Test Drive

[snowblindmods]

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: THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE Whether or not you were aiming for this to happen, you've ended up in Downtown's Toy Store for the night. Right away, it gives you a creepy sort of vibe. There's even a doll staring up at you from the doorway when you come inside, discarded and lonely on the floor. It has no eyelids or eyelashes, its too-lifelike eyes precariously stuck onto dark hollows. Its mouth a despondant, stitched-on frown. Ingoring it, though, nothing particularly odd seems to happen--at first. It isn't until you sleep when a sinking feeling jolts you from your slumber. It's not hard to figure out where the soruce of the unease is coming from: the doll from earlier is laying just inches away from your face. When you sit up, you realize that it's not the only one: every doll has moved from the shelves and surrounded your sleeping body in a neat circle. All of their eyes are sunken. All of their mouths are turned into frowns. Maybe you'll have an easier time getting back to sleep if you can find someone on the network to talk it out with. TWO: IT BLEEDS Something's wrong with the wallpaper in this house. You're not sure exactly what it is, but it makes your head dizzy to be around it for too long. If it's affecting you this badly, it's possible that other people might have the same problem in the future, so it would probably be a good idea just to take it down. Only, when you pull at the first piece, it's not just the wallpaper that pulls away from the wall...but the skin of your arm, which breaks open in a long scratch. It isn't deep enough to draw blood, but certainly enough to feel raw and uncomfortable. It would be a good idea to stop what you're doing and reach out for some medical advice. Action Prompts THREE: THE QUIET GAME You and your traveling compaion have found shelter at the library. It's a nice, spacious building with plenty of comforable places to sleep and books to occupy your time, so at first this seems like a fine place to spend your time. Only, you can't shake the feeling that someone else is here with you. And everytime you talk too loudly, a fierce shhh passes between your ears, passing a shiver down your spine. Eventually, you hear a slithering voice whisper no talking in the library, and a pinch stabs at the corner of your mouth. Your companion can hear it too...right? FOUR: PICTURESQUE Not too long ago, you found a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces were all stored in a plain box, so you weren't sure what the picture was meant to be. You've been having a slow night, so while your traveling companion tries to get some sleep, you decide to see if you can solve it. Only...you start to notice something familiar about the setting as it unfolds before you. Piece by piece, it becomes clear: it's something from home, something only you should know. You have to show your traveling companion--only when they go to look for themselves, all that's left is a square of white paper where the puzzle once was. But that can't be right, can it?

Comments

Akagi Gaju | Welcome to the Ballroom

[ballroombro]

ONE;
What. The. Hell

If one of you guys is fucking with me, I swear I'm gonna come over there at night and start shoving dolls in your shorts, NOT FUNNY

FOUR;

Hey!

[ Gaju wasn't a particularly quiet person at the best of times, and being excited just made it so much worse. He barked his shin on a nearby library chair in his rush to shake awake his companion. The pain went completely unnoticed. ]

Hey bro, wake up! C'mon!

[ He was going to annoy y'all awake. Give up now. ]

Four;

[cosmicwords]

[chaos awakes with a start from a black, dreamless sleep and lifts his head, blinking sleepily up at Gaju.]

What is it? Is something wrong?

@teamq; text

[toerr]

[Dolls? What in the world? Okay, he has to ask. He's definitely curious.]

What happened?

chaos | Xenosaga

[cosmicwords]

ONE;
[Voice @user]

[A low, soft voice speaks to the Network.]

Hm...

I don't suppose there is anyone else staying at the Toy Store tonight?

@nightsend, voice

[royallyunappreciated]

[A lilting, amused voice returns to him.]

Afraid not. Is there a nighttime visitor you weren't expecting? How exciting.

@teamq ; voice

[toerr]

Wouldn't it be kind of hard to hide from you if there was?

[He's never been there, so he can't be so sure. Maybe it's a really, really big toy store.]

Why? Did something happen that would make you think you aren't alone?

Cylara | Neopets

[mooncybunny]

two

[@moonbunny, text]

So uhhhh
the wallpaper in this one house was giving me the creeps and i dont trust it so i tried to get it off and
WELL

[image attached: A photo of her arm; a bit of her skin has been peeled off, fur and all.]

is this like, A Thing that has happened to anyone else or???

@mlaurin, voice

[standing_waters]

*Fortunately he gets the wince of pain out of the way before recording, so she's met with a sufficiently calm sounding voice.*

I can't say that I've seen it before...but you do have something to wrap that with, right?

Manuel Laurin | Original/Old World of Darkness

[standing_waters]

One
@mlaurin; voice

Has anyone spent the night in the toy store lately? If so, was it something straight out of a horror movie for you too?


Four

*The way things were here, it wasn't possible that anyone could have seen what the puzzle depicted. And it was too detailed, too close to reality, to just be a coincidence.
He seeks out his companion's sleeping spot and clears his throat.*

Hey. You awake?

*He'll raise his voice if there's no response. He was too shaken to not have this checked.*

@zd; voice

[swatsflies]

[ Uh oh. ]

Yeah, they can be seriously creepy! Are they moving whenever you aren't looking or doing something else?

