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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.

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Yeah, and we've got little machines swimming around in our blood.

[It creeps Alfie out, too. Like, a lot. He spares Wilson a glance from over on the couch.]

If you don't trust that, right, it only gets worse.

[Wilson pauses for a moment to consider his hand again. Hm... It's true that the little spiders have done nothing but help him when he wasn't able to help himself. It's unsettling, that's true, but he's in no position to argue. He'd be down his dominant hand if it wasn't for those things.]

It'd be good to know where they come from, at least. [He crouches down near a particularly suspicious-looking dent in the wall.] How many do you think there are?

[Based on how quickly they had come running...]

I think they're all over the fucking town. Yeah? Millions.

[He doesn't get up from the couch, but he watches Wilson.]

They come out of the vents.

[Wilson's eyebrows shoot up, but he nods. That does make sense.] Millions, huh? So do you think there's a whole, I don't know, small tunnel system under the ground for them?

[He shudders at the thought of millions of creepy little mechanical spiders skittering around below their feet.]

I tell you there's machines in your blood, and you're still interested in this?

[Maybe nanomachine parasites are common where this guy is from.]

[Wilson's hands find his hips. He's hardly ready to believe nanomachines are an actual thing, even here.]

Well, at least we can actually see the spiders. It's a bit difficult to look into microscopic machines floating through our veins.

Yeah? Dr. House managed it.

[Oh, great. Comparisons to House. That's just what he needs. Wilson pinches the bridge of his nose. He's getting a headache.]

I'm sure he did. Is he the one that discovered these nanomachines, then?

[Alfie doesn't quite smile, but he does look faintly amused.]

Yeah, but don't worry, mate. You've got the better bedside manner.

[He rolls his eyes.] Oh, thank heavens. Better bedside manner than House? What an accomplishment.

[Wilson heads over to the wall to inspect one of the vents that the spiders apparently come out of.] I'm shocked the town hasn't formed a mob and buried him in the snow yet, if I'm being honest. I thought I was the only one dumb enough to keep him around.

He's been beaten and murdered, or so they say. Threatened. But it's not always easy to get to him, spread out as we are. He takes full advantage of that.

[Wilson blinks at Alfie. Huh. Not quite the response he was expecting.]

I guess that makes sense. [Does it, Wilson?] Murdered, huh?

His name has popped up on the obituaries more than once. It may only have been anomaly attacks.

[But Alfie would not be surprised if he's antagonized the wrong people.]

Uh huh. [Wilson rubs his chin thoughtfully. Anomaly attacks? Would those be the "monsters" everyone has been mentioning? He has yet to see one and he doesn't exactly believe in scary monsters, but their existence isn't necessarily more unlikely than an entire town of stranded people lying to him.]

This place sounds like quite the free-for-all.

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