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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: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm flattered, but not interested, thank you.
definingfuture: (T - You did what with the pole?)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you think I'm offering?
howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing. That was sarcasm to counter your own, keep up.
definingfuture: (T - Your PSA for the evening.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't work unless I was actually trying to compliment you. Which you already decided I wasn't.
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually it works on both levels. If you were being sincere, then my rejection of your advances was also sincere.
definingfuture: (T - So. Trolls.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. So a compliment means a proposition to you. Got it.

Well, at least now I know you're a narcissist and a jerk. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
howdull: (leave)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
A compliment directed to me means a lie, sarcasm, someone in need of a favour, or a proposition.

You have no reason to lie or ask a favour, that means one of the remaining two. The latter is unlikely, therefore the former was the logical choice.
definingfuture: (T - Your face is wrong.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, great, fine then.

You know what? I'm going to take one of the other options. It was a conversation starter, because I'm about to ask you to step off.

Step off.
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend of Ms. Romanov. Not a lover, not family, must be a friend.
definingfuture: (T - Peter no.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
We're family.

Off. Or else.
howdull: (oh ho)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
She'll never respect you as a leader if you don't let her fight her own battles.
definingfuture: (T - What's "Cosplay Hair"?)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-25 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Excuse me?

What the hell
howdull: (heh)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-25 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
She's an independent woman, very self sufficient and capable. You're either new to the leadership role or you're incredibly insecure in it, she won't look up to your leadership if you keep coddling her this way.

Just some friendly advice.
definingfuture: (T - Thank you. I know what I said.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-26 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
You think I'm trying to coddle her.

I'm telling you to stop being an asshole. Yes, part of that is because you're insulting my friend and people generally react badly when you insult their friends, but mostly it's because

You're being an asshole.
howdull: (leave)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-27 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
['Don't be you, Sherlock', Geoffrey (or was it Graham?) says in his head, but he ignores it.]

Insecure in leadership it is. You've made some big mistakes, ones that have cost your team before, it's led to this ridiculous need to overcompensate and protect them when they don't need protecting.
definingfuture: (T - Blasting Linkin Park as I cry.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-27 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not a wrong assessment, really, and hearing that is always painful, but what really pisses Tony off is that he's wrong about the reason.]

You're really late to the game. Everyone else has already pointed that out multiple times, so if you're trying to get some special rise out of me, congratulations, I'm not that great at teams and you're a grade A bastard.

Sometimes people who care about someone don't do it because they think they need protecting or do it to prove themselves. They do it because they actually have some plain human decency and care that random assholes are being random assholes.

It's called empathy.
howdull: (head scratch)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-28 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
High functioning sociopath.

[Honestly, when will people stop trying to get him to engage with such useless concepts as empathy and sentimentalism?]

Why should my conversation with her affect you in any way?
definingfuture: (T - Blasting Linkin Park as I cry.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-28 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is he joking? What a dick.]

Because she matters and that's enough.

[Because he's emotional and reacts with his heart, sometimes to zero effect. He will always speak up on principle, because he feels far too much for logic.]
howdull: (desperate)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This conversation is getting very tedious.
definingfuture: (T - My impression of serious.)

[personal profile] definingfuture 2016-09-28 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, this conversation is over.
Edited 2016-09-28 23:55 (UTC)