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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?

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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-16 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Growing so big you can't fit in a house and freeze to death every night sounds a lot like Norfinbury, though.

-Still having a really hard time not clicking it.
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-17 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
in my experience its usually either more direct or more convoluted than that
either something directly wants you fucking dead
or its something messing with your mind that maybe makes you die but more usually question reality and whatever the fuck else is happening
making people huge just so they can freeze is dumb
if youre that set on trying to become a giant i wont stop you but im still going to shake my head at you if thats as wrong as i guessed
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-17 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, one of my best friends became a giant because she kept eating her dad's radioactive superhero pills. It's a valid concern. Stop making fun of me.
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-17 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
the worst thing about this is i cant tell if youre joking
my friend is also her own dog now so id believe it
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-17 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Her codename is Giant Girl. She was going for an old-school vibe, I guess.

How does she own herself? Are they splitting a body, or -?
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-17 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
they were separate
but then shenanigans happened and now theyre in the same body
are you going to eat that egg though
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-18 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You know what, yeah.

I'm going to eat the egg. For Norfinbury.


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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-18 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
k
tell me what happens
if you become a giant type ghjkhkgffyy and ill get the idea
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-18 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
and thats how i know youre bullshitting
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-18 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
My impeccable keysmash skills?
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-18 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
damn right
you think a first time giant would smash the keys in exactly that order
i had to wiggle around my single human scale digit to get them like that
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it was voice-to-text.
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-18 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
then turn the camera on
as thomas edison used to say
pics or it didnt happen
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-18 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Enjoy a very close up shot of Billy's eyeball. ]

-I think I'm over-committing to this joke.
Edited 2017-04-18 21:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-19 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
just a little
so what actually happened
did you ever click the egg thing
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-19 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Guess what happened?
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-19 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
id say something creepy and unsettling but thats the free space on the bingo card
did you actually taste the egg or something
or have an egg lump in your gut
please dont let it be an egg lump
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-19 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude.

That's messed up.
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-19 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
i dont trust norfinbury not to be messed up
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[personal profile] fanboyascended 2017-04-19 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
So far, I'm not nurturing any chest-busters.

There was just a stupid cryptic message telling me to make sure I had enough to share.
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[personal profile] mrcreamsicles 2017-04-19 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
your cryptic message can stuff it
im not eating my egg
im a bird
im going to incubate my sugar infant until it melts in its digital wrapper
bet the programmer thought they had me
option 1 dont run the app
option 2 run it and eat the egg
but im sitting content at 1.5
made myself a comfy little nest between the branches
now what
unless sharing meant something else thats too obtuse to figure out
speaking as a guy coded to make all my hints cryptic theyre nothing but needless frustration for everybody else but the smug asshole who dropped them
so i never bother
secret app coder can suck a fat one
let me know if anything else happens man