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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.

tidalflame: (Though you're gone)

Three

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Zidane is slumped against a wall, sitting on his tail with his hands tucked into his sleeves, trying to huddle away from the cold still hanging in the air.

The large cat is acting odd but purring means he's feeling okay...right? He doesn't know much about cats.

When the rumbling doesn't stop he finally looks up.]


Yo, turn down the motor, would ya?
mycatfromhell: (12)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-22 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
No. [Kuro says, tense and short. He's not feeling well, his skin is crawling and something is scratching through his throat, and nothing is making the feeling go away.] It itches.
tidalflame: (the pieces that remain)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-22 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Zidane's expression of annoyance shifts into one of concern.]

What are you talking about? What does?
mycatfromhell: (8)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-22 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Are you ready, Zidane? Are you ready for the biggest crybaby cat in the world? Kuro sniffles, tears gathering at the corners of his eyes and dripping down his fur.]

It hurts! Something's crawling in me, and it won't go away, and it's itchy! I don't like it!
tidalflame: (Let them ring out loud 'til they unfold)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-22 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Zidane lifts hands, palms out in a slightly defensive gesture.]

Oh, man...

Alright, just relax big guy, it's probably nothing. It's just indigestion or something.
mycatfromhell: (8)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-22 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's in my fur. [He wails, sniffling and rubbing at his face with a paw.] Can you see them?
tidalflame: (and dreams upon those wings)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-22 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He rolls his shoulders in a shrug.]

See what?
mycatfromhell: (8)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-22 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He bites at his paw, worrying the fur and biting gently at the skin, even though he knows that won't work.]

It's wiggling.
tidalflame: (To weave by picking up)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-22 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What is?

[He feels a headache coming on.]

I don't see anything. You got fleas?
mycatfromhell: (13)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No! [He yowls, bristling.]

I don't have fleas! There's something wiggling! I don't want it to wiggle!
tidalflame: (The floating continent theorem)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He lashes his tail irritably.]

So...you got a hairball?
mycatfromhell: (13)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-23 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
No. It's like... it's something under my skin.
tidalflame: (Leave them now and see)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-23 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine...

[Zidane looks around, then shrugs again.]

It's probably all in your head, stop scratching at it, you'll just make it worse.

Think about something else.
mycatfromhell: (8)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's wiggling. [He whines, sniffling again.]
tidalflame: (do you remember loving me?)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-23 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you kinda mentioned that.

[He sighs, defeated.]

Alright, if you're sure there's something...

What can I do to help?
mycatfromhell: (14)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-01-30 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Pet me? [He asks, butting his head against Zidane. Thankfully, he's big enough that his horns go on either side of the man's torso instead of ramming painfully into his side.]
tidalflame: (inside my lonely heart)

[personal profile] tidalflame 2017-01-31 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Zidane hops back and lifts his palms, tail waving. When he realizes he's not being attacked he relaxes and steps forward again.]

Uh.

Okay.

[How is he going to do this?

He reaches up with both hands and rubs the massive forehead.]


Like this?
mycatfromhell: (6)

[personal profile] mycatfromhell 2017-02-04 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
That feels nice. [Kuro says, bumping against Zidane again. Please continue to pet him, new friend.]