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: BUMP IN THE NIGHT It's dark out, and congratulations - you're inside! What's not inside, you might ask? Monsters. Shadowy monsters that have surrounded whatever house you've taken shelter in. They can't get in... or can they? From time to time, the doors and the walls creak as if under an unbearable pressure.
Who can sleep when it's like this? Maybe you should take to the network to find a distraction. Or maybe someone has advice for getting rid of those things.
TWO: BRING OUT YOUR DEAD We mourn the loss of those who have died in the time between the last announcement and this one:
...is that your name on that list? It might be. Maybe you should let the others know you're not actually dead. Or, you know, if you happen to spot the name of someone you know and love on there, it might be time to ask around and see if anyone knows what happened to your dearly departed...
Action Prompts
THREE: KYRIE ELEISON You've found yourself in a small chapel, complete with bolted-down pews, an altar devoid of symbols, and stained glass windows depicting various saints. It's quiet... one might even say dead quiet. Which is a really awful pun to be making, considering if you follow the stairs down to the basement you'll find a morgue.
Explore to your heart's content, but you'll be forced out at 7 PM. Hopefully you don't find any unfortunately familiar faces among the dead.
FOUR: LIGHTS OUT Against all odds, you've managed to make it to shelter for the night. You pull the door shut behind you and turn to look at your surroundings - and that's when you see it. A ... person. Is it a person? It's hard to tell, because a moment later, you're plunged into darkness.
...better hope that's another unfortunate visitor to Norfinbury you've been locked in with, and not something more threatening.
do you mean my explanation was confusing? (my explanation as to why i called the anomalies 'questions', that is) or are you referring to something i said earlier?? now im the one with all the questions ;P
[ ...Should she have specified that 'questions' didn't mean 'monsters' in that last sentence? Jeez! ]
ohh ok :o how to explain this... for starters 'set dressing' refers to props and such that are part of a scene of a play they help establish the setting! you would be able to tell a scene takes place in a kitchen if there was a stove on the set (just for example)
(a separate train of thought begins here) this town we are trapped in is scary a lot of scary stories include monsters in some subgenres they are essential!
[ She's thinking of survival horror games, in particular. ]
the background and motivation of a monster is usually not important to a scary story they are simply there to frighten! in a non-literal way they might be considered..... .... ... set dressing!!
oh boy... a play is like a story that you watch people pretend to be the characters and act it out theyre usually performed on a big wooden platform called a stage that is decorated according to what is going on in the play props are things that are placed on the stage for the characters to interact with like they do in the story scenes are the different events that happen in the play
i appologize for him ^^; and that i haven't done so sooner
that is another method of conveying information, yes sometimes plays are recorded on video! but this was not possible until fairly recently at least where i come from
*That makes sense, he thinks. If they can't show videos of things people would have to describe it...maybe acting things out would be easier. Certainly less talking (hopegully).*
its very recent historically speaking! it only seems like a long time because we do not live very long at least that is the case for humans like me
[ --except for the whole god tier thing. But that's a whole other can of worms. ]
it sounds like you came from somewhere similar to my.... homeworld? it is a planet called earth
[ It's also devoid of life in her universe, except for a few carapacians years in the future (but not many.) They typed strangely, too, but their vocabulary was much more... whimsical. ]
oh i highly doubt any of us are from this particular iteration of earth! i would not be surprised if this place wasnt even on a planet it could be in its own 'universe' of sorts and there is literally nothing beyond the walls
[ She's well-versed in alternate universes, timelines, pocket dimensions and the like. The possibility of Norfinbury being inside a dream bubble has crossed her mind, but no one here seems to know of Sburb, so that's unlikely. ]
(an iteration is a repeat of something or another version)
i think it is possible speaking from personal experience
think of it (meaning norfinbury) like.... a bubble!! floating in a void and in the same void there are other bubbles (which are different self-contained worlds) the void is filled with other things [ Like vaguely sentient wells of infinite creative potential. ] but they are irrelevant to this situation
the worlds we came from would not be in this void they exist independently of it
[ This wouldn't be confusing even to a normal person, no. Not at all! ]
well... these bubbles are only accessible by the dead or dreaming and you have to have played a particular game the other things i mentioned that were irrelevant are the places where it is played!
