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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: PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PRIMARY PHYSICIAN What a lucky day it is that you've found another application to install onto your tablet. These things are really a mixed bag, aren't they? At first, this definitely seems like you got the better end of a deal. The app is titled "DIAGNOSTICS.EXE" and when you run it, it seems to be some kind of body-scan program. However, when you run it, the only thing it tells you is that PARASITES ARE DETECTED. EXTRACTION REQUIRED BEFORE STAGE THREE TRANSITION BEGINS. Whatever that means. Maybe someone on the network can help, or maybe you can just panic about the parasites apparently eating away at your insides. TWO: SOMETHING THERE THAT WASN'T THERE BEFORE It's obvious pretty quickly that something's wrong with the Network, though it's hard to say exactly what. The Admin hasn't raised any kind of alert as to any known errors. Still, you can see fluttering behind the screen, like gnats moving and squirming. Wait--maybe it isn't the Network at all. Maybe it's your tablet. When you listen hard enough, you swear you can hear the scrabbling of little paper-thin legs. There has to be something you can do. Maybe someone on the Network will give you some kind of clue. Action Prompts THREE: OUT VILE SPOT You and your traveling companion have made it to one of the food-stocked buildings for a sorely needed refill of your rations. There's plenty of time before lockdown, too, so it can't hurt to stop and eat what you can't carry. Things are going well for the most part, though you do notice that where you were most frequently handling the food, whether somewhere on a piece of clothing or on your skin directly appears to have developed what looks like a blue-black spot. Scrubbing it does nothing. Maybe it's nothing, a trick of the light or a bruise or stain you hadn't noticed sooner, but maybe you should let your traveling companion know, just to be entirely sure. FOUR: MIND THE WALLS This house is alive. At first, you and your traveling companion were sure that you were imagining things--it's a large house, after all, and in the dark after lockdown the shadows created by the light of you tablet can play tricks. It's easy to get turned around. You're tired. But after a long while of searching, you're sure of it. The walls are changing position. Doors lead to places they didn't a moment ago. When you touch your hand to the wallpaper you feel the faint, hot pulse of a heart beating. The two of you separated to cover the place faster, but now you're not sure how to navigate your way back to the front of the house to meet back up again. Good thing you both have your tablets to communicate between. A live video chat could help pass the time, at least.

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[Yeah, sure, she'll match video for video. This is a new one; she doesn't know why he expects anyone else to know more than he does about it, but it's not like she has anything better to do with her time than play tech support.]

Haven't seen that one going around yet. Did it say what kind of diagnostics it was running?

Looks like a body scan thing.

[A pause.]

Apparently scanning my body.

Well, there you are. It's probably just requesting data from your nanomachines and compiling them into a readout for you...if it's a real diagnostic tool. Where'd you get it?

It just showed up. Which is why I’m suspicious.

[A pause.]

It also said that there are parasites detected and extraction is required before stage three transition begins.

[Just putting that out there.]

Oh. [Okay, props, that genuinely wasn't one of her guesses as to what had rustled his jimmies.]

Okay, then, that's...a starting point. For something. Did it happen to say what kind of parasites?

A starting point for an inevitable and probably uncomfortable demise.

[So he gets quippier sometimes when there’s something to fear. Something that’s not him, anyway. Beats thinking about said actual uncomfortable demise.]

Nothing other than that.

Hey, hey, not all parasites will kill you. Unless they're...I don't know, xenomorphs or something, then you'll need to be pretty concerned about stage three.

Two thoughts. One, maybe contact the admin and ask her to do her own scan; people have gotten her to spit out health reports in the past, right?

That’s kind of what I’m concerned about, yes. From what I’ve seen of this place, it doesn’t hold back on anything. If there’s parasites they’re probably monstrous.

[Gotham is a walk in the park compared to Norfinbury.]

I believe so, but it also seems to be hit or miss. I’ll take a crack at it.

[A minute later.]

Admin’s not responding. Typical.

If this program's even telling you the truth....

[Just a reminder. She'll wait until he gets back with the bad news.]

Alright, so thought number two. Have you pooped lately?

It’s possible it’s not, could be a perception thing again. Unfortunately I have to assume it’s real unless otherwise presented with the alternative.

[Always had to plan everything out a million steps in advance.

And that...gets a look.]

I’m not going to discuss my poop over the network.

[This is a first. Someone made Batman talk about his poop publicly.]

You say parasites, I say ninety percent chance it's gastrointestinal. Just saying.

[He rubs his forehead.]

I’m not experiencing any gastrointestinal distress at the moment.

[They could be dormant.]

In any case, it doesn’t look like an ‘extraction’ is going to happen.

Yeah, no, you're not going to be able to get those extracted. Doesn't necessarily mean anything if you don't feel sick, though.

Tell you what. We'll message one of the doctors and get them to prescribe you a de-wormer.

[Ugh.]

Conversely they could be of a kind that we've never seen before.

[Brain parasites, anyone?

He's a paranoid person.]

Well, yeah, anything's possible, this is a -- an unusual place.

[Maybe don't tell the guy this is a false reality generated by a quintet of mindfucked gods.]

Test Drive

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