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]

[oh for]

I really don't have time for you to be a smartass. Answer the question like a reasonable, rationally-thinking human being or fuck off.

[coyoteking]

answer question 5? already did

[A complete lie. He hasn't even touched the survey, mostly because the tablet wants him to.]

and what if I'm not reasonable or rationally-thinking

what if I'm not even human? racist

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Then you have nothing useful to contribute to this conversation and you're literally just here to waste my time.

[coyoteking]

God, yes i just get

so much satisfaction out of wasting your time specifically

it's my whole reason for existence

but really I'm just fucking with you man

listen why are you so hung up on this survey thing anyway? why does it matter who got what question?

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Sounds about right. If you're just here to fuck with me and you won't even contribute to this research in any meaningful way except to ask stupid questions about it, then I don't owe you any answers.

[coyoteking]

if i tell you what question five was

will you tell me why you want to know so bad?

[scruffy_mcjackass]

[God does Dustin hate bargaining with people.]

Fine.

[coyoteking]

[It occurs to Charles to just cheat and make something up, but whatever, he'll have to deal with this anyway. Before the administration murders them all or locks them in rooms again.]

awesome, it's this:

'if you have only one bullet, would you shoot yourself or your companion in the event of impending, inescapable death?'

now you better keep up your end or i'm gonna find you

[scruffy_mcjackass]

[And with how difficult Charles was being earlier, the possibility doesn't escape Dustin's mind. But it sounds reasonable enough, and not presented with any extra commentary. Might be true. He might be a good liar. Hard to say.]

[But first things first: That threat.]

You had better hope you don't.

[There we go. Now for his end of the bargain. Dustin is an asshole, but he's an asshole of his word.]

Data analysis is part of my job. I'm collecting relevant samples from these surveys to determine what their purpose is, and how they were designed for each individual that's taken them.
For example, your fifth question is different from mine, and different from the fifth questions of everyone else that's provided this information. Assuming you aren't pulling your question out of your ass, this means either these surveys are pre-customized to the individual, are dynamically generated based on previous responses, or are simply very long and the same sets of questions are randomized on each survey iteration.

Make sense? I'm not repeating myself if you didn't get it.

no typos will be corrected when sass mode is engaged

[coyoteking]

[Both, Dustin, the answer is both.]

I'd better hope I don't come for you? what, are you like a 7 ft tall bodybuilder or somethign

also this is text, jackass, I could just reread it

but all of that's not the point. how is knowing that it's different going to tell you which thing it is? or what it'sf or?

[And if it IS customized, what does that question say about- nevermind, it actually kinda makes sense.]

good that means I can do this (I am so sorry)

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Why should I expect you to reread my posts when you obviously don't even read your own?

[Low-hanging fruit, but Dustin doesn't feel like wasting his breath (or fingers, as the case may be) on any of his other questions.]

LOL no worries

[coyoteking]

oh shit youre right. i committed a cardinal fucking sin

better go fall on my own sword or whatever

so are you just using this as an excuse not to answer me or?

do I have to hold more question data hostage before you'll tell me? are we setting up a barter system here? cause I can do that

[scruffy_mcjackass]

I've already answered the question that I said I would and that wasn't completely pants-on-head stupid. The fact that you can't put together the rest yourself is your own problem.

Based on what I've seen here, I don't think you have anything worthwhile to offer me. I'm not sure why I'm still wasting my time with you.