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]

[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!"]

[bywolves]

[ Royce grins, reaching to gently poke at the blanket. ] Ah, looks like I've got a haunted blanket on my hands. One that wants this cupcake, I assume.

[raccoongirl]

[A hand - just a hand - snakes out, reaching hopefully.]

[bywolves]

[ Okay, this time he laughs. It comes naturally enough: ] What do haunted blankets say when they want something?

[raccoongirl]

[The response is a bit muffled by the blanket, but:]

Please!

[bywolves]

[ And he goes ahead and hands over the cupcake. It's probably a good thing nobody can see his expression, because he's got sappy dad written all over it. ]

[raccoongirl]

[Excuse her as she gets crumbs all over this blanket. Worth it.]

[bywolves]

[ He lets her munch in silence. He leaves a water bottle and a piece of bread on the couch next to him, and rests his elbow on the couch arm, head resting against his hand. He's tired, too, and he's just about ready to pass out. ]

[raccoongirl]

[Finally, she pokes her head out, looking like a little Mercy burrito.]

Is that your dinner?

[bywolves]

[ He opens his eyes a bit blearily, glancing over at her. ] No, it's for you, if you're still hungry.

[raccoongirl]

[She is, so she carefully takes the bread.]

Are you going to sleep now?

[bywolves]

[ It's the good stuff, from the bakery. ] Not until you do.

[raccoongirl]

You look cold and hungry.

[Have some blanket, dad.]

[bywolves]

[ He takes a bit of the blanket when she offers. ] I ate earlier. [ He didn't, but he's not hungry and he doesn't want her to worry. ] I could stand to be warmer.

[raccoongirl]

Me, too. It's always cold here.

[She snuggles up to his side.]

How long until it's summer?

[bywolves]

[ He goes ahead and gathers her up in his lap when she curls closer. As always, he's surprised at how easy it is. ]

It may not ever be summer. [ Might as well be honest. ] The snow has been here since I got here.

[raccoongirl]

... Oh.

[SO CRUSHED 8(]

When was that?

[bywolves]

[ Noooo, he doesn't want her to be sad - but he won't lie, either. ]

Months ago. [ He's softer, now. ] A long time. But you won't be here for months.

[raccoongirl]

Okay.

[And she closes her eyes.]

[bywolves]

[ Royce rubs her back soothingly, or at least, as soothingly as he can manage. ]

You'll never be hungry, and you'll be as warm as you can be. I promise you that. [ Royce tells her, closing his own eyes. ] I will take care of you. And so will Solomons.

[raccoongirl]

[It's really nice to hear - and she believes him wholeheartedly, the way six-year-olds do. She makes a sleepy, contented sound.

And not too long after, Alfie pokes his head into the room, checking on them.]

[bywolves]

[ Royce is half asleep himself, with Mercy curled up on his lap and totally out. He knows he's going to be stiff in the morning, based on how he's positioned, but he doesn't want to wake her up.

So instead, he dozes on and off, wrapped protectively around his daughter. Alfie will find him like that on the couch. ]

[devoutish]

[If they're both asleep, Alfie will turn and try to tiptoe away, not wanting to wake them up.]