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: YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED When you wake up, you find that a new application has been downloaded to your tablet. It's titled "SURVEY" and is exactly what it claims to be--although there's no explanation to why it's appeared or what it is for other than the note that claims the survey is not opt-out and that your cooperation is appreciated. And more troubling, the questions become more sinister the farther in you answer. Such questions as, "on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your stay?" and "have your needs been met in a timely manner?" become more akin to, "if you had to chose between the two, would you eat your hands or your feet to stave off the hunger?" and "are you sure you are not the last one still alive?"
Perhaps someone on the Network would like to discuss what this could mean--and if there are any consequences behind finishing or refusing to take the survey.
TWO: NOT SO HELPFUL AVATARS Every tablet has the option for a customizable avatar that will talk to you and keep your tablet in order. Maybe you set it up, maybe you never checked it. Either way, it keeps popping up unrequested and being sort of... Odd. Flickering, talking in strange, mechanical voices, offering advice that's unhelpful at best and actively harmful at worst... Maybe it's even telling the entire network some things you've been doing you'd rather everyone didn't know.
Time to call tech support. Unfortunately, the best option is other people on the network. Good luck.
Action Prompts
THREE: SPIDERS IN THE WALLS Somehow you or your travel companion injured themselves. A quick call to the admin fixed this, but now you can't help but be gripped with the burning curiosity of where the helpful spiders she deployed have gone. You saw them scramble toward the vents, but by the time paralysis wore off they'd completely disappeared. Only now you can't stop thinking about them. Where do they go to? How can they be trapped or followed? You swear you hear little mechanical pattering inside the walls. Maybe you can find some sort of tool to help you break into a vent around the house. Or maybe your companion can convince you to rest before you hurt yourself.
FOUR: SCHOOL DAYS You've ended up in the elementary school. Maybe you're grabbing more food, maybe you're exploring. Either way, this place is creepy; the atmosphere is the sort that gets the hair on the back of your neck rising (potentially metaphorically, if you don't have hair or a neck). It's not long before strange things start happening. The sound of running and screaming children, doors slamming in far off or nearby hallways, pianos playing... What's going on? It's hard to tell what's really happening from what isn't happening. Maybe someone who's also exploring has some idea.
@heartbreaker, video [ Nina is thoroughly exasperated by her tablet, at the moment, and she's sort of shaking it angrily as she speaks to it. Sorry about that motion sickness. ] I don't find it very funny that this communication device keeps telling me that body heat will keep me warmer than a jacket will! It just suggested that I put my feet in the snow so that all of the heat in my feet will travel up into the rest of my body, and I know that isn't how it works. How do I make it stop doing this?
[THREE]
[ Nina will get to those spiders in a second. First, she's going to marvel at the way that they healed the wound she'd had. Nina is used to being able to fix these things for herself, but after having been here for a while without her abilities, she knows she'd be rusty. And she knows also that she'd never be able to do this same sort of healing efficiently. She's really impressed, and - well, look, whoever her partner is, they're going to get an earful about it. ]
Did you see that? That was incredible, it was... it was just like... [ She trails off. ] Where did they go? [ She stands up, adjusting her coat and immediately going to listen to the walls. ] How did you call them? Do they always come? Are they always in the walls like that? And why spiders, that seems like a strange choice.
No, really, Natasha would prefer that Nina try to relax a little, because she's still not sure how these spiders work, and she doesn't trust that it won't have side effects. Beyond being paralyzed, of course.]
I sent a message to the Administrator asking for medical assistance. It looks like they went into the vents.
And oh, that's right, she's stuck in the building with the female version of Matthias. Nina huffs, crouching down next to a vent. ] And what, they just stay there until someone calls for them? They're - oh, Saints, they're metal, aren't they? Little robots. They don't get tired.
I don't know, healing takes a lot of effort. [ Nina yanks a little at the vent. It's screwed on pretty tightly. ] It's easier to destroy things than fix them. How much can magic can they fit into such a small creature?
[Natasha has dealt with magic before, so that isn't as strange as it might be to some people. She kneels beside Nina, pulling a shiv out of her coat pocket and offering it to her. She might be able to unscrew the vent with it.]
These don't seem magical to me. I assume they're similar to the tablets. We can use them to speak to one another on the network, but they have other uses, too.
[Man, she wishes Tony were here. He'd have a million theories and explanations, she's sure.]
[ ... Huh. Natasha was just hiding that in there. Nina probably should be paying more attention to stuff like that. She takes the shiv, plops her butt down, and starts to unscrew the screws. ]
You're probably more knowledgeable on the topic than I am. [ Pause, as she adjusts her dress, annoyed. ] We don't have tablets at home. We have people who can change a rock to look like a tablet, but obviously that is not the same thing.
Saints, they're just so small. [ A beat. ] Where did you get this shiv?
[Natasha is hiding weapons everywhere at all times. She's also silently filing away everything Nina mentions about herself or her world, just in case.]
