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

[braavado]

[How does science build snowmen, she wants to ask. Or anything else he's mentioned. From the way Al's describing it, alchemy can make anything, as long as you have the right ingredients.

Maybe she'd ask him after she explains bending.]

Bending is the ability to control the elements. There's four main types: water, earth, fire, and air. Most people can use one type of bending--I wish I could show you how it works, but my bending's gone. [She lifts a hand, staring at it in frustration.] I haven't been able to use it since I woke up here.

[armoured]

[Wow, bending sounds really interesting, and totally alien. Alchemy could do a lot of amazing things and, in it's own way, was capable of melding certain elements into obeying the alchemist's whim. But bending sounded a lot more advanced.]

Me either. Um, I mean-- no alchemy, obviously I haven't been able to use bending since I can't use that anyway.

[Smooth.]

[braavado]

I thought so. You were digging the snow out normally, like me.

[Her sigh can barely be heard over the wind blowing outside.]

Looks like they're taking away anything that can help us here. We'll have to get through this the hard way.

[armoured]

[Al leans forwards, elbows on his knees, so he can look Korra more directly in the eye.]

Then they're really stupid. Having gifts is amazing, but that's not what would help anyone survive here. It's the strength inside of you, inside of all of us, and the determination to keep going until we succeed that will make us survive. Alchemy is wonderful, and I'm sure bending is too, but taking them away doesn't make us any less able to get through anything thrown at us.

[braavado]

[Her expression softens.]

You're really something, you know? [Now she gives him a wry smile.] And I'm supposed to be the one giving pep talks here.

You're right, though. We might not have our bending or our alchemy here, but that doesn't mean we can't take it.

[armoured]

[He would be blushing if he were capable of it.]

Mm, right! That's something I learnt from my brother... that no matter how tough things get, determination can help you do amazing things to overcome it.

[braavado]

Your brother sounds like a smart guy. What's he like?

[As Korra settles down for what might be a bit of a talk, she briefly wonders if Al and his brother are anything like Mako and Bolin. It hasn't been all that long since she got here, but she misses her friends already.]