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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snowblindmemes2015-08-24 09:48 am
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[Sorry, Al. He's not buying it.]
What the hell are you freaking out for? It's impressive, okay?
Excellent job missing out words in the previous tag, Fossil...
He's really not sure how to feel about that, especially when it comes paired with the assumption that he's some kind of robotic thing. This guy is a jerk, a big jerk. This is even worse than the 'are you a eunuch' fiasco with Tim.]
Thanks, I guess. But I really am just a normal fifteen year old kid, I'm not a robot and I don't have speakers, okay?
[Thank you for teaching him about robots, Tadashi.]
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[Once he latches onto something, he's not letting go. This is a stupid argument and House isn't just going to let something this idiotic slide.]
You seriously need to stop playing video games if you're starting to think of the POV character as you. I'd say go outside, but yeah, don't bother. Still, wise up, Elric. No one's going to believe that. Not unless they're brain dead.
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For a minute it looks like he might shout. His grip gets a little tighter, and the lights in his eyes blaze, but then he tries to go for a diversionary tactic instead.]
I don't even know what a video game is.
[Weak, but hopefully enough if this annoying jerk can TAKE A HINT.]
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For a moment, anyway. Let the kid think it's dropped. Watch him flail when it isn't.]
What rock did you crawl out from under, or were your parents Amish?
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His grip loosens again as relief sets in, although the awkwardness and tension of his voice haven't quite leeched fully away yet.]
I'm sorry, I don't know what Amish is either.
[Your world is strange and confusing, good sir. But in case parental jobs are actually relevant here, because Amish is totally a job, right...]
My Dad was an alchemist, and my Mom was... well, I guess she was a Mom, she didn't have a job.
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[House isn't going to bother answering what an 'Amish' is, or explaining that it is not, in fact, a profession.]
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[Partly because it was just unethical to use alchemy to make themselves rich, and partly because of the massive impact that would have on the economy.]
Alchemy is the science of changing one thing into another, though. It uses the principle of Equivalent Exchange - so... if you have an object with the same chemical make-up and mass of something else, you can rearrange those chemicals to create the new thing.
[He sighs, a little frustrated.]
I'd be happy to show you, but my alchemy hasn't worked since I got here.
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[Have some skepticism Al. Have a lot of skepticism.]
Funny how transmutation just suddenly disappears when you have to do it in front of other people. Performance anxiety, Elric?
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[Wow, House, such a jerk.]
I'm not the only person here that has abilities that are missing, just ask about on the network. Besides how do you think we were all brought here, anyway?
[His bet is totally on an alchemist using portals of truth, horrific as that is to contemplate.]
But I guess that means there are no alchemists where you're from either, huh?
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[He won't. He just wants Al to take the helmet off.]
And I can say I shoot fireballs from my nipples, kid. Unless you actually see me doing it, I'm probably lying. We got here by being drugged and carried. Simplest explanation. This is either an actual town some evil organization created in Siberia, the most advanced virtual reality simulation not on the market, or a mass hallucination... probably drug-induced. I'm really hoping for the drugs, personally.
[He's not even going to deign to answer Al's last question. It's stupid and he can infer from the rest of what House has said.]
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I don't understand anything you just said.
[Seriously? And he thought it was bad talking to Steph with her world references, but House seems to be ten times worse. He can't frown physically, but it's amazing how obvious it is that he would be doing that if he could.]
I don't know where Sibera is or what virtual reality simulations are, but I'm certain it's not a drug hallucination. It's too coherent and prolonged to be any kind of mass hallucination.
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Siberia. Like, in Russia. Like, the great white north expanse, home to socialists and commies. What's up with that anyway? I'm pretty sure it's something about being frozen most of the year.
And virtual reality as in a fake reality. As in, what you get hulking this tin can around for you. [He's let go from around Al's neck and settled back into his arms enough to raise one hand to rap on the armor's chest plate. Bad idea. It's cold and it's hard. House hisses, pulling his hand back to his own chest.] It's a projection of reality with machines. Very Star Trek.
Also nothing to say this place isn't half-real with half the things we see in it as hallucinations. You could probably put something in the food, the water, the snow, the air. Low doses ever so often. Get people feeding off of each other's paranoia and fear to 'create' things like those 'creatures.'
[Not... that he wants Al to stop, but just pointing it out.]
Psychosomatic pain from perceived injuries happens all the time. Brains short circuit. We're all total wimps.
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He's used to not understanding some terms from other worlds, but he has to wonder for a few moments if House is slipping in and out of a foreign language. Siberia, Russia, Star Trek... none of this makes even a tiny bit of sense.
So he'll focus on the one explanation that he can understand, albeit vaguely, making a humming noise of thought when House has finished his diatribe.]
Maybe that could be so, but there are a lot of inconsistencies with picking any one of those theories. A fake reality, that might explain meeting people from worlds that don't match up with your own, but it doesn't explain the prolonged length of, and detail of, this kind of setting.
[He turns slightly to change direction, which unfortunately angles them directly into the wind. He doesn't feel it cutting into him personally, not really, but it can't be comfortable for his passenger to be against such cold metal. Besides which, when he knocks on it, the hollow ring from within is pretty clear. Al chooses to ignore that, as uncomfortable as it makes him, not wanting to start up conversations about his insides again.]
Drugs might make sense for the length and surreal dangers, but not really for the clarity. From what I've read, drug induced hallucinations tend to be disjointed, or at least far less linear than this, and that's even without questioning how we're all interacting in the same hallucination.
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So it's a combination. [He favors Occam's Razor, but he's not in the mood for critically thinking over the most elegant solution at the moment. Maybe when he is concerned about catching frostbite... or getting killed by incorporeal shadow things.] Half real town, a bit of virtual reality and puppetry, kick in drugs when they need to induce some hysteria, and you've got Snowhell, population everyone who doesn't want to be here.
Sounds to me like we're just lab rats.
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[It's not exactly a pleasant scenario to contemplate, but Al has rarely ignored the truth just because it's a hard one to face. Lab rats for some purpose is a fairly solid working theory... he just wishes that sacrifices for a mass philosopher's stone wasn't also a good working theory.]
That's why we need to stick together to find a way out of this, we're all the same boat and we need to pool our knowledge if we're going to get anywhere. It seems obvious that they want us separated and isolated, otherwise why wouldn't we all have arrived in the same place and with a base to work from? [Not to mention the frequent doses of helpful paranoia.] So working together is already going against them.
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[Just pointing out the obvious here, Al. Since they're getting to be such good buddies.]
And I do my best thinking isolated and alone. Most people are useless. [Never mind his team running around working together. They each have their methods.] And talk too much.
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[He won't even address the UTTERLY STUPID idea that most other people are useless.]
I'll call them when we get stopped for the night and let them know where we are.
Think we can wrap it here! THANK YOU SO MUCH for an awesome test drive! <3
Should be fun.]
Thank you too, it was great fun. Good luck with your app and I hope we can get CR in game <3