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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snowblindmemes2017-07-15 12:30 am
html can bite me. also this thread is great. I <3 your House. Also I'm just fudging this for now.
Either way, telling House once was bad enough. Doing it a second time? It was hard to swallow. ]
Thanks for the advice. I'm writing all of that down.
I don't want to find out for myself how exactly death happens if you stay out past lockdown.
And I'm guessing this world's definition of cabin fever is a lot more fun than the standard dictionary definition.
That's also funny, I always wondered what life as a hobo would be like, and now I get to find out.
[ Seems to him that life keeps making him do things or experience things he never really wished for. But them's the breaks, and he can't do a thing about it.
He scans the map, trying to make sense of it, but once he does, he passes along his location to House. ]
I'm having a hard time picturing you in an underground tunnel.
Thank you! I'm about to head off to bed, but I'm super enjoying it, as well. Poor Wilson.
you freeze to death
or get swallowed whole by an anomaly and probably disintegrated
you pass out before that happens, at least
cabin fever here = hallucinations that drive you batshit insane and force you outside
only got it once when i was trapped somewhere for too long
little like a bad acid trip
the walls turned into millions of centipedes and started melting
it was great
the tunnels are gonna be your new best friend
way easier getting around down here
no lockdown
no snow to climb over
no wind or weather
blissful pitch black, silence, and metal
[Actually, they're incredibly creepy and slightly more difficult to navigate, but they're more practical.]
no subject
Both sound like very pleasant ways to go, although if I had a choice, I'd pick swallowed whole over freezing to death. One is relatively quick, the other, not so much. But I would hope I'd be passed out before any disintegration starts.
The whole constantly moving thing must be fun for you. How's your leg holding up?
You would find that great, House.
It's a good thing I'm not claustrophobic, then. So do these tunnels counter the cabin fever part, or is that still a factor to be worried about?
[ Because nothing about cabin fever as described by House sounds pleasant, so if there's a way to avoid it, then of course Wilson will jump at the chance. ]
no subject
[This is a factually true statement. One that House expects Wilson to interpret as him being his stoic I Don't Want Your Pity shtick. Which works out great. Wilson can't complain that he's been lied to if he hasn't been. At least not about this. It's not House's fault what assumptions he might make.]
inconclusive on the cabin fever
they opened up two days ago
thinking you'll get down here and just hang out?
set up a clinic?
[Can you read the disdain in his text?]
no subject
[ And for now, Wilson remains blissfully unaware of anything being amiss. If House says he's fine, then he's fine. Wilson just chalks it off to House possibly having a good day, as far as his leg pain goes. ]
I don't know, House, I was just asking a question. I don't know how I'm going to fit into things here yet, so if I can at least make myself useful somehow, it's something to be looked into, isn't it?
[ Oh, he can read the disdain in the text all right. But seeing as he's going to be here for the foreseeable future, he doesn't think there's anything wrong with exploring his options. ]
What do you do to pass the time? I doubt they have electric guitars, pianos, or monster trucks stashed away somewhere.
no subject
there's a new area that opened up
we need to get to the center
we're running out of time
there is actually a piano in the school
i had an acoustic guitar
and a harmonica
['Had' being the operative word here...]
i skim the network for info
run experiments in the buildings
and read porn
i'm pretty sure evie intentionally writes expy fanfic of all of us
that she sticks in some of the houses for us to find
got a book from a kid that's about a steamy hospital romance
between a gruff diagnostician named craig and warm-hearted oncologist named jamie
fyi: your dialogue and the description of your dick leave a lot to be desired in that
i'm redlining it with edits
[This is what he's reduced to for the boredom. Critiques of bargain bin smut novels.]
no subject
What happens to someone who's out exploring who finds themselves unable to get back before the lockdown? Are their chances of survival basically zero?
Oh, and there's now a time limit? Is this place completely against us?
Now that's funny. We're living in a place that effectively wants to kill us, but oh, there's a piano!
[ Too snarky? Maybe. But Wilson is deciding he really doesn't like this place already. ]
Why doesn't that surprise me? Even here, you manage to find your smutty books. And not just any books, but ones meant to lampoon us. Wow, this place sounds nicer by the minute.
And by the way, I don't want to know about someone's description of my dick. I'm sure you've shared that around with everyone here, so there go my chances of having a little dignity.
no subject
unless you have a tent
one of the ones you can find here
not something you make yourself
which makes no sense except in video game worlds
[House is choosing to ignore the the time limit remark. The answer should be obvious. Everything is out to get them here.]
the piano sometimes bleeds
if that makes it better
not actual blood
it just looks like blood
covered in static
that looks like nothing except a red tint under a microscope
and don't worry, killer
i'm keeping word about your "manly throbbing want" to myself
at least until i can edit this trash
no subject
I'm going to guess that those tents are hard to find, so counting on one of them isn't a good idea.
[ A case of an imbalance of supply and demand, or so Wilson surmises. That leads him to his next question. ]
How many of us unfortunate souls would you say there are?
[ And yes, he notices the complete ignoring of his question about time. It's something he's filing away to pin down later. House can't expect to wiggle out of everything. ]
Well, we already have science-fiction, why not add horror too? It makes sense if they're looking to cover all genres here.
Thanks, that means a lot. Really, I appreciate it. That must be incredibly hard for you. If it's trash, why are you bothering to edit it? Just burn it and use it as a heat source.
no subject
there's something like 40 to 50 people
the population quota for the town is 100
so the fewer there are of us
the more anomalies there are to balance things out
that's part of why those things are around
admin keeps trying to pull in more people
only gets parts
so she stitches the bits together and sends them off
[All the horror you could ever want along with your sci-fi.]
and are you kidding?
some asshole stole my matches
and i wouldn't waste them on this
book-hater