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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! ✭ So go reserve and apply when reservations and applications are open. ✭ Seriously, do it.
Network Prompts
ONE: IT WON'T BE LONG NOW... Well, you made a mistake. You spent too long searching around, or you ran outside near the end of the day for just one more thing, and now you've been locked out. You can search around all you want, but the best shelter you can hope for is pressing against the side of a sealed up building. You do still have your tablet, though. Maybe someone on the network can give you some advice, or at least some comfort while you wait for hypothermia to set in.
TWO: CABIN FEVER Maybe you didn't want that mistake of getting caught outside to happen again, but now you've ended up staying too long in one location, and cabin fever has set in. Maybe you're taking to the network to try and ignore the hallucinations. Maybe you want to tell everyone that you've figured out they're all in on your kidnapping. Maybe you ended up wandering off and now you'd really like to know if anyone can check back in the place you were at for your pants.
Action Prompts
THREE: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING You're going about your business searching what seems like it might be an especially promising house--it's fully intact and there's even a working fireplace with some wood! It looks like someone else has the same idea, though, and you've run into them in the middle of your search. Do you share the potential wealth or try to kick them out? On the other hand, maybe you know who this is, or maybe you're just glad to actually see another person for the first time in ages.
FOUR: GOOD MORGUE-NING You've just woken up in a morgue after dying in one unfortunate way or another. You have no idea where you are beyond that, but your tablet is insisting you can't stay here, so you should probably get out of here pretty quickly. Of course, bringing people back from the dead isn't a perfect science, so you're missing something important to you. Maybe you've lost your voice, maybe you can't remember where you're from, maybe you can't remember where you are right now. It looks like someone else is nearby, though. Maybe they can help you out?
( Dying? Well, strictly speaking, that isn't something that he would allow himself to do, but it seems like now, thanks to his own actions, it's something that he will have to do. And how stupid, stupid, stupid he had been. The decision to go farther than what he knew was safe had been made in a moment when he was too lucid. Looking back, now with with hindsight sharpened by the intensity of the cold, clear air, it's obvious to him that his emotions had been too strong and his imagination too vivid. As he recalls, when he made the decision he saw the backs of his loved ones and felt the promises he had made them blow through his body as warm as a gentle spring breeze. { something he'd never feel again, and he couldn't be sure whose fault that was: his or their abductor's? }
By dying he will fail his loved ones. There isn't much he can do about it other than cry, blame himself, and reflect on how, by trying to fulfil their promises, he had over extended himself and thus made it impossible to even keep them. He won't be carrying their hopes into the future, not any further than a few hours at best. He curls his fingers huddled in his pockets, wiggles his toes to check. Yes, a few hours.
But what is absolutely the worst, is that he will be directly responsible for the death of a dear friend, the little rodent he'd named Tsukiyo. Why had the rodent shown up with him in this snowbound hell? The only reason he could think was because he was left with him while Tsukiyo's true owner was gone to puruse his own fate. As such it was Shion's responsibility to look after the little guy, and in that he has failed by completely neglecting to keep the tiny being's well-being in mind.
So, at the very least, Shion feels that he owes it to Tsukiyo to take out his tablet and try to get some help for him. Taking his hands out of their heated sanctuary in his pockets will only speed along the hypothermia, he knows that, but any time he has left is not time he feels particularly entitled to. )
H-hello? ( He pauses for a moment. Breathes once, wills the muscles in his face to remember the way they would respond were they given the proper rush of vital blood. ) Hello. I was wondering, is there anyone near...Anyone who needs a companion. A companion who's definitely smarter than me and won't get caught out risking another's life. He's a smart little guy, and he'd be able to get into any building that's locked. And he's small, so he won't need much food.
( Another pause. What he's thinking is, what does he need to do to save his friend. ) Please! ( He bows—or makes a gesture like it, the best he can given the situation. ) Please, if you can, please help him.
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( He couldn't be anything other than glad, how could he be, when he's finally come across signs of another human being? He's learnt so well that humans can be cruel, yes, but those hellish images seared into his mind have become opaque beneath weeks of snowfall. When he crosses the threshold of a house that could be a proper home for a night or some nights he's tempted to just drop his pack and collapse and bask in the radiating heat of a fire, but he doesn't.
What he does is first move to find whoever found this house first. They may need his assistance. They may need some supplies. They may need to say something to another human being just as much as he does.
