Test Drive

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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: HUNTING SEASON You wake up in the morning to find that a new application has appeared on your tablet. It's labelled "SCAVENGER HUNT" and when you open it, you find a long list of items that, if the title is anything to go by, need to be collected. At first, the items seem rather innocuous; things like bottle caps, napkins, Scotch tape, mittens. As the list continues, though, the items become a little more interesting. Where are you going to find "one pint of type O- blood"? How does one collect a "cry for mercy"? Does the "human sacrifice" need to be human? Most importantly, what are you supposed to do with these items once you've collected them all? Maybe you should check your list with the Network. Some folks might be willing to pool resources. TWO: ONE, TWO, SKIP A FEW Sometime yesterday, you noticed that a timer placed itself on the Network. Contacting the Admin about it provided no explanation, of course, and nobody's tablet buddy seems to have any answers. It started from zero and began counting upwards, seconds ticking away like lightning, but nothing was happening, so there was nothing to be done. Suddenly, however, you can't help but notice the count stutter and jump upwards to 99 hours in. And then, at 100, it stops and vanishes. As far as you can tell, nothing's changed, but it's disconcerting enough that you can't get it off your mind. Maybe someone else on the Network has some theories. Action Prompts THREE: WHAT WE DO WITH THE SHADOWS You and your companion decided that, for whatever reason, this house was worth investigating. It took something unorthodox—like moving all the furniture to one place, illuminating certain segments of the room, reciting a message, or maybe something else—but by doing it, it seems you've invited another guest. It's a shadowy figure with no face and no discernible limbs, and it goes wherever you go, lingering behind you just so that you can only ever see it out of your peripheral vision. Your companion can see it well enough, though, and sometimes it follows them instead. It doesn't seem to be hostile, but can you know that for sure? Either way, lockdown has already fallen, and you're stuck with it through the night. FOUR: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? You’ve just gotten comfortable for the night with your traveling companion when something odd happens. You hear an animal. A dog? A cat? A bird? Maybe the sound is coming from outside, or in the other room. Maybe you feel it brush or flutter past you without anything being there. Or maybe you even see it…just out of the corner of your eye, as it darts around a corner. You feel like maybe it’s trying to alert you to something, somehow. Or maybe you just really want to see if you can coax it out. Careful, though, get too close too quickly and you may aggravate it. As phantom as the animal may seem, the claw marks you receive for your trouble feel very real.

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matt murdock | daredevil (marvel-616)

[actuallydaredevil]

#2 @hornhead

is there a button on here that starts a counter
i dont remember if i clicked somewhere or what
but is there a visual im missing here? it stopped
for some reason
text2speech isnt telling me anything
so yeah help a guy out

#4 action werewolves not swearwolves

[ It's taking Matt a while to get used to the whole 'having to turn his head' to get his radar sense to work. He can kinda tell there's some kind of dog hiding behind an upturned table. Animals in snow hell are probably not a great sign... but he approaches it anyway. No fear and all that. ]

Hey there, little guy... [ He shushes, holding his hands out while he crouches down. The "dog" might not look right, but it smells and acts like one, almost. ] Where'd you come from, huh?

4! HELLO

[redrooms]

[Natasha, meanwhile, doesn't see anything. She hears the dog though, and feels it, brushing past her legs, the quick whip of a tail against her calf, and then it's gone again. The click of its "nails" on the floor are the only hint she has that it's retreating behind the table, and Natasha tenses at Matt crouches down. She's still not completely sure how his senses are working here, but if he's sensing something she can't see, well... That has interesting implications for the things they've all been brushing off as hallucinations, doesn't it?]

Careful.

[It's probably a needless warning. She's just going to watch and see what happens for the moment.]

hello at last

[actuallydaredevil]

Doesn't look hurt or anything, does it?

[ Matt can hear the thing move closer, but it sounds wrong. He takes a slight step, still far enough away to pull back easily. Animals aren't exactly his forte, much less ones that might not be there at all. ]

I'm not gonna hurt you. It's okay.

[redrooms]

I don't know. I can't see it.

[She's instinctively keeping her voice low, as though they're dealing with a real dog that might decide to bite, and when she realizes what she's doing, her mouth twists wryly. And... well, she might as well play along, so she crouches down too, although she doesn't move any closer, clicking her tongue.]

Come here, boy, it's alright.

[Is it a boy? This place is so weird.]

[actuallydaredevil]

Ah. Well that's... interesting.

[ So it's... probably not a dog. Well, great. At this point the best Matt can do is keep coaxing it-- though is that really a good idea here? ]

Should I be worried about touching this thing?

[redrooms]

[Natasha smiles a little, glancing over at him.]

Oh, well...

[Her voice is light, almost teasing, but she pauses, risking holding out a hand to the... ghost dog? It's basically a ghost dog.]

If it's anything like the anomalies, you could get a nose bleed. Pass out. You've had worse.

[actuallydaredevil]

You know me so well.

[ Matt actually smirks, totally honest. I mean, he's been possessed by a demon before and beaten up more times than there the length of pi. A nosebleed would be Tuesday. ]

Okay. Here, boy... [ He holds out his hand close enough for the ghost dog(?) to sniff it. Natasha's not too far off, either. Which red head will Fido choose? ] Pretty sure I've managed not to piss off any dogs yet, so let's see if my luck holds.

[ When does it ever? ]

@inthebelfry, audio

[srsbat]

I wouldn't rely on this place's network for accurate information.

