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

action; this is going to go so well

[mrcreamsicles]

[You know what's fun? A healthy case of paranoia, a house full of dolls, and little noises scampering around. And maybe dolls aren't puppets, but they're puppet-adjacent, Davesprite would argue, and that's more than enough with everything else going on. So while Cassel is free to do what he will, he's wedged himself in a corner where nothing can get behind his back and buried his visual attention in his tablet. He's good at ignoring the weird shit around him when he wants to. Speaking of which, hallucinations do make an easy way to dismiss his surroundings. Cassel making note of them only gets a vague grunt of acknowledgement, and under the circumstances one could be forgiven for thinking Davesprite is someone quiet and unpersonable.]

[It's not until the 'knock it off' that he bothers to look up, first to Cassel, and then—]

Jesus fucking Christ!

[He jolts up so hard and fast he smacks himself back into the wall. He makes a birdlike squawk at the impact, but he keeps himself right there anyway.]

When did that get there?

i'm ready for it

[theurgy]

[Davesprite jumps so violently that for a second, Cassel thinks he's faking it, and doing it badly. It's impossible to read him with those sunglasses, and it makes every instinct Cassel has scream not to trust him. Still, Cassel can't fight his sense of unease—not at Davesprite, but at his suspicion, which is verging on paranoia. His response is just a hair harsher than usual.]

I'm serious. Stop screwing around.

[mrcreamsicles]

[He focus flicks back to Cassel, but only partway. He doesn't know how that doll got there, she he doesn't want to look away from it, especially when Cassel's got his attention more on him instead of the actual problem.]

The hell are you talking about? I didn't see that there before. Are you messing with me?