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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: (deduce)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
What a stellar deduction, how did you possibly do it?
jumpthegun: (smile | this guy?)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Learned from the best, mate!
howdull: (Default)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Does anybody like it here?
jumpthegun: (srs | not the man)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering a few people have the alternative of being dead back where they're from...

[Some people. You know?]
howdull: (sad] roof)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He feels a sharp stab of guilt.

An apology is almost on his tongue, but he swallows it down. It's necessary for John to believe him dead until the time is right, it's to protect him.]


Everyone has a time to die, John.
Edited 2016-09-29 16:08 (UTC)
jumpthegun: (sad | broken)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Been listening to the Byrds, have you? Or just reading up on Ecclesiastes?

[Sherlock's unlikely to recognize the first reference given his scattered pop culture knowledge, but maybe... no, he might well have deleted the Bible if he'd ever read it, as well.]
howdull: (confusion] explain to me)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mycroft, actually. Though don't tell him I said so, he'll be even more insufferable.

[The East Wind is coming to get you, Sherlock.]

I thought soldiers believed that too?
jumpthegun: (sad | take a breath)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[John would like to do a lot of things to Mycroft. Telling him anything? No. Definitely not.]

You're not a soldier, Sherlock. You don't believe in fate.

But how about we hold off discussing your suddenly finding Jesus until we meet up, hmm?
howdull: (happy] teehee)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Finding Jesus, what a terrible thought that is.]

I'm not coming if that's the sort of inane conversation you have planned.
jumpthegun: (annoyed | sass 4)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I need to put you in a sparring ring with Alfie on the topic of God. That'd be entertaining.

[And then maybe they'll leave off picking on John.]
howdull: (neutral] deerstalker)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds the definition of tedious. Don't you have any cases for me?

[He's been here seven whole hours now, he's bored.]
jumpthegun: (annoyed | sass 2)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Entertaining for me, not you. I haven't had telly or radio for two months. I had to resort to singing the Spice Girls and the Clash myself.

[This suffering, Sherlock!]

And I'm pretty sure almost everyone who used to live in this town was murdered one way or another. We know what happened to three of them, but we're still missing some of the most important: Shelley Derricks and the AI, Andromeda. We've also got Winter who doesn't know how her strong AI form was destroyed.

The game is on.
howdull: (deduce] talking)

[personal profile] howdull 2016-09-29 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[An entire murdered town, AIs, and kidnapped people from across so many different realities (interesting, proof that the multiverse theory has sound roots)... John is right, the game is on. He can't be seen, but he's grinning in excitement, teeth bared so much that they sting from the cold.

He starts to tell John what their first move needs to be, gesticulating wildly with the tablet in one hand and his other free. Unfortunately, he spills all of these thoughts and plans out loud, not over text, so nobody hears them.

It's not his fault John is inconsiderately not there to hear him when he's being spoken to.]
jumpthegun: (annoyed | sass)

[personal profile] jumpthegun 2016-09-29 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[You be you, Sherlock. John will talk to you later... probably when you refer to something you're saying now, and he gets incredibly confused.]