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.
Oh! Did you name your little assistant Diane? That's so cute! I named mine after my real assistant, because I sort of miss having him around. Too bad you can't hand things off to the tablets, though. [Hange shrugs. What're you gonna do?] It'd be nice if they could help you move things, or hold things, or take things apart, wouldn't it? [Heavy sigh.]
What were we talking about? Oh, right, your little Diane isn't working. What exactly is it doing wrong again?
[Cooper nods appreciatively when he receives Hange's message. Finally, someone with some sense!]
Why, yes, Ms. Sciencesquad! Funny you should mention that, too, as I have also named my assistant after my assistant back home! Diane is an invaluable asset to me and I thought it appropriate to honor her by bestowing her name upon my tablet helper, as well.
[And now Cooper has gotten distracted talking about Diane. Back to business.] In any case, my helper appears to be unresponsive. She hasn't been recording my dictations when I need her to and now she appears to be reporting my every word to the network. I'm sure you can see how that is most troublesome.
[It's okay! Hange gets distracted too! Like right now.]
That's sweet of you. Are you a scientist too? Or someone important in the military? I think everyone could use an assistant, though it seems that only some people have one.
And as for your helper, that does sound fairly inconvenient. Are you sure there isn't some setting you can change? This tablet thing is very complex, so I won't pretend to know everything about it, but I've been playing around with it, and there are some pretty strange features. [Like the obituaries one. Though that is sort of convenient in its own way.]
Oh! Heavens, no. I'm a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation! I would hardly say that I'm of any more importance than any of my fellow agents, but I do like to think I do my job well. However, Ms. Sciencesquad, I wholeheartedly agree! The world would be a much more efficient place if we could all rely on an assistant to help us on our ways.
As for this... tablet. Hm. [Cooper fiddles with the thing in his hands, holding it at arms length and frowning.] I must admit that I haven't quite gotten the hang of this contraption yet. This technology is far more advanced than what I'm accustomed to. I've attempted to alter the helper's settings already, though, with no result.
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What were we talking about? Oh, right, your little Diane isn't working. What exactly is it doing wrong again?
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Why, yes, Ms. Sciencesquad! Funny you should mention that, too, as I have also named my assistant after my assistant back home! Diane is an invaluable asset to me and I thought it appropriate to honor her by bestowing her name upon my tablet helper, as well.
[And now Cooper has gotten distracted talking about Diane. Back to business.] In any case, my helper appears to be unresponsive. She hasn't been recording my dictations when I need her to and now she appears to be reporting my every word to the network. I'm sure you can see how that is most troublesome.
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That's sweet of you. Are you a scientist too? Or someone important in the military? I think everyone could use an assistant, though it seems that only some people have one.
And as for your helper, that does sound fairly inconvenient. Are you sure there isn't some setting you can change? This tablet thing is very complex, so I won't pretend to know everything about it, but I've been playing around with it, and there are some pretty strange features. [Like the obituaries one. Though that is sort of convenient in its own way.]
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As for this... tablet. Hm. [Cooper fiddles with the thing in his hands, holding it at arms length and frowning.] I must admit that I haven't quite gotten the hang of this contraption yet. This technology is far more advanced than what I'm accustomed to. I've attempted to alter the helper's settings already, though, with no result.
Is your assistant malfunctioning as well?