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Test Drive

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: THE THINGS THAT CRAWL IN THE NIGHT
You haven't thought about the spiders that roam Norfinbury in awhile. But then something happens one night. It's after lockdown and you're all alone, but you can't sleep. How can you, when every time you try to drift off you hear the sounds of scurrying little legs? The sound gets louder, it multiplies, until its all around you. But where--where? Maybe they bugs are beneath the wallpaper, maybe they're under the floorboards. Maybe they're in the furniture. Or maybe, maybe they're just in your head. The tablet is the only thing you have to turn to. Even if you're the only one experiencing these sounds, maybe someone can talk you down, convince you that it's just a brief episode of paranoia that you can unwind from.

TWO: IT WAS ONLY JUST A DREAM
You wake up late into the night. You dreamed you were crawling through a tight, closed space, your body scraping against the metal, and know you don't belong here. Where are you going? The vent is dark, and you don't have your tablet with you. You think there's someone behind you, but you can't be sure. You pull yourself forward with one of your arms. And then you pull yourself forward with your other arm. And then you pull yourself forward with a third--one you shouldn't have. One that doesn't even belong to you.

Once your eyes are open you can still feel those extra limbs extending outward from your body, thin spider legs grabbing at air, clawing for purchase--but then the feeling passes. You're just you, and now you can't get back to sleep. Maybe someone else had the same dream?



Action Prompts
THREE: RATE YOUR DISCOMFORT
You and your traveling companion have found an easy routine. Travel, search, hunker down, try to find a semblance of warmth and comfort for the night before you sleep and start all over again. You don't question when they offer you the last of the fresh fruit from your last run to the grocery store. It's a kind gesture, and perhaps you intend to return it the next chance you get. But the food sits uncomfortably in your stomach.

You can feel it, can't you? It's not churning inside of you but moving, squirming, crawling. Nothing relieves it. It doesn't hurt but you feel sick, you find yourself shuddering, but when you show your companion your shaking hands they don't seem to notice the way that your skin ripples with something unseen just underneath. Whatever you ate isn't just in your stomach. It's inside. You can feel it tickling up your throat, reaching up up up.

FOUR: IT SLEEPS BENEATH THE SNOW
You're almost there: the building is just ahead of you, and just in time for lockdown. The coast is clear...at least, that's what you think before the ground around the building begins to move. The snow shifts, snaking in a wide, giant circle around it. And then the monster reveals itself, snow falling from its hardened exoskeleton in chunks, a giant centipede-like anomaly with too-human eyes and hundreds of legs like stilettos decorated with razor blades.

It has you and your traveling companion in your sights--you're going to have to think faster than it can reach you if you want to get around it and into the house before the door locks and dooms the both of you.

spoileralert: (stubborn)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-17 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Steph just sighs. The number of people waiting for her to come home has gone down recently. ]

Well, good luck. One way or another we'll get out of this god forsaken hell hole.
tidalflame: (If I should leave this lonely world)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
What about you?

Got a sweetheart waitin'?

[There is a casually flirtatious note to the question. He doesn't mean anything by it, he just feels like Steph could use a different topic of conversation than Norfinbury.]
spoileralert: unsure, smug (* literally)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-18 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ She chuckles. ]

Yeah, he's not waiting. He's sleeping in the next room.
tidalflame: (I'm kupo for kupo nuts!)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's nice to have someone around, right?

[As long as they don't die.]

My girl is back in Alexandria.
spoileralert: smile, happy, sorry, tired (* tea is the worst tea flavor)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-18 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is. [ She loves Zach, and it's so, so good to have him around. ]

Egypt or Virginia?
tidalflame: (Out of the clear blue cloudless skies)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[He's never heard of either of those places.]
spoileralert: (maybe this is important)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-18 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Which Alexandria?
tidalflame: (joining yours and mine)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a country on the Mist Continent. Back in my world.
spoileralert: surprised, neutral (* oh hey it's catwoman)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-18 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I'm not... familiar with the Mist Continent. But there's an Alexandria, Egypt on the continent of Africa and an Alexandria, Virginia on North America.
tidalflame: (thunder in the sky)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
This Alexandria is a big kingdom.

My lady friend is the queen.

She's pretty into me....

[He waves his tail proudly, not that anyone can see it. Really he's delighted that someone as beautiful and good as Dagger likes him. Her being queen just complicates things.]
spoileralert: unsure, smug (* literally)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Snort. ]

I'm sure. What's that thing behind you?
tidalflame: (In my dearest memories)

[video, then!]

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-19 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks back over his shoulder, sees nothing, then glances back down into the tablet.]

What do you mean?

[Wait.]

Wait, you mean my tail?
spoileralert: surprised, neutral (* oh hey it's catwoman)

LOL WHOOPS, MY BAD

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-19 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ His tail, he says. ]

Is that... normal?
tidalflame: (Enter the Dawn Warriors!)

You're good!

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-19 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's a funny question.

Having a tail is normal for me, yeah.
spoileralert: (posture)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-19 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Where I'm from people don't have tails, is all.
tidalflame: (Was it fate that brought us close)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-19 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Where I come from we all have tails.

[And where he comes from is not the world he's been describing, but he decides to not get into that. ]
spoileralert: smile, happy (* not so bad)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-19 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Cool.

[ For real! Not sarcastic! ]

That's the interesting thing about this place, you meet people from all over.
tidalflame: (In your dearest memories)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-19 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I think so too.

What is your world like?
spoileralert: (shrug)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-19 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Well apparently what makes it different from most other worlds like it is the number of superheroes.
tidalflame: (To the sky beyond the flying birds)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-20 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...What makes a hero super?
spoileralert: smile, happy, sorry, tired (* tea is the worst tea flavor)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-20 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The superhuman powers.
tidalflame: (Burning through the air I breathe)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-21 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
That's like magic and stuff, yeah? We got that where I'm from too.
spoileralert: (lipstick)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Do you? What's it like there? Is it a common thing? For some reason my world still doesn't believe in magic for the most part.
tidalflame: (brightest lights cast the darkest shadow)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-21 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Common compared to here, I guess. Not everyone can use magic but everyone does know about it.

I was surprised when I found out that people in other worlds don't even believe in it.
spoileralert: (shrug)

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-01-21 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's not common at all in my world. Hence the "super" in superhero.

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