snowblindmemes | Test Drive


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?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Join the club. Prior to that though I was in a place that was completely opposite. Far, far too hot or humid for my liking.

I haven't been pushed to missing it quite yet, but...

I could go for a nice, hot jungle right about now.

[He sounds slightly dreamy, laughing slightly.]

Can't say I miss where I'm from, though. Even while I'm stuck in the cold. Guess that means we've got something in common.

It's not all it's cracked up to be. Believe me. Especially when the locals are so determined to make you feel unwelcome.

[It's best not to ask.]

Guess that means we do, though. Well, other than us both being here now.

Ah, that sounds familiar.

[His voice drops off for a moment.]

What was it like? Besides the locals wanting to make you miserable.

Verdeza? Well... [He thinks. No reason not to talk, right? This fellow - Greed - is obviously not long for this world anyway. It's not like anything they say to one another can really make a difference. So why not pass the time.] It was rather secluded. Which far as I was concerned was the biggest problem. Sure, it was warm and there was sunshine and a beach. There was also absolutely nothing to do to pass the time.

Secluded and nothing to do?

[The pause is longer this time.]

Had... had that happen to me, too. Prison, exile... you could call it something like that. All by myself, though. Didn't... have any locals to talk to.

Well. The locals and I weren't exactly friends.

[There's a pause of his own, here.]

Prison, I couldn't relate to. Exile on the other hand...that's exactly what this was. Why do you think I found it so unpleasant?

Didn't think you were friends.

[Once again, he's quiet for a moment.]

I'm not sure this is much of a step up from exile. At least people talk on the network, I guess.

We are still trapped, with nowhere to go and no way out. But this is - well. It does seem...different, somehow.

[He's usually more eloquent than that. But he's hesitating, not really sure how to put what he's feeling into words.]

Maybe you're right. It doesn't feel quite as cut off, somehow.

[Barely.]

I'm sure it's because of the people around.

[Even if they can go a long time without running into anyone else, at least they're out there.]

You've got those trying to help.

[Which sort of implies Greed isn't as interested in helping.]

That'll always be the nature of some.

[Implying in turn it isn't really in his, either. Another thing in common, perhaps.]

Guess it's helpful in a place like this.

Isolation can make things difficult for you.

[It's through sheer stubbornness that he's still talking.]

Those altruistic types want to feel useful.

'Useful'. Right. [A touch of scoffing mockery, there.

By all means, let them feel useful. It gives him something to take advantage of.]

Me, maybe I'm just a little more preoccupied with survival than any lofty feelings of self-worth.

What about you, Greed? What are you interested in feeling?

Right now? I'm just interested in feeling warm.

[He laughs, though. Like he's not currently dying in the snow.]

It doesn't matter to me-- not really. All I want is to be free, to be my own man.

Who doesn't, though.

[Yet another thing they can both relate to, it seems. This is getting almost eerie.]

Now there's a goal worth working for. I had finally achieved it too - until I got landed here.

[It makes him smile. It can't be seen, not when all he's doing is talking into his tablet instead of using the video function, but his smile can probably be "felt" anyway.]

Seems we have a few things in common. I don't encounter that much.

Oh no?

[He's not sure how he feels about this. Sure, having a 'bond' means allies he can call on at a later point - assuming Greed comes back, like so many others seem to.

But sharing and connecting with other people has never really been his thing. Certainly not in a genuine manner.

Still he keeps the faint interest in his voice. Not ready to close this door yet. Just considering it.]

[He's fading now, hopes he's not going to be gone too long, hopes there isn't a repeat of this at a later time-- dying sucks, no matter how you look at it. Even if you might come back.]

No, it.... doesn't happen very often...

That must be hard for you.

[Muted. Like he doesn't know. He's talked for this long, though. No point in backing out now.]

[Greed laughs; it's a soft noise, a little self depreciating.]

A little, yeah.

But I've met some people like me back home. Probably possible to find more people I like here, too.

You almost make it sound as if that's a goal unto itself.

Maybe. Maybe it is.

[.........]

Thank you.... for talking to me.

I...you're welcome.

[He considers simply hanging up here. Having allies is potentially useful; allies he can talk to, even, is a benefit. But it's dangerous for anyone to start actually thinking of him as a 'friend'.

Still-]

Let me know when you wake up again. Maybe I'll even come find you.

[That's Greed for you, too easy to trust.

There's no response from him this time, just slight background noise to indicate the tablet's still on.]

Test Drive

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject