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: HUNTING SEASON You wake up in the morning to find that a new application has appeared on your tablet. It's labelled "SCAVENGER HUNT" and when you open it, you find a long list of items that, if the title is anything to go by, need to be collected. At first, the items seem rather innocuous; things like bottle caps, napkins, Scotch tape, mittens. As the list continues, though, the items become a little more interesting. Where are you going to find "one pint of type O- blood"? How does one collect a "cry for mercy"? Does the "human sacrifice" need to be human? Most importantly, what are you supposed to do with these items once you've collected them all? Maybe you should check your list with the Network. Some folks might be willing to pool resources. TWO: ONE, TWO, SKIP A FEW Sometime yesterday, you noticed that a timer placed itself on the Network. Contacting the Admin about it provided no explanation, of course, and nobody's tablet buddy seems to have any answers. It started from zero and began counting upwards, seconds ticking away like lightning, but nothing was happening, so there was nothing to be done. Suddenly, however, you can't help but notice the count stutter and jump upwards to 99 hours in. And then, at 100, it stops and vanishes. As far as you can tell, nothing's changed, but it's disconcerting enough that you can't get it off your mind. Maybe someone else on the Network has some theories. Action Prompts THREE: WHAT WE DO WITH THE SHADOWS You and your companion decided that, for whatever reason, this house was worth investigating. It took something unorthodox—like moving all the furniture to one place, illuminating certain segments of the room, reciting a message, or maybe something else—but by doing it, it seems you've invited another guest. It's a shadowy figure with no face and no discernible limbs, and it goes wherever you go, lingering behind you just so that you can only ever see it out of your peripheral vision. Your companion can see it well enough, though, and sometimes it follows them instead. It doesn't seem to be hostile, but can you know that for sure? Either way, lockdown has already fallen, and you're stuck with it through the night. FOUR: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? You’ve just gotten comfortable for the night with your traveling companion when something odd happens. You hear an animal. A dog? A cat? A bird? Maybe the sound is coming from outside, or in the other room. Maybe you feel it brush or flutter past you without anything being there. Or maybe you even see it…just out of the corner of your eye, as it darts around a corner. You feel like maybe it’s trying to alert you to something, somehow. Or maybe you just really want to see if you can coax it out. Careful, though, get too close too quickly and you may aggravate it. As phantom as the animal may seem, the claw marks you receive for your trouble feel very real.

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Claire Temple | Daredevil (TV)

[nursetemple]

network: one; @nosidekick

seriously, think about what you're doing. If the next item on your list requires a scalpel to acquire it, maybe you should reconsider. We don't even know what this is getting us, but considering where we are, do you really think it's going to be anything good?

anyway, mine's at 'a dram of black tar heroin' so i guess i'm screwed.

--

action: four

[It sounds like a dog, bark feeble, like it's in pain. And that's what spurs Claire into action; she's not going to let some poor pup bite it because she was too scared of what it might look like.

She sees it, a shadow at the corner of her eye. In times like these she misses Matt dearly, misses how easily he would have been able to tell exactly what was wrong with the dog, just by listening to its heartbeat, or the rhythm of its walk. She can't - but she'll be okay.

She turns slowly towards the dog, seeing it more fully now. It doesn't look real, a little ethereal, shimmering in the shadows, but there's blood coming down its hind leg, and Claire takes a deep breath, steels herself.

She's dealt with more skittish.]

Do you wanna help? Get me the bandages in my pack.

[She's not looking away from the dog as she speaks, voice low and soft. She's made a bunch of bandages, tearing up hand towels and shirts that didn't fit her for it, and she just wants to see if she can - if she can.

She crouches, holding a hand out as she starts shuffling forward, slowly, slowly, slowly. No need to scare it into violence.]

@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

i'm game to put in a prescription for that to the admin, if you're not
she hands out drugs like candy when you ask for them
why not the illegal stuff, too?

[nursetemple]

i'd give it a go, honestly
i can't prescribe anything because i'm not a doctor, just a nurse


[Which is why she had to steal so much shit from the hospital back home.]

but i say go for it

[rubikscomplex]

a nurse who's down for me prescribing heroin?
damn
why aren't you working at my hospital?

[nursetemple]

it's not like it's for anyone to use and if you do use it, being a doctor, you're a moron and you know it

[rubikscomplex]

we're in a survival situation here
waste not!
and we can have a little fun while we're waiting to die

[nursetemple]

yup
moron

it's a good thing i don't work in your hospital

4!

[absentconstellation]

Be careful. That is no living mortal dog.

[ He's not entirely sure what it is, though it does seem "dog" enough. But he can see its mortality, see that there's something not right about it.

He does get the bandages from her pack, the zipper providing no obstacle. He drops them at her feet. ]

[nursetemple]

[Claire gives the Cat a look - she's still not quite used to having a talking Cat walking around with her, but he's proved more useful than she thought he could, considering he doesn't have opposable thumbs.

He gets her the bandages, and she resists petting his head in thanks.]

I'm not going to get close if it looks like it's going to get aggressive, don't worry.

[She takes another step forward, taking the bandages in one hand and holding the other in front of her.]

Okay, this is going to sound dumb probably, but just in case - you can't understand it, can you?

[absentconstellation]

[ He would purr, but this is too serious for that. ]

No, I cannot. If it has a mind left, it is choosing not to use it in such a way that I can understand.

[nursetemple]

Yeah, thought so. Was a long shot.

[She takes another couple of careful, shuffled steps towards the dog, still looking like he could snap at any second, but not doing so just yet.]

D'you think I could touch it, though? [Her scientific mind really would like to try.]

