the dickiest dick, holy shit" then so be it. ]
[oh my god tim you're why are being this way what did alex even do to deserve this dickishness ahhahahahaaa I can't even finish this sentence]
Yeah, how about this one? There was this place in Los Angeles called Cecil Hotel that started having problems with their water. The pressure was weak, it tasted and smelled wrong, and it was coming out black. This went on for nearly two weeks before a maintenance worker was sent up to the roof to check it out.
They found a decomposing body in the cistern.
The only way up to the roof is through the fire escape and a door that only the employees have access to. It's equipped with an alarm that sounds when someone's up there. It never went off. Nobody knows for sure how she got in the water. It might have been a suicide. It might have been her mental illness.
The really ominous thing, though, is the security camera footage of her in an elevator the night she died. She kept hiding in the corner and looking out. Almost like she was afraid someone following her.
[ He casually lights a casual cigarette. Casually. This is followed by a long, slow draw on the cigarette which is also done in an exceedingly casual manner.
Because, you know, he's Tim. Cool and casual and stuff. Life is great. Just chilling out in snow hell. Do you see what he did there? Chilling? Snow? Hahaha oh gosh does this place ever bring out the jokester in dear sweet precious Tim.
He breathes out the smoke he's been holding in and looks reflectively to one side. ]
It's always - you know. Always tragic when somebody dies alone like that.
[ You know, like Jay did. Remember that? IT SURE IS THE ONLY DEATH AROUND HERE TIM REMEMBERS ]
[He takes another drink of his water. Casually. Ultra casual. God damn Alex Kralie is one smooth operator. This is just a casual conversation between two casual pals. What's better than this? Guys being dudes.]
But you know, sometimes life just turns out that way. It's really terrible that things ever get to that point, but. [Shrug.] There's nothing you can do about it, except clean up the mess that someone else left behind.
[yeah yeah try your guilt trip all you like, tim, this wouldn't have happened if not for you.]
[ Wow. The look of loathing Tim gives Alex is so exceptionally casual that it may as well be wearing baggy jeans and putting its feet up on a sofa. That slight twitch in his jaw? More casual than someone whose videogame library is comprised entirely of Bejewelled and, like, Farmville. Casual as balls.
This time, the cigarette smoke gets blown directly at the tablet. Because fuck you Alex. ]
Well, I guess if you think cleaning up the mess involves, uh. Just picking up everything in a fifty feet radius of it and dropping it in the garbage disposal, sure. Seems a little extreme to me, but. What do I know.
[ Just gonna. Tap the ash off the end of this fascinatingly casual cigarette. ]
That was an excellent burn that would have sent anyone else to the hospital, but Alex has spent the last several years justifying his stupid, shitty murders to himself. He knows what he looks like to other people, but he doesn't care. He can't care allow himself to care. Everyone connected to the project had to be stopped. Who knows how far it would have spread if he hadn't done something?
Right. Better get rid of all that garbage instead of surviving it for twenty-some years or - or work on not, uh, producing so much trash or. Something.
[ Wow this metaphor is running away from him. He stubs out his cigarette, coughing into his free hand. ]
But I can't really expect you to try and talk things out, I mean. Everybody knows you're terrible with dialogue, so...
Of all things, this is what finally gets eyeroll out of Alex. He spent ages babying that script, and when it was finally getting made it got haunted by a stupid shitty tree man ghost, and then he had to come to the hard and terrible conclusion that it was wasn't that good in the first place, and now one of his former actors is getting all hissy about it. Fuck this shit. He never asked for this.]
[ Pfft. Tim throws back his head and laughs the obnoxious laugh of someone who has transcended all notions of giving a fuck and is now in a pure, flawless state of negative fuckgiving. He's like a black hole of fucks to be given. Not one will be expelled in Alex's direction.
Yeah, okay, the laugh is mostly just for show. But some of it is genuine. ]
Ooh, hitting me where it hurts. My acting skills!
