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]

Wow. Don't pull your punches on my account. Please, did you have anything you really wanted to say about the older generation being sacrificed as... what was it? Being eaten? Ew.

[Whether he's going along with the jokes or seriously complaining is left for Hange to decide. The next part, Tony supposes, is a valid enough question. Since they are hypothetically discussing possession, he can't really say it is off the table entirely. He switches his feed to video.]

I'm not possessed. See? One hundred percent in control of my own thoughts. And if the tablet is possessed, it's still a tablet. You should be able to tell the real thing from a cheap copy. First of all, I have much better hair.

[imgonnatouchit]

[Pull their punches? Perish the thought, Tony.]

Well, being eaten is almost never the goal, but things happen. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the good of everyone else... It's not really that gross, I can tell you about it in detail if you like.

[Hange no.]

More relevantly, you do look like someone who isn't possessed, although I have to admit I wouldn't know what someone who is possessed looks like. As for telling the two of you apart, hair is a good starting point. Assuming you wouldn't tell us to kill ourselves is another one. Any other distinguishing characteristics I should know about?

[definingfuture]

I think I'll pass. [Wow. That is an unsettling offer he wasn't expecting. Maybe he should have, but he's not that used to gruesome happenings. Even as a superhero, he doesn't see anything as bad as what Hange is talking about. The urge to recoil is right on his face even though he manages to keep himself mostly neutral.]

I'm going to presume my logic is far more sound than a tablet AI's. Or at least less focused on stirring up trouble. If I were possessed, I wouldn't be sending a message warning everyone about it. That's just counter-productive to the cause.

Maybe just expect the unexpected. That works, right? That's a thing people say.