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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?

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

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

[ 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.

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.]

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.

[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.

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. ]

[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.]

Edited (listening to movies) 2015-05-24 19:43 (UTC)

[ '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?

[No he meant none of those things actually]

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

[Jay you are a fucking embarrassment.]

[ 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?

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]

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 ]

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.]

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

[ SIIIGH MAYBE MOVIES WILL BE MORE EXCITING? ]

What genre do you like to watch?

[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.

[ ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS ]

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

I'm glad you approve.

[NOT THAT HE NEEDS YOUR APPROVAL!!]

[ EVERYONE NEEDS MY APPROVAL ]

Favourite movie?

Kiiiind of a boring answer, but Star Wars. Can't beat the classics.

Which one?

The first. Empire's not bad, either.

A classic tale of good versus evil, and a hero's journey. I can't say I fault you, but I certainly prefer Empire.

Yeah, that's fair. I think really Empire's the better movie in an objective sense, but I just have a soft spot for New Hope, so...

Of course. Some things are nostalgic, or they just resonate with you. And being able to tell the difference between fondness and actual quality shows a degree of perception many don't have, so congratulations. I mean, really, when it comes to favourites, 'quality' shouldn't ever be a factor, but it's still an important skill to have.

[This is pretty much the only time anyone has ever described Jay as perceptive. Probably also the last time.]

Uh, thanks. I mean, I studied film stuff back in college, so. Yeah.

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