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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: TIME TO CHECK WEBMD You've found the pharmacy, which is really convenient, since you're not feeling that great. Actually, you're feeling terrible. Maybe you have a fever, maybe you're coughing up blood, maybe you're vomiting... Whatever it is, you should probably try to get some medicine for it. Well, if you can figure out what it is. Maybe someone on the network can help you out? Alternately, you know exactly what you have--but for whatever reason, the medicine here isn't something you can easily understand. You have to choose between a couple of options, and you don't know the difference. Hopefully someone on the network can tell you which will heal you and which will probably kill you. TWO: NOT SO HELPFUL AVATARS Every tablet has the option for a customizable avatar that will talk to you and keep your tablet in order. Maybe you set it up, maybe you never checked it. Either way, it keeps popping up unrequested and being sort of... Odd. Flickering, talking in strange, mechanical voices, offering advice that's unhelpful at best and actively harmful at worst... Maybe it's even telling the entire network some things you've been doing you'd rather everyone didn't know. Time to call tech support. Unfortunately, the best option is other people on the network. Good luck. Action Prompts THREE: SCHOOL DAYS You've ended up in the elementary school. Maybe you're grabbing more food, maybe you're exploring. Either way, this place is creepy; the atmosphere is the sort that gets the hair on the back of your neck rising (potentially metaphorically, if you don't have hair or a neck). It's not long before strange things start happening. The sound of running and screaming children, doors slamming in far off or nearby hallways, pianos playing... What's going on? It's hard to tell what's really happening from what isn't happening. Maybe someone who's also exploring has some idea. FOUR: SUPPLY SCRAMBLE You've just walked into a house, and look, there's fresh fruit sitting right out on the counter! How long has it been since you've had some of that? It'll definitely help provide some much-needed vitamins and maybe it will ward off scurvy and the like. There's even more than one piece! ...And there's more than one person here, too. So, what are you going to do? Are you willing to share, or are you prepared to stab someone over a pear? Time to find out just how badly you want that food.

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Cole!

[ Oh, Cole. Sweet, helpful Cole. ]

It's all right. The tablets may seem like real people, but they're not. They're like a tool.

Yes. Hello, Ellana.

[ From his demeanour, anyone would think this was perfectly normal. Chatting it up with the Inquisitor after being mysteriously smuggled into Snowhell? Sure. Normal as hell. Must be Tuesday. What now?? ]

If the tablet spirit isn't real, does that mean you're a tool too? What are you to be used for?

[ Well that's a rather deep question. Especially since she is a tool, in several different ways. ]

You've seen what I can do. I close rifts, so I suppose in that way I'm a tool. But I'm also real. The tablet is just a way to show me to you. It's like if I wrote you a letter. The letter shows you what I've said, but the letter isn't a real person. I'm real and I'm talking to you on my own tablet. But if we can figure out a place to meet, I can show you I'm really here.

Oh, I believe you're real. I don't even think a not-real-you would lie. Not one that was good at being you.

[ He sort of understands, a little. But if the tablet is a letter, then whose messages is the tablet spirit conveying...? ]

Nothing makes sense here. Wrong, wretched, reaching to find the fade, find feelings. For helping. But nothing, no, it stops it - stifles, suffocates, shadows shifting.

I don't like it.

I know, neither do I.

[ Her voice sounds a little exhausted, really. ]

I can't reach the Fade for my magic. It's gone, or something is suppressing it. But every day we search for answers on why we're here, and how to get home.

Have you found any? I can help.

[ He looks left and right, staring into the middle distance. Being able to help would be good, even if he can't do it the way he usually does. ]

There are cupboards here. Maybe the answers are inside.

Very little, I'm afraid. Just evidence of who was here in this town before we arrived. And even that is all bad news.

[ Basically badly buried bodies and strange, mistake-riddled equations covering walls. ]

It's work a look. You could definitely be of help here.

[ He wordlessly shuffles out of view of the tablet for a moment, leaving only the sounds of cupboards opening and closing behind.

When he returns, Cole is carrying a grimy washcloth and half a broken pencil. SCORE! ]

I didn't find any answers. Are you sure I can help? I can't feel when people need me, here. It makes things harder.

[ Ellana will just wait for his return, smiling to herself as she hears the cupboards making noise. ]

It's all right. Answers don't always come immediately. And the best way to know if people need help is simply to ask them.

I will ask. But sometimes they lie.

[ He fiddles absently with the pencil, examining the jagged splinters at the snapped end, then folds it up inside the washcloth with the utmost care. IT'S SAFE NOW NO HARM WILL COME TO IT ON COLE'S WATCH ]

Do you need help, Ellana? Displaced. Distanced, dragged from friends and fate. You must be very tired.

Sometimes people do. It's the risk you take when you offer a part of yourself.

[ Looking at the care Cole takes with his found items, it's not so different from the rusty screws Ellana found early on and kept just because she felt she could use them for something. But the longer she's here, the more it seems they'll just take up room in her pack. ]

I am tired, yes. [ What with all the psychological torment. ] But not away from all friends. Cullen and Dorian are here. And now you. You can help me by keeping yourself safe until we can get to you.

I can stay safe. My knives are gone, but nothing has tried to fight me yet. Not even a bear.

[ ~~WEIRDEST THING ABOUT THIS PLACE TBH. WHERE ARE THE RAMPAGING BEARS AROUND EVERY CORNER??~~ ]

I'm glad you're not alone. That would be awful. Are the others going to come, too? Because I don't think they'd like it here. They should stay at Skyhold.

[ Cole, don't question where the bears are, or they will inevitably turn up. ]

I don't know. There seems to be no telling who will arrive next, but I wouldn't want them to either.

[ Dorian hates the cold, and Cullen's been made to see hallucinations. It's been terrible. ]

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