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: IF YOU DON'T...
Lockdown has just hit, and you're preparing to settle in for the night when, suddenly, there's a noise from your phone. A notification buzz that sounds almost like the naughty laughter of a child. It looks like you have a new app, the icon displaying a jack-o-lantern. Choosing to open it will reveal a screen with two buttons: trick and treat. Only, trying to click on "treat" only garners more of that laughter from before. Maybe that's the trick.
And if you click on "trick"...well, nothing happens. Not to you, anyway, but someone else is bound to find a nasty note in their inbox with your username attached--or maybe even an audio clip of your voice, a brief video of what certainly looks to be you...but you're sure you didn't send this person anything. So what's going on? Nonetheless, whatever "trick" was received from you (or maybe you're the one on the receiving end) someone's got some explaining to do.
TWO: THE UNLUCKIEST DAY
You don't wake up feeling as if today is any day different from any of the others...but that all changes very quickly when something unfortunate happens. Maybe you pull your tablet out of your bag to find that the screen appears shattered like a mirror. Maybe the dark outline of a black cat pads along the bottom of your inbox. Maybe cement-like cracks appear along your keypad as you try to type, warning you not to step on them. Or maybe still, the shadow of the slope of a ladder looms ominously over your screen. Whatever it is, the end result is the same: suddenly, you're experiencing terrible bouts of back luck.
It could come in many forms. Maybe you're tripping over your feet more than usual. Maybe you opened your bag after traveling to find a hole had ripped through the bottom and your lost some useful inventory. Maybe your rations have gone bad. Maybe you even injure yourself. Regardless of how it manifests, the status effect lasts until the rest of the day. Maybe you can turn to the network and see if others are experiencing the same or similar problems--or maybe someone has an idea on how to reverse it.
Action Prompts
THREE: MONSTER MASH
You and your traveling companion have some quick thinking to do. Why? Because you were just chased not by one or even two anomalies, but by a whole hungry hoard. It's a miracle, you think, that the two of you were able to make it in unscathed...but it doesn't take long for you to realize that getting inside was hardly the difficult part. You've chosen an unfortunately big building to hide in, and between the two of you there aren't enough hands to hold down all the windows and block all the doors. What's worse: lockdown is still a few hours away.
It looks like you have a few options: try and systematically block every exit point before the anomalies can make their way through them, make a break for a different building, or let them in and take shelter deeper in the house, in a room with a single door that will hopefully be able to hold until morning.
There are, of course, ups and downs with each course of action. Can you get all the windows fast enough? Can you outrun all the anomalies from such a short distance? If the monsters are locked inside with you, is there a possibility that they'll still be there the next morning? Regardless, you have to think fast. You'll only have one shot at getting this right.
FOUR: GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD
When you first find this house, you think you and your traveling companion have hit the jackpot. The cabinets are bursting with food, the closets and cupboards bursting with useful supplies--even electronics! At least, that's how it seems. But then you look closer, and nothing's real.
Everything's filled with neatly wrapped candies in plain black and orange paper. That backpack is made of tissue paper--that sleeping bag crumbles when touched, a very realistic dust sculpture. What's worse, only some of the candies prove to be candies. Others, neatly packaged teeth, eyeballs, spider carcasses...
But are those even really there? You might step in one room and back out again to discover the whole place empty, your findings, horrible or otherwise, completely imagined.
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snowblindmemes2017-10-15 04:36 pm
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Hey there, buttercup. Whatever you say, but wouldn't be the first time. Just for the record, I cut back.
:D Hi stranger
What? Are you telling me that someone else has carved you into a jack-o-lantern before?
Because between that question and "Who sent this to you because I sure as hell didn't," clearly the jack-o-lantern one is more important.
:D (cw: torture, skinning)
But since they I'm very stabby about it. So. Probably better to play nice.
[Way to give the psychotic raccoon ideas, but on the other hand, welcome to Norfinbury, Rocket. We hear you like random grotesque experimentation!]
mhm yes what a greeting mis, ty ty
Well ain't that a pretty picture.
And for the record Raggedy Ann? I don't know who sent that first text but it sure as hell wasn't me.
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Sorry. I'm the kind of guy who makes interesting friends, murdertexts are pretty much "Tuesday" for me. I've got that kind of face.
I'm gonna guess that you're new here, since I haven't seen your handle before?
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That works around here?
[ You get the sense that maybe Rocket's learning the wrong lessons from this story. ]
And yeah. I'm new. So?
[ Somewhere, really deep down, really really really deep down, he's not a prickly jerk. ]
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Oh, I didn't say it worked, just that it happened.
[Points for clarity.]
Might be why the system is fucking with you. Though it doesn't need a reason. It comes in waves, so don't be surprised if you get a weird text from someone else. Or the next rations you find are full of razorblades. That could happen too, though there's usually a theme.
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[ Because just being helpful is unbelievable. How dare you. ]
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But there's only a few of us here and it's bad nough out there without us shanking each other, too. Also if you find extra gloves I'll give you peanut butter and cigarettes for them.
small>[How's that for mercenary?]
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[ Clearly. How could this totally reasonable logic not be more clear? ]
You know, you're really making this place sound like prison. And I don't mean metaphorically.
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Also, making shanks is a valuable skill. Crazy as shit but there you go.
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Lucky for them, he also happens to be a pro at breaking out of prisons. Not that he was going to announce that on a piece of tech given to them by their wardens. ]
I'm surprised we don't got jumpsuits with little numbers sewn all prettily into them.
[ But it does occur to him actually ... is this place actually filled with criminals? One thing to do is ask. ]So. What are you in for?
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And for the record, I didn't actually do anything. I'd just gotten *out* when I wound up here. Why, what'd you do?
[Rhys knows career cons well enough to know that at some point, their charges become a badge of honor. Is Rocket at that point? Let's find out.]
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[ It's very Game of Thrones, if only Rocket knew anything about Terran culture. ]
Just gotten out sounds like you went in. And me?
I dunno.
I guess I stole some batteries.
[ Truth is, Rocket doesn't quite understand why he's a criminal. Or why he can't just take other people's stuff. Normal laws make no sense. ]
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And just batteries? That's shit. Unless you cleaned out a parking lot full of them.
[Not that felony or misdemeanor makes a difference in Rocket's eyes, but to the law it's actually a thing.]
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[ He's a little cocky about this break out of prison thing, okay? ]
Nah. Just three.
[ Listen, they're really special batteries okay? But it's not like Rocket actually cared whether they were special when he stole them. He just stole them because he could. ]
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Hey, no one's gonna stop you, we're just trying to save you some time. And frostbite. The residential area is probably your best bet for trying to get over it through, if you're serious: the industrial area has walls of razor sharp metal that'd be a lot harder to tackle.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to send ya a care package from the other side.
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