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

[thunderbitch]

[ Is that a hint of a smile on her face when he snarks back at her? Maybe. She's not telling. ]

He used to. [ She really, really misses his voice in her head. Dryly: ] He'll squeak when the door inevitably opens. At least we'll have some warning before a doll brutally murders us both.

[ She picks up her book again, flicking through the pages. ] I might as well skip to the smutty part of this before I get offed by some shitty plaything. Maybe you'll get lucky before the night is through.

[theurgy]

Inevitably. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

[Just what he needed! He wedges his pack down between himself and the wall, and leans against it as a makeshift pillow. He's thinking that he kind of wishes he had a book when she hits on him, and he lets out a soft huff of a laugh.]

You really want to make it easy for that doll to murder us, don't you?

[thunderbitch]

One hell of a way to go, right? [ Dakota winks at him. ] Really, though, you're going to sit on the floor after a pretty girl just implied she'd make out with you? Maybe you deserve the doll death.

[theurgy]

I'm trying to hold onto my virtue.

[Which is long gone. Whoops. He's grinning at her though, tone teasing, because he's almost one hundred percent sure she's not serious.]

You know you're playing right into the horror movie cliche, right?

[thunderbitch]

Right, I can definitely tell you're full of that. Sooo full of virtue. [ She is one hundred percent not serious. She kind of likes that he can tell. ]

Am I? I've only ever seen one horror movie, and I lost interest halfway through.

[theurgy]

I don't look virtuous? [He says, while waggling his eyebrows. Embarrassing. He's pretty sure he drips shadiness, though, so he's not offended. At least, not until she says she's only seen one horror movie.]

Seriously? Man, you're missing out.

[For a second he thinks of Sam, and how he'd freak out and start listing off a million horror movies and their plot points and special effects details, and for a second, Cassel's smile falters just barely as he wrestles with the sudden rush of homesickness. But then he shakes his head, exhaling as though disappointed.]

You haven't lived until you've watched a bunch of goblins murdering people and turning them into slime.