Maybe you'd have got better actors if you weren't just a big joke. Or if you weren't a murderer. I'm pretty sure that has to complicate the whole, you know. The whole hiring process.
[ SHRUG. Gosh Alex your life must be so hard!!!! ]
[we have officially hit full Angry Yelling Alex modetm. holy shit the pair of lungs in this guy.]
Nobody else was fixing the problem, just digging up things that should have stayed buried and filming everything. Did either of you ever stop and think for one moment about the consequences of your actions? What uploading all those videos could do?
is what Tim would say if he was not in fact Tim and was actually someone far more detached from this situation. Unfortunately for Tim, he is Tim. Holy shit did I just summarise this character in one sentence? I think I fucking did. ]
You didn't have to, you chose to! Did - did you even try to find another way? Because from here it looked an awful lot like all you did was kill people or - or run away and hide like a coward.
[ Avoiding any talk of the "LET'S UPLOAD EVERYTHING TO YOUTUBE THIS CANNOT GO WRONG" angle? YEP. ]
There was no other choice! Do you really think we can ever escape it? That we can somehow just- magically make it go away or leave us alone by taking some pills?
[Alex makes a sound that might be laughter. Emphasis on might. It just comes out very bitter and broken and exhausted.]
It spreads. It would have kept spreading as long as we were around. There is no other way.
[ He lashes out and bangs his fist against something off-camera. Some shitty piece of shitty furniture. Whatever. ]
I lived with it for twenty god damn years and nobody died! Things weren't even as bad as they used to be. I was getting better!
[ Probably. Kind of. ]
But no, you had to mess things up. Even if the thing was my fault -- [and it is. It's Tim's fault. Everything is Tim's stupid fault] -- you don't know that killing us all would stop it!
[Tim isn't the only person steadfastly refusing to acknowledge certain topics. How did Alex know that he had to kill everyone before it spread?
He doesn't want to think about it. He doesn't want to explain to explain himself. He doesn't give a shit. The person he blames most in the world is trying to deflect his part in what happened.
Alex just wants to yell.]
You think your own hands are clean? That you're so much more above it all? You left Jay, and I know what happened to Brian! You can't tell me you didn't march into that school ready to end it with me. Or were you really going to try to hold my hand and take me to therapy after everything that's happened?
[he remembers what it's like to get a knife jammed through his neck and GOD DAMN he is still salty about it]
[ Wait, what happened to Brian? What? U wot m8?????
Tim's confusion shows through clearly for a moment before he shakes it off. That's some nice incoherent rambling you've got there, Alex. Brian's disappearance is like the one thing Tim doesn't blame himself for! He hasn't seen his buddy in years!
HAHAHAHAHAHA CANON POINTS ]
You can't - you can't blame me for Jay. You shot him! It was you! And there's - [coughcough] - there's a difference between being willing to kill a murderer and shooting an unarmed guy in cold blood. A pretty big difference, for anyone with even a shred of sanity left.
What did you think would happen if you weren't around? You know Jay! If someone tells him not to do something, he'll take it as a personal challenge to go out and do it!
[Alex jabs a finger at the screen. He kinda wishes he could reach through it and throttle Tim instead. God, he's so mad at him. Alex has only two speeds: ominously quiet and high speed no brakes anger.]
You left him. You're the source of all this! He's just another name on a long list of lives you've ruined!
[This conversation is going nowhere and Alex knows it. Why can't everyone see that he is blameless and amazing and that Tim is responsible for literally everything??? There is just no justice in the world.]
Ohhhh, so you're saying I - [cough] - I forced you to shoot Jay! I wasn't around to stand between the two of you, so [coughcoughCOUGHCOUGH] you had to gun him down.
[ Those throttling urges are mutual. If it weren't for the whole lockdown thing, Tim would be doing his best meme impression right about now. Oh well. Maybe Alex will rage so much he has an aneurysm or something. ]
I don't know whether you're crazy or just dumb for believing your own bull. It's pathetic, that's for sure.
