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✭ 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!
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Network Prompts
ONE: TRIAL BY CANDLELIGHT
You wake up one morning to find that an app has downloaded itself to your tablet. It's titled CANDLE.EXE and has an icon to match. When you opening it, you're greeted with a dark screen that features a gently swaying candle flame. Above it reads:
LEAVE AN OFFERING?
If you hit "no", the candle snuffs out. Your tablet shuts itself off abruptly, before rebooting to reveal the app has vanished. If you hit "yes", the candle flame turns purple and the app closes, but doesn't disappear. You have the distinct feeling that small, indiscernible piece of yourself has gone missing...but there's nothing stopping you from opening the app and making another offering...again, and again, and again.
TWO: PAPER TRAIL
The last several days have been productive. You and many others have split up to explore a newly opened area of the town as quickly as possible. One night, as you're searching the place you've found, you make a unique discovery: a folded note that appears to have been written in blood. The paper is delicate parchment, but with careful fingers you're able to unfold it and read what appears to be some sort of haunting hymn that centers around the Prophet of Norfinbury. However...it cuts off abruptly, and the corner of the page is even numbered. You have a feeling there are other accompanying pages, but you can't find any scattered around the house. Maybe you should take it to the Network. It could be that someone else in the area has found another page.
Action Prompts
THREE: I CAN HEAR THE BELLS
All things considered, you and your traveling companion have been having a reasonably easy day. Even the building you've chosen to spend the night in is peaceful. But then, shortly after lockdown hits...it starts. The sound of churchbells chiming. At first, it's distant, but they seem to be ringing closer and closer to the outside of the building, clanging and clammering so that you feel as if there's an earthquake in your skull. It drives you crazy, or maybe it even hurts--so why can your companion sleep so easily? Don't they hear it too? Maybe you should wake them up so they can help...or suffer by your side.
FOUR: A POUND OF FLESH
You and your companion reach a building just in time for lockdown, and notice right off the bat that something isn't right. Namely, your eyes can't help but land on a bloody message scrawled along the far wall. It reads:
A POUND OF FLESH TO SAVE US
Beneath it, there's a single metal bowl on a small table. The table is covered in blood, as well as the bowl, but it's empty...for now. Surely, you aren't about to chop off a hand just to see if there's anything to this message other than general cultist insanity, but you can't knock the sense of foreboding that weighs down the place like a stone. For better or for worse, you're going to have to spend the night here, so the two of you may as well talk about what you've found. Maybe you'll be able to come up with some sort of theory about what could've happened here in the past.
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snowblindmemes2017-06-14 11:59 pm
3!
I didn't say anything!
[His eyes are wide as saucers as he stares at Peter. What the hell, bro?]
What's going on?
YAY!
Can't you hear it!? The stupid bells!?
[Well, that wasn't ominous at all.]
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[He hears exactly 0 bells, but he concentrates and tries to hear them just because maybe it will make Peter feel better if he's not the only one. But...well, nope. Nothing. Quark shakes his head.]
No, I don't hear anything.
[Maybe he should be shouting back...? He raises his voice.]
Maybe the town is playing tricks on you!
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Peter actually does appreciate the kid trying to help by yelling back. It's pretty loud for him right now. Feels like there's an earthquake in his head. He's still clutching his ears.]
It won't stop!
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Quark does the first thing that he can think of.]
Think fast, Mister Starlord!
[He takes off his helmet and chucks it at Peter as hard as his tiny arms can.]
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The helmet bashes Peter in the forehead, stunning him slightly. He stumbles sideways.]
Ow!
[But hey, it worked. The pain and stunning seem to quell the bells. He can still hear them, but at least they're not ringing his brains to mush.]
Good shot.
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I'm a boy of many talents.
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[Peter plops down on the floor, it's probably best cause he was getting real dizzy.]
I can still hear 'em though. Has this happened before to you or anybody?
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[He fetches his helmet from where it landed on the floor, and tucking it under one arm, fetches a bottle of water from his backpack before joining Peter, sitting next to him. He offers the water first, and then opens up one of the containers on the hat to pull out a bag of pretzels.]
I dunno about the bells, but sometimes weird stuff like this happens in some of the buildings...especially if you stay in one place for too long. One time, I thought there was someone outside on the roof screaming and trying to claw his way in.
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Let me guess. Nothing there, right?
[Please let there be nothing there. He'd seen enough horror movies as a kid to know that can't be good in any way, shape, or form.
The bells still rang on in his head. That was gonna get old, real fast.]
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[Of course, if there was, whoever was out there super, duper died.]
I think that you'll be okay if we go somewhere else after lockdown lifts. Until then, try to think about other things, like how pretzels are really tasty.
[He munches one of the aforementioned pretzels and looks thoughtful.]
Or I'll hit you in the head again, but it probably won't work a second time if you're expecting it. And I don't want to give you a concussion.
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[He takes another swig.]
Pretzels are pretty tasty. But it's probably not a good idea to get a concussion.
From all the stuff I read I was expecting this town to be like a wacky funhouse or something, you know? Like the ones they bring to the county fairs and stuff. People just exaggerating to set the mood and all. Nope. This is so not a funhouse. This is like, trapped-in-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-land. You ever seen Freddy Krueger, kid? I'm expecting him to turn up.
[He says this with solemness and seriousness.]
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[Quark taps the fingers of one hand on the floorboard, face squinting in concentration.]
Is he the one with the claw hand?
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[Peter sounds excited.]
He's got a gnarly face and a hat and he comes and kills you in your dreams and stuff!
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Yeah, I remember! And there are the girls with the jump rope that sing his song. That was a totally scary movie! Are you a movie expert, Mister Starlord?
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[He's not, his movie knowledge only goes up to 1988, anyway.]
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[It's okay Quark is too young and unknowing to judge your taste in old flicks.]
What's your favorite movie?
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[A shrug.]
Oh man, my favorite movie? That's hard. Okay, so I love Star Wars, especially Empire Strikes Back. Indiana Jones, too. Goonies, the Star Treks were pretty good, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Robocop...
[He's probably going to keep going on if he's not stopped.]
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[He's really enjoying hearing about them though, so he wouldn't really care if Peter kept going.]
I dunno if I have a favorite. I haven't seen enough yet. I don't think I've seen most of those movies that you mentioned...except Indiana Jones.
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You're in for a wild ride.
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Don't really have a lot of movie access on the Earth I come from. It's kinda...like, a traveling theater goes around and shows movies. So you never know when you're gonna get one or what you're gonna get.
[Like a less sophisticated and more depressing drive-in.]
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[He knows about missing movies and lack of access.]
Maybe we'll find something here. You never know, right?
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[You need to find your fun somewhere, right? So Quark won't give up hope about that. Maybe he'll get to watch a couple cool movies before they find their way out.]
I know people have found video games before, at least.