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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Stephen Strange | MCU

[thewarningafter]

[One | @beyonce | video]

Looks like our little friends are supplementing their ranks.

[The low, American-accented voice that comes rolling out of the man onscreen might sound unperturbed at first blush, but there's definite concern under it. Strange shifts forward in his seat to turn the tablet to face a doll seated on the table near the device. Dark hair frames high cheekbones on a pale porcelain face.]

I'd say they got my hair all wrong, but I think we all know this one isn't meant to be me. First time I've heard of one showing up outside of building two-nineteen. Could be a new development if it's the automated systems planting these things, or it could be that whoever's making them has shifted their base of operations now that we've breached the ruins.

Keep your eyes open, alright?




[Two | @beyonce | text]

Has anyone else experienced a telekinetic attack related to a game on the tablet?

Also, could use needle, bandages. Will trade scissors, possibly blanket.



[Three]

[Ideally, the Sorcerer Supreme would be the sort of man who would, upon awakening to find himself hung in effigy, calmly assess the situation and quietly wake his companion to help him clear the house of intruders. There are limits to what Stephen can take and maintain his composure, though, and it turns out a tiny hanged version of himself dangled above his head while he slept constitutes one of those limits.

There's a yelp and a series of scuffling and thumping sounds in the dark as he scrambles out from underneath the thing, gaze still fixed on the dull glint of its dead eyes. He fetches up against the sleeping form of his traveling companion, shaking hands pawing at them as he pants in wordless distress.]



[Four]

Stop it.

[He's trying to sleep, asshole. Stephen growls the words, eyes held steadfastly shut. He noticed the moving doll thing pretty early in the evening. He also noticed how they aren't so much moving dolls as they are dolls that happen to have been moved whenever his back is turned -- conveniently, when his companion claims to have their back turned as well.

It's getting ridiculous, if only because the alternative to "ridiculous" is "very worrying."]

2 - @wiccandoit - would he have previously identified himself by name/title on the network?

[fanboyascended]

I've got butterfly bandages and rubbing alcohol.

Also, ow.

by name, yes; at his canon point he hasn't taken the title yet, but you can assume it's come up

[thewarningafter]

That'll do it.

If you find a program called HIDEANDSEEK maybe don't open that. You near the museum?

o7

[fanboyascended]

Too late, but I've got it patched up.

I'm about an hour away, actually. Think you can hold out until then?

[thewarningafter]

Yeah. Nothing I can't handle.

[He's hardly hurt at all, Billy. The fact that he's going to the trouble of typing instead of using audio or video means nothing.]

1/3

[fanboyascended]

[ (Un?)Luckily, Billy's still in enough awe of Doctor Strange talking to him that he doesn't really doubt that he can handle it. Yet. ]

Be there as soon as I can. Try to keep pressure on it until I get there.

2/3

[fanboyascended]

Wait you're a doctor you already knew that.

3

[redrooms]

[Natasha, of course, is the type to sleep with a knife on her at all times. Multiple knives. Details. She's awake as soon as she hears Stephen scramble up, letter opener in one hand. He paws at her and she flinches, sucking in a sharp breath, and god, he's lucky she registers that it's him. Her voice comes out sharp and calm, free hand gripping his arm as she sits up.]

Strange. What happened?

[thewarningafter]

[See, that's how you're supposed to respond when you're in the superhero business. Her calm helps to ground him. It helps even more that he doesn't see the letter opener or realize how close he just came to getting it between his ribs.]

Someone's in here with us.

[He has the sense to lower his voice, at least, though the damage is already done.]

Four

[jumpthegun]

[John's a bit out of sorts, himself. It's less to do with the dolls and more to do with this American bloke having his friend's face. It's unsettling and his accent just sounds wrong whenever he speaks. Although, he has to admit, Strange's beard does make him want to encourage Sherlock to consider facial hair properly. It looks... good?

Less good is the current situation.]

I'm sitting in a corner, doctor. I'm not doing anything apart from reading and thinking. Bit too loud for you?

[thewarningafter]

[Like you can talk about "unsettling," John Watson. At least it's not the other one he's stuck overnighting with, the supposed Sherlock Holmes who looks like Stephen's evil twin out of a comic book. No one tell Stephen that he's the one who looks like an evil twin.

He gives up on pretense for the moment and cracks open an eye to give the other man an incredulous look.]

Like hell you are. What are you playing at, here, anyway? Because let me tell you, it's already getting old.

[jumpthegun]

Right. [John glances up from his tablet.] So, the alternatives here:

1. There's a data ghost in the house mucking about with our perceptions because that's what they do.

2. I've got telekinesis and am moving things about without moving.

Or 3. I'm just about the stealthiest bloke on the planet, able to run and move things while you aren't looking and you can't even hear me moving.

Which are we going with, then?

up to you whether Stephen's sorcerer-ness is out in the open here

[thewarningafter]

[That's all perfectly logical. It's also not anything Stephen wants to hear.]

If you've got telekinesis, I've got some choice words for the assholes who brought us here.

[And now he's sulking, but at least he's considering John's point as he shuts his eyes again. Option three can probably be discarded out of hand, given that it didn't stop happening after they'd both settled down in place. Option two is still on the table, though it'd make Mr. Watson the only person in town with that kind of ability intact. Option one is beyond his current ability to assess and confront, which is why it frustrates the hell out of him that it's probably what's happening.

He's silent, at least, for a few moments. Good job, John.]

When you say data ghost, do you mean a digital impression of an actual consciousness, or is it just a cute way to talk about hallucinations?

2 - @IAmLegend; voice;

[definingfuture]

Your app attacked you?

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen will stick to text for now. It takes him longer, but it also makes it a hell of a lot easier to hide the pain.]

HIDEANDSEEK. Game I found on an SD card. Turns out there's a penalty for losing.

[definingfuture]

What happened? Walk me through it.

[The texting is only slightly suspicious. There are a few reasons people might prefer text and it doesn't have to mean he's hiding something. But after saying he needs a needle, Tony has to wonder.]

[thewarningafter]

Title's kind of self explanatory. First round you have to find a doll. Second round the doll finds you. Ran out the timer once, second time it found me. Game crashed after it showed up with a knife, and now I'm bleeding.

If you've got any help to offer, now would be a great time. Or I could keep answering questions.

2 - @toboggan

[trolltoll]

will you accept an egg

[thewarningafter]

Will I accept an egg for what?

[trolltoll]

you said you were trading the scissors, possibly blanket? it's a nice egg. farm-fresh.

[thewarningafter]

For medical supplies, because I just got stabbed by an imaginary doll.

[Some people's reading comprehension.]

Also I have my doubts about the farm freshness of this egg.

two | @zmove | text

[cosmoem]

Oh no! Are you alright, Doctor Strange?! Was it that app that attacked you?!

@beyonce | text

[thewarningafter]

It was the game I found. HIDEANDSEEK. Don't open it if you find a copy.

[No comment on whether he's alright.]

[cosmoem]

I knew something was strange about that app!

I have some bandages on me! Where are you?

[thewarningafter]

So you did find one.

I'm in the museum.