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[ Two can play the dark circles under their eyes game, bub. The look Tim gives Alex is juuuust disdainful enough to register if he's looking for it, but at a casual glance it just looks like one of his mildly-disinterested sleepyfaces.
He's getting really good at this passive-aggressive sarcasm thing. He could give lessons. ]
You got any more? Spooky stories about - you know, about weird internet videos? They're my favourite. Can't get enough of 'em.
[ The flattest, deadest stare in the history of ever goes here. INCREDIBLE. ]
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[Alex's expression doesn't change from his
resting bitchfaceusual flat stare, but you can tell by the way his voice shifts two steps towards freezing that this is the last person he wants to be talking to right now.]no subject
[ The thing about snowhell is that you're about ten minutes away from freezing/starving/being eaten by grues at all times. It means you have to take every single opportunity presented to you while you still can.
And if said "opportunities" are actually just "moments in which it is possible to be a dick to Alex Kralie, who is the dickiest dick, holy shit" then so be it. ]
Well, I'm waiting. You going to tell them, or...?
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Yeah, how about this one? There was this place in Los Angeles called Cecil Hotel that started having problems with their water. The pressure was weak, it tasted and smelled wrong, and it was coming out black. This went on for nearly two weeks before a maintenance worker was sent up to the roof to check it out.
They found a decomposing body in the cistern.
The only way up to the roof is through the fire escape and a door that only the employees have access to. It's equipped with an alarm that sounds when someone's up there. It never went off. Nobody knows for sure how she got in the water. It might have been a suicide. It might have been her mental illness.
The really ominous thing, though, is the security camera footage of her in an elevator the night she died. She kept hiding in the corner and looking out. Almost like she was afraid someone following her.
[Utterly. Deadpan.]
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[ He casually lights a casual cigarette. Casually. This is followed by a long, slow draw on the cigarette which is also done in an exceedingly casual manner.
Because, you know, he's Tim. Cool and casual and stuff. Life is great. Just chilling out in snow hell. Do you see what he did there? Chilling? Snow? Hahaha oh gosh does this place ever bring out the jokester in dear sweet precious Tim.
He breathes out the smoke he's been holding in and looks reflectively to one side. ]
It's always - you know. Always tragic when somebody dies alone like that.
[ You know, like Jay did. Remember that? IT SURE IS THE ONLY DEATH AROUND HERE TIM REMEMBERS ]
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[He takes another drink of his water. Casually. Ultra casual. God damn Alex Kralie is one smooth operator. This is just a casual conversation between two casual pals. What's better than this? Guys being dudes.]
But you know, sometimes life just turns out that way. It's really terrible that things ever get to that point, but. [Shrug.] There's nothing you can do about it, except clean up the mess that someone else left behind.
[yeah yeah try your guilt trip all you like, tim, this wouldn't have happened if not for you.]
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This time, the cigarette smoke gets blown directly at the tablet. Because fuck you Alex. ]
Well, I guess if you think cleaning up the mess involves, uh. Just picking up everything in a fifty feet radius of it and dropping it in the garbage disposal, sure. Seems a little extreme to me, but. What do I know.
[ Just gonna. Tap the ash off the end of this fascinatingly casual cigarette. ]
I guess you're the trash expert around here.
[ ICE BUUURRRRRNNNNNNNNNN ]
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That was an excellent burn that would have sent anyone else to the hospital, but Alex has spent the last several years justifying his stupid, shitty murders to himself. He knows what he looks like to other people, but he doesn't care. He can't care allow himself to care. Everyone connected to the project had to be stopped. Who knows how far it would have spread if he hadn't done something?
He did the right thing.]
It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
[alex you are fucking terrible]
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[ Wow this metaphor is running away from him. He stubs out his cigarette, coughing into his free hand. ]
But I can't really expect you to try and talk things out, I mean. Everybody knows you're terrible with dialogue, so...
