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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: DISTORTION Something is wrong with the video feed. You're not sure what it is, but it seems that whenever anyone tries to post to the Network using video, their faces warp and distort like they're being ripped through with static. Odd, since it's only the people who show up blurry, and not the surroundings. Maybe you want to test it out with more people to see if everyone is experiencing the same problem, or maybe you just want to toss theories around about what the issue might be, but either way you turn to the Network for answers. Fortunately, the text and audio features are working normally, so you can still have conversations with the others without any problems. TWO: STRAIGHT TO DETENTION You had to head to the school in order to grab some more rations, but before you head out for the day you decide to explore around a little more. You've heard that people have had success in the past connecting with the Prophet here, so you head to Samantha's classroom and sit at her desk. When you speak up, though, trying to make contact, it's not the Prophet who answers. Instead, you hear the sound of a sharp crack and there's a sting on the back of your hands, like you've been whacked by a ruler. Raise your hand! If you don't follow classroom rules, I'll have to give you detention. A shadow flicks behind you, the looming outline of the teacher that reprimanded you disappears before you can get a good look. The problem? You can't seem to find the exit to the classroom. Your sense of direction warps every time you get to where it should be, causing you to become disoriented and turned around. The neatly-lined desks suddenly seem to form a maze. If you want to skip detention, you may need a little help from the Network. Maybe someone can guide you out. Action Prompts THREE: NO SOLICITING You're running out of time. You finally found a building you can stay in for the night...but it seems that someone else has found it first. And this someone else appears, for whatever reason, unhappy with the idea of letting you in to share the space. You know there's plenty of room for the both of you, and you don't have enough time to duck into another building for safety. You keep glancing nervously at the time on your tablet. It's cold, and you don't have much more time to argue before you're stuck out here. If talking isn't going to get you much farther, maybe you can offer something that will make it worth their while. Or maybe you can even force the issue. You probably have something on you that you can use as a weapon if you're not confident that your own strength will do the trick. FOUR: HOUSE AT THE END OF THE LANE The house that you and your traveling companion have stumbled across has seen better days. As soon as you step through the door, it's easy to see what's happened. Everything has blackened and burned--every object and decoration charred to oblivion, a snapshot of some family's unwitting last moment together. The only proof that it had ever been occupied at all is the creamy white silhouettes that light up the kitchen wall: the perfect outline of a mother, father, and young child holding hands as they pray together before the meal they'd never eat. Maybe you can still find some useful items stowed away inside the cupboards.

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[ Snow Hell? ]

Quaint.

[ Why comment is wry. ]

What sort of distortions?

We do try.

People will go all staticky, or their voices will, or both. Sometimes we'll see things that aren't there, or not see things that are. That sort of thing. It's not as bad on the tablets as it is when it happens in real life.

Not the most reassuring news I've heard, but then I don't believe I've heard any reassuring news since I arrived.

Has anyone investigated the signal tow ... [ Harold began to ask his question, paused and amended it slightly. ] Is there a signal tower?

If there is one, we haven't found it. It's probably all underground, though. We don't have access to anything useful, generally.

That's ... disappointing.

[ He drummed his fingers at the edge of the tablet, in a pensive manner. He shouldn't have to have physical access, unless the tower was locked to a command console.

Stephanie might hear the sound of rapid typing, before he spoke again. ]

What do you define as useful?

Anything that can be used to gain information, keep you warm, fend off an attack or sustain you nutritionally.

[ So in short, the details usually handled by Mr. Reese.

Wonderful. ]

Are things that dire here?

Oh, it's way more dire than just that. We're also on a countdown being hounded by monsters that can kill us with a touch.

[ There is a long-ish pause, before he responds in a wry tone. ]

Damn, I was hoping to have escaped that particular reality.

Yeah... sorry. You've pretty much fallen into the worst case scenario.

Unfortunately, this all sounds like the status quo where I come from.

Oh good, so you should be used to it then.

Should anyone every be used to such circumstances?

[ If he sounds like a stuffy ole college professor as he says that, well ... ]

Honey, I'm from Gotham. Trust me, you get used to anything.

[ Even mass murdering clowns. ]

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