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Snowblind Moderators ([personal profile] snowblindmods) wrote in [community profile] snowblindmemes2016-09-14 07:59 pm
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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.

howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Speech to text. Still not confident with the technology after so much time around it, I see. Possibly illiterate, unlikely though.
Edited 2016-09-25 15:15 (UTC)
devoutish: (let's agree to disagree)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't hear my voice if I don't hear yours.
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Involved in the underworld.
devoutish: (I'm 99% bullshit and 1% dinosaur trivia)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Your reasoning, mate. No confirmation without reasoning.
howdull: (heh)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs to himself, but it's all for show. It's not his fault nobody is there to witness it. He actually does like to explain himself.]

1922, only four years after the war ended. You have the self possessed conversational skills of a man, and not a particularly young man. Perhaps thirty to thirty five. This means you served. All men of the right age served, unless too sick or a contentious objector, who went to prison. With a surname like Solomons, you're not a Quaker. It's statistically unlikely you were too sick to fight. Possible, but unlikely. You're also friends with John, he tends to gravitate towards fellow military men. Some sort of bonding experience.

Your syntax is British even if the settings on the tablet convert your spelling to American. I can narrow that further to England, the South, most likely in one of the districts of London, 'mate'.

A man with a legitimate profession is more trusting, you immediately resorted to distraction, avoidance, and bargaining. Necessary traits for a man working on the wrong side of the law.

Jewish, London, 1922, underworld. Elementary, really.
devoutish: (says right here you're a little bitch)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the details are off, but not the most important ones. Well done.
howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always something. What details?
devoutish: (I always give 110%)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll tell you if you turn on the audio.
howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes, yes, yessss. What a good player of the game.]

Why should I be that interested?

[He's burning with it.]
devoutish: (I always give 110%)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a detective. You like information and you like uncovering it. And you pride yourself in being very good at it, don't you? I'm sure it's killing you that you don't know what you got wrong.
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I am very good at it. The best, as it happens.
devoutish: (the eyes are the groin of the head)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. Your voice?
howdull: (deduce)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Used to giving orders, being obeyed, and making deals. Organised crime, then. A gang. Leader, or one of the leaders.
devoutish: (I think you struck a chord with the Lord)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that a no?
howdull: (heh)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No. But that's definitely a yes.
devoutish: (I hate to pat myself on the back)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a no, good. On the audio goes, then.
howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Soon. What you've offered isn't payment enough.

A copy of John's casebook.
devoutish: (says right here you're a little bitch)

[personal profile] devoutish 2016-09-25 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
What makes you think I've got one?
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Got one or get one. Irrelevant which.
howdull: (leave)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Your choice.
howdull: (desperate)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damn damn damn, he wants to know what he got wrong, it's going to eat at him otherwise.

He's not going to give in.

He hangs up.]