Test Drive

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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.

Comments

[lancingintherain]

[she hums approvingly.]

Good. Yours? We can always use more capable fighters.

—Er, of course, you don't have to answer. But can you manage "yes" and "no"?

[turtleissues]

Yeah. Don't have them with me, but I can use something else.

[And despite the wheezing, he sounds a lot less grumpy. Asking about his fighting ability means that there's somebody out there he can punch.]

I haven't seen anybody, who'd you find to fight?

[lancingintherain]

Plenty of things I'd like to, but nothing I can. Our common enemies here are maddeningly incorporeal.

[speaking of, she has no idea whether any of the monsters are lurking down in these caves. Talking about them reminds her to keep her voice low.]

But, I can hope. ...Has nobody warned you, yet, about the monsters?

[turtleissues]

Yeah, they told me. [His tone is back to miserable annoyance. You can't just get a guy's hopes up like that and then dash them.

Is running really the only option?]

[lancingintherain]

[she sighs deeply in relief.]

Good. You're somewhere safe? Doors locked? ...You're not in any condition for a quick escape.

[oh, sweet, that must be the pharmacy up ahead. She moves into a fast walk, anxious to get inside and out of the open.]

[turtleissues]

I can run just fine. [For... a minute or two. Then the cold and illness will catch up with him and he'll be in more trouble than when he started.]

You don't need to worry about me. [He really doesn't want her worrying about him. He can handle himself.]

[lancingintherain]

I might not need to, but with the way you sound, I can't help it. —Hold on. Quiet, a minute.

[she creeps up to the pharmacy door and listens at it. For a few moments he'll be able to hear nothing but water dripping from nearby ice stalactites, and then she straightens, shoves open the door with her shoulder, and slips inside.]

Where was I? Right; how long have you been ill?

[turtleissues]

[He shuts his mic off when she asks him to be quiet, since that's easier than trying to hold his breath.]

I've only been really sick since yesterday. [He's felt gross since he got here, but the coughing's a new problem.]

[lancingintherain]

Oh, good. Well—not good that you're unwell, of course; I meant that it's only been a day.

[it doesn't take her long to snoop out where the medicines are kept, and he'll hear some rattling around as she pulls out drawers and looks in shelves to investigate.]

This place is full of medicine... you're in luck. Would've been luckier for you if I recognized any of them, but I'm the best you've got. Er, what was the name of the medicine you want?

[OOC: sorry about the delay! Since apps just opened, if you want to drop test drive threads now or soon, I'm totally cool with that!]