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.
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snowblindmemes2017-01-14 08:59 pm
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Have you seen any signs of them? Or is it just the scuttling noises? Maybe it's something else entirely.
[ Hopefully not a monstrous anomaly that's about to burst through the floorboards and consume this poor sweet polite newbie, though. That'd kinda suck. ]
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[ 'Poor', 'sweet', and 'polite' are three words that haven't been applied to Vasquez in years. Give him like ten minutes, Angel. He'll prove why. ]
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Are you in a place with multiple rooms?? You could try hiding in a bathroom until lockdown ends. There's no shame in it! We've all done it at least once.
[ Angel hasn't. But only because she and Rhys prefer hiding under tables. It's the classy choice. ]
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[ Hiding in a bathroom? He's got this, though. Potentially. He doesn't need to hide-- okay maybe he does, judging by the sudden spike in noise. Vasquez glares into the darkness for a second, unable to see what's going on beyond the halo of light from his tablet. ]
real quick though, do these things bite at all
just checking in case they actually. show up.
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Yes. They do bite. Kind of. The administrator uses them to administer shots and anesthesia, though. They're not dangerous!
Although I guess in large numbers they could prove problematic. Overdosing on anesthetic can be pretty freaking fatal.
Yeah just try and avoid them
[ NAILED IT ]
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[ Who. ]
[ Possibly mechanical spiders going around and giving people shots and anesthesia at the beck and call of some shady admin character? Ohh man, he is not here for this. On one hand, painkiller overdose isn't the worst way to go he can think of, but the thought of those things swarming on him is awful. How exactly is he supposed to fight that? He's got...two shoes, which he supposes he can throw if need be; although with how much they cost, he's loathe to do that. Besides, he's pretty sure that would just leave him without shoes, which is a problem in and of itself. ]
[ Silently, he tucks himself into his corner a little more, feeling a little less confident about his chances now. ]
about that whole 'avoiding them' bit? if they're all up in the walls and whatever, how exactly am i gonna do that. [ The bathroom idea isn't sounding that bad right now, anyway. ]
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[ GENIUS. Hold your applause, ladies and gentlemen. ]
They usually don't attack or anything, so you should be fine! But they don't usually swarm around places to the point you can hear them, either.
Maybe try to look as not-sick as possible. And stay away from the walls?
If you're freaking out at all, try to calm down. They might be malfunctioning and interpreting an increased heart rate as a sign of physical distress!
Medical spiders have been inoperational for a while, so if they're getting reactivated there could feasibly be teething problems like that. So relax! Think about things you enjoy instead of waves of robotic spiders. ♥
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that's. very reassuring. did you work in PR?
what i'm getting out of this is just.......don't do anything. at all, until morning. see what happens after that?? followed by the usual 'try not to die'.
[ There's the network at least, so-- there's that positive, maybe? A little distraction sounded pret-ty good right about now. ]