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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: GIFT BASKET
You wake up to find a new application, BASKET.EXE, has downloaded itself to your tablet. The icon is of a cheery pink wicker basket adorned in a bright ribbon and full of eggs and treats. If you click on it, no program appears to immediately load, but then an egg-shaped chocolate in a cheerfully colored wrapper will appear in the corner of your screen. "Eat me?" it asks in an unassuming word bubble. Should you click on it, your tablet goes dark. A cryptic message appears on the center of your screen in red text:

Thank you for your contribution.

Or maybe it reads:

Progress has been saved.

Or even:

It will be our secret.

Whatever the message reads, you feel a shiver pass down your spine, and then your tablet returns to normal. The application has disappeared.

TWO: THE RESURRECTION
Maybe you've died before or maybe this is your first time, but just like with any other revival, you awake in your body bag, and have to suffer through the task of crawling out into the morgue. You know you'll need to figure out what it is you've awaken to: how long you've been gone, where you are, if anything has changed about you or anyone else. But before you have a chance to do anything to get your bearings, your eyes catch onto something strange.

There, on the door to the drawer your body had been stuffed into, someone (or something) has left something. It could be a drawing, or it could be a written word, but whatever it is, the sight of it fills you with a sense of loss. It's familiar, though you're not immediately sure how or why: something that symbolizes something important you've lost in your past. But who would leave this here? And who could know?


Action Prompts
THREE: RABBIT FEET
It's been a long day of traveling, and you and your companion are glad to be reaching your final destination for the night. Someone's even built a rabbit out of snow outside of the door to make the place more inviting. Only...as you get closer, you realize that the tall, white figure is much too detailed to be anything made of snow. The slender figure has a body that could almost be human if not for the way that the limbs attach to the torso at odd angles, and the rabbit face has dark, hollow slits for eyes. It carries a small basket in delicate fingers. It waits for you. It waits for you to get closer, closer. It waits for you to try to get inside.

FOUR: SKIN DEEP
The day has been rather uneventful, so you wonder why it is you can't sleep. Something is eating at you, poking at the back of your brain, telling you that you're missing something. You look over at your companion and then you see it--something shifting beneath their skin. And then you look down at your own arm, and you see it there, too. An egg has been planted into your skin. And not just one.

You wake your companion at once--they need to see what you see. But when you illuminate the situation with the lights from your tablets, you can't see the eggs anymore. You're left to wonder if it was really real, or if your imagination was getting the better of you. But what if it was real? And what happens when the eggs hatch?

devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. So what sort of business are you in now?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | tell me)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He reaches into his coat and pulls out his badge, turning the tablet on so Alfie can see it.]

Run the homicide division down at Scotland Yard.
Edited 2017-04-24 04:04 (UTC)
devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Ugh, gross. Alfie's expression doesn't change, but still, that's definitely a disappointment.]

Ah. I've been known to cause a homicide or two, in my day.

[Or five, or ten.]
excellentpoliceman: (annoyed | sideways)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Lestrade sighs. He sighs the sigh of a man who's had to deal with the Holmeses for far too many years, and pulls his blanket off as he sits up.]

I'm checking under the bed and in the closet, Mr. Holmes. That enough for your nerves tonight, or d'you want me searching the whole house?
Edited 2017-04-24 04:07 (UTC)
excellentpoliceman: (smile | smug)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He assumes the man is joking.]

Have you, now? Should I be worried tonight? Got my handcuffs if we're feeling frisky.
devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, of course not. If I was gonna attack you, I would've done it sneakily, right.
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | snark)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Depends on if you think you need to be sneaky. Name's Lestrade, by the way. Greg Lestrade. Didn't catch yours.
Edited 2017-04-24 04:20 (UTC)
devoutish: (I always give 110%)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Alfie Solomons.

[He holds out his hand for a shake.]
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | drinking)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Now, there's a name he's seen around on the network. So, the thief and the bloke who helped kill someone. He wasn't joking about the homicides. Still, Lestrade keeps his light tone and amiable expression in place. Anyone might be able to tell Alfie that Lestrade was more often the one playing the Good Cop to Sergeant Donovan's Bad Cop. He shakes the other man's hand.]

Solomons from Camden Town. What are you in the business of, apart from the occasional homicide, then?
devoutish: (I know the knife goes next to the spoon)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Here, or at home?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | srs)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Home's a universe away. How about here?
devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Supplying. My mate and I, we gather things from houses in untraveled areas, and bring them to the explorers who need them.
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | tell me)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Very community-minded of you. Making up for the homicides or just looking to get out?
devoutish: (that's just murder math)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Looking to get out. Yes.

[He very rarely feels guilty for the murders he commits.]
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | snark)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, as long as we've got a common goal and a common enemy. [He hooks a thumb toward the windows where the Easter bunny anomaly is still lurking.] We should be good, yeah? Keep ourselves busy on the right things.
devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. Are you trying to reassure yourself, or me?
excellentpoliceman: (cigs)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm letting you know I've got a pair of handcuffs, a knife, and I'm not too bothered collaring someone here if they're making a nuisance of themselves where I can see it. Take that as reassurance either way, Mr. Solomons.
devoutish: (I always give 110%)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Am I being a nuisance?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | srs)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-24 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Just letting you know to keep it that way.
ninjainviolet: ([Focus])

[personal profile] ninjainviolet 2017-04-24 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sheena's in the middle of covering a yawn when he answers, and the effect is immediate. Gone is her sleepiness; she's now wide awake and alert. ]

Never mind what it sounds like. Where did you see it, exactly? And how big was it?

[ Yep. Taking it seriously. ]
holmesice: (Smoke)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-24 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Mycroft is no stranger to the harsher realities of life. He's ordered unscrupulous things to be done on people, he's watched it, first-hand. He's taken it all in stride. What was necessary was necessary. It took a lot to affect him.

He's affected by this.

Especially with the situation about Sherlock and memories. Having to actively participate in keeping certain memories hidden through his entire life hit him harder than he would have expected upon hearing it.

The danger to his own person is hardly considered, though uncomfortable in his expectations that he might endure such himself.]

I see. Well, that...is good information to have, I shall take note of it.

[His voice betrays nothing, in fact he almost sounds bored.]


Edited 2017-04-24 05:50 (UTC)
holmesice: (yes.)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-24 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Mycroft hardly notices.]

Yes. Thank you. I'll wait here.

[He's dead serious too. After all, the police were far more qualified at this sort of thing.]
holmesice: (Chinhand)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-24 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Good. It was a Very Serious Matter.]

Forearms, closer to the elbow. The 'eggs' were about two inches in length, by my reckoning. And buried about halfway in, as if they were under the skin.
Edited 2017-04-24 09:07 (UTC)
holmesice: (Default)

@theiceman; text

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-24 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
You clicked on it. Why did you click on it?
devoutish: (that's just murder math)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-24 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Or you'd put me in handcuffs, and... then what? Have you thought about it beyond that?

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