So, going without a moment to game it out, going without a moment to utilise the wonderful rational intellect he has always had, he calls out: )
Hello? Is there anyone here? I saw the light from outside.
[After a few days of interaction only on the tablet, it's a huge surprise to actually hear someone in the same house as her. Korra stands in the doorway, frozen to the spot for a second or two. Finally, someone else is here--actually, physically here.]
It's just me. Is there anyone else with you?
[Korra steps closer tentatively, glancing behind him curiously.]
( the step forward is a good sign, and Shion is smiling, but for a moment his look turns quizzical and he glances himself over his own shoulder. is there something there? no, not that he can see. it's just the two of them. he turns back to her and, with one hand clutching a backpack strap and his other hand extended towards her in an open gesture, he shakes his head. )
No, sorry, it's just me. You're the first person I've seen in--a while.
It's the same for me. I was hoping-- [Korra shakes her head, sighing.] Just hoping that you knew where more people were. The only way I've been able to talk to anyone else is through that flat thing I found when I woke up here.
[She looks him over now.] Did you need a place to stay? I think the doors are going to lock up soon.
[It's not a mechanic she's really fond of, but so far she hasn't found a way around it.]
The tablet? ( flat thing? maybe she's one of those people whom he's seen on the network talking about other worlds. he makes mental note to be sure to ask what is like where she's from. he takes a hand and drags it through his bangs--it's a habit of his. )No, unfortunately. At some point I think it would be worth it to go and look for people. It would be better than using that thing to communicate. But for now, please, if you'd have me, I'll be imposing.
My name is Shion. ( he doesn't offer his hand but instead a polite dip of his head. )
[She glances at the dusty table, where she'd thrown her pack and the tablet.]
Oh, is that what they're called? We don't have anything like it back home. [A smile crosses her lips.] I bet one of my friends would have loved to take a look at it--but it's probably better that she isn't here.
Anyway. My name's Korra. [She makes a vague, sweeping sort of gesture at the room.] Make yourself at home, Shion. I found a few blankets when I searched this place yesterday. You can have one of them for tonight. They're pretty worn, but it's better than nothing. We can worry about finding other people in the morning.
Yeah, I understand that. ( it sucks being here himself, but he wouldn't ever wish hell upon someone else he cared for. but he shakes his head, to shake it off, and follows her gesture with eyes to take in his surroundings fully for the first time. it may need a bit of TLC but it's the closest thing to comfortable he's found yet. )
It's a pleasure, Miss Korra. Thank you. In return, I wonder, is there anything I can do for you? ( he smiles, brightens at his idea. ) Maybe a wound that needs some kind of treatment? My supplies aren't the best, but I know how to do some basic medical procedures.
I'm alright. You should save your supplies for someone who really needs it. With the weather this bad, I'm sure we'll run into someone who needs help sooner or later. [Thankfully, she knows how to handle the snow, and has avoided any injury herself so far.
Korra glances out the window, where the snow and wind has turned everything into just a blur of white.]
I wonder how many of us are actually around here. It's hard to tell with everyone scattered like this.
Still, if you're hurt yourself even a little, you should take care of it. The cold isn't as bad at the heat, but given the circumstances it's easy for something minor to compound into something much worse. ( just being honest! he lightens up though, and moves to remove his pack. )
It's hard to say. Until we really know what's out there it's impossible to know whether we're better off in large or small groups. At least we can keep in communication with the tablets but... ( he gives his own pack a dubious look, but then shakes his head. ) I don't think it would be a bad idea to gather some people up. There's nothing as pleasant as another friendly face.
Mm. And even if there's more of us to feed, we'll be able to find more.
( again he looks down at his pack, then back at Korra and nods. ) Yeah. I'm guessing you found one as well? You also have a tablet. ( he moves over to a chair, too, and instead of bothering to dust it off just lays his coat down before sitting down on it. )
They were both on the floor next to me. Nobody else was in that house--I checked before I left.
[Korra frowns, folding her arms over her chest.]
Don't you think that's suspicious? We turn up in some weird place like this with supplies and something that lets us talk to each other. Sounds to me like someone's expecting something from us.
It was the same with me. I couldn't get out until I used the tablet I had with me.
