snowblindmemes | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oh, that's all, is it? Good, right then.

[Come on, John. He needs you, don't be getting hurt by maniacs.]

You're supposed to be figuring out where I am.

Tell me what you bloody well see. I'm not psychic.

That's why I have the video on.

[Never mind that it's pointing at his face. At least he looks the same old Sherlock, same coat with the turned up collar, same scarf.]

Well, I can tell you your face is right where it usually is. Care to point it anywhere else?

[He sighs, but he does oblige.

The camera swings around in a slow and deliberate arc. There's not much to see, lots of snow and some broken buildings in the distance. Nothing very obvious.]

You should've stayed over at that house you woke up in, Sherlock. [There's a sigh in his voice.] Alphonse has been here since the start. He could've told you exactly where you were. Head toward the buildings and keep an eye out for anything else along the way.

D'you need me to keep your company while you walk or are you getting on well enough sniping at everyone else who replies to you?

[He rolls his eyes. Boring, he doesn't want to listen to some kid tell him where he is, like a tourist.]

Much as I enjoy your sparkling company, John [driest of dry tones] I think I'll walk alone. Text me if you need me. No, what am I saying? Not if, when.

[Everyone needs him in the end.]

And get rid of your felon by the time I get there.

[Wow, rude. You can't just order him around!!!]

Fine. [You totally can.] Don't die and stop picking fights with people.

Goodbye, John.

[And off he goes to wander in the snow and get aimlessly lost.]

[No. They aren't going to end the conversation on those words. There's a catch in John's voice when he replies quickly, earnestly.]

I'll talk to you soon, Sherlock.

Test Drive

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;

private;