Four

[cosmicwords]

[chaos is slumped against the wall, less sleeping than feigning sleep. He hovers somewhere near dreaming and in his dreams he's back in the stars and can feel the universe flow around him. He feels the warm familiarity of his powers in his limbs. Not the full frightening power he had in ancient times but the lingering inhuman energy he's carried for millenia now.

He's about to drift off into the flow when a voice comes through the darkness and he shakes his head back into wakefulness.]

Hm?

[He looks up at Manuel.]

I am. What's up?

screams into the night I MEAN FOUR

[bookofnope]

I am now.

[And trying not to be too grumpy about it, but probably failing. Beckett raises a mostly unimpressed eyebrow at his unexpected housemate's distress. If this is about to be a midnight heart-to-heart it's going to be an awkward one.]

Garnet til Alexandros XVII | Final Fantasy IX

[lordavon]

❖ the friendship circle.

[ Late, late in the evening, two text messages go live, posted by @dagger: ]

I miss my Eidolons.

I wouldn't be half so scared if they were here with me now.

❖ it bleeds.

[ It's a video message this time, but Garnet is out of the frame. Furniture in disrepair has been pushed to the side so that the reason for her message can be seen without impediment-- hideous wallpaper, further deformed by a tear that exposes the plaster beneath, wide as a fistful and an arm's length long.

She sucks in a breath, too loud in the silence, before speaking in a tone of practiced composure. ]

Hello, everyone. I'm in a house northeast of the school right now; I'll be marking the front door when I leave. [ Yes, that would be best, she thinks. She clears her throat. ] The wallpaper... it only bothered me at first, but the more I looked at it, the more my head hurt. I wanted to look away, but I just couldn't. [ It's a sickening thought, the thrall this place possesses. ]

I thought I'd pull it off of the walls, but when I tried... [ She trails off, searching for words that will warn without causing undue alarm. ]

If you hurt it, it hurts you. [ And boy, did it hurt her. Bandages improvised from an old pillowcase are a poor substitute for white magic. ]

Oh-- I'm alright. [ Garnet finally makes an appearance, leaning into view from beside the tablet. She is facing away from the wall. With her bandaged arm under multiple layers of clothing, she is not visibly injured. Indecision flickers across her face, then she gives a little wave. ]

I'm leaving this place as soon as my message goes through. Please don't worry about me. [ She inclines her head before pulling out of the shot once more. ] And please be safe, everyone.

❖ wild card?

( Because I just realized I didn't write an action prompt. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ Go me! )

the friendship circle.

[tidalflame]

@tantalus; voice

Yo, Dagger, what's wrong?

Maybe I can keep you company.

Peter Petrelli | Heroes

[spongetastic]

The Quiet Game

[the library seems like a logical place to go if one wants to find information. And a good place to relax, with the quiet and the cozy places to sit down. Except Peter does not feel relaxed here at all. There is something very off about this place. Like another presence he can't see]

Hello? Someone there?

[that's when he hears the voice. The hair on the back of his neck stands on end. He breathes through it, though, and starts walking through the stacks. If there is another presence here, he'll find it eventually]

[termineur]

[ For a minute or two, Sylar thinks that maybe he's hearing things. It's not like it'd be the first time in this town. He makes his way through the stacks silently, finally smiling wide as one aisle reveals Peter.

He sneaks up silently behind the man, tapping him on the shoulder. His voice to voice is as quiet as it is smug. ]

Looking for someone?

[spoileralert]

Hello? Who's that?

[ Steph had been totally distracted, just by the fact of a library. She's been digging through the books for anything interesting, helpful, or even just weird.

Now that she's called out, though, she hears the voice too. It makes her shudder.

She calls again in a whisper. ]

I'm over here, with the desks.

[cosmicwords]

[chaos is leafing through the old books in the fading light. Most of the titles are alien to him, but many have at least the flavor of stories he's known in the past. Just holding a book again is nice. In his time so few people have them anymore. They're an oddity for collection more than anything.

When he hears someone call out he edges around the stacks and walks slowly into view of where of the young man is sitting, trying not to startle him.]

It's just me. I am sorry if I frightened you, I did not know anyone else was here.

Jared Rhys | OC Witch

[sleight_of_fate]

1:

[Rhys might not be used to the weather, but he knows what killing cold feels like. Any shelter is good shelter at this point, no matter how unsettling.

He's re-thinking that when he wakes up with the itch of 'company' and all those staring plastic eyes. It's almost enough to make him re-think braving the storm outside again, until he realizes that's really not an option. Okay. Deep breath.]

@hexappeal: (text)

Okay, are there places to stay here that AREN'T creepy or did I just hit weird shit jackpot? Toy stores are supposed to be safe. Childhood shit is off limits.


4:

When there's nothing to do, and no power or television, Rhys is used to entertaining himself the old-fashioned way. Books, drawing...puzzles...so even if it's odd, he'll give it a try. Until the picture takes shape and it's definitely not a Hallmark moment.

