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

[redrooms]

Mind-blowing. I'm moved nearly to tears.

[howdull]

I do that to a lot of people, especially John. I've heard every permeation of 'that's amazing' and 'astonishing' there could be.

[redrooms]

It's gone to your head, it seems.

[howdull]

Justifiably so, I am a genius.

[Modesty? What's that?]

[redrooms]

You've been here six hours, and I'm not on my way home yet. Genius is a bit of a stretch.

[howdull]

[Burn! He smiles to himself.]

Perhaps you are and you just don't know it, all that mind control messing with your perception.

@jwatson; text; threadjack

[jumpthegun]

That's enough, Sherlock.

[howdull]

Why? What did I say wrong?

[jumpthegun]

You're picking at her because she insulted you. Stop it.

[howdull]

Moved on from Fiona quickly, haven't you?

[jumpthegun]

[Wow. Wow.]

You're an idiot. But you already know that. Pressing on, you need allies here if you want information. She's one of the best sources of it. Ever heard the phrase 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you?'

[howdull]

Please, John. She's an ex-assassin with the incredibly uninspired name of Black Widow, I can do better alone.

[jumpthegun]

No. You can't. Think of everyone here like your homeless network. They're useful because they're places you aren't. And instead of giving them money, you need to not be a dick at them. Think you can manage that for five minutes?

[howdull]

Alright, not alone. I have you. You can pay them, if that's the currency they need.

[jumpthegun]

I know you can be nice, Sherlock.

[Sometimes. Occasionally. Very occasionally.]

And I know you're scared with being here, but do you have to take it out on everyone else?

[howdull]

I am not scared, remember who you're talking to.

[Oh, that gets under his skin. He's not scared, he's not. He's not.]

[redrooms]

[Wow! What a dick!]

There hasn't been any mind control yet. I thought that Sherlock Holmes would be paying closer attention to the network. Disappointing.

[howdull]

How sad, you can't even see what's been done.

Well, never mind.

[redrooms]

You're trying to get under my skin. You'll have to do much better than that.

[howdull]

Why should I want to get under your skin?

[redrooms]

Because I insulted you.

[howdull]

Yes, but not very imaginatively.

[redrooms]

You don't deserve imaginative.

[howdull]

So I did get under your skin.

Text me when you actually have a pie.

[redrooms]

Good luck, Holmes.