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: YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED When you wake up, you find that a new application has been downloaded to your tablet. It's titled "SURVEY" and is exactly what it claims to be--although there's no explanation to why it's appeared or what it is for other than the note that claims the survey is not opt-out and that your cooperation is appreciated. And more troubling, the questions become more sinister the farther in you answer. Such questions as, "on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your stay?" and "have your needs been met in a timely manner?" become more akin to, "if you had to chose between the two, would you eat your hands or your feet to stave off the hunger?" and "are you sure you are not the last one still alive?" Perhaps someone on the Network would like to discuss what this could mean--and if there are any consequences behind finishing or refusing to take the survey. TWO: NOT SO HELPFUL AVATARS Every tablet has the option for a customizable avatar that will talk to you and keep your tablet in order. Maybe you set it up, maybe you never checked it. Either way, it keeps popping up unrequested and being sort of... Odd. Flickering, talking in strange, mechanical voices, offering advice that's unhelpful at best and actively harmful at worst... Maybe it's even telling the entire network some things you've been doing you'd rather everyone didn't know. Time to call tech support. Unfortunately, the best option is other people on the network. Good luck. Action Prompts THREE: SPIDERS IN THE WALLS Somehow you or your travel companion injured themselves. A quick call to the admin fixed this, but now you can't help but be gripped with the burning curiosity of where the helpful spiders she deployed have gone. You saw them scramble toward the vents, but by the time paralysis wore off they'd completely disappeared. Only now you can't stop thinking about them. Where do they go to? How can they be trapped or followed? You swear you hear little mechanical pattering inside the walls. Maybe you can find some sort of tool to help you break into a vent around the house. Or maybe your companion can convince you to rest before you hurt yourself. FOUR: SCHOOL DAYS You've ended up in the elementary school. Maybe you're grabbing more food, maybe you're exploring. Either way, this place is creepy; the atmosphere is the sort that gets the hair on the back of your neck rising (potentially metaphorically, if you don't have hair or a neck). It's not long before strange things start happening. The sound of running and screaming children, doors slamming in far off or nearby hallways, pianos playing... What's going on? It's hard to tell what's really happening from what isn't happening. Maybe someone who's also exploring has some idea.

Comments

[scruffy_mcjackass]

At Baby's First Horror Movie's attempts at spooky quantum mechanics? Not really interested in your no doubt expert analysis of that one.

The survey, dumbass. First four questions and your answers to them. I'm not going to haggle over it.

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, okay, guy. He gave you a chance to get him to be serious there. If you're going to be like that, though.]

1. what is your name?
a: arthur

2. what is your quest?
a: i seek the grail

3. what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
a: african or european swallow?

4. what is your favorite color?
a: blue

[scruffy_mcjackass]

[Dustin does not have to know this reference to understand that House is full of shit right now.]

You're a waste of space.

[rubikscomplex]

wow
i'm tearing up
words can hurt, you know?
didn't your mom ever tell you that?

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Continuing to prove my point.

[rubikscomplex]

how about you tell me your first five questions and answers and i'll give you my real ones?
i don't see you handing out your info
just demanding it
how're the rest of us supposed to run analytics when we're missing you?
the keyest of key data points

[scruffy_mcjackass]

You? Run analytics? Don't make me laugh.

[rubikscomplex]

aw
but you seem like you could use a laugh, buddy!
plus, i'm not an "us"
other people around

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Other people that I can give that information to personally if I think they're capable of using it effectively. You just want me to post it publicly because you want it. Don't pretend like you're acting in everyone's best interests.

[rubikscomplex]

so you're playing gatekeeper with information
why?
got something to hide?

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Plenty. Point?

[rubikscomplex]

point being as much as you wanna play the lone genius on the hill, poindexter
we've got at least a genius psychopathic clown
two hypertech futuristic hackers
and a few folks who are centuries old hanging around
you wanna crowd source your data gathering
stop being a moron and crowd source the solutions
you can pick through the results that everyone else comes up with for something viable a hell of a lot faster than you can run every potential analysis route yourself

[scruffy_mcjackass]

First of all, you don't know if I haven't already sourced that data.
Second, when your list of "good sources" includes "psychopathic clown," I'm probably everyone's best bet for reliable data analysis.
And third, none of those people include you, so you're still not getting that info no matter how much you stamp your feet about it.

[rubikscomplex]

uh yeah, i do
you're not sharing it opening
that means you're not crowd sourcing
you're selective sourcing
yeah
i'd prefer to go to a real doctor
but every once in a while webmd actually pulls shit out that the docs can't figure out

[Mainly because he's surfing and responding, but never you mind.]

and psychoclown thinks in unique ways
keep him at a distance or on a leash, he's useful
i'm guessing you were, what?
the genius techie of your little circle?
let someone else sort out the politics
let someone else care
and just give you the things to work on when it was needed
leave you alone to do your own thing when you weren't needed

[Okay, so he's maybe projecting a tiny bit.]

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Well, yes.
I'd never crowd source this data because it might get into the hands of psychopaths, or idiots, or worse, liars like you who think they can use them.
It's not happening. Quit before you get yourself hurt.

[rubikscomplex]

you don't think i'm an idiot?
well aren't you just the sweetest little thing!
i don't even know what i'd use them for, yet
but now that you mention it...
i'll keep all this in mind next time i'm sharing with the class

have fun data mining, kid
i'll keep an eye out

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Never said the groups were mutually exclusive, dumbass.
Good riddance.

[rubikscomplex]

how much do you hate not getting the last word?

[This is a test, Dustin. This is absolutely a test to see how much you can be needled.]

[scruffy_mcjackass]

[Not enough, apparently. Dustin doesn't respond.]