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TEST DRIVE MEME
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: DRUG PUSHING What luck! You've found a bottle of medication...only, oh, it looks like it's a prescription for one of the other people trapped here with you. You have a lot of power in your hands now: you could do the right thing and give it back without a fight, demand a worthy trade to see how badly they want it, or auction it off to the highest bidder. They're not the only ones who could use a painkiller or an antidepressant, after all. If you don't need it for yourself, you're sure to be able to fetch a high price (or bank some high gratitude points) for it from someone. TWO: CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS After a long day of traveling, you reach into your bag to scrounge up some dinner but you find that all of your food has gone bad. Everything, including the rations you stocked up on just yesterday, is covered in a thick layer of mold. Even the packaged nonperishables are somehow spoiled. Your whole backpack reeks of rot, and nothing edible has been spared. Maybe you can restock tomorrow, but what if you're not the only one whose food has been tainted? And what about the meal you had for lunch just hours ago? Your stomach turns. You'd better take to the network to get to the bottom of this Action Prompts THREE: WRITING ON THE WALL You've just settled into a building for the night with your traveling companion when you notice a message left somewhere on one of the walls. It's signed by a username you don't recall ever seeing before. It tells you discoveries and facts about the town you don't think are really real or should be followed. Tells you that they're heading in a direction they're convinced has the exit, and urge you to follow their lead. One of you thinks it's worth consideration. After all, why would anyone leave a message like this if they didn't mean it? But there are risks involved in chasing the assertions. Do you have the resources left to try? FOUR: CORPSE PARTY Just before lockdown, you and your traveling companion are about to seek shelter in the nearest building when you spot a huddled figure nearly buried in the snow. When you get a little closer, you see that it's a person wrapped tightly in a blanket. Neither of you recognizes them, but you can't be sure; the blanket covers their face. They seem to have succumbed to the elements, but it looks like they're still breathing! You manage to drag them into the building with you with seconds to spare. Good job, you've saved somebody's life! But, as you pull apart the blankets to check on your new companion, you realize that they're not a "somebody" at all... And you're locked in with it until morning.

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[Dug! Dug is someone Charlie can thoroughly relate to here in Norfinbury. It'd be better if he was a cat, but Charlie will take what he can get.]

Hey, dude. Uh. That is a nasty little pile you got there. [He kinda thinks maybe Dug shouldn't be rolling around in it if it made him sick, but Charlie's not here to tell him what to do.] Where you at, man? I'm up by the school right now so I could meet you somewhere if you're nearby.

[You don't understand, Charlie, it smells real bad and he needs to smell real bad too. It is a dog thing.]

It is very nasty! Yuck!

[And yet when he rolls back over and springs to his feet it's with a grin and a wagging tail. Dug gives a full-body shake, sending mold everywhere in the room without really cleaning himself off much at all.]

School? Uh....

[What is a school? He has heard that word before. Dug has to think a little before he remembers where Charlie is talking about.]

Yes. I am near the school, yes.

[Charlie laughs as he watches Dug do his thing on the other end. It's gross, but gross doesn't bother him. At least he's making the best out of the situation.]

Cool, bro. I'm in, uhhh, building 60, it looks like. Where... Wait, hold up. Where'd you get that stuff? The food that went bad?

[He reaches for his own backpack now, which he probably should've done right away. Luckily, though, whatever happened to Dug's rations seems to have spared his. For now, anyway.]

Building sixty.

[Dug gives a sage nod, as if he has any idea where that is.]

I got the food from the little kitchen by the big field.

[Charlie is nodding too, but Dug's response just brings up more questions.]

Alright, okay... So not from the school? [Dug would've just said the school if he meant the school, right? But Charlie can't think of any other "little kitchens by a big field." It also doesn't occur to him that where the food came from maybe isn't the most pressing of concerns right now.]

The school is the really big building that's like all crumbly in the middle. Do you have a map, dude?

Not from the school. That is a big kitchen by a big field.

[He's so knowledgeable. And he's really trying to help.]

It is a small place full of nuts! I think it is where the squirrels would live.

Right, that makes sense. [It does. It's the next part that doesn't.]

Okay, bro, you lost me there. Nuts? You sure? Like, uh... Oh! The convenience store? I think they got nuts there sometimes.

...Yes! That thing that you just said, that is the place. I was there yesterday and I thought that I saw a squirrel but then it was only a hot dog bun.

[Charlie claps his hands together. Now they're getting somewhere.] Okay, sweet! If you were there yesterday, we're probably like, super close to each other. Where are you now?

[Dug barks -- they're making noises!]

I am in the house with the star blanket on the bed!

Huh. That doesn't sound familiar. [He thinks for a moment. What a puzzle.] When you left the convenience store, which way did you go?

I went away from the convenience store!

[He feels like they're really making progress here.]

[Charlie cracks a smile.] You sure did, pal. Okay, uhhh, did you head towards the big snow wall? Or the pond?

Oh, definitely toward the pond, yes! I like the pond much better than the snow wall!

Yeah? Me too. If you went towards the pond, you probably went south. The pond was on your left, right? And I'm assuming you veered right at some point to go find a house?

[Check out his serious navigational skills. We are gonna get you some food yet, Dug!]

Right -- it was left, that is right!

[You're confusing him, Charlie.]

I found the pond and then I found a house. It is a good house.

[Sorry, Dug. Confusing is his middle name. Hearing Dug essentially just parrot back what he said leaves him equally confused.]

Wow, that's a lot of directions. Uhhh. Let's just work with what we got. Do you think you can make it to the pond tomorrow? It's probably too late to try and travel now, dude. Sorry.

Oh, yes! I am very fast and I do know where the pond is. I will go there tomorrow and meet you, and then we will go together to the kitchen!

[Holy crap, Dug. Charlie cannot handle your pep. He laughs.] Hell yeah, bro! Great plan. You think you'll be okay overnight?

[Does this mean he is a peppy puppy?]

Oh -- oh yes. [He's trying to sound confident, but some of that pep drains away as he looks around the room. It is a good house, with a good bed with a good blanket, but...it is an empty house with only Dug inside.]

I will be okay because I am brave. But...would you leave your tablet on please? I like not being all alone.

Hah, sure thing, dude. I don't like being alone either. Did you get split up from a group or something?

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