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Test Drive

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?

fiftheclipse: (☆*looking down*)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[A year ago that sound alone would have shut him up. But today? Not so much.]

It is.

[... Well, really it's not.]

It's more important than beauty sleep, at least. I can't pick it up, so come over here.
computational: (a force that just as easily)

[personal profile] computational 2018-01-05 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[She narrows her eyes in scrutiny, trying to decide if this is really worth getting up over. Junpei is surlier than she remembers him being, and she's still not sure if that's also translated into seriousness.

Ultimately, she decides she doesn't want to leave it all to Junpei if there is something weird happening. So she hauls herself up from her uncomfortable resting place and trudges over to where Junpei is waiting, placing her hands on her hips and leaning in to get a closer look.]
Well? What is it?
fiftheclipse: (☆No way...)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he's serious alright. Or at least the almost scolding tone to his voice is.]

What, you can't tell just because some pieces are missing? Did you forget about it already? It's obviously the Funyarinpa. I never knew they made real puzzles out of it!
computational: (it knows the difference)

[personal profile] computational 2018-01-05 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Hazuki looks at the supposed puzzle. And then she looks at Junpei. And then back to the puzzle...

And then once more back to Junpei, with a furrow to her eyebrows that says she's concerned for his mental health.]
You're joking, right?
fiftheclipse: (☆??)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
You still can't see it? Look, there, and--

Huh?

[As he looks down as well, all Junpei is met with is white. He's sure there had been more black pieces to it. Or, actually, any pieces. What's going on, here?]

... Now I can't either. [This isn't right at all. He isn't supposed to be the one looking stupid...] Maybe you scared it off, or something.
computational: (it is generous and willing to take risks)

[personal profile] computational 2018-01-05 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Junpei's insinuation is met with an angry twitch of the eye.] Excuse me? You woke me up to show me this! Don't be an ass!

[Though it would almost be comforting if she really could scare off some of the weird things that happen in this town.]
fiftheclipse: (☆*looking down*)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, great, with that look, it'll be nightmares instead of boredom, keeping him awake.]

I mean. I didn't. I woke you up to show you a puzzle, not a piece of paper.

[... Actually...]

... But I guess that is a puzzle.
computational: (and genuine spiritual realization)

[personal profile] computational 2018-01-05 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Hazuki's glare softens a little, becoming a bitter grimace.] Great. Puzzles again. [Of course, she is an incredibly logical and intelligent woman, and puzzles are no problem for her if she chooses to apply herself to solving them.

But they've kind of left a bad taste in her mouth after the Nonary Game.

With little regard for Junpei's personal space, she reaches past him to snatch up the blank piece of paper. It looks like paper, and it feels like paper...]


There's no way this was a puzzle. [The obvious conclusion.]
fiftheclipse: (☆:T)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[She can take it away, no problem, but Junpei's going to watch the sheet as well.]

There's no way it was always here, either.
computational: (a force that just as easily)

[personal profile] computational 2018-01-05 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. [She regards the paper and flicks at it with one finger. Right, there was recently that hubbub about the nanomachines being a thousand years old or something. Which also sounds fake to Hazuki, as a programmer, but she'll take it into consideration as they puzzle this out.] You're right. So was it switched out in the time it took you to wake me up? [Her tone is a little rhetorical, like she doesn't believe one way or the other whether that's really what happened.] What would be the purpose of that?
fiftheclipse: (☆No way...)

[personal profile] fiftheclipse 2018-01-05 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That's--

[... What would it be? Just to make him look crazy? It couldn't be anything deeper than that, could it? It's not as though there was a guarantee that anyone else finding the puzzle would want to show it off.]

I don't know. But it was.

[Then, wait a minute...

He gives a confused look around the room. Discovering nothing, of course, but...
]

Who the hell else is even here to switch it out, though?