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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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?

[spongetastic]

[he turns, letting out a breath. Though he is still a little on edge. The voice heard before was not Sylar's.

He gives the other man an annoyed look]

You're lucky I didn't clock you.

[shut up, that was an intentional pun]

[termineur]

[ Sylar laughs loud enough to get another insistent 'shhhh' from the phantom voice, his lips actually looking like they're getting pinched by some invisible force. He raises an eyebrow, trying to look annoyed rather than worried about the implication. He's been here for awhile, right? He can handle this sort of thing.

He leans in to murmur quietly to Peter. ]

Looks like we've got a particularly annoying data ghost here. Better keep it down, Pete.

[spongetastic]

[Peter smirks in amusement. Probably a little immature, but hey, at least he can find some humor in this otherwise creepy situation. Still, best to not get on the bad side of the ghost]

Should we take this outside?

[termineur]

[ Sylar makes a face. But after a melodramatic sigh, he nods his head. ]

Guess we should. C'mon.

[ As soon as they reach the entrance, Sylar stops suddenly. It's an experiment, because he does not want to go out in the cold. He speaks up a bit. ]

Yeah, I think that's good enough. Was that your first 'ghost'? You looked pretty spooked.

[spongetastic]

Unless you count Claude. [the guy was practically a ghost. As for being spooked, he's going to skate on by that. There are more important things to focus on]

Have you... been here a while?

[termineur]

Claude?

[ He looks to the side, clearly mentally shuffling through his lists of powered people. Claude's not on it. Unlike back home, at least he doesn't dwell on it. Instead he smiles wryly and answers the question. ]

Awhile, yeah. Since Day 144, and it's what, 240-something now? It sort of all melts together after the first month- don't expect me to have a lot of answers, though. This town's great at keeping them from us.

You been managing okay here so far? Got enough food?

[ Look, he's just curious. He's not concerned. Not much. ]

[spongetastic]

An invisible man I met years ago. Not really sure what happened to him.

[could be that the guy is still wandering New York in his invisible state. Probably happy now that Peter isn't bothering him. Peter spares the cranky man a smile before focusing back on the discussion. Which quickly turns his smile into a puzzled frown]

But that's-- [wait, should he really be arguing with Sylar over something that has to do with time? Probably not] Never mind.

I just got here. I haven't thought of food. [Sylar is probably the only person he would be honest with about taking care of himself. Mostly because Sylar would immediately call him on bullshit]

[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.

[spongetastic]

[that isn't the voice he heard earlier, but Peter moves toward it anyway. When he sees the girl, he greets her with a little smile and speaks in a whisper]

Hey. Are you okay?

[spoileralert]

[ She offers a smile and a little wave in greeting. ]

I'm fine. Got a little absorbed in my reading. And apparently the resident librarians are pretty old school.

[ Who the hell pinches a stranger? ]

You?

[spongetastic]

Yeah. [like he's really going to admit that this library is creeping him out] Sorry if I disturbed your reading.

[spoileralert]

Don't worry about it. Sorry I didn't notice you come in. You're new, right? I'm Steph. I usually greet the newbies, but I've been pretty distracted the last few weeks.

[spongetastic]

It's probably easy to get distracted around here. [he gives her a little smile] I'm Peter.

[spoileralert]

Steph.

You heard the ghost librarian too, right? I didn't just imagine that?

[spongetastic]

[his eyebrow goes up, as does his lip in a half smile]

Is that what we're calling it?

[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.

[spongetastic]

[that isn't the voice he heard earlier, either. What's going on here? Peter gives a smile in hopes of deflecting]

It's okay, I just thought I heard something. Guess I was wrong.

[cosmicwords]

Maybe you heard me.

[He lifts a book to his chest with one hand and gestures vaguely with the other.]

I think things echo in here, that's all. It's the empty space.

[People hear things around Norfinbury all the time, right? It was probably nothing to worry about. He hopes it wasn't.]

[spongetastic]

[except that Peter knows it wasn't this person. He just is smart enough to not say so. The last thing he needs is to draw attention to himself]

Maybe.

[cosmicwords]

I can be pretty clumsy sometimes.

[Whatever the stranger heard, he does not seem willing to talk about it so chaos allows it to slide and just nods.]

Well if you hear anything else I will be there, by the window. If there is something here with us we can investigate together. It never hurts to have a little help, right?

[spongetastic]

Um... right. But I'm pretty sure I just imagined it. It's been a long day.

[or Peter just sucks at asking for help. It could be that]

[cosmicwords]

The days do run long here...

[He lifts his gaze towards the window and frowns slightly. Days are long and nights longer. Sometimes it seems like the dawn will never come...

chaos stares forward for a few more awkward silent moments then smiles at the stranger.]

I'm chaos, by the way. Sorry again for the interruption, Mister....uhm...

[spongetastic]

Peter. Just Peter.

[and an awkward moment. He still can't quite people correctly] I should let you get back to reading.