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.

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[signet]

[Harry had entered the school in search of supplies, but his curiosity has kept him despite the seemingly depleted state of things here.

Despite everything, despite this place, he isn't a believer in the supernatural. The strange noises and music intrigue him only slightly more than they set him on edge, and when he hears a noise from behind a closed door he half experts to find the man behind the curtain, so to speak -- whoever (or whatever) is behind the eerie noises.

He doesn't anticipate the angry-looking woman he finds instead. A fellow survivor, undoubtedly.

He's the picture of an English gentleman, despite his shabby coat. He has no weapons, but it's not a sign of incompetence -- he's confident in his ability to defend himself with his hands, or to improvise if he can't.

Still, his body language isn't aggressive or even wary when he sees Jane. On the contrary, he seems friendly.]

My apologies. I didn't realize this one was occupied.

[Everything about her reads defensive, like a coiled snake, ready to strike. He hesitates a moment, then asks:]

I don't suppose you would be willing to stick together? Safety in numbers, and all that.

[cowcatcher]

[ Jane breathes out sharply through her nose at the mention of 'safety in numbers', a hand coming to rest on her hip. If she had a dollar for every time she heard that... The stare she initially fixed Harry with gains an edge when it becomes clear that he's not going to listen to her. She has half a mind to turn and walk without saying anything at all.

Not many people can do uncomfortable silences better than someone used to going it alone, which is exactly what Jane is.

In her head, she runs everything Harry's showing her against the people she's come across before. His face, age, tone, the words he chooses, how he hasn't come through the door yet -- it all gets compared to previous run-ins, and what they wound up meaning for her.

The hard look on her face doesn't let up, but slowly, the hand gripping the club comes to rest at her side. Finally, her gaze lets up, scanning the room over again (she's counting exits, though that's second nature now) before she shakes her head grudgingly, sighing. ]

Look around if you want. I haven't found shit, so once I'm through with the walk-in, I'm gone. [ It's not an answer to his question, but it is as much of an invitation as he's gonna get. ]