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.
You're just setting yourself up to get swindled, you know.
[It's said with the same sourly flat drone of disapproval Lutha usually carries. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise - the teen's never been adverse to mentioning his work. Item running for traders who bid the highest tended to get one into some tricky and often dangerous circumstances, especially over little mistakes like this.
There's a rough sigh that crackles the mic, but when he talks again, some of the bite leaves his tone.]
Do you even know what kind of medication that stuff is beyond the name, Zane?
[ He'll switch to audio, too, just so they're on even ground. He sounds vaguely apologetic as he speaks. Lutha is great help for maintaining an air of innocence, and Sylar wants to keep it looking like he's something of a bumbling idiot.]
I don't. I thought someone could help me with that. I'd guess that it's some sort of pain medication? Do you know?
And- [ Sigh. ] I guess I might get swindled, but it's not something I need. If someone's going to try and take advantage of this, it'd be better to find out now. Right?
[A curt answer to all of the above. Dealing with this sort of attitude always gave Lutha a headache, but he'd have a hard time fighting the ache of begrudging guilt in his gut if he just left Zane to his seemingly natural trains of thought.]
Idiot... Look, there's healers and doctors here, right? Ask them. Know what the hell you're selling off first.
Oh...yeah. I probably should've messaged one of them privately, huh? I'll do that if it happens again. Maybe one of them'll respond here.
[ There's a long, thoughtful pause. ]
I was worried, though. What if this is something someone needs right away? I mean, it sounds pretty 'heavy-duty' doesn't it? I might...I might not make someone trade if they're desperate.
[ In other words, yes. He is totally going to get swindled. ]
You--- guh, no, would you actually listen for a second?
[Annoyance is quickly unraveling into incredulous anger - misplaced, but the easiest default he's used to. Slow, steady, understanding talk was for mothers to their children, and he is not going to hold Zane's hand through something that Lutha finds overwhelmingly simple.]
If it's something someone needs that badly, then unlike you right now, they'll know what it is and what it does. Meanwhile, you're just putting yourself in a goddamn awful position by just... being willing to hand it out to whoever cries the loudest. Worst case, you end up putting someone into a hellish nightmare because you couldn't use your brain past some wayward compassion for more than three seconds.
If you're that eager to be a hero for someone, Zane, don't wait for some expert to come grovelling to you with answers. Go fucking find them.
[ There's a long, silent pause on 'Zane's side, before he finally responds. He's subdued. Quiet. And possibly holding down a case of the giggles. At least this tactic seems to be working. ]
The doctors, you mean. Right. [ Deep breath in, now. ] Yeah. At least one of them should have a list of what everyone takes, right?
Sorry, I didn't know what you were getting at, there. That's a good idea. Maybe I'll just dele- oh, we can't delete things on here, can we?
I bet someone looks after it. The people here don't like to leave things up to the Admin, if they can help it. It makes sense.
[ He laughs a little, breathless against the cold. He doesn't sound particularly upset about any of this. ] Oh, well. I guess it's a live and learn situation. I'll just tell anyone that comes by I'm already set.
How are you holding up today, Lutha? [ A Concerned Hero has to ask these things, after all. ]
[Look how much he means that with every bone in his body.
No, it's an outright denial delivered as flatly as possible. He is not about to make this a talk about feelings and well-being. That was his own business, not anyone else's.]
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snowblindmemes2016-08-14 08:47 pm
@ordo; audio, private - gonna assume they're familiar with each other!
[It's said with the same sourly flat drone of disapproval Lutha usually carries. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise - the teen's never been adverse to mentioning his work. Item running for traders who bid the highest tended to get one into some tricky and often dangerous circumstances, especially over little mistakes like this.
There's a rough sigh that crackles the mic, but when he talks again, some of the bite leaves his tone.]
Do you even know what kind of medication that stuff is beyond the name, Zane?
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I don't. I thought someone could help me with that. I'd guess that it's some sort of pain medication? Do you know?
And- [ Sigh. ] I guess I might get swindled, but it's not something I need. If someone's going to try and take advantage of this, it'd be better to find out now. Right?
no subject
[A curt answer to all of the above. Dealing with this sort of attitude always gave Lutha a headache, but he'd have a hard time fighting the ache of begrudging guilt in his gut if he just left Zane to his seemingly natural trains of thought.]
Idiot... Look, there's healers and doctors here, right? Ask them. Know what the hell you're selling off first.
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[ There's a long, thoughtful pause. ]
I was worried, though. What if this is something someone needs right away? I mean, it sounds pretty 'heavy-duty' doesn't it? I might...I might not make someone trade if they're desperate.
[ In other words, yes. He is totally going to get swindled. ]
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[Annoyance is quickly unraveling into incredulous anger - misplaced, but the easiest default he's used to. Slow, steady, understanding talk was for mothers to their children, and he is not going to hold Zane's hand through something that Lutha finds overwhelmingly simple.]
If it's something someone needs that badly, then unlike you right now, they'll know what it is and what it does. Meanwhile, you're just putting yourself in a goddamn awful position by just... being willing to hand it out to whoever cries the loudest. Worst case, you end up putting someone into a hellish nightmare because you couldn't use your brain past some wayward compassion for more than three seconds.
If you're that eager to be a hero for someone, Zane, don't wait for some expert to come grovelling to you with answers. Go fucking find them.
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The doctors, you mean. Right. [ Deep breath in, now. ] Yeah. At least one of them should have a list of what everyone takes, right?
Sorry, I didn't know what you were getting at, there. That's a good idea. Maybe I'll just dele- oh, we can't delete things on here, can we?
omg what a jerk i'm so happy you're apping him
He exhales hard through the nose, jaw starting to ache from how hard his teeth have been gritting together.]
Only one way to really find that out. If they have a system of keeping track of that sort of shit, it's not one I know about.
[A pause, refusing to acknowledge the apology and almost audibly planting his face in his hands at how the other man fumbles to delete his post.]
No, just--- no, you can't. You're stuck with what you've said. Surprise, it's just like real life.
he's the worst. :P and thank you!
[ He laughs a little, breathless against the cold. He doesn't sound particularly upset about any of this. ] Oh, well. I guess it's a live and learn situation. I'll just tell anyone that comes by I'm already set.
How are you holding up today, Lutha? [ A Concerned Hero has to ask these things, after all. ]
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[Look how much he means that with every bone in his body.
No, it's an outright denial delivered as flatly as possible. He is not about to make this a talk about feelings and well-being. That was his own business, not anyone else's.]
Is the medicine all you found out there?
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Nope. Founds some mints and deodorant. I guess its no SD card. But not a bad haul for the day, right?