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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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tell me about it. i'm not discounting the possibility that its some wannabe hacker's idea of a cute prank. cabin fever + too much time on your hands = this crap.

not that long? i mean its pretty ignorable most of the time, but then it screws with my posts and starts its little spiel when i'm trying to focus on shit. i don't suppose this virus(?) is on your device too?

Where one is barely familiar with the normal, it is foolish to assume that any deviation is a mistake. It may instead be serving a purpose of its own. For example, where better to encrypt information than in something too annoying to pay attention to?

Mine is in perfect working order. I feel almost out of the loop.

you think you're pretty smart don't you
so, clever guy, what would you say all this encrypted data is for? it just looks like a jumble of tv promos and news clips to me.

[Specifically, snippets of news reports regarding certain unsolved crimes. there hadn't been many of those -- art collectors hated to report forgeries -- but there were a couple. she'd laughed at them at the time, but if these were showing up to other people, they weren't so funny now.]

huh! well aren't you lucky then. honestly you're not missing much.

[Well, he is pretty smart. What he lacks is information, and the lack is a hunger.]

Going with the assumption that the purpose is encryption, that question should easily be resolved once the code is broken. That would, of course, require some 'clever guy'.

[A pause for contemplation, and then, because Aizen never only thinks of one answer to a riddle:]

Alternatively, you are in an alien environment of which you have no information, experience, or understanding. Is ignoring news clips truly in your best interests?

[her lip curls.]

and i'm sure you're just the man for the job aren't you
well as curious as i am about this you'll have to borrow someone else's tablet to get a copy of the code, call me eccentric but i like my privacy
you understand

nice assumption btw that i haven't survived shit like this. getting distracted by misinformation & crap can kill you just as dead as anything else

[that's more grandstanding than truth, she's never had to deal with this extreme climate, for instance.]

My, what mistrust. Are you truly such an remarkable person that whatever secrets you have on your tablet will be of greater interest to me than gathering insight into our situation? A very suspicious assertion. Perhaps I should be the concerned party.

[Not much chance of that. But Aizen knows what he would have done if he were the responsible party behind their current predicament, and hiding himself in plain sight is the first item on the list.]

All information has the potential to be useful. Even misinformation comes from somewhere and serves a purpose, as your experience has no doubt taught you.

[Don't mind him, he'll just keep baiting.]

[Mind? Who, her? She doesn't mind. Who minds?]

oh no, whatever will you do
"help officer, someone doesn't want to share private information with someone s/he met on the internet"
ohhh, wait, you can't do that, because civilization seems to have fucking crashed around our ears and there are no cops to enforce law and order
in fact creating the EXACT situation where trusting rando strangers is a dumb idea
piss off

p.s. so is "giving people the runaround" a paid position where you come from, or
cause if so you must be making a killing

[she mad]

[Oh no, lady's mad, whatever will he do.]

I have provided no less than three directions for your possible investigation. I think that I have earned a little more courtesy than this.

You are, however, correct - we are strangers to each other. As we are to everyone else who shares our circumstances. Is your plan to go at it on your own?

[Damn, but it has been a while since he had had to pacify someone as well as bait them. He idly wonders if he might be out of practice. Then he switches to audio:]

My name, by the way, is Aizen Sousuke. You needn't share yours, if you feel safer that way.

fair
i'll send out more feelers (figuratively speaking. not actually a giant kafka bug irl.) re: what this virus thing is later
it bleeping and blooping must be getting to me or something.

[Which is, frankly, as close to a "sorry I overreacted" concession from her for now. Meg pinches the bridge of her nose.]

think i'll stick with "compass" for now if its all the same. disasters like this bring out the opportunistic bastard in people, even if they're all sweetness and light otherwise.
anyway you know what all those PSAs say, can't judge a person you haven't met offline.

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Sorry he's gonna be an ass

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