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

[definingfuture]

Was there really a child?

[He shouldn't sound interested in that story. It's disturbing. But he does want to know how good the Admin is at playing her games.]

I'm with you. I hate parties that involve blood. But they're just tablets. There's a limit to how maniacal they can be.

[ecks]

There was really a child. I mean that it looked like I said I would kill the child, and then the child really tried to kill me. She thought I was going to kill her.

[definingfuture]

This is better than being framed for attempted murder. I'll give you that one. Also being attacked because of said framing. I've never been a big fan of miscommunication leading to desperate life-or-death scenarios.

Fool us once, I guess. Still, this isn't exactly helpful or convenient. So I'm assuming sabotage.

[ecks]

I have not seen messages indicating that you intend to murder anyone. But it is a possible consequence of malfunction.

Sabotage how?

[definingfuture]

Good. That's good. I'm not, by the way. Just in case messages like that do start showing up again.

Maybe it's just me being paranoid, but I find it pretty hard to believe that these things acting up and causing this much confusion is all coincidence. That said, you're free to take my opinion as just that.

[ecks]

Many things happen here. Many bad things happen here. When things do not work right they do not work right everywhere. When my tablet malfunctioned all of the tablets malfunctioned. What is wrong with your tablet? I do not notice anything wrong with my tablet.

[definingfuture]

It's not the entire tablet. Just the virtual assistant feature. I honestly didn't even activate it. I checked it once, but I haven't looked back since. Now the thing keeps pulling up messages without my permission and making suggestions, which I really don't need.

[Okay, he does sound a little nervous.]

It doesn't listen. Which wouldn't really bother me, but I'm pretty sure the programming shouldn't be advanced enough to do that. Ignore me. It-

[He realizes that he's started talking too fast through the course of his little monologue. His next statement is more measured and soft. No need for alarm.]

I don't know what it's been sending out.

[ecks]

I cannot be sure everything I think you have said is what you have really said. It is possible your tablet is sending messages you are not sending. I do not think that is happening because you have not said anything that seems like something you would not have said, but I do not know you so I cannot know what you are not likely to say.

[Helpful, Ecks. Real helpful.]

[definingfuture]

[Oh, boy. And Ecks isn't really wrong, either. She's making a good point.

Tony just wants to bang his head against a wall because of that.]

Well, I'm not likely to say anything that would hurt people. Intentionally, at least. And not seriously. I won't send out messages that cause harm.

[That sure narrows it down.]

The me right now is the real me. See? No robot voice or anything.

[That is a stupid argument. But maybe it is proof because it is so stupid and obvious. Ultron would have tried to be more convincing.]