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

[neverknowing]

Sure, people have souls, but...

[But she doesn't quite get where he's going with this, because she is a dumb sixteen-year-old who knows nothing.] That's more of an afterlife kind of thing... I think.

[The confusion is still strong with this one.]

I've never heard of a doctor who could treat people who didn't have bodies.

[disapotheosis]

[Oh poor lamb, never be lost and confused at Aizen, it's the worst idea.]

You are not used to spiritual beings manifesting alongside the physical.

[He sounds a little curious, but mostly patronizing. Then he coughs again, still very faint, but a little more insistent.]

[neverknowing]

You mean like ghosts? [She can't help but shiver at just the thought, and some of that unease bleeds through into her tone of voice. It almost sounds to her like he's gearing up for some kind of a ghost story, and she's not totally sure that she's okay with that.

That faint cough of his is a welcome distraction, though. Anything to get him to change the subject.]

—You're coughing... is that what you meant by your body being inconvenient?

[disapotheosis]

[There is a soft intake of breath, and then a softer throat-clearing. He very much wants to ask more questions, but does not quite trust his voice, which is a difficulty that he is utterly unused to. How does one spin a conversation one's own way, when one can't be sure of getting a full sentence out?]

Well observed. [The words come out even more bitingly wry than he intended.] I suppose the use of the communication device was a mistake.

[neverknowing]

But you wouldn't be able to talk to anyone, otherwise.

[Yona has no idea how split up everyone is or isn't, or even how big a place this town is; all she knows is that it's been days and the only other living souls she's seen have been people on the network.]

I think they used to give me tea with honey when I had a cough back home... have you tried that?

[disapotheosis]

[The advice of tea, of all things, gets a soft laugh out of him - a very uncharacteristic response, but oh, the irony. He cannot help but admire it. That too is a small consolation.]

How pleasant that would have been... [There is the musing, aloof tone again, but he cannot hold it. His voice cracks and this time the coughing gets its way, hard and even painful. What is he to do with pain? How does he integrate it into being who and what he has considered himself to be?]

I think I - might really be sick [he mutters, with something like awe at the possibility.]