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

[hangfire]

Don't get started with that.

[He'll be as angry as he deems necessary, thank you. What are you, Angel, his mom?

He exhales sharply through his nose at the question, the sharpness of his tone pulling back for something surprisingly exhausted.]

Yes. It got into everything I had. Rotted it all out. [And he checked. Thoroughly. Which didn't help how hot his temper boiled when he finally bothered to contact the network.]

[phaseshifter]

I'm not starting anything! Just saying that you catch more torks with honey than with vinegar, is all.

[ And you catch even more with slightly spoiled human flesh but dETAILS ]

But okay. How far are you from the restocking point? Close enough to check again tomorrow? And did you already eat? Because if you did, you... may need to induce vomiting if you start to feel ill.

[hangfire]

I'm not here to cater to pacifists.

[Vinegar keeps him safer, after all. Better to only catch one beast and live than attract a herd and get trampled.

There's a noise suspiciously like a scoff as she rambles off her list of questions.]

Close enough, already took care of what I ate. I really don't need the motherly advice, alright? This isn't new.

[phaseshifter]

Dude. Not a pacifist. Or a mom. I was - god, you can be such a - fart.

[ Not angry, just eyerolly. And weirdly pleased that she can come off as motherly at all but shhh ]

I'm not close enough to throw food at you, so I'm just doing what I can from here. I can fuss at you properly, if you'd like?

[hangfire]

You could also stop being so touchy and save us both the time.

[Not that he minds her exasperation. Maybe it'll get her to take a step back.]

Your rations are just fine, aren't they? What side of town are you on?

[phaseshifter]

Not touchy, either! Just a stickler for accuracy. As for my rations, um. I'm in the southwest? Near the fast food place. The food here is fine, if a little gross after it goes cold.

I mean, it's. Also about as far away from you as possible, so, um. Not so useful.

[hangfire]

Yeah, it sure isn't.

[Thanks, Angel. :| What the hell is fast food, anyway...

But that's not the point to take here. She's south. Past that beat up building with the hole to the ice caverns. Worse case scenario, that's several days of walking without food. He knows there has to be some other building with food, but he'll be damned if he can remember what it was or where it is right now.]

What's further north? Anything at all?