[absentconstellation]

It would not be wise.

[ If this thing is an anomaly there's nothing either of them could do to stop it. But then, if it is an anomaly there's nothing either of them can do to start with. ]

However, we may be out of wise options.

[nursetemple]

[Claire lets out a small sigh, head tilted indecisively for a little while before she shrugs.]

Worth a shot. I've looked after more dangerous.

[That might not be true, but she still goes ahead, a few steps closer, closer still that she can almost touch the dog. It's sort of whimpering, blinking in and out of existence, it seems, but doesn't look like it's about to try and bite her.]

If it's an anomaly and I die, you can sleep in my backpack. I've got a few blankets and stuff, you'll be cozy.

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Claire might regret missing Matt when she sees this one-- though he's taller and ginger-er and dressed to the nines in red. He can still smell the blood and tell the dog is injured, through the way it fades in and out of his senses gives him more reason to pause than anything. ]

Careful. [ But then he's already reaching for the bandages, as asked. Real or not, he can't turn down an injured creature, either. ] I'm guessing by bandages, you mean this?

[ Hey, he's not complaining. He's certainly gotten by with worse. ]

[nursetemple]

Yes. [She has a faint smile on her lips as she talks. It's weird; he's not exactly her Matt - not that he was ever hers - but he's still. Matt. And it's so easy to fall back into patterns, habits.

She can't say she's not glad he's around. And she can't say she's not glad he isn't the one she's got to patch up. That'll be a change.]

It's a ghost dog. Maybe an anomaly dog, it keeps on fading in and out a little. It looks. Scared. Can you tell?

[actuallydaredevil]

[ Let it be known that on this day Matt Murdock isn't injured. Truly it is a miracle. ]

Yeah, I can hear it-- [ Of course, Claire knows a bit more than that, so maybe he doesn't have to be quite so vague. ] My senses are picking it up, but the shape is kind of... off?

[ He holds out his hand, passing her some of the bandages. ]

It sounds scared enough, though.

[nursetemple]

[Grabbing the bandages from him, she's careful not to touch him. His senses might be screwed up in Norfinbury - she's seen other people with superpowers around, and nothing seems to be working as it should.]

So how much is this place screwing with your senses, anyway?

[She knows it might be a sensitive question, but as someone who is probably going to be asked to fix him at some point or another, she'd rather have the full picture. She keeps her eyes on the dog as she asks, shuffling oh so very slowly closer to it. If it's scared, it could be dangerous.]

[actuallydaredevil]

A lot.

[ He chuckles a bit, better to play off his weakness like it doesn't really bother him. His identity isn't a secret back home, so direct questions are actually pretty refreshing. It sure beats people asking "are you really blind?" ]

I have to turn my head, for one thing. That's getting old quick.

[ It's unfortunately why he has to keep looking towards the dog while Claire steps closer. Having his senses dulled like this is going to quickly give him a headache. ]

[nursetemple]

Poor you.

[She can't help it; it's petty, because despite it all, Matt still has more struggles than most due to his handicap, but the way he says it doesn't really garner much of her sympathy.

She's tried sympathy with him before and it got her almost killed, after all.]

That's a pretty first world problem. I was thinking more along the lines of headaches or even migraines, because I'm sure you're trying way too hard to hear or sense more than you can.

[It's like she knows how he operates, or something.]

@gnorlands; text

[rampager]

[It's a sentiment he can appreciate, one that echoes his own feelings. But more to the point:]

"Black tar heroin"?

[Who isn't excited to explain drugs to strangers??]

[nursetemple]

You know, hardcore drug?

[Softly, Claire sighs. She doesn't want to get into this, really.]

It's an opiate. It's very strong, it's very dangerous, it will turn you into a junkie very fast, and probably make my life hell at one point or another because that's what junkies tend to do. It's not something that's going to be around in town, thankfully, and it's not something you should ever want to touch.

[rampager]

I don't. My world doesn't have such things.

[He can, at least, make an intuitive guess about "junkie" and glean the pertinent information from between the lines.]

Ah. So it's an addictive substance that causes antagonistic behavior and adverse health effects. I see.

[....thinking about it, his people likely would have jumped to develop something close to PCP if the opportunity had presented itself. Some Beasts would do anything to gain an edge in combat.]

Thank you for the explanation. Are you a medic?

[nursetemple]

doesn't necessarily cause antagonistic behavior. It's just that I tend to be the one picking up the pieces when they go into withdrawal, and that makes them pretty mean


[It's not the drug that makes them violent - not always, anyway. It's after. It's getting the fix, or needing it.

She's amazed that this other world, wherever it is, wouldn't have drugs at all. Seems against human nature not to try.

He might not be human.]

It's kind of amazing that you come from somewhere that doesn't have drugs at all. Nothing that alters your brain chemistry at all?

I'm a nurse, indeed.

[rampager]

[A moment to think about it. Beasts were, on the whole, more preoccupied with conquest and fighting prowess than anything, but every culture seemed able to make room for simple, stupid pleasures.]

We have alcohol. [And just in case booze wasn't also a human thing:] Fermented grains and fruits.

[He was in San Francisco for only one day, to be fair, and most of it was on fire during his "visit".]

This community is fortunate to count you among them.

[nursetemple]

Heroin is basically like alcohol, just. Worse. Strips out inhibitions, or induces extreme behaviors. It acts faster than alcohol, and the withdrawals are worse.

Basically, I don't recommend.

[Smiling, Claire huffs out a chuckle.]

I do my bit. It's a good thing there are plenty of doctors around, too. What do you do?