( honestly, he's having a hard time sitting still, not standing up and exclaiming that she is absolutely right about that. he was suspicious right from the start--how could it not be? at best it could be some kind of human-test-subject-using experiment they will survive; at worse it's probably just a joke someone somewhere finds incredibly funny. )
It is! I don't know why else we would be here, unless someone wanted something from us. I'm sure they're watching us right now.
( in his response his eyes look a bit distant, as they always do when he's recalling really specific information. he does have an astounding memory, though, so it's almost like he gets a little lost in it. )
Mailbox...I think I may know. It was in a more obviously resedential area? I'm not too far away from some kind of a church.
( is to keep them out or keep them in? he doesn't particularly want to think about it right now so instead he makes light conversation while he figures out which way to go. )
Thank you for the help, Miss. I really...I really appreciate your kindness. I don't have much, but I'll leave my pack in front of the door.
What? No. Keep it with you. Your things come back with you....
[She looks away from the door back at the screen. She didn't realize he was this new.]
You come back here. No one stays dead. You'll wake up after you die in a morgue. You might be missing your sight or your hearing or something else for a while but you come back.
[Somehow, she wishes she knew how.]
I just meant I'd look after your friend until you woke up again.
A morgue? That's really morbid. I guess at least it makes sense... ( well that's--something. he stops walking for a moment, stares at the screen not to see anything, but because his head happens to fall that way. he really should have been paying more attention to what was going on the tablets. mostly he has ignored them because he just doesn't trust that someone somewhere isn't keeping surveillance on the tablets' users. but it would have been nice to know )
I...Thank you, again. We don't lose arms or legs or eyes, do we? When I--come back, is there anything I can help you with, medically speaking?
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shion ~ no.6
( Dying? Well, strictly speaking, that isn't something that he would allow himself to do, but it seems like now, thanks to his own actions, it's something that he will have to do. And how stupid, stupid, stupid he had been. The decision to go farther than what he knew was safe had been made in a moment when he was too lucid. Looking back, now with with hindsight sharpened by the intensity of the cold, clear air, it's obvious to him that his emotions had been too strong and his imagination too vivid. As he recalls, when he made the decision he saw the backs of his loved ones and felt the promises he had made them blow through his body as warm as a gentle spring breeze. { something he'd never feel again, and he couldn't be sure whose fault that was: his or their abductor's? }
By dying he will fail his loved ones. There isn't much he can do about it other than cry, blame himself, and reflect on how, by trying to fulfil their promises, he had over extended himself and thus made it impossible to even keep them. He won't be carrying their hopes into the future, not any further than a few hours at best. He curls his fingers huddled in his pockets, wiggles his toes to check. Yes, a few hours.
But what is absolutely the worst, is that he will be directly responsible for the death of a dear friend, the little rodent he'd named Tsukiyo. Why had the rodent shown up with him in this snowbound hell? The only reason he could think was because he was left with him while Tsukiyo's true owner was gone to puruse his own fate. As such it was Shion's responsibility to look after the little guy, and in that he has failed by completely neglecting to keep the tiny being's well-being in mind.
So, at the very least, Shion feels that he owes it to Tsukiyo to take out his tablet and try to get some help for him. Taking his hands out of their heated sanctuary in his pockets will only speed along the hypothermia, he knows that, but any time he has left is not time he feels particularly entitled to. )
H-hello? ( He pauses for a moment. Breathes once, wills the muscles in his face to remember the way they would respond were they given the proper rush of vital blood. ) Hello. I was wondering, is there anyone near...Anyone who needs a companion. A companion who's definitely smarter than me and won't get caught out risking another's life. He's a smart little guy, and he'd be able to get into any building that's locked. And he's small, so he won't need much food.
( Another pause. What he's thinking is, what does he need to do to save his friend. ) Please! ( He bows—or makes a gesture like it, the best he can given the situation. ) Please, if you can, please help him.
o3. action
( He couldn't be anything other than glad, how could he be, when he's finally come across signs of another human being? He's learnt so well that humans can be cruel, yes, but those hellish images seared into his mind have become opaque beneath weeks of snowfall. When he crosses the threshold of a house that could be a proper home for a night or some nights he's tempted to just drop his pack and collapse and bask in the radiating heat of a fire, but he doesn't.
What he does is first move to find whoever found this house first. They may need his assistance. They may need some supplies. They may need to say something to another human being just as much as he does.