@hornhead, audio

[actuallydaredevil]

Wouldn't be asking if I had any better options.

[ He sighs. His iPhone was way nicer about reading out menus than this thing. ]

It's hard to tell with these things. Sometimes you can't trust that it'll read everything out, y'know?

[srsbat]

I know. There's no application for the counter that appeared. It could be anything: the Admin changing parameters, the anomalies.

Time typically counts down, however, unless it's a stop-watch.

[actuallydaredevil]

It skipped right to 99 hours, by the sound of it. Wanted to make sure it wasn't just me.

Does the count to 100 hours mean anything here? Could it be like, a riddle or something?

[ Bad guys sure love riddles, don't they?? ]

[srsbat]

[UGH LET HIM REST!!!!!!!!!!] I'd appreciate it if it wasn't. [Open-mouthed emoji, gun emoji.]

Riddles are usually posed as an enigma or a conundra--metaphorical problems or puns. I don't think the counter is either. It could just be an omen: we have one-hundred hours left to live.

[Spooky.]

[actuallydaredevil]

[ That makes two of them, ok!! ]

Well that's... morbid.

[ But not necessarily inaccurate? ]

Let's work on the assumption that we won't all die simultaneously. [ Take those anxieties and PUSH THEM DOWN. ] Maybe something else will happen after 100 hours? Like a door opening or something changing. It could be anything else.

4! (I apologize for Royce in advance...)

[bywolves]

[ Royce is so not having this dog thing. He does not like dogs. He definitely does not like ghost dogs. And he does not like that he is in a house with a veritable stranger, with a ghost dog that keeps brushing past his feet. Which means Royce is in a foul mood, practically perched on the back of the sofa, butt on the back of the couch, feet on the cushions, hood up.

He watches Matt try to get the dog's attention, and drawls out, in his usual low and soft British-tinged voice: ] It's going to bite you.

it's ok matt has had worse

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Really, Matt isn't even surprised to hear this guy's attitude. Because boy can he hear it. He's probably the kind of guy who's handsome enough that people think that's charming. But once lockdown goes off, beggars can't be choosers, can they? Matt shrugs and keeps on trying to coax the ghost dog out from its spot. What's the worst that could happen? ]

If you ask me, I think it likes you.

[bywolves]

[ It's the British accent, let's be real. ]

Of course it does. I don't like it. [ Royce says, with a touch of annoyance in his tone. ] When it tears your throat out, I'll be just thrilled to say I told you so.

[actuallydaredevil]

[ The secret is out! ]

You're a real ray of sunshine, aren't you?

[ Frank Castle would love Royce. Just sayin. Matt scoffs, still stepping a little closer to the absolutely-not-harmless ghost dog. ]

Here, boy. It's okay... you're not gonna bite me, are you?

[bywolves]

I try. [ This is said in the driest tone ever. Royce watches Matt closely, tense. There's something unsettling in the air when it comes to that space that the ghost dog is, and Royce is fidgety because of it.

There's a quiet growling from behind the table, and Royce scowls, grumbling out a quiet little Maribor above as a curse. ]

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Okay, maybe it is going to bite him. Not entirely surprising, given that normal dogs don't fade in and out of existence. Matt's ready for it either way, but he takes a bit of a step back, staying low. ]

I'm open to ideas if you have any besides feeding me to this dog.

4

[empireofrats]

Um. [Okay, Mister, maybe that isn't!! such!! a good idea!!

Warily, Emily hangs back just behind.] I don't know if that's what you think it is... Wolfhounds usually try to bite you.

So maybe we shouldn't pet it.

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Um, adults always make good ideas!!!

But Matt can't ignore the distressed call of a little girl, his heroness does not allow it. He hangs back, placing himself between the "dog" and Emily. He can't know for sure who's seeing what here, but little kids totally never lie, so she must be right.

He turns around slightly to face her, his eyes looking somewhere to her left, above her head. ]

Is that what this is?

[empireofrats]

I don't know. [She looks up at him even if he can't see her doing so really.] It doesn't... really look like a wolfhound, but that's what they're called in Dunwall.

Overseers have the wolfhounds like pets, except--except the Pendletons said the Overseers teach them to bite people's hands off. [Again, she looks at the edge of the wall where the misshapen shadow zipped away. It really didn't seem unfriendly. And it looked kind of soft, like a black dog, or maybe a large black cat.]

But I don't feel scared. I don't think it's a monster. The monsters here are scary, and they try to eat you, but this one hasn't yet. It rubbed on my leg like a cat. I don't think there's any cats here, though.

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Mental note: this girl has Seen Some Shit. ]

I've never heard of wolfhounds so let's hope this one isn't that kind of dog. You usually have to train dogs to bite like that-- most of 'em just want food or attention.

[ He hopes that's the case with this one. It doesn't sound particularly vicious, mostly scared. Matt stays alert, but he keeps his attention on Emily for the most part. Protecting is more important than attacking here. ]

What do you think? Should we try and give it some food, see if that lures it out?

[empireofrats]

[A lot Of Shit.]

Um. Yes! But... I don't have much food. I can give it a little. What if it doesn't like the kind of food we give it? What if it needs special Norfinbury food? Or what if it eats seeds?

What if it eats something else? Then it won't ever come out.

[actuallydaredevil]

That's fine, don't worry-- we can give it some of my food.

[ Like hell he is letting some child starve when he can starve in her stead. ]

We can try... jerky? I think I have some of that. Dogs tend to like meat.