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: DRUG PUSHING What luck! You've found a bottle of medication...only, oh, it looks like it's a prescription for one of the other people trapped here with you. You have a lot of power in your hands now: you could do the right thing and give it back without a fight, demand a worthy trade to see how badly they want it, or auction it off to the highest bidder. They're not the only ones who could use a painkiller or an antidepressant, after all. If you don't need it for yourself, you're sure to be able to fetch a high price (or bank some high gratitude points) for it from someone. TWO: CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS After a long day of traveling, you reach into your bag to scrounge up some dinner but you find that all of your food has gone bad. Everything, including the rations you stocked up on just yesterday, is covered in a thick layer of mold. Even the packaged nonperishables are somehow spoiled. Your whole backpack reeks of rot, and nothing edible has been spared. Maybe you can restock tomorrow, but what if you're not the only one whose food has been tainted? And what about the meal you had for lunch just hours ago? Your stomach turns. You'd better take to the network to get to the bottom of this Action Prompts THREE: WRITING ON THE WALL You've just settled into a building for the night with your traveling companion when you notice a message left somewhere on one of the walls. It's signed by a username you don't recall ever seeing before. It tells you discoveries and facts about the town you don't think are really real or should be followed. Tells you that they're heading in a direction they're convinced has the exit, and urge you to follow their lead. One of you thinks it's worth consideration. After all, why would anyone leave a message like this if they didn't mean it? But there are risks involved in chasing the assertions. Do you have the resources left to try? FOUR: CORPSE PARTY Just before lockdown, you and your traveling companion are about to seek shelter in the nearest building when you spot a huddled figure nearly buried in the snow. When you get a little closer, you see that it's a person wrapped tightly in a blanket. Neither of you recognizes them, but you can't be sure; the blanket covers their face. They seem to have succumbed to the elements, but it looks like they're still breathing! You manage to drag them into the building with you with seconds to spare. Good job, you've saved somebody's life! But, as you pull apart the blankets to check on your new companion, you realize that they're not a "somebody" at all... And you're locked in with it until morning.

Comments

[harlequinofhate]

There are mechanical spiders in the air vents that like to glue people's eyes shut.

[srsbat]

Why would mechanical spiders in the air vents want to glue people's eyes shut?

[harlequinofhate]

Beats me, maybe they're shy. Or they're supposed to spy on us but not us on them.

[srsbat]

And you witnessed this happen?

[harlequinofhate]

Sure did, Drac.

[srsbat]

You said they were mechanical. They could have malfunctioned.

[harlequinofhate]

Mm...Nooo, they went right for the peepers. Mouth too. I think they were angry was trying to fish 'em out of the vents.

[srsbat]

Sounds like a defense mechanism. They're protecting something.

Usually, they come out to assist you, correct?

[harlequinofhate]

Not anymore. We hacked the Administrator off a few too many times and she turned off the medical response hoozits.

If they're protecting something I'd bet my left foot it was the server room. Might be where they keep that colossal beastie we're all hallucinating over too.

...You sure are asking me a lot of questions.

[srsbat]

Part of the job. [It also keeps Joker busy which is decidedly a good thing.] I know you can answer questions.

Unless you're against answering them on account of me. Afraid I'll get the upper-hand on your games, Joker?

[harlequinofhate]

You're drilling me for information. You're wondering what I learned with my little experiments....

You need me!

I'm touched!

[srsbat]

Your willingness to answer questions and my need to for you are mutually exclusive.

[harlequinofhate]

You do, you do, you need me!

Don't worry, Batsy, I've got oodles of time.

Fire away!

[srsbat]

[Fine... He'll humor the Joker. For a little bit.] Have you ever had an extended conversation with the Administrator?

[harlequinofhate]

I don't think any of us have had an extended conversation with her.

She has a name, did you know that?

[srsbat]

[To see what he'll say:] What is it?

[harlequinofhate]

Say please and I'll tell you.

[srsbat]

I'm not going to say please.

[harlequinofhate]

Spoilsport.

No name for you.

[srsbat]

She gave you this name willingly?

[harlequinofhate]

No, I tortured her. I threatened everything she ever loved until she told me.

Is that the answer you're looking for?

[srsbat]

Nice try, but some things aren't accounted for.

Are you implying she isn't an artificial intelligence? And that you know her location?

[harlequinofhate]

We have no idea what she is. My thinking is AI but, heck, she could be human. Maybe she woke up right before we got here.

....You know I screamed down an air vent once and someone screamed back.

[srsbat]

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That's called an echo.

[harlequinofhate]

[Suddenly screaming.]

NO, BATMAN! IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE! I KNOW WHAT A FREAKING ECHO SOUNDS LIKE!