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Test Drive

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.

empireofrats: (me every time I wake up: not again)

[personal profile] empireofrats 2016-09-17 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[A lot Of Shit.]

Um. Yes! But... I don't have much food. I can give it a little. What if it doesn't like the kind of food we give it? What if it needs special Norfinbury food? Or what if it eats seeds?

What if it eats something else? Then it won't ever come out.
actuallydaredevil: (pic#10396727)

[personal profile] actuallydaredevil 2016-09-17 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's fine, don't worry-- we can give it some of my food.

[ Like hell he is letting some child starve when he can starve in her stead. ]

We can try... jerky? I think I have some of that. Dogs tend to like meat.
empireofrats: (idk how to flirt)

[personal profile] empireofrats 2016-09-17 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. [She nods in agreement--sorry Matt.] It will probably like jerky. But... let's not hold it, okay? In case it's mean, and in case it tries to bite our hands off.

We can put it on the floor and wait for it to come out. [A pause.] What if it's not hungry?
actuallydaredevil: (bay area hero)

[personal profile] actuallydaredevil 2016-09-17 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sigh, you kids and your visual gestures. And your being careful.

Actually, that's kind of admirable, good job at being more cautious than this adult, Emily.
]

That sounds like a good plan, I like my hands still attached. [ You joke now, Matt.... ] How about I leave a piece out here and we take a few steps back?

[ He does just that, making sure to stay between Emily and the ghost dog the whole time. ]

If it isn't hungry, we'll come up with a plan B. Don't worry, I'm good at improvising.
empireofrats: (pic#10468038)

[personal profile] empireofrats 2016-09-17 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[She waits for Matt to place the jerky, and then she takes a step or so back even though they were already a pretty good distance away from the spot. Precautions and all.] Okay. [She trusts you, Matt!]

Should we be quiet? Do you think it's scared?

I have a whistle. Should I blow it?
actuallydaredevil: (pic#10396744)

[personal profile] actuallydaredevil 2016-09-18 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Let's hang back and stay quiet.

[ A whistle? As a dude with super-hearing, he almost cringes at the thought. ]

If it's scared, quiet is better. Dogs don't always like whistles since their hearing is really good. It could get startled and try to run.

[ But it's ok, he'll protect her, whistle or not. ]