Hallmark doesn't tend to make Precious Moments for black magic rites, and when Rhys realizes that he's looking at a picture of two black candles, a jar of blood, a pair of steel scissors and a bunch of marigolds, it's enough to make him drop the piece in his hand like it was a hot coal instead of pressed cardboard.

"What the fuck."

4

[termineur]

Sylar hadn't intended to spend the night with this new arrival, but that was how things went around here sometimes. At least he wasn't stuck bunking down with the Joker. He introduced himself as Gabriel and set about re-reading Activating Evolution for the 300th time, half paying attention to that and half keeping an ear out for the other guy.

So when Rhys started cursing, he decided to put his book away. "Everything okay over there?" he called. Probably not, but might as well check, right?

1 (I couldn't choose)

[termineur]

Nope. Pretty much everywhere is creepy. What'd you find?

1, @totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

itis all
cree py


is there
blood
?

*Cause there was for him once.*

Bruce Wayne | DCEU (TW: Blood)

[gothamiteknight]

Two

@iustitia, Video;

Has anyone ever encountered this wallpaper before?

[Bruce looks fairly haggard, and he rubs his face, clearly needing a shave. His jacket has traces of old blood on it, but he doesn't seem to be injured. He turns the tablet so that the wallpaper can be clearly seen, and he shows the tear, before turning the tablet back to himself.]

It's causing dizziness, but also when I ripped a piece, it--well, a scratch instantly showed up on my arm.

[A wry smirk.]

I don't think I've encountered aggressive buildings before.

Four

Bruce stares down at the puzzle.

Crime alley.

Blood.

His parents.

Recoiling physically, he nearly knocks the table over in his frantic attempt to get up. He's breathing heavily, his eyes wide, as he backs against the wall. He shuts his eyes a moment, centering himself, trying not to let the visceral reaction make this any worse. He opened his eyes again.

The puzzle was still there.

He'd finished it in a sort of frantic state of manic horror, as it became more and more apparent to what it was, clearly Gotham, but the actual crime scene wasn't apparent until the last few pieces.

His eyes fell to the tiny pearls visible on a single piece. The blood.

Then to the form of the child crying in the night.

Him.

Bruce rubbed his face, swallowed, and quickly ran to the other room, where his companion was.

"I need to show you something impossible."

[cloneprincess]

Miranda is sorting through her inventory in the other room, taking somewhat depressed care to organize the scraps into something resembling order. She hears her companion clattering around in the other room and pauses, tilting her head to listen. If it were an anomaly he would have called a warning.

She looks up as he comes running into the other room and raises an eyebrow.

"You're going to have to try hard to do that."

Nonetheless, she does climb to her feet and follow him.

"Are our lives in danger?"

Junpei | Zero Escape

[fiftheclipse]

--FOUR : PICTURESQUE--

[This night was boring. So horribly boring. Getting to sleep already would have been a great idea if he could, but... No. It just wasn't going to be possible without something to numb his mind. But if he had to stay awake, he had to find something to do.

That was what had led to it. To Junpei aimlessly matching up the pieces of a puzzle he'd found earlier on. One that hadn't even come with a picture on its box, and so perhaps understandably, one he wasn't ready to get his hopes up about. What really were the chances that all the pieces even belonged to the same thing?

...

After a while, he understood those chances were, in fact, high. But. What was this? How had someone here managed to use a picture of--]

H-hey!

[Quietly keeping to himself to let the other rest wasn't an option anymore.]

C'mon, get up. You gotta see this.

[toerr]

Huh? What is it?

[The helmeted boy clambers to his feet. It's not like he was really sleeping, anyway, just scrolling through the network quietly on the other side of the room. He's not the kind of kid who was really built for sleeping. The excitement--or maybe it's apprehension?--in Junpei's voice definitely grabs his attention, and he's crossed the room in two shakes!]

Um...

[He tilts his head down, directing his gaze to the puzzle that Junpei's put together. That's what he's talking about, right? There's nothing else to look at. But...that can't be right, either, cause there's nothing to look at here, either.]

Is that supposed to be...a jigsaw puzzle?

Junpei | Zero Escape

[fiftheclipse]

--TWO : IT BLEEDS--

[Call it stubbornness, or call it curiosity, but one thing is for sure. Some mistakes have been made.

Two short video clips are posted in succession.

The first shows an unsteady recording of a room. Was it done in error? Perhaps the user meant to take a photograph, or was struggling to switch to the front camera. ... No, if one keeps watching, it becomes apparent that the walls are the focus.

From offscreen, Junpei's voice:]

W-what the hell--

[It cuts out. But the second recording appears to pick up where the first left off. Or maybe it doesn't "appear" to do anything, as the screen only shows black. The tablet's not being held anymore. Maybe it was just easier not to change settings before hitting record again.]

This place is messed up.

[He sounds distressed. Worn out.]

Anyone know how to take down drywall without breaking the wallpaper? It's gotta stay just like it was.

[But what he really sounds like is that he's leaving out something important...]