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: LISTEN, DOLLFACE It's no secret that dolls have been the talk of the town, lately. People have been finding them all over Norfinbury: some rag dolls that seem particularly relevant to the Prophet, and some that are unsettling without the apparent connection. Still, it's surprising when you found a doll that looks like another one of the residents. You turn to the network, feeling unsettled, unsure what this could mean. Maybe you aren't alone, or maybe someone has a theory? Come to think of it, you're pretty sure that someone else mentioned finding something similar. TWO: TIPTOES.EXE IS HERE Sometime today you find an SD card that downloaded an app to your tablet. It's titled HIDEANDSEEK and has the picture of a doll as its icon. When you open it, it seems like it's a game to play against a digital opponent: a doll. The game appears to have two stages. In the first stage, the doll hides, and you need to travel around the house (is it just you, or does the layout of this house seem to always be the house you're in when you open it?) to find the doll. In the second stage, you need to hide yourself from the doll, and listen for its movements so it can't catch you. If it does catch you, it will be holding a knife. The screen goes red and the game crashes for the rest of the night. Somewhere on your body, a gash appears. It's nothing fatal, but maybe you should talk to someone about this on the Network. Action Prompts THREE: STRANGE THINGS DID HAPPEN HERE The house that you've found seems promising in terms of useful items to take with you, so you and your traveling companion have spent all day scouring the house for items. At first, everything's fine. Neither of you find or feel anything out of the ordinary. Lockdown approaches, you go to sleep without any additional trepidation...but an odd creaking noise fills your dreams. It gets louder in your ears until you can't stand it anymore and snap awake. When you open your eyes, it's there hanging just above you, swinging in a nonexistent wind: a doll with a broken neck, a noose tied around its neck. It looks just like you. FOUR: LOOK BEHIND YOU Maybe you're not unsettled by dolls--and maybe neither is your companion--but one thing is for certain: this house you've been locked into for the night has an odd, oppressive feeling to it. Maybe it's just because it's full of dolls, though they all seem ordinary enough. Nothing strange happens at first, but as the night goes on...you finally notice: wasn't that porcelain baby doll on the other side of the room the last time you were in it? Didn't you turn that other one to face away from where you were sleeping? The more the night goes on, the more obvious the movements become--sometimes, you even swear you hear the pitter patter of little feet. But nothing ever happens when you're watching. Maybe it's just your imagination. Or maybe, you realize in frustration, your traveling companion is trying to scare you. But is your paranoia worth the confrontation if it is? And will you even believe them if they swear their innocence?

Comments

[titanette]

I hope so.

[Her experience with good people is limited to ABSOLUTELY NOBODY]

I don't always think I like the gods very much.

[theurgy]

Yeah, they weren't that great. Is Pandora your favorite?

[titanette]

She was wonderful. Miss Justineau says that she was everything you'd want to be.

[theurgy]

[That's... quite a way to look at her.]

Yeah? And why's that?

[titanette]

Because she was special, and the gods all gave her gifts, and they made her clever and brave and beautiful and funny and so many other things. They also made her too curious and that's why she opened the box, but mostly she was all of those good things.

[theurgy]

I guess that's a pretty good role model to have.

[Mostly.]

What other stories did your teacher tell you?

[titanette]

All sorts! Winnie the Pooh and Tom Sawyer and Jack and the Beanstalk and Mowgli in the jungle - Miss Justineau has the best stories.

[theurgy]

You know Andersen? His username is "caster". He knows a bunch of great stories, too. I bet he'd share them with you if you asked. You like The Little Mermaid, right?

[titanette]

Of course! But he isn't Hans Christian Andersen, is he? He can't be.

[theurgy]

That's who he says he is. He's probably lying.

[But he's also a blue haired kid with a deeper voice than Cassel, so.]

Even if he's not, he's got all the stories memorized. Better than nothing, huh?

[titanette]

Maybe he picked a new name when the tablet asked him who he wanted to be.

[theurgy]

Yeah, maybe.

[Or maybe he's nuts. Both seem equally possible to Cassel.]

So, you want me to call you Pandora?

[titanette]

[She really kind of does. Even though it's not her name.]

Is that all right?

[theurgy]

[Cassel smiles again, then shrugs.]

As long as I have something to call you, it's fine. You might as well pick something exciting if we're changing our names.

[titanette]

Do you want me to call you Cassel? Or should I call you Sharpe?

[theurgy]

Cassel. Sharpe's my last name.

[He was lazy with the username, okay!]

Cassel's weird enough anyway, so I might as well stick with it.

[titanette]

Oh, but it isn't! It's very handsome. Does it mean anything?

[theurgy]

[Cassel laughs quietly, still grinning when he continues.]

Pretty obscure. You ready? It means "castle".

in which I realize that maybe I've been mentally mispronouncing "Cassel" all along

[titanette]

[She laughs.]

It doesn't! Does it really?

HOW WERE YOU PRONOUNCING IT

[theurgy]

Yep. My mom wanted to give us all special names, but she didn't think it through much. Barron, Cassel, and... [He pauses dramatically.] Philip.

cuh-SELL DON'T LAUGH AT ME

[titanette]

Are you royalty?

TOO LATE

[theurgy]

[Cassel laughs again, shaking his head.]

I'm about as far from royalty as you can get.

LEAVE

[titanette]

Oh - because, royalty lives in castles, and they've got Barons, and there was a King Philip once, even though he was only king because he married Queen Mary the first.

[theurgy]

You know a lot about history, huh? Philip was my dad's name. I don't know where she got Barron and Cassel from.

[titanette]

She? Were you named by your mother?

[She sounds fascinated by this concept.]