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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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@quark; video

[Quark shakes his head, but, well, the static. So, it's hard to really tell.]

Nah, this is pretty weird. I dunno what could be causing it, though. I bet Winter would know, but we can't always reach her! At least the voice feature is still working. That's something.

[ Wight startles visibly when Quark's feed comes on, and he almost growls before he catches himself. That was probably motion, right? He'll just say it was, although he's not even remotely going to try deciphering much else. The person on the other end was being friendly, and that's what he'll focus on for now. ]

Cool! Not, ah-- not really, but it's not normal. That's cool. Am I using that right? [ Slang is hard, okay. ] Means it's not gonna be a problem forever, though! Probably!

[ The name-drop earns a questioning rumble, and process of elimination yields that Quark likely isn't talking about the season. That's something to look into, then! And being that he's still on the line with the person who brought it up, who better to ask? ]
...should I know who Winter is? I'm feeling like the answer might be a 'yeah.'

[Quark has to stop himself from laughing. How was this guy surprised to see a video when he was using video, too? So silly! But this is no laughing matters, so he refrains and decides to switch to audio. Less messy.]

She's an A.I.

[He hesitates. This guy doesn't know how to use the word "cool" properly.]

An Artificial Intelligence. Like a computer. She's been trying to help us. Usually when weird stuff like this happens she's able to do something to fix it. We might have to wait for her to show up on her own.

[Oh.]

And, yeah, I think you used it right, by the way.

[ That explanation likely would have gone over better if he would've been at all versed in what a computer is. The way Quark says it makes it sound like it's common knowledge, and while Wight wants to ask another handful of questions about it, he has to make himself move on for the sake of conversation. He could always come back to it later. ]
[ After a solid ten seconds of fumbling, he finally figures out how to swap from video to audio-- score one for him. Didn't even have to ask about it. ]

Uhhh-huh. Okay. Computer stuff, I got it. [ He totally doesn't. ] Is there anything we can do to get her to come back? Ask nicely, file some paperwork, I dunno.

[ The confirmation draws a muffled sigh of relief from him, followed by another 'laugh'. ]
Good to know! Little bit rusty with that kind of stuff. And by rusty, I mean clueless. [ There's a sharp clack, and the sound of some shifting. He's getting as comfortable as he can where he is. ] So thanks for that! I'll get the hang of it eventually.

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