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.

Comments

[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?

[rampager]

What form does it take? Not that I desire to try it [it's hard enough to keep an edge over his temper, sometimes, even when stone-cold sober] but I don't wish to be caught off-guard when I return to where I belong.

[....ha. What a question.]

I am a warrior.

[However disgraced and despised.]

[nursetemple]

like....a small bar of black soap, but it turns to dust.

[She's going by memory - she's never actually seen any, but she'd obviously much about it. This is the best she can do. She's mostly seen the results of such a drug.]

So we just need a wizard and we'd be a good RPG party, wouldn't we.

[rampager]

Noted. Thank you.

[It's enough to go on, at any rate. Something to keep in mind, because to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

....]

RPG?

[CAST MAGIC MISSILE AT THE DARKNESS]

[nursetemple]

role-playing game. It's a thing in my world. It'd probably surprise you quite a bit,since it hinges on tropes that probably feel like every day life for you.

There's lots of different types, but generally it's a game where you're part of a party of adventurers, and there's usually a warrior, a healer, a spell caster, and like, a rogue of some kind.

[She's never played any tabletop herself, but it was impossible not to know about World of Warcraft nowadays, and Claire was in touch with pop culture. She had to have things to talk about with kids who came through the ER, after all.]

[rampager]

[He squints at his tablet for a long few moments, more to parse the idea of a "game" that seemed to be about creating fictional narratives.]

We don't have "spellcasters" on my world, but the rest sounds close enough. Combining the strengths of a group and compensating for individual weaknesses is a valid strategy.

[Better not to elaborate on what passed for "adventures" among Beastkind, though. Not yet. But in the pragmatic interest of gleaning a bit more about human culture...]

Are these kinds of games often played by your kind?