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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: 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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[Hero? That almost makes her laugh. She's known a lot of warriors who followed the code perfectly, and were never what she would call heroes. The code had enough leeway that even Thistleclaw, who trained his apprentice to attack defenseless kittens for crossing borders without knowing better, was still considered good to his clan.]

I don't expect a hero. And you don't have to accept. I thought it might be nice for you to feel a sense of community... [Her eyes soften with a deep sort of sadness that she's been trying her best not to show.] ...But since my clan is still back in the forest, it would really just be an alliance between the two of us. No need to worry about anyone else, unless you wanted to.

[The more she talks about this, the sillier it feels. Is she building her own clan just to replace ThunderClan?]

[ A whole clan of heroes is what Rocket has pictured in his mind, so his eyes lift when Bluestar says that's not what she's looking for. But it's clear as the stars to Rocket that she's looking for good people — and he doesn't count himself as one of those either.

Though maybe one day he'll hear about Thistleclaw and laugh because he can relate. ]

I don't need a community. [ A lie that is at the very base of Rocket's defense mechanisms. But truth be told, Rocket's not sure he's ever been a part of any community beyond his team. ] I've gotten along without them just fine thanks. [ He pauses though, as he turns his head, when she shifts the perspective. An alliance between just the two of them. In a way, that's how Groot and Peter have won him over. One by one.

Hmm. ]

An alliance between the two of us. [ He repeats, mulling it over out loud. God, if she was any of the two-legged species out there, he could already hear his answer: Don't flatter yourself. But she isn't. ] Fine. [ And then he adds: ] Until we get outta here. [ As if a time limitation would matter. As if by then, he wouldn't already risk his life for her. ]

[A purr echoes out of her throat, and she tries her best not to look too excited. Just a dignified nod. He definitely seems like the hardy type, someone who doesn't like to admit he needs others. It's sort of charming, in an odd way. She sees a potential for what Tigerclaw could have become, if she'd managed to help him in time.]

I'll have to think for a while about how to adjust the warrior code so that it means anything in this new world. Many of the rules only apply to a full Clan with a proper territory and other Clans to worry about. But I'm sure StarClan would appreciate your open mind.

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too bad she's not done momming yet

he really needs a mom

bluestar is his mother now, no objections.