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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 LONG WALK HOME You wake up at 6AM when lockdown ends, cold and tired, like you've been walking miles in the snow. But that's normal, isn't it? What isn't normal is your surroundings. You're in a new building, maybe one you've never seen before, or one you know is far, far away from where you were the night before when you fell asleep. If you were traveling with someone, you notice, also, that you are alone. There's no telling where your traveling companion could be. When you check the network, you notice that @ADMIN has left a message. Surveillance encountered an error shortly after 8PM last night and was out of order until shortly after 6AM. We apologize for any inconvenience. Whether or not you're confused or concerned about the message, maybe a post to the network will help you re-orient yourself. TWO: GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE... Seems you've found a rather valuable commodity. Something like alcohol, tea, coffee, cigarettes, or perhaps even something medical. Whatever you've found, you have no real interest in it, yourself. But you know that there's a market for it, and you see the opportunity to turn this into a win-win situation. You're not physically around anyone that you know of, so you propose a network-wide trade. And whoever makes the sweetest deal can be the proud owner of their craved luxury. Action Prompts THREE: A SYMPHONY OF SOUND You and your traveling companion thought that the house you decided to stop in for the night seemed normal enough. But lockdown hits, as it does every night, and things start to get strange. Soft sounds of crying; children crying, parents crying, screaming for their own safety. Maybe it's just the sound of the wind rushing so hard through the rubble you fear the ceiling will collapse. Maybe it's your own voice whispering to you to do awful things. Whatever the noise is, it's too much for you to fall asleep, coming to eerie crescendos and ebbing in volume at entirely irregular intervals. Looks like you and whoever you're with are in for a long night. FOUR: IN DUE TIME After a grueling day of travel, you and your companion finally come across safe shelter. And it seems to be a nice house, too, with a working fireplace and everything. The only strange part is that you aren't alone--but the other people in the house don't seem to be aware of you. In fact, they don't seem to be aware of anything; they're frozen in time, unmoving, unblinking, not even breathing. They can be touched, but they can't be moved. No matter how hard you try, they're rooted to the spot. They seem to be like you, weighed down with heavy winter wear and backpacks, not like the nondescript shadowy people that wander the town. Oh well. They're probably harmless, and it isn't like you have time to find a different place to stay.

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You ever hear the voices without bodies, here?

[It sounds like another abrupt subject change, but he's actually going somewhere with this.]

I can't tell if any voice I hear has a body anymore, unless I actually touch it.

[The things this place does to you, man.]

Well, some of 'em do, and some of 'em don't. And then there's bodies like this, without voices.

So they're reversed. I get that, but I don't get why they won't move.

Can't move if there's nothing in 'em, right?

[That's his theory, anyway.]

They're like statues.

But even if their voices were taken somewhere else, there'd still be something, right? A voice isn't an entire person.

[Neither does sight alone make someone whole.]

You're taking this too literally, yeah?

They're not really here. You're not going to get a reaction out of 'em. They aren't real anymore, not like you and me.

Oh.

Yeah, I get it.

[They walk forward, using the stick to make sure they don't run into any walls, and starts scavenging. They need supplies, y'know.]

You think they've been here for years? The voices sound like it.

How do you mean?

The bodies don't seem to have moved for a while. The voices in the houses, it's like- they're tormented, being locked in the walls and stuff. Screaming to get out. Reliving bad memories they thought they'd forgotten.

Phew. Thought about this a lot, have you?

Not much else to think about, besides how to ration my food and where to go.

Well. You won't have to worry about where to go much longer, yeah? Now you've got your tablet running. There's people out there to find.

Yeah. Yeah! Thanks for helping me figure this out.

Still, I want to stay here a bit to look for food and water. You see any?

[They're feeling across the walls and corners.]

No. Not in this building. I would've taken it if I had, yeah? I wouldn't've left it.

How long since you ate?

Yesterday. Still have some stuff to eat, but I'm trying to make it last.

Most of the people here are communal. They'll want to share, and they'll want to keep a kid fed.

Okay, cool.

'S there any way I can, like... add you to contacts? Something like that?

Haven't tried; I don't know. Don't think I'm the sort you'd want to be adding to anything, anyway.

… if you say so.

[They look a little disappointed, but they'll let this go.]

How long have you been here? In the town, I mean.

Ten days, or thereabouts. Long enough to be sure it's real.

[It was a concept he'd struggled with a bit at first.]

I got here a few days ago, maybe five. I can't see the sun. I have to rely on my own sense of time.

[It's a wonder how they managed to get inside before the "curfew" each night, given their perception of time.]

[Alfie is a fan of self-sufficiency, so he's just kind of impressed; the kid at least seems to have a good head on their shoulders. Still, he's keeping an eye out for fear or upset, so he can try to head it off at the pass. The last thing he wants to do is deal with a crying child.]

You know to get in early? Doors'll lock.

Figured that out when it got late an' I tried to leave. I'm glad I didn't find out the other way around.

[Frisk is unbelievably emotionally tough, don't worry. They went toe-to-toe with a godlike abomination of human parts, machinery, and plant flesh who tore them apart more than once.

~~though they do have the occasional nightmare about that, but who wouldn't~~]

Doesn't end well, from what I've heard. The groups will keep you safe from that, too.

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