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: A FRUITFUL ENDEAVOR You arrive at the grocery store downtown in the early evening. There's still plenty of food, but of course the bread is no longer warm and most of the best selection has been taken. What's left of the produce is pretty obscure; what the heck is a lychee, or a starfruit, or a pluot? Maybe the skin of this one isn't meant to be eaten? What about the leaves? And as for the bread, what on earth is pumpernickel anyway? To say the least of what this must look like if you're not from Earth or some place similar. Maybe someone more familiar with obscure Earth foods will have some answers for you! TWO: YOU'RE BREAKING UP There's a bit of a malfunction on the network. Text posts seem to be fine, if received at a bit of a delay, but there's definitely some trouble with the audio and video functions. There's noticeable static interference in most of the voice and video posts, obscuring both audio and video feeds alike. Sometimes, the shape of a person can almost be seen in the static of the videos--or maybe it's the shape of a monster. Regardless, try to be polite to those you're talking with. It isn't their fault you can't hear parts of what they're saying. (Please write out all of your character's dialogue if you're using this prompt so that we can get a better feel for their voice! Simply indicate in the narration what cannot be heard as a result of the static, or leave it up to your thread partner to decide what does not come through.) Action Prompts THREE: COLD HANDS, WARM HEART Either you arrived in Norfinbury bare-handed or became that way somewhere along the road, but your hands are freezing. You worry you may be prone to frostbite sometime soon, but you haven’t had any luck finding any sort of fabric that you could turn into some makeshift protection. Your travel partner is in a similar situation, as well. That’s when you stop in a building for the night and find it: one perfect pair of fluffy mittens. But there’s only one pair. Will you give them to your companion? Keep them for yourself? Hide them? Or try to make a compromise? If all else fails, there’s always rock, paper, scissors. FOUR: ONE LUMP OR TWO? There's been a buzz on the network lately about a box full of tea packets having been discovered. Maybe you're a tea person or maybe you aren't, but for the sake of being able to drink something warm (and something unexpired for that matter), you've dragged yourself over to a rendezvous point for one purpose and one purpose alone: a tea party. Of course, there is always the danger of monsters, particularly when you're around too many people...but maybe it's worth it for a hot drink, right?

Comments

[in_my_mind_palace]

Then you are at risk of frostbite and I would rather neither of us have an amputated a limb by morning.

[ He has, but when is he ever practical? ]

Fire is the better choice.

[ Sherlock turned, shouldering away the offered gloves while shoving his own hand into the pockets of his coat. ]

[jumpthegun]

Yeah, you're a real tough guy. Your hands are as bad as mine.

[ Where's Mrs. Hudson when you need her for mothering? ]

I know the body's only a vessel for the mind or whatever other excuse you've got, but you'll be waiting 'til you fingers fall off if you're holding out for better clothes.

A heater's a better choice, but unless you've got that or a lighter hidden somewhere up your sleeve, we've got gloves.

[ Which he is now apparently holding onto until he can hound Sherlock into wearing them. ]

I'll take them first, but you're putting these on in an hour.

[ He pulls the gloves on as they step further into the building, investigating the rooms. John aims for anything that looks like it might be a closet, hoping his pessimism about their clothing prospects is unwarranted. ]