Test Drive

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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?

Comments

[raccoongirl]

[Mercy is thinking the same thing, because:]

Can we bring Solomons?

[She's not particularly attached to Alfie (who has purposefully been staying out of her way a lot, to give Royce time to bond with his daughter on his own), but she can tell that Royce is. She's also heard whisperings about Tifa and Emily, and considers bringing them up - but they've been sad whisperings, and she doesn't want to make Royce sad by asking if they can find them and bring them, too.]

[bywolves]

[ There's a pause. Royce closes his eyes. ]

I don't think he'd go back with us. [ Royce tells her. ] He has family he misses. And he wouldn't like it, with the elves. [ These are things he knows, but he still sounds - not upset, just unhappy. ] Do you like him enough that you'd want to bring him back with us?

[raccoongirl]

[She shrugs.]

He's quiet. He doesn't talk. But Hadrian couldn't come with us to live in the palace, so I thought maybe Solomons could, and then you'd have a friend.

[bywolves]

[ Aw, Mercy. Royce smiles a little. ]

Mm. [ She's sweet. He's glad that she has some sweetness to her at all - must've come from Gwen. ] I would ask, but I know he wants to go home.

[ He holds Mercy a bit more tightly. ] I'll survive without having a friend in the palace. We'll just visit Hadrian more often. That way you can see Allie, as well.

[raccoongirl]

Will there be kids to play with when Allie isn't there?

[bywolves]

I imagine there will be soon. [ Listen, if Arista and Hadrian don't have like eight kids, he'd be surprised. ] Modina likes kids. I'm sure there will be plenty.

[raccoongirl]

I mean with us. Will there be kids with the elves?

[bywolves]

[ Oh. Man, he has no idea. ] I don't know. I guess we'll see, won't we.

[raccoongirl]

Maybe we can bring Quark.

[She just wants to bring SOMEBODY, okay.]

[bywolves]

[ Royce hums. ] You can ask him. [ Royce isn't going to stop her from trying to make friends. He hopes she's more successful than he is. ]

[raccoongirl]

I'll ask Solomons, too.

[BEST PLAN]

[bywolves]

[ What a cutie. ] I'll be waiting with baited breath for the answer. [ Don't be sarcastic to your child, Royce. ]

Are you warm enough? Hungry?

[raccoongirl]

I'm warm. I'm-- not tired.

[She yawns. She's totally tired.]

[bywolves]

[ Uh huh. Royce smiles a bit. ]

We should eat dinner. [ He suggests gently. ] What do you want? There's a bit of the bread left.

[raccoongirl]

Do we have cupcakes?

[Alfie has cupcakes in his bag that Royce could get, but are you going to feed your daughter cake for dinner, Royce?]

[bywolves]

[ Mercy, you're putting him in a tough spot here!! There's a long moment where he debates - he doesn't want her to eat unhealthily, and so normally he'd say no, but. He wants to make up for the rabbit being a demon earlier. ]

We do. [ Royce tells her, with his eyebrows raised. ] You can have one. You have to promise you won't tell anybody. I don't want them to be jealous of our cupcakes.

[raccoongirl]

I won't.

[It'll be another secret.]

Is there a chocolate one?

[bywolves]

I'll go see. Are you good to sit here by yourself for just a second?

[raccoongirl]

Yes.

{She'll monkeycling until he gets up, but once he does, she'll let him put her down.]

[bywolves]

[ He doesn't seem to mind at all - in fact, he pushes her hair back and kisses her forehead once she's sitting down, making sure she's curled up with her blanket.

He goes to harass Alfie for a cupcake - listen, he just wants to spoil her a little. Just this once. It shouldn't take too long for him to make his way back to the living room. ]

[raccoongirl]

[It definitely doesn't take long; Alfie is very willing to give up the goods. When he gets back, Mercy is completely burrowed under the blanket. She's still awake, but it's warmer this way.]

[bywolves]

[ For a second, Royce thinks - he should do something that's dadlike. Tickle her, or... or something. But he doesn't know how that might make her react, and he doesn't want to upset her, and so he talks himself out of it. Royce makes his way over and settles down next to her on the couch, watching the blanket bundle with a little smile. ]

Mm. I guess Mercy didn't want that cupcake after all, since she just up and left. [ He says, teasing. ]

[raccoongirl]

[Okay, that makes her giggle, and wiggle under the blanket a little. She decides not to come out just yet. Let's see what he does!]

[bywolves]

[ It's hard for him to keep the amusement to himself. ] I'll just eat this cupcake myself, I guess.

[raccoongirl]

[There's a little squeak, and a quiet "No!"]