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

[boundinblood]

It's called "attempting to make conversation", you really ought to try it sometime. We all have to answer these idiotic questions, after all. Talking about them could be helpful in more than one way.

I held rank at home. Gathering facts and deciding how to act on them was part of my job.

[And she was terrible at the political seat half of it. But this jerk doesn't need to know that.]

[scruffy_mcjackass]

I don't give a shit about making conversation. I'm here to gather data and analyze it. I need any further relevant background information about specific questions or patterns, then I'll ask them.

[Well...ah, what the hell. Dustin already regrets considering this and anticipates that he's about to have his time massively wasted, but he did say he'd humor her.]

What rank?

[boundinblood]

Warden-Commander of Ferelden, but I suspect that doesn't mean anything to you on its own. In its simplest terms, the Wardens are a military order, and Ferelden is a country.

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Military?
Then you're even more useless for this task than I originally thought.

[boundinblood]

All right, now I'm asking entirely out of curiosity. How does being part of a military order make me particularly useless?

[scruffy_mcjackass]

A military leader sends others to gather information and find patterns for them so they can arrange troops efficiently. Your job is part of the final steps of the process.

[Which...could actually be something approaching a compliment? Hard to say.]

I'm a scientist. I'm the one you send out to get that information and compile it into something you can use. Let me do my job, stay out of my way, and you'll get what you need later.

[boundinblood]

[See, that's a little confusing for her because she's still thinking in terms of being one of the soldiers/scouts herself.

It helps that they only have a handful of Wardens in Ferelden anymore. Her "troops" are a small squad of no more than six.]

I do plenty of the work, myself! In fact, I prefer to go into the field in person.

But I digress. I accept your answer, but don't exclude me from your results. I want to help however I can.

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Being a soldier doesn't make you a scientist. Saying that makes you as qualified as me would be insulting if it wasn't so pathetically ignorant.

I'll try to find something you can handle.

[boundinblood]

[What, she says she's military and that makes her some brute that only knows combat? She can't just sit there and take that!]

I suppose I haven't given you much reason to think I do anything but fight. Why not show me something and judge my skills by observation instead of assumption?