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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: SEE THAT WE CAN SEE It's late and you're settling down for the night when you notice a strange light coming from... outside? Through the heavy snowfall, you can just make out the haze of glowing eyes in the distance. Dozens of them. It's difficult to tell through the window, but they seem to be staring directly at you. Since it's after lockdown, you can't get outside to investigate, but maybe others in town are seeing the eyes too. You'd better take to the Network to see what's going on. TWO: BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES You can't sleep. You've been trying, trying, trying. But every time you close your eyes, you see the eyes of the prophet etched into the insides of your eyelids. The symbol only seems to get brighter and clearer the longer you keep your eyes shut, the closer you get to drifting off. It chills you awake. Nothing seems to help. Maybe there are others on the Network who are having the same problem. Or, at least, someone who doesn't mind keeping you company through the long hours. Action Prompts THREE: THREE'S A CROWD You and your traveling companion are exploring what looks to be a perfectly normal building when you notice something strange carved into the wall. Is that an eye? Strange indeed, but what's stranger is that new carvings keep appearing, always where you're not looking. Soon, the whole room is full of eye carvings. Is your companion doing this? If not them, then who? FOUR: THE KNIFE'S EDGE Most everyone in town still has eyes that are either glowing or shaped like the prophet's symbol, and your eyes are no different. These are the same eyes that made everyone attack each other a few nights ago. Every time you catch a glimpse of yourself, maybe in the reflection of a window or the video feed on your tablet, you feel a little sick. Unfortunately, your traveling companion's eyes look strange too, and they're the opposite of yours. Both of you are in danger if those murderous urges come back, which makes it difficult to trust each other after what you've been through. It's late at night when a dark thought crosses your mind--you do have a knife. Not that there's any reason to use it, of course... Right?

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[The Doctor, in a word, looks like hell. He's clearly not slept in a very long time (for him) and he doesn't seem to be getting any sleep tonight either. But, he doesn't want to admit to what's keeping him awake. It reminds him too much of the creature that stalked him in his Confession Dial.]

I can't sleep. So I'm going to tell you a story that was told to me by the Brothers Grimm. They're lovely chaps. On my darts team. Darts is a great sport, by the way. Maths and alcoholic beverages. The best way to spend a morning. Anyway, according to them, there's this emperor and he asks this shepherd's boy, "How many seconds in eternity?" there's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it! And the shepherd's boy says, "Every hundred years, a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain.And when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the first second of eternity will have passed."

You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird. Though, as someone who's done just that? It actually is a hell of a long time.

[He stares at the camera for a long moment.]

I have been relatively silent up to this time. Minding my own business, doing what I can to stay alive. But to whomever decided that they can infiltrate our minds with haunting visions so that we can't sleep: you have made one enormous mistake. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap.

[He offers a bit of a sharky grin.]

I know what that one thing is. The question is: do you?

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The Doctor looks around. Mystified. This isn't that different from when he first encountered The Silence. Could it be that they've some how survived? That they are here, in this town, right now? And instead of drawing hashes on his body, he's drawing eyes?

The Doctor finally decides to speak to the other who is with him. "Look, I've encountered creatures like this before. In my world, they're called The Silence. They were once priests. Confessors. Because the only way to feel properly forgiven for your deepest darkest sins is if you forget you've ever told anyone about them. So, when you look away from them, you've forgotten they were there. But, rather than drawing eyes, might be better to draw hashmarks on your body. It's best to keep count of how many of them are around."

He doesn't really expect this to work. Nothing else he has planned has gone right in this town, but maybe he can stop the drawn eyes from multiplying around them.

[Bertie's hardly gotten so much as a wink what with this inscription on the old e.s having its way. Thus, he's very awake, very tired, and very excited for a story after being thoroughly put out by every single thing in Norfinbury. This isn't at all like his other trips to America. He thinks for a moment on the Doctor's question.]

Well, I don't suppose you'd want to put a rabid weasel in a trap.

[The Doctor is a storyteller. He can talk his way into and out of a great many situations. And in a lot of other situations, this response would annoy him. Not because it's not true - but it feels like intentionally ignoring the point. But not tonight. Tonight he is overtired and scared. The last time he remembers feeling this level dread was when he was in his Confession Dial. So, when Betie replies, the Doctor actually listens the answer, from the point it was offered. He breaks into laughter. It takes him a few moments. But good, it's distracting. Better than thinking about why he can't sleep.]

Well, if it's rabid, I would think you would want to trap it. You wouldn't want it running free and infecting every other animal, now would you? I once encountered an entire planet of rabid animals. The thing with being rabid: When it's the norm it doesn't seem so bad.

[The Doctor is a time-travelling storyteller. Sometimes he doesn't even know if he's lying or not.]

[Bertie chuckles along with the other man. He isn't entirely certain he understands the joke, but it's what what does and he seems a rather jolly fellow, doesn't he? Well, and learned. The gentleman hadn't understood much of that story--it sounds like an improving sort of tale--but it's probably the sort Jeeves would label a corker. If Jeeves were in the habit of using such vocabulary.]

Oh, I say! Solid point, my ma- Hold on a moment! [Bertie's brow furrows.] Why the devil would there be a whole planet of the four-legged frothing fiends. [A pause.] And what in all the dashed heavens were you doing on it? Not looking to get a nip yourself, I hope!

[Jolly? Well, he might want to get to know the Doctor a bit better. This is just how he deals with things.]

It was just that planet's culture. All the inhabitants were rabid. Even the humanoids that resided there. Since I wasn't rabid, I was the odd-man out. They offered to help me with that, which I readily declined.

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