[ DID HE JUST
YES HE DID
WHAT A RECOVERY ]
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Of all things, this is what finally gets eyeroll out of Alex. He spent ages babying that script, and when it was finally getting made it got haunted by a stupid shitty tree man ghost, and then he had to come to the hard and terrible conclusion that it was wasn't that good in the first place, and now one of his former actors is getting all hissy about it. Fuck this shit. He never asked for this.]
No worse than you were at acting.
[ >:|||||||||| ]
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Yeah, okay, the laugh is mostly just for show. But some of it is genuine. ]
Ooh, hitting me where it hurts. My acting skills!
Maybe you'd have got better actors if you weren't just a big joke. Or if you weren't a murderer. I'm pretty sure that has to complicate the whole, you know. The whole hiring process.
[ SHRUG. Gosh Alex your life must be so hard!!!! ]
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Maybe none of this would have happened if you hadn't brought that thing into our lives.
[here we go.]
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Right, 'cause - because I asked for that. And killing everybody was -- [cough cough coughity] -- such a reasonable response.
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[we have officially hit full Angry Yelling Alex modetm. holy shit the pair of lungs in this guy.]
Nobody else was fixing the problem, just digging up things that should have stayed buried and filming everything. Did either of you ever stop and think for one moment about the consequences of your actions? What uploading all those videos could do?
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is what Tim would say if he was not in fact Tim and was actually someone far more detached from this situation. Unfortunately for Tim, he is Tim. Holy shit did I just summarise this character in one sentence? I think I fucking did. ]
You didn't have to, you chose to! Did - did you even try to find another way? Because from here it looked an awful lot like all you did was kill people or - or run away and hide like a coward.
[ Avoiding any talk of the "LET'S UPLOAD EVERYTHING TO YOUTUBE THIS CANNOT GO WRONG" angle? YEP. ]
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[Alex makes a sound that might be laughter. Emphasis on might. It just comes out very bitter and broken and exhausted.]
It spreads. It would have kept spreading as long as we were around. There is no other way.
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[ He lashes out and bangs his fist against something off-camera. Some shitty piece of shitty furniture. Whatever. ]
I lived with it for twenty god damn years and nobody died! Things weren't even as bad as they used to be. I was getting better!
[ Probably. Kind of. ]
But no, you had to mess things up. Even if the thing was my fault -- [and it is. It's Tim's fault. Everything is Tim's stupid fault] -- you don't know that killing us all would stop it!
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He doesn't want to think about it. He doesn't want to explain to explain himself. He doesn't give a shit. The person he blames most in the world is trying to deflect his part in what happened.
Alex just wants to yell.]
You think your own hands are clean? That you're so much more above it all? You left Jay, and I know what happened to Brian! You can't tell me you didn't march into that school ready to end it with me. Or were you really going to try to hold my hand and take me to therapy after everything that's happened?
[he remembers what it's like to get a knife jammed through his neck and GOD DAMN he is still salty about it]
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Tim's confusion shows through clearly for a moment before he shakes it off. That's some nice incoherent rambling you've got there, Alex. Brian's disappearance is like the one thing Tim doesn't blame himself for! He hasn't seen his buddy in years!
HAHAHAHAHAHA CANON POINTS ]
You can't - you can't blame me for Jay. You shot him! It was you! And there's - [coughcough] - there's a difference between being willing to kill a murderer and shooting an unarmed guy in cold blood. A pretty big difference, for anyone with even a shred of sanity left.
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[Alex jabs a finger at the screen. He kinda wishes he could reach through it and throttle Tim instead. God, he's so mad at him. Alex has only two speeds: ominously quiet and high speed no brakes anger.]
You left him. You're the source of all this! He's just another name on a long list of lives you've ruined!
[This conversation is going nowhere and Alex knows it. Why can't everyone see that he is blameless and amazing and that Tim is responsible for literally everything??? There is just no justice in the world.]
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[ Those throttling urges are mutual. If it weren't for the whole lockdown thing, Tim would be doing his best meme impression right about now. Oh well. Maybe Alex will rage so much he has an aneurysm or something. ]
I don't know whether you're crazy or just dumb for believing your own bull. It's pathetic, that's for sure.