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

@ASolomons; text

[devoutish]

You two make for wonderful reading.

[howdull]

[John's friend. Saw the name on the obituaries in the more recent ones. Proof that revivals are real, or just a hoax? Interesting either way.]

At least somebody here is entertained.

[devoutish]

And how could I not be, face to face with the famous Sherlock?

[howdull]

Tablet to tablet.

Face to face is a bit of a misnomer in this situation, wouldn't you say?

[devoutish]

Text to text.

It's the best most of us can do here.

[howdull]

People don't appreciate the versatility of text.

[Also why talk when you can text? So much easier.]

[devoutish]

Yeah, I do have that deficiency. Let's have some video.

[howdull]

So your revival price doesn't impede your communication skills, then.

[devoutish]

Audio is fine as well. Like talking on the telephone.

[howdull]

You're pre-modern technology, I see.

[Nobody who has grown up with it refers to it as a 'telephone' and not just a 'phone'.]

[devoutish]

Whichever one you prefer, really. I'm an accommodating man.

[howdull]

I prefer text. But please, don't let me stop you.

[devoutish]

Have you got a very hoarse voice or a very ugly face?

[howdull]

[He laughs to himself and sits up straighter, perhaps Alfie is interesting after all.]

Incredibly ugly, pustules and boils everywhere.

[devoutish]

[Points for playing along, Sherlock.]

That's a shame. In that case, I'll respect your decision to avoid the video and use the audio only.

[howdull]

I also have a cleft palate, a stammer, and Tourette Syndrome.

[devoutish]

I don't know Tourette Syndrome. I should very much like to hear what it does to a man's voice.

[howdull]

[Tourette Syndrome, named after Georges Gilles de la Tourette who died in 1904, common usage and recognition of the condition did not come until much later, perhaps the 1950s. This backs up his earlier observation of the usage of the word telephone, marking him as pre-modern technology. Telephones weren't common in households until well after their invention, and this man does not have the polished writing of the extremely wealthy or privileged.

Meaning...]

1930s.

[It's a guess. He would go anywhere from the mid twenties to the late forties.]

[devoutish]

2013.

[Okay, that's not so impressive, because Watson had literally told him.]

[howdull]

Friend of John.

[Please, he knows that already.]

[devoutish]

John who? Not the little man with an irritating tendency towards self-sacrifice, surely.

[howdull]

[HA! Yes, he's actually having fun now, how wonderful.]

You know full well it is. Nice description, though, very accurate.

[devoutish]

I thought so.

1922.

[howdull]

Damn. There's always something.

[Eight years off, that's pretty bad.]

War veteran. British.

[devoutish]

Give me your reasoning and I'll tell you whether or not you're right.

[Neither of those guesses are really surprising, when he thinks about it. Even with the American tablet using American spelling for his voice-to-text words, he does use British phrasing and expressions. And in 1922, plenty of British men were war veterans.]