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]

Oh, I know. I won't get hypothermia.

[She shuffles backwards, towards the house again.]

What sort of place is this?

[toerr]

[Wow, she's pretty smart, huh? It makes him feel a bit calmer. People give him the strangest looks sometimes when he says things a ten-year-old boy shouldn't know so well.]

Okay, good.

[He breathes a sigh of relief. As long as she knows that danger.]

It's a scary place full of monsters. We've all been brought here from different worlds. I haven't been here that long, myself, so...I'm not completely sure why that is. But everyone's trying to find a way out.

[titanette]

Aren't there fences? And gates and locks?

[She's also from a scary place full of monsters, but that's outside the base. The base keeps her safe. If there isn't a base here...

The thought is terrifying.]

Can I go back? How-- can I please go back?

[It's a stupid question. He'd just told her that she couldn't, essentially. But the words come tumbling out of her anyway, hurried and scared.]

[toerr]

There are walls made of ice that surround us. We can move around in the city, but we can't go anywhere else.

[He feels bad. Like he just ruined everything for her. She was so happy just a minute ago.]

I'm sorry...I really don't know. I wish I did. I...I'd tell you if I knew. I promise I would.

[titanette]

Are the monsters on the other side of the ice?

[toerr]

No...they're in here with us. They're not everywhere, but they show up sometimes and chase us. It's worse when you're in a group.

[At least, that's what everyone says, but he's tried to avoid being around too many people. It makes him feel awkward.]

That's why you have to be careful, and try not to stay outside for too long.

[titanette]

What do they do?

[She asks it very carefully, as if she's afraid she already knows the answer.]

[toerr]

They eat you when they catch you. There's never any blood. They just eat you whole, one way or another. They're all different.

[He goes silent. His voice had turned almost sinister as he spoke, but then it becomes sad.]

I'm sorry. That's not a very nice topic, is it. Do you need...any help?

[titanette]

[It's not nice, but it's an idea that she's used to. She nods solemnly.]

I'll look for a safe place. I'll stay inside.