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: IT WON'T BE LONG NOW... Well, you made a mistake. You spent too long searching around, or you ran outside near the end of the day for just one more thing, and now you've been locked out. You can search around all you want, but the best shelter you can hope for is pressing against the side of a sealed up building. You do still have your tablet, though. Maybe someone on the network can give you some advice, or at least some comfort while you wait for hypothermia to set in. TWO: CABIN FEVER Maybe you didn't want that mistake of getting caught outside to happen again, but now you've ended up staying too long in one location, and cabin fever has set in. Maybe you're taking to the network to try and ignore the hallucinations. Maybe you want to tell everyone that you've figured out they're all in on your kidnapping. Maybe you ended up wandering off and now you'd really like to know if anyone can check back in the place you were at for your pants. Action Prompts THREE: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING You're going about your business searching what seems like it might be an especially promising house--it's fully intact and there's even a working fireplace with some wood! It looks like someone else has the same idea, though, and you've run into them in the middle of your search. Do you share the potential wealth or try to kick them out? On the other hand, maybe you know who this is, or maybe you're just glad to actually see another person for the first time in ages. FOUR: GOOD MORGUE-NING You've just woken up in a morgue after dying in one unfortunate way or another. You have no idea where you are beyond that, but your tablet is insisting you can't stay here, so you should probably get out of here pretty quickly. Of course, bringing people back from the dead isn't a perfect science, so you're missing something important to you. Maybe you've lost your voice, maybe you can't remember where you're from, maybe you can't remember where you are right now. It looks like someone else is nearby, though. Maybe they can help you out?

Comments

[gritted]

I don't know if intense is the word I would use. Maybe embarrassing.

That isn't your real name, is it?

[bokator]

You can't change it now though, just own it.

My name is Rose. I'm also Ravager.

[gritted]

[ Good advice, actually. ]

Rose sounds almost as nice as Princess.

[ Just saying. ]

My name is Clarke, by the way.

[bokator]

Hi Clarke.

Roses have thorns. By the way.

[gritted]

I'll have to take your word for it.

[ Things that weren't essential to space ecosystems: roses. ]

They also need the sun, don't they? When's the last time you saw it?

[bokator]

[ Next thing Clarke will be telling her is that roses are sweet. Yuck. ]

Here, or back home?

[gritted]

Here, although now I'm curious as to why that question would even apply to back home.

[bokator]

Back home, I share a house with nerds.

Here, haven't seen it since I arrived. The snowstorm was already in full swing.

[gritted]

I'm not sure what that means.

[ She knows what nerds means, sure, but the implication's a little lost on her space-raised self. ]

It hasn't stopped since I've been here. Two weeks.

[bokator]

Short version: nerds live in the basement. They're probably allergic to sunlight, but I'll get back to you on that one.

You ever been in a snowstorm this bad?

[gritted]

[ Allergic?? Is this some radioactive toxin thing?? ]

This is the first time I've ever seen snow. I was starting to think it was always this bad.

[bokator]

It's usually not. A blizzard averages three hours, not two weeks.

[gritted]

So this isn't normal. But we still think it's Earth, right?

[bokator]

All appearances say that, yeah.

Have you heard of Superman? Green Lantern?

[ Not her favourite people, but the most recognisable. If Clarke is from the same universe she can't not know one or both names. Even Spoiler knew. ]

[gritted]

I know what lanterns are.

[ Which is to say: nope. ]

Are those supposed to be names?

[bokator]

Yes. Famous ones.

If you don't know, that's okay. It just means going home is more complicated than I thought.

[gritted]

I don't know if this makes it any less complicated, but I don't know very many people from Earth. The place I'm from is sort of

post-Earth.

[ What an awful, casual way to put it. No take-backs on texts. ]

[bokator]

[ oh my god did you blow up the planet??? ]

Post-Earth? What the fuck does that even mean?

[gritted]

It means someone blew up the planet.

[ MAYBE. ]

There was a nuclear war. We've only just begun resettling on what's left.

[bokator]

So where did you grow up? The Moon?

[gritted]

Not quite. A space station.

We didn't think there was anyone alive on Earth, but our information was wrong. There have been people living on it since the bombs.

[bokator]

Who survived a nuclear apocalypse??? Mutants?