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.
Tell me those aren't the names of your imaginary friends.
I'm not apologizing for anything my defective tablet does on my behalf either. Just getting that out of the way now. I gave my disclaimer; this is not my fault.
If you want to try to hug it into behaving again, be my guest. It won't work, but at least that'll give me something to watch.
Well, someone should tell them that there's a big difference between advanced artificial beings and an iPad secretary. But if standing up for electronics makes them feel better, they can hug my phone. It's "sick."
if you hold it in the doorjamb at the next lockdown you can crack it open like a pinata candy falls out i mean if you're a robot computer chips are basically candy, right? the admin'll paralyze you and send their little bots to clean up but hey at least your tablet will be dead
so yeah, no it told us that the admin will cut you open to get every piece of those things back even if you swallow them talk to the hackerchick or the stir-fried noodle guy they're the ones who managed to hack the server once
Trinity. Is that a real name? What do I get to call you, in case I need a doctor for something? You know, like self-esteem letting. You seem handy for that sort of thing.
Leonard is a perfectly respectable name. Don't be so judgmental.
[He sounds amused, like he's holding back a laugh. But that cuts off pretty quickly. He reaches a certain point in his reading right after his comment where the joke simply stops.
And so does his response, for just a few seconds, but he's silent for those few. And when he speaks again, he sounds serious.]
No, I don't think that would be a good idea.
[It's just a coincidence. Really. But, God, it strikes a nerve.]
[Oh, look at that. A button. House considers pressing it, but decides to keep it in the back pocket for later. Always nice to have a few aces if the guy gets annoying.]
no? i'm calling you lenny, then since you like the name
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I'm not apologizing for anything my defective tablet does on my behalf either. Just getting that out of the way now. I gave my disclaimer; this is not my fault.
If you want to try to hug it into behaving again, be my guest. It won't work, but at least that'll give me something to watch.
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they're the resident "robots are people too" brigade
pretty sure they would try to hug it out
come to think of it
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[Another message gets sent without warning.]
everyone needs to eat.
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have you been eating enough?
poor guy
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[And if the point is to irritate him, it is working.]
I already have my own and they are a lot more useful than this one. I don't need someone else's bad attempts at setting reminders for me.
[There's a pause where Tony waits to see if the avatar makes any additional comments, but apparently this time it doesn't.]
If I could, I would dismantle this entire thing.
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you can crack it open like a pinata
candy falls out
i mean
if you're a robot
computer chips are basically candy, right?
the admin'll paralyze you and send their little bots to clean up
but hey
at least your tablet will be dead
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And I love candy. What's a little paralysis in the name of peace?
Have you seen inside yours? Did it tell you any secrets?
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i'm a doctor, not an engineer!
so
yeah, no
it told us that the admin will cut you open to get every piece of those things back
even if you swallow them
talk to the hackerchick or the stir-fried noodle guy
they're the ones who managed to hack the server once
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If they want to cut me open for spare parts, they really haven't been looking hard enough. I hope they taste like peaches.
Okay, so I ask for Noodles and, what, "hackerchick"? There's only one?
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there's only one hackerchick, yeah
she goes by trinity, though
like the matrix
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Trinity. Is that a real name? What do I get to call you, in case I need a doctor for something? You know, like self-esteem letting. You seem handy for that sort of thing.
Or if I need more cool hacker gossip.
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i'm all about keeping the spirits up!
i'm sure trinity's a real name somewhere
and you can call me house
other people do
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[Mostly he's a geek.]
Should I think up a nickname too? I want to be one of the cool kids. This is the only town to be in, after all.
I guess the important question is are you a real doctor or do you just play one on TV?
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just so long as you never call me leonard
i don't want to get stuffed in a locker by an anomaly at school for being a dweeb
and how's about scotty?
i could go for captain
we ran short on the resident one recently
can you be hip to the cap?
and i guess you'll have to find out, bro
you should prooooobably contact someone else if you get the sniffles, though
i don't do clinic duty
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[He sounds amused, like he's holding back a laugh. But that cuts off pretty quickly. He reaches a certain point in his reading right after his comment where the joke simply stops.
And so does his response, for just a few seconds, but he's silent for those few. And when he speaks again, he sounds serious.]
No, I don't think that would be a good idea.
[It's just a coincidence. Really. But, God, it strikes a nerve.]
I'll, I'll try not to get sick then.
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no?
i'm calling you lenny, then
since you like the name
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[He recovers enough to sound playful again, even though his responses are quieter. Just a little subdued. He can still hit jokes back.]
Or "sir" usually gets my attention.