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: LISTEN, DOLLFACE It's no secret that dolls have been the talk of the town, lately. People have been finding them all over Norfinbury: some rag dolls that seem particularly relevant to the Prophet, and some that are unsettling without the apparent connection. Still, it's surprising when you found a doll that looks like another one of the residents. You turn to the network, feeling unsettled, unsure what this could mean. Maybe you aren't alone, or maybe someone has a theory? Come to think of it, you're pretty sure that someone else mentioned finding something similar. TWO: TIPTOES.EXE IS HERE Sometime today you find an SD card that downloaded an app to your tablet. It's titled HIDEANDSEEK and has the picture of a doll as its icon. When you open it, it seems like it's a game to play against a digital opponent: a doll. The game appears to have two stages. In the first stage, the doll hides, and you need to travel around the house (is it just you, or does the layout of this house seem to always be the house you're in when you open it?) to find the doll. In the second stage, you need to hide yourself from the doll, and listen for its movements so it can't catch you. If it does catch you, it will be holding a knife. The screen goes red and the game crashes for the rest of the night. Somewhere on your body, a gash appears. It's nothing fatal, but maybe you should talk to someone about this on the Network. Action Prompts THREE: STRANGE THINGS DID HAPPEN HERE The house that you've found seems promising in terms of useful items to take with you, so you and your traveling companion have spent all day scouring the house for items. At first, everything's fine. Neither of you find or feel anything out of the ordinary. Lockdown approaches, you go to sleep without any additional trepidation...but an odd creaking noise fills your dreams. It gets louder in your ears until you can't stand it anymore and snap awake. When you open your eyes, it's there hanging just above you, swinging in a nonexistent wind: a doll with a broken neck, a noose tied around its neck. It looks just like you. FOUR: LOOK BEHIND YOU Maybe you're not unsettled by dolls--and maybe neither is your companion--but one thing is for certain: this house you've been locked into for the night has an odd, oppressive feeling to it. Maybe it's just because it's full of dolls, though they all seem ordinary enough. Nothing strange happens at first, but as the night goes on...you finally notice: wasn't that porcelain baby doll on the other side of the room the last time you were in it? Didn't you turn that other one to face away from where you were sleeping? The more the night goes on, the more obvious the movements become--sometimes, you even swear you hear the pitter patter of little feet. But nothing ever happens when you're watching. Maybe it's just your imagination. Or maybe, you realize in frustration, your traveling companion is trying to scare you. But is your paranoia worth the confrontation if it is? And will you even believe them if they swear their innocence?

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1; @Pandora; hi Jenny

[titanette]

It looks like me!

[She sounds surprised and intrigued, but not upset.]

I'll take care of yours if I find it, I promise. Will you take care of mine?

wink wink WHAT'S UP

[theurgy]

Yeah, no problem.

[She is way more chill about this than he thinks she should be.]

You sure you don't want yours?

just impulse-apping hbu

[titanette]

Oh!

[It's like the thought hadn't occurred to her.]

Can I have it?

STILL TORN ON WHICH APP ROUND I WANT TO APP THIS NERD IN RIP

[theurgy]

[Cassel is offering because he wouldn't trust anyone with his doll, whether there's proof these things are dangerous or not, so her reaction makes his eyebrows tick up.]

Free of charge.

[And then he shoots her a smile.]

Actually, how about we make a deal? I'll give you yours, and if you find mine, you let me have it.

[titanette]

All right.

[She's never made a deal with anyone before. THIS IS SERIOUS AND IMPORTANT. She holds out a very pale hand towards the screen, curls her fingers like she's grasping onto something imaginary, and moves her arm up and down.]

I know that deals are sealed with handshakes, but I can't shake your hand, so I'll pretend.

[theurgy]

[He still gets struck, sometimes, by the weirdness of it—it's strange seeing bare hands so casually in general, but no one at home would ever, ever shake hands without gloves. It's just over a tablet, sure, but still. Weird.

Honestly, pretending to shake hands at all is silly, but she's just a kid, so Cassel humors her, mimicking the gesture with his own gloved hand.]

Just as good as the real thing. I'm Cassel.

[titanette]

I'm--

[She hesitates.]

I'm called Melanie, but the tablet said I could pick my own name when I registered, and so I told it to call me Pandora.

[theurgy]

You're a fan of Greek mythology, huh?

[Kind of a dark one to pick, but hey. He devoured horror novels as a kid, so he can't really judge.]

[titanette]

Oh, yes. I like all stories, but Greek myths are my favorites. Do you know all of them?

[theurgy]

[He smiles again, much more genuine this time.]

Definitely not all of them, but we studied a bunch of them in school. Prometheus was one of my favorites.

[He's totally fine distracting some kid with a conversation like this, honestly.]

[titanette]

If you were a titan like Prometheus, would you have stolen fire the way he did, to give it to us?

[theurgy]

[Jesus, kid. Cassel's silent for a minute, trying to figure out how to respond. The truth is, he wants to be the kind of person who would, but he doesn't think he's wired that way. The whole eternal punishment thing is a big deterrent, and he doesn't think he's good enough to take on that punishment, even if it is for the good of mankind.

Still. Not the kind of conversation you have with a kid, so.]

Most people want to think of themselves as heroes, right? That's a hard question to answer.

[titanette]

The gods didn't think it made him a hero, and the gods were really powerful and important. I think if he just wanted to be a hero, he wouldn't have done it. I think he really wanted to help us.

[theurgy]

That's the point, right? Good people do good things regardless of what other people think.

[He figures. His experience with good people is pretty much limited to Sam, Daneca and Daneca's mother.]

[titanette]

I hope so.

[Her experience with good people is limited to ABSOLUTELY NOBODY]

I don't always think I like the gods very much.

[theurgy]

Yeah, they weren't that great. Is Pandora your favorite?

[titanette]

She was wonderful. Miss Justineau says that she was everything you'd want to be.

[theurgy]

[That's... quite a way to look at her.]

Yeah? And why's that?

[titanette]

Because she was special, and the gods all gave her gifts, and they made her clever and brave and beautiful and funny and so many other things. They also made her too curious and that's why she opened the box, but mostly she was all of those good things.

[theurgy]

I guess that's a pretty good role model to have.

[Mostly.]

What other stories did your teacher tell you?

[titanette]

All sorts! Winnie the Pooh and Tom Sawyer and Jack and the Beanstalk and Mowgli in the jungle - Miss Justineau has the best stories.

[theurgy]

You know Andersen? His username is "caster". He knows a bunch of great stories, too. I bet he'd share them with you if you asked. You like The Little Mermaid, right?

[titanette]

Of course! But he isn't Hans Christian Andersen, is he? He can't be.

[theurgy]

That's who he says he is. He's probably lying.

[But he's also a blue haired kid with a deeper voice than Cassel, so.]

Even if he's not, he's got all the stories memorized. Better than nothing, huh?

[titanette]

Maybe he picked a new name when the tablet asked him who he wanted to be.