So, going without a moment to game it out, going without a moment to utilise the wonderful rational intellect he has always had, he calls out: )
Hello? Is there anyone here? I saw the light from outside.
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It's just me. Is there anyone else with you?
[Korra steps closer tentatively, glancing behind him curiously.]
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No, sorry, it's just me. You're the first person I've seen in--a while.
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[She looks him over now.] Did you need a place to stay? I think the doors are going to lock up soon.
[It's not a mechanic she's really fond of, but so far she hasn't found a way around it.]
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My name is Shion. ( he doesn't offer his hand but instead a polite dip of his head. )
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Oh, is that what they're called? We don't have anything like it back home. [A smile crosses her lips.] I bet one of my friends would have loved to take a look at it--but it's probably better that she isn't here.
Anyway. My name's Korra. [She makes a vague, sweeping sort of gesture at the room.] Make yourself at home, Shion. I found a few blankets when I searched this place yesterday. You can have one of them for tonight. They're pretty worn, but it's better than nothing. We can worry about finding other people in the morning.
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It's a pleasure, Miss Korra. Thank you. In return, I wonder, is there anything I can do for you? ( he smiles, brightens at his idea. ) Maybe a wound that needs some kind of treatment? My supplies aren't the best, but I know how to do some basic medical procedures.
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I'm alright. You should save your supplies for someone who really needs it. With the weather this bad, I'm sure we'll run into someone who needs help sooner or later. [Thankfully, she knows how to handle the snow, and has avoided any injury herself so far.
Korra glances out the window, where the snow and wind has turned everything into just a blur of white.]
I wonder how many of us are actually around here. It's hard to tell with everyone scattered like this.
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It's hard to say. Until we really know what's out there it's impossible to know whether we're better off in large or small groups. At least we can keep in communication with the tablets but... ( he gives his own pack a dubious look, but then shakes his head. ) I don't think it would be a bad idea to gather some people up. There's nothing as pleasant as another friendly face.
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[Korra drops into a battered old chair that she'd dusted off earlier, eyes on the pack that Shion was carrying with him. It looks just like hers.]
You found that when you woke up, right? [She points at it intently.]
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( again he looks down at his pack, then back at Korra and nods. ) Yeah. I'm guessing you found one as well? You also have a tablet. ( he moves over to a chair, too, and instead of bothering to dust it off just lays his coat down before sitting down on it. )
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[Korra frowns, folding her arms over her chest.]
Don't you think that's suspicious? We turn up in some weird place like this with supplies and something that lets us talk to each other. Sounds to me like someone's expecting something from us.
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( honestly, he's having a hard time sitting still, not standing up and exclaiming that she is absolutely right about that. he was suspicious right from the start--how could it not be? at best it could be some kind of human-test-subject-using experiment they will survive; at worse it's probably just a joke someone somewhere finds incredibly funny. )
It is! I don't know why else we would be here, unless someone wanted something from us. I'm sure they're watching us right now.
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Do you recognize anything near you? I'm in a old red house on the corner of a street. I think there was a mailbox near it.
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Mailbox...I think I may know. It was in a more obviously resedential area? I'm not too far away from some kind of a church.
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[She goes over to the door and tries to open it. She always feels the need to try just to tell herself she attempted to stop this from happening.]
I'd open the door for you if I could but I'm guessing you know that's impossible by now.
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( is to keep them out or keep them in? he doesn't particularly want to think about it right now so instead he makes light conversation while he figures out which way to go. )
Thank you for the help, Miss. I really...I really appreciate your kindness. I don't have much, but I'll leave my pack in front of the door.
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[She looks away from the door back at the screen. She didn't realize he was this new.]
You come back here. No one stays dead. You'll wake up after you die in a morgue. You might be missing your sight or your hearing or something else for a while but you come back.
[Somehow, she wishes she knew how.]
I just meant I'd look after your friend until you woke up again.
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I...Thank you, again. We don't lose arms or legs or eyes, do we? When I--come back, is there anything I can help you with, medically speaking?
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[She pauses at that last bit though.]
You're a doctor?
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( he could dwell on it, but he doesn't. instead he shakes his head, but he's smiling. he really likes it when he can be of some use. )
Not quite, but basic medical procedures was a part of the education I recieved when I was young. I do have some field experience, though.
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I was trained as a doctor where I grew up so I have some medical knowledge myself. Do you know much about cold climates and preventing frostbite?