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

[vesicant]

[all audio posts from this end; userid @compass5565]

Uh, word to the wise. Next time you find a cache like that, maybe don't advertise the location so publicly. Not everyone out there's so nice.

[it's very possible the speaker is one of those not-so-nice ones. to be completely honest, she's less planning a theft (at least, not until tests the waters and she sees who else responds) and more cringing in secondhand... something. to her, all that earnest altruism is just begging to be eaten alive.]

audio

[lordavon]

I thank you for your concern, but... [ And here she gives a little smile, hesitant in its slyness. ]

I do believe you're as locked in as I am, for the time being.

[ Not all of Steiner and Zidane's warnings went in one ear and out the other. Some actually managed to stick, loathe as she is to harbor suspicions about others. She knows she cannot afford to be so naive here, without her friends or her magic on her side. Her plan is to move on tomorrow, bright and early, though that tidbit she keeps to herself. ]

Re: audio

[vesicant]

[She makes a short dismissive noise at being thanked. Most of the people here seem to be good samaritans who'd never dream of taking advantage, but who can say? As much as Meg likes to come off as callous, seeing someone go down over a misstep in judgement doesn't sit right with her.]

[Her eyebrows shoot up at that, which doesn't translate over speakers, but a note of surprise does creep into her tone. Has she underestimated this person?]

Yeah? What's that supposed to mean?

[lordavon]

[ It means, as far as she can see, that she timed her announcement wisely. According to Garnet, now she has some time to reply to any questions, to wait and see if any actual help might be coming her way so she can stay and learn how these medicines work. If not, she has ample time to rest, so she's ready to move on quickly at the first ray of sunlight. ]

We're all trapped indoors until tomorrow morning. For now, we can do nothing but plan. [ Her tone is neutral, her words carefully chosen. ]