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Snowblind Moderators ([personal profile] snowblindmods) wrote in [community profile] snowblindmemes2017-04-14 09:44 pm
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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?

excellentpoliceman: (neutral | rly now?)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't see anyone with you when we met up.
devoutish: (that's just murder math)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
What is this, the third fucking degree?
excellentpoliceman: (cigs)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, we're only on the first.
holmesice: (Chinhand)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
A random, unidentified program has loaded itself and appeared out of nowhere, without any sort of indication of who created it, what it's purpose is, or asking permission to download itself. If it's motives were benign, it would have done none of these things.
Edited 2017-04-27 09:04 (UTC)
holmesice: (Facepalm.)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'll be fine. Thank you.

[He sounds extremely casual. And then, a moment later, a shuffling of covers, the sound of slippers being hastily put on, and an umbrella grabbed.]

On second thought, safety in numbers. Better to be careful. Of course.
holmesice: (Default)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
[There was no evidence on his arm, either. But he sounded sufficiently alarmed at the thought of them moving.]

Have you seen this before? What could it be?
devoutish: (that's just murder math)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-27 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well. We're done with it, whatever it is. Ask something else if you'd like to talk, eh?
howdull: (confusion] realisation)

[personal profile] howdull 2017-04-27 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Seriously?]

And thus we see the degeneration of standards in the police force in one short message. Look at the clues, Lestrade, the username should tell you all you need to know. Surely even you can solve a case this simple.
howdull: (confusion] explain to me)

[personal profile] howdull 2017-04-27 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No idea.

[He's still managing to sound fairly flippant, even if he hates not knowing things.]

This town is filled the scientifically impossible. I did posit that it could be airborne drugs when I first arrived, but that wouldn't account for the very real injuries sustained from some of these situations.
ninjainviolet: ([Concerned])

[personal profile] ninjainviolet 2017-04-27 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, don't worry; Sheena's alarmed as well. She's just had some weird experiences here that lets her focus on some things first.

Like discovering if there's more of these things. ]


No, I haven't seen this before, but... [ She meets his gaze. ] Have you seen any anomalies yet?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | hold on)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait.]

Bloody hell, Sherlock, you could just say it's you.
What's your username got to do with it?
Is that a postcode? It's not even the one for Baker Street.
Is it?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | drinking)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a long delay in the response as he thinks about how to rebut that.]

Circumstantial. Has anything happened like this before?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | rly now?)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. [Lestrade's tone is very dry as he moves out into the hallway and turns toward where he remembers a kitchen being.]

So, eggs. Don't suppose you've just been hungry or something? Might stop by the shop downtown. Heard that's got fresh food. Eggs.
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | drinking)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-27 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
What can you tell me about any crimes that've been committed here?

[It's a different subject. Technically.]
holmesice: (Chinhand)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, that was disturbing. Mycroft hated that sensation of losing control, and just how little control he had here was grating on the nerves, if not downright frightening. He'd previously gone through extreme lengths to protect his brother, and it seemed like he could do little of that here, at least with his usual methods. But, when it came down to it, even Mycroft Holmes would endure...legwork...if he must.]

Have you kept notes, or any sort of record? I should like to see them, if so.

[If Sherlock couldn't figure it out, perhaps he could.]
devoutish: (that's just murder math)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-27 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck off. No.

[Come on, buddy.]

Something else.
holmesice: (Ah)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to my knowledge.

[If only text could sound smug.]
holmesice: (Hmm.)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mycroft is better at navigating social cues than Sherlock, but even he is clueless sometimes. He nods and follows the Detective Inspector closely.]

My mind is a considerable force. I have honed my intellect to a fine point. I'm not going to be hallucinating eggs because I'm hungry.

[He was totally hungry and eggs sounded great.]
holmesice: (Observing.)

[personal profile] holmesice 2017-04-27 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least he was being taken seriously. A part of him wondered if he had been going mad.]

No, what sort of anomaly?
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | snark)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-28 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Lestrade shrugs.]

Why don't you give us a topic, mate?
devoutish: (I know the knife goes next to the spoon)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-28 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me about you. You're from what year?
raccoongirl: (020)

[personal profile] raccoongirl 2017-04-28 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
How?
excellentpoliceman: (annoyed | sideways)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-28 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Another delay, this one not quite as long.]

Do you do hacking things?

[Can you fix this, Mycroft? Don't be smug at him if you don't have a solution.]
excellentpoliceman: (neutral | drinking)

[personal profile] excellentpoliceman 2017-04-28 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
2017. And yourself?
devoutish: (put your money where your mouth is)

[personal profile] devoutish 2017-04-28 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
1922. Bit before you.

[You know, just a bit.]

Wife and kids at home, to go along with that respectable job?

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