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

[srsbat]

I'm aware of how to survive, and it doesn't include murder.

Men like you are willing to kill others, but fear dying yourself, and that fear makes you do terrible things which are completely unnecessary.

In Gotham, and here, I will do what I can to stop men like you from making collateral damage out of other people. [Parroting:] It's the business I'm in.

[devoutish]

I did not do that because the fear of death drove me mad.

[Wincing, he takes ahold of his arm, roughly popping it back into place. That'll be sore for a good long while.]

[srsbat]

[Surmising:] You were afraid it would kill you, so you killed it first.

[devoutish]

I made a reasoned and pragmatic decision. What were you gonna do with it? Tote it around the town with you? Leave it here for someone else to stumble across?

[srsbat]

Something besides kill it. [He won't budge. Alfie's out of luck.]

Let me check your shoulder. If there's swelling, you'll need some aspirin. Don't move it very much for a while.

[devoutish]

[He raises an eyebrow at Bruce.]

Fuck off.

[srsbat]

It was dislocated. Relocating it yourself could have damage nerves or muscle.

[devoutish]

And we've seen what happens when you touch me. I've got a doctor I travel with sometimes; I'll see him about it.

[srsbat]

I won't attack you without solid reason. You already know I'm not going to kill you.

It could be worse by the time you reach your doctor. Let me look at it from a distance, at least. Please.

[devoutish]

I'll see him tomorrow, or I'll meet up with Tifa and the kids, and she can take a look at it. I'll wrap it up and it'll keep until then.

[srsbat]

Fine. [He'd offer Alfie a hand up even, but it seems the man doesn't want any contact. Bruce is okay with that.] Don't move it at all, if you can help it. Take some aspirin. It will swell and bruise. If you can't move it after several days, a muscle might have been torn. If it's numb, it's a nerve.

Does the doctor, this woman, and the children know you're a gang leader?

[devoutish]

If you're feeling guilty right now, I'm not gonna make you feel better about it.

[He goes over to his bag, rummaging through it for strips of cloth to use as bandages. Despite telling Bruce that he doesn't want him near him, he doesn't seem to have any issues turning his back on him - he's not actually worried about being attacked.]

Does it matter to you, whether they know?

[srsbat]

I don't regret disarming you. [In an unintentional show of faith, Bruce doesn't move, only watches.] That doesn't mean I can't be concerned.

They should be aware of who they are traveling with. The adults. [Though Bruce's assessment for right now is that Tifa and the doctor are in the same pot as Alfie. The children would be the innocent party.]

[devoutish]

But keep the kids in the dark, eh?

[He starts wrapping his shoulder, wincing a little as he goes.]

[srsbat]

No, but there's a time and a place for that. [He really can't talk. He's Batman.] Sometimes, they don't understand what it means.

Explaining in detail could do more harm than good, depending on the child.

[devoutish]

You're gonna be surprised by the kids here. Fucking worldly, most of them.

They all know, the kids and the adults.

[srsbat]

I'm sure. I know a few.

It's good they know. I'm sure you aren't a bad man. You've just made bad choices.

[devoutish]

I wonder, are you this fucking patronizing on purpose, or is it accidental?

[srsbat]

I've seen it happen to a lot of people, even the best ones. [The only way he'll say he doesn't mean it as rudely as it comes off.] Difficult times push people to make choices they regret. It's hard to do the right thing when it seems as if there's no other way. But there is. [He sounds strangely sincere.]

You can take the other bedroom.

I'll bury the body tomorrow when we're able to leave if it's still here.

[devoutish]

Right. Listen to me.

[He straightens, walking over to Bruce. His body language isn't threatening, exactly, but it's a little combative.]

I do not regret this. I do not regret my job, or what I am. I am not interested in your understanding that shows you don't understand much at all. All right? Yeah. You don't know me, mate.

[srsbat]

[This close, Alfie can at least see that there's a pair of blue eyes in the sockets of the cowl enhanced by grease paint, and despite the intense intimidation of the suit, the eyes show something pretty human.

He doesn't back down, or even change his position.] You think just because I refuse to kill that I don't understand.

[devoutish]

No, I think the fact that you're talking like you do shows you don't understand. It's got nothing to do with what you will or won't do yourself.

[srsbat]

That sounds hypocritical. You don't know me either. I could very well understand in that case.

[devoutish]

You haven't said a single thing about me or my motives that's true, mate. That doesn't bode well for your understanding.

[srsbat]

There are no charitable expenditures for criminal activity. Fame, fortune, revenge. Those aren't excuses.