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

[hugeballs]

[ She's doing amazingly, of course. You know, if amazingly meant that she'd lost most of her belongings and ended up somewhere completely unrecognizable to her after blacking out, then yeah! Great.

Of course, she's never one to despair over something so silly as a major, dangerous setback -- and at the very least she still has her pipe and tobacco. Smoking does a lot to calm the nerves. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much for being without her scarf and glasses in the middle of an abandoned, frozen wasteland. Fortunately, she had a network of helpful people to badger endlessly about her missing things! ]

Oh, just great, dear! Couldn't be better. Ah -- do you happen to have any sake?

[genreblindness]

[Well, that's a weirdly specific thing to ask for. And a kind of weird-looking lady doing the asking, but Jay's not one to judge.]

Uh, no. No sake. Or any other kind of alcohol, for that matter. Right now I think food and stuff is more important, anyway.

[hugeballs]

[ Siiigh. Sure, he was maybe a little right, but what was the point of even living if you didn't have steady access to booze at all times? ]

Well, maybe. But speaking of 'stuff', I do seem to have, er -- misplaced quite a few of my own things. My glasses, for one -- [ her glasses that she absolutely doesn't need ] -- and my scarf. It's brown and checkered and very important to me, so if you happen across it I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.

I would also appreciate alcohol. If you like, I have tobacco I can share with you. Or food, if that's what you really want.

[genreblindness]

I'll keep an eye out, but I kind of doubt they'll just be lying around somewhere. More likely they're just gone.

[He's not sure why whatever force brought them here would bother taking clothing and accessories, but it's not like weird supernatural forces ever make any sense. Maybe they just like inconveniencing people.]

And I guess if I find any alcohol, we can do a trade? I don't smoke, but I have a friend who does, so. He'd probably appreciate it.

[hugeballs]

[ SIGHING INTENSIFIES. This one is audible and just so, so exasperated. Why is life in a desolate wasteland of a city have to be so inconvenient?

...But wow no there is actually a way bigger problem at hand here. ]

You don't smoke? Do you happen to own a book store, or something?

[ She laughs at her own joke -- you know, just so you know it's a joke because otherwise there's no way you'd get it. You're welcome, Jay. ]

Or maybe you're just that boring. Ah, well.

[genreblindness]

[That gets her a confused frown. Was he supposed to get that? Was she referencing something? Was she just being rude? GOD WHY IS HAVING CONVERSATIONS LIKE A NORMAL PERSON SO HARD.]

Right. Nothing more exciting than lung cancer.

[hugeballs]

[ At least eventually he'll learn that her whole thing is making having conversations like a normal person ten times harder than normal, teaching him the valuable lesson that he's only slightly less awkward than he previously thought.

Truly, she is a helper. ]

Oh, my. Do you want to live forever?

[genreblindness]

[That is incredibly helpful. This can only grow into a beautiful and harmonious friendship.]

That's... not really what I said. Like, at all.

[hugeballs]

That's definitely what you said.

[ nodding, sagely ]

You like like you're pretty modern. You're aware it takes about forty years for lung cancer to kill you, right? By the time you actually develop it, you'll only have that long to live anyway. And that's assuming you're not just smoking pure tobacco from a pipe, which is much less unhealthy.

[genreblindness]

[Wow, way to make him feel dumb :c]

Yeah, well- it's still not exactly what you'd call healthy, either.

[hugeballs]

[ That is also her job. At least she's not laughing, this time! Only because she's making an attempt to not be absolutely obnoxious right off the bat. ]

Hardly anything is. You could spend your life meditating and living off a diet that doesn't in the result of either animals or plantlife, until you reach total enlightenment. Or live in harmony with the natural world and gain an intuitive, yet ungraspable meaning of the concept of life until you ascend to sainthood. Even those aren't healthy, because existing by default isn't.

And both of those are incredibly boring. And especially awful, since doing either teaches you that the meaning of life is to experience it, which all the spiritual immortality in the world won't help you with. Ah, I believe the kids these days have a saying -- 'You only live once.'. I'll tell you what -- if we run into eachother, I'll give you a few pinches for free.

[genreblindness]

Fine. Whatever. You just- do whatever you want.

[Jay has had enough of this shit. Talking with people like this is tiring enough without getting lectured at.

It wouldn't sting nearly so hard if he didn't actually feel like he is kind of a boring person, though.]

[hugeballs]

Touchy, touchy!

[ She titters, shaking her head. ]

I was going to do whatever I wanted without your permission, but really -- here we are in a new and, if I may be so frank, terrible place -- and I'd just like to help everyone enjoy their time here as much as possible.

Oh! I forgot to introduce myself, how silly. I'm Futatsuiwa from Sado, though if you want to be less formal, you can just call me Mamizou.

[genreblindness]

[Yeah he's not even going to try repeating that, he knows he'd just butcher it.]

Okay, uh. I'm Jay.

[And he's not going to add a last name to that because trust no one.]

I think enjoying my time here isn't going to be much of a thing, though.

[hugeballs]

Jay! A letter, a name, and a rather cute type of bird. How versatile. What sort of things do you enjoy, Jay?

[ You're going to have fun and you're going to like it. ]

[genreblindness]

[What is this "enjoy" you speak of he doesn't understand???]

I dunno, normal stuff? Watching movies, listening to music, that kind of thing?

[Also: filming random things and editing videos showcasing what a shitty detective he is.]

[hugeballs]

[ 'Normal stuff'? Did you mean: playing pranks on people, getting drunk, smoking in public, and being a general nuisance to disguise the fact that you're actually being incredibly helpful in a roundabout way? ]

Music! I'm a fan of bebop, myself. Are you a fan of Charlie Parker?

[genreblindness]

[No he meant none of those things actually]

I... don't know who that is.

[Jay you are a fucking embarrassment.]

[hugeballs]

[ LAUGHS AND LAUGHS AND LAUGHS AND LAUGHS AND LAUGHS AND oh wait ]

Oh -- oh my, you were being serious? You -- you're American, right? And not from some strange world where the 40s never happened?

[genreblindness]

I'm- I'm not a music expert, okay! I don't know anything about 40s musicians!

[GOD HE HATES NOT HAVING THE INTERNET, BACK HOME HE COULD HAVE JUST CHECKED GOOGLE]

[hugeballs]

He was one of the most famous saxophone players in the world! Honestly. What do you listen to, then?

[ If you say goddamned Lil Wayne she is going to find you and kick you in the TEETH ]

[genreblindness]

Whatever's on the radio, mostly.

[When he said he likes to listen to music he meant that sometimes he turns on the car radio while driving.]

[hugeballs]

That's...that's not really recreational music use.

[ SIIIGH MAYBE MOVIES WILL BE MORE EXCITING? ]

What genre do you like to watch?

[genreblindness]

[He relaxes visibly at the subject change. You're making a terrible mistake by letting the film student talk about movies here.]

I'm not really attached to any single genre specifically, but if I had to pick one it'd be sci-fi.

[hugeballs]

[ ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ]

Oh! So you do have some taste, after all.