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: 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?

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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?

permavoice

[standing_waters]

They were all nice and stationary...until I went to sleep. Now they're all around me and....
...and just not right.

[swatsflies]

[ Oh shit. ]

Maaaan, that's creepy. Have a pillow case or a bag?

[standing_waters]

Just the bag I got when I came here...you think I should cover them up?

[swatsflies]

If you're fast, you can stuff them in the bag. [ Wait. ] They might make noise when you do.

[standing_waters]

*Err...*

Is...do you think they're likely to do that? Or, I don't know, bite me or something?

[swatsflies]

They didn't bite me, but I wouldn't really put it past them. I had someone with me to help watch my back when we bagged them up.

[ He doesn't sound sure. He's not sure what they'll do to someone alone. ]

[standing_waters]

Wait so they did this to you before? What happened?

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?

[standing_waters]

Sorry to wake you.

*He smiles, a bit sheepishly. Its clear from his voice that he's on edge.*

Can you look at something with me?

[cosmicwords]

[chaos rises to his feet, seeing the worried look on his companion's face.]

Of course.

[standing_waters]

Great, thanks.

*He heads over to where he left the puzzle...but now its nothing but a white paper? Or had the illusion just worn off?

He points at the paper.*

What do you see?

[cosmicwords]

[chaos gazes questioningly into Manuel's eyes, then looks down at the paper.]

I see nothing.

[He picks the sheet of paper up in his gloved hands and stares at it. As far as he can tell, it's ordinary paper.]

Just paper.

[standing_waters]

*So whatever he'd seen wasn't there. But why was it gone, did his moving break the spell? And why was it suddenly a piece of paper instead of a jigsaw puzzle?
Man, this place gave him a headache.*

It wasn't that a moment ago...but, uh, thanks. I guess you can get back to sleep. Sorry to bother you.

[cosmicwords]

It wasn't?

Did you see something?

[He gingerly sets the paper back down.]

[standing_waters]

Yeah...it wasn't a piece of paper, either. I found a puzzle awhile back, a jigsaw puzzle. It was that until I went to get you.

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.]

8D 8D 8D

[standing_waters]

*Damn. A part of him had hoped the vampire would be asleep and he could skip this. He'd really rather not ask Beckett for help--or even spend the night with him in the first place (aside from keeping tabs on him)--but there wasn't anybody else.

He hadn't been nearly as open about what he was on the network as the vampire had been, and he'd never come out and told Beckett what he was...but he could play off the picture of his archid form as something else if he had to.

Try to hide how shaken he was by sounding annoyed (it wasn't hard, he was generally annoyed at Beckett's existence) he gestured back to where he'd come from.*

I need you to look at something for me.

[bookofnope]

[It's all right, Manny, Beckett doesn't like you either - not in a personal way, more in the mirroring way of someone who knows he's being looked at with distaste. Which also makes him terribly curious, of course, and so he shakes off his weariness as quickly as he can these days, climbing to his feet to follow after the other man. Maybe he has found something worthwhile. It happens often enough.]

Yes? Is it the puzzle you were tinkering with earlier?

[standing_waters]

*He nods and leads Beckett back to the part of the room he was staying in (because of course he wasn't staying within easy reach of the vampire. Where he could see him, though.)

By the time they get there the puzzle is just a blank sheet of paper.*

Wait...that's not what it was...

*Of all the times for this place to be screwing with him.*

[bookofnope]

[A lot of other people would likely have groaned and gone back to bed, but, lucky man that Manny is, Beckett is not one of them. He does give the other a pointed look, but proceeds to drop to a crouch next to the paper, staring at it through his tinted glasses.]

More broken reality? Please tell me it's that and not that you're trying to play a joke. I hate jokes.

[Yes, Beckett, we all know you do.]

[standing_waters]

*He scoffs.*

I wouldn't joke with you.

*Can you feel that hate emanating off him, Beckett? Its pretty thick.*

It was a puzzle just a moment ago. Something happened to it between when I went to wake you up and now.

[bookofnope]

Naturally. I'm a vile monster.

[From his weary tone, that happens to be a joke. He's gotten perhaps a bit too used to nobody in Norfinbury caring about the Vampire Thing.]

Have you done anything to it? Completed it? Not tried to destroy it, I do hope.

[standing_waters]

*He doesn't justify the quip with a reply, but shakes his head at the question.*

I certainly didn't try to destroy it.

*He doesn't do mindless destruction like vampires did.*

I completed it and it was...weird. I'm not sure how to explain it.

*Or he'd rather not since the picture isn't visible anymore.*

So I just wanted to see how someone else saw it.