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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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?

[sleight_of_fate]

Rhys stares at the picture for another second before he realizes that Gabriel is talking to him. Then he realizes he has to answer. It's followed by the thought that his temporary roommate has no reason to understand what the picture is, and that gives Rhys enough relief to decide to call back.

"I dunno. This is a really fucked-up puzzle. Like, kinda horror-movie shit."

There. That was nice and neutral. He is good with that.

[termineur]

"This place loves horror-movie shit," he says, dismissively. But he's already pulling himself up to his feet and walking on over to the room Rhys has settled in.

As he pokes his head in, he says, "What's it of?" But all he sees in front of Rhys is a piece of white paper. His brow furrows. There was definitely not enough time for Rhys to put it somewhere else.

[sleight_of_fate]

Rhys looks at the puzzle again. He hasn't attempted to hide it, knowing chances are good Gabriel wouldn't know what it meant, and when the other man gives him that quizzical look, Rhys looks up at him.

Then back at the...white...board. And the plain cardboard box it came in.

He looks back at Gabriel uncertainly. There's no way he's that tired. "It was a puzzle. There were candles, and blood," he says bleakly, fully expecting he won't be believed.

[termineur]

Sylar sighs, but it's not because he doesn't believe the man. He sits down, cross-legged, next to him and sets his book to the side.

"The town's messing with you. Or me. Or both of us." He shrugs, but the expression on his face gives away that he's bothered by it, too. "It happens. It might be a clue to something or it might be nothing. Did it have an eye symbol anywhere in the picture?"

1 (I couldn't choose)

[termineur]

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

\o/

[sleight_of_fate]

More like what found me. Dolls. Something moved them while I was asleep and they look kinda pissed.

[In fact, he's going to move...over there. Yes. Never mind that he can feel their disapproval following him. Shit, it's kinda dark in here. And there's still a chill he can't shake.]

[termineur]

Ugh, I haven't even seen that one. Lovely.

I'd recommend not sleeping tonight.

[sleight_of_fate]

You've seen other things, though? There's more of this weird shit here?

[termineur]

Oh, yeah. Tons of stuff. The worst parts are usually temporary, so get ready for mazes of white walls, everything in the world turning into static, and- my favorite- turning into a monster.

But if you're talking about just places that are creepy, I've seen some of that, too. Altars and graffiti for the Prophet. Raining inside. One place felt like I was getting stuck with needles the entire time I was in there. Fun times.

If you want something inexplicable and not horrible, try heading for Andromeda's house. Talk about stars in there and I'll bet she'll leave you a blanket.

1, @totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

itis all
cree py


is there
blood
?

*Cause there was for him once.*

[sleight_of_fate]

No blood. Just dolls. They look unhappy. I think I'd rather have the blood.

[He thinks about that for a second.]

I feel like that was a stupid thing to say.

[0thingsonmymind]

whatif cut op en
?

*His didn't bleed till he stabbed it, after all.*

may be
if any one is
list en ing

[sleight_of_fate]

Maybe if I burned them. Would help keep me warm, right?

[0thingsonmymind]

if doesnot
up set

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

you found toys?

[Yeah just ignoring the creepy part.]

[sleight_of_fate]

Yes? Or they found me?

[Rhys would like to ignore the creepy, too. He really, really would...]

sorry; totally get it if this isn't worth doing anymore for you

[ecks]

toys do not usually find a person
they are inanimate

Nope, still good!

[sleight_of_fate]

See, that's the problem I'm having here.

[Have a picture of the dolls nicely arranged around Rhys's sleeping spot, all looking very disapproving.]

There weren't even this many dolls here when I went to sleep. Just one by the door. They multiplied.

[ecks]

that is also not a thing inanimate objects typically do
are you very sure that you are alone in the building?
some of the dolls we found before moved, but only their faces
I think it is an enchantment

1; @wiccandoit, audio

[fanboyascended]

Never seen Chucky?

I'd accuse our captors of a lot of things, but originality isn't on of 'em.

[sleight_of_fate]

I've seen it, I was just being blindly optimistic. My bad I guess.

Unarmed and outnumbered. This is not how I planned to go out.

[fanboyascended]

I think I liked you better optimistic.

What's happening at the creepy toy store?

[sleight_of_fate]

Aside from optimistic, melodramatic is also one of my finer character traits. But sokay, I'm good.

The dolls moved while I was asleep. Now they're around me and they look very unhappy. Not knifey yet, but not happy with me.