I made it. Sharpened a butter knife with bits of rubble. Do you have any weapons?
[ Off comes the vent! Nina looks incredibly satisfied. And then she peeks up at Natasha through her hair. ] I can protect myself. [ c: ] But I won't say no to lessons.
I'd love to be able to kick ass like you. [ Nina, do not look at Natasha through your lashes like that. ]
[Nina is greeted with a man clad in armor, face more obscured than not by the helmet he wears, but what can be seen of his features leaves the impression he's less than pleased.]
Had I scant an idea how to cease this machine's annoying display of utter idiocy, I would offer such, but alas. I, too, am suffering from its infernal "advice".
'Tis why I trust not their like.
[Honestly, even being able to answer her at all was more luck than intentional, but he got it to work and that's all that matters here!]
Okay, that's way too many questions. How about we back up a second and try breathing?
[Nina remembers she was just injured, right? Tony likes robotics as much as the next stranded, freezing individual in town, but even he has his limits. And, okay, maybe he's less thrilled since the spiders involved came because she was hurt. Collateral makes him queasy.]
Maybe the Admin just likes spiders. Maybe they're her thing. Does it matter?
[Maybe it actually does, but he's trying to play the responsible one.]
Don't you think you should, uh, sit down until you've completely recovered?
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Nina Zenik | Six of Crows
@heartbreaker, video
[ Nina is thoroughly exasperated by her tablet, at the moment, and she's sort of shaking it angrily as she speaks to it. Sorry about that motion sickness. ] I don't find it very funny that this communication device keeps telling me that body heat will keep me warmer than a jacket will! It just suggested that I put my feet in the snow so that all of the heat in my feet will travel up into the rest of my body, and I know that isn't how it works. How do I make it stop doing this?
[THREE]
[ Nina will get to those spiders in a second. First, she's going to marvel at the way that they healed the wound she'd had. Nina is used to being able to fix these things for herself, but after having been here for a while without her abilities, she knows she'd be rusty. And she knows also that she'd never be able to do this same sort of healing efficiently. She's really impressed, and - well, look, whoever her partner is, they're going to get an earful about it. ]
Did you see that? That was incredible, it was... it was just like... [ She trails off. ] Where did they go? [ She stands up, adjusting her coat and immediately going to listen to the walls. ] How did you call them? Do they always come? Are they always in the walls like that? And why spiders, that seems like a strange choice.
3!
No, really, Natasha would prefer that Nina try to relax a little, because she's still not sure how these spiders work, and she doesn't trust that it won't have side effects. Beyond being paralyzed, of course.]
I sent a message to the Administrator asking for medical assistance. It looks like they went into the vents.
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And oh, that's right, she's stuck in the building with the female version of Matthias. Nina huffs, crouching down next to a vent. ] And what, they just stay there until someone calls for them? They're - oh, Saints, they're metal, aren't they? Little robots. They don't get tired.
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[Natasha is smiling, though.]
They must do something else. Spending so much money on technology that sophisticated makes more sense if they have multiple functions.
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[Natasha has dealt with magic before, so that isn't as strange as it might be to some people. She kneels beside Nina, pulling a shiv out of her coat pocket and offering it to her. She might be able to unscrew the vent with it.]
These don't seem magical to me. I assume they're similar to the tablets. We can use them to speak to one another on the network, but they have other uses, too.
[Man, she wishes Tony were here. He'd have a million theories and explanations, she's sure.]
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You're probably more knowledgeable on the topic than I am. [ Pause, as she adjusts her dress, annoyed. ] We don't have tablets at home. We have people who can change a rock to look like a tablet, but obviously that is not the same thing.
Saints, they're just so small. [ A beat. ] Where did you get this shiv?
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I made it. Sharpened a butter knife with bits of rubble. Do you have any weapons?
[Because you should, Nina!!!]
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[ Right, she can't... use her hands as weapons anymore. She really needs to find something she can whack people with. ]
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Keep it. You should have one.
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You are. To be fair, I'm good at telling when people are lying.
[Natasha watches her for a moment. She's just as curious about what might be behind that vent as Nina is, really.]
I'll show you. You need a way to protect yourself.
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I'd love to be able to kick ass like you. [ Nina, do not look at Natasha through your lashes like that. ]
2! @estibien, video
Had I scant an idea how to cease this machine's annoying display of utter idiocy, I would offer such, but alas. I, too, am suffering from its infernal "advice".
'Tis why I trust not their like.
[Honestly, even being able to answer her at all was more luck than intentional, but he got it to work and that's all that matters here!]
3
[Nina remembers she was just injured, right? Tony likes robotics as much as the next stranded, freezing individual in town, but even he has his limits. And, okay, maybe he's less thrilled since the spiders involved came because she was hurt. Collateral makes him queasy.]
Maybe the Admin just likes spiders. Maybe they're her thing. Does it matter?
[Maybe it actually does, but he's trying to play the responsible one.]
Don't you think you should, uh, sit down until you've completely recovered?