so i do not think this place is a dream bubble but it may be similarly disconnected from 'reality'
[ Does this person even understand what a video game is? They know about cameras, so it might be worth a shot... ]
it is a video game! only a few people receive a copy in each universe where it exists they are taken to one of the irrelevant places ....and their planets are destroyed by meteors :( the void i talked about separates the groups of players it is impossible to navigate unless you are a master of time or space (like me! :D)
so yes i guess i am saying that it is like the dream bubbles but.... .. ...not
youre right! normally they do not i think it just functions like a game because that is easy to understand the goal is to create a new universe but we also did a bunch of other things that had pretty far-reaching consequences in the past and the future
the session my friends and i played kinda went off the rails though in ways that even i had trouble understanding
[ ...meaning that that can of cosmological worms is already half-open; even if you're curious, only worse confusion awaits. ]
*Okay, way too much of this is going over his head. He's not sure she's not just screwing with him or crazy, so he's not sure how much effort he wants to put into trying to understand this anymore. But he won't leave it at just that.*
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snowblindmemes2015-12-16 06:01 am
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you said there were many questions here
and the nature of these anomalies is one of them
so i referred to the anomalies as a 'question'
[ Progress! This is an exciting development!!! ]
am i making sense?
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iget the questions anomalies
iam not sure about
before
what you said
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(my explanation as to why i called the anomalies 'questions', that is)
or are you referring to something i said earlier??
now im the one with all the questions ;P
[ ...Should she have specified that 'questions' didn't mean 'monsters' in that last sentence? Jeez! ]
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earlier in the conversation thread
iunder stand why yousaid monsters anomalies were quest ion
*He's still confused about the set dressing and comparing things to snow.*
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how to explain this...
for starters 'set dressing' refers to props and such that are part of a scene of a play
they help establish the setting!
you would be able to tell a scene takes place in a kitchen if there was a stove on the set
(just for example)
(a separate train of thought begins here)
this town we are trapped in is scary
a lot of scary stories include monsters
in some subgenres they are essential!
[ She's thinking of survival horror games, in particular. ]
the background and motivation of a monster is usually not important to a scary story
they are simply there to frighten!
in a non-literal way they might be considered.....
....
...
set dressing!!
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props insc ene?
play?
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oh boy...
a play is like a story that you watch
people pretend to be the characters and act it out
theyre usually performed on a big wooden platform called a stage that is decorated according to what is going on in the play
props are things that are placed on the stage for the characters to interact with like they do in the story
scenes are the different events that happen in the play
i appologize for him ^^; and that i haven't done so sooner
people
act ing
events?
*But why would you do that if...*
didnot have tapes post transmit vid eo?
she's just happy to have a reason to run her mouth lmao; it's all good
that is another method of conveying information, yes
sometimes plays are recorded on video!
but this was not possible until fairly recently
at least where i come from
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?
*That makes sense, he thinks. If they can't show videos of things people would have to describe it...maybe acting things out would be easier. Certainly less talking (hopegully).*
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and it took a while for cameras to be affordable
[ Don't even get her started on capitalism, buddy. ]
now lots of people use them to record things that are important and they do not want to forget
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iknow about recording
iam good with video
*He's one of the best at making creepy, cryptic videos.*
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it only seems like a long time because we do not live very long
at least that is the case for humans like me
[ --except for the whole god tier thing. But that's a whole other can of worms. ]
it sounds like you came from somewhere similar to my....
homeworld?
it is a planet called earth
[ It's also devoid of life in her universe, except for a few carapacians years in the future (but not many.) They typed strangely, too, but their vocabulary was much more... whimsical. ]
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yes, iam from there
hereis al so earth but notsure if
same
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i would not be surprised if this place wasnt even on a planet
it could be in its own 'universe' of sorts
and there is literally nothing beyond the walls
[ She's well-versed in alternate universes, timelines, pocket dimensions and the like. The possibility of Norfinbury being inside a dream bubble has crossed her mind, but no one here seems to know of Sburb, so that's unlikely. ]
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*He doesn't get the word 'universe' either, but the context lead him to a more important question about that part.*
you think thereis only
nor fin bury
and no thing else?
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or another version)
i think it is possible
speaking from personal experience
think of it (meaning norfinbury) like....
a bubble!!
floating in a void
and in the same void there are other bubbles (which are different self-contained worlds)
the void is filled with other things [ Like vaguely sentient wells of infinite creative potential. ] but they are irrelevant to this situation
the worlds we came from would not be in this void
they exist independently of it
[ This wouldn't be confusing even to a normal person, no. Not at all! ]
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get out change bubbles leave
?
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these bubbles are only accessible by the dead or dreaming
and you have to have played a particular game
the other things i mentioned that were irrelevant are the places where it is played!
so i do not think this place is a dream bubble
but it may be similarly disconnected from 'reality'
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*He's pretty sure he hasn't played any. And has no idea why that would even matter.*
so youthink it is
like
your bubbles but
not
?
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it is a video game!
only a few people receive a copy in each universe where it exists
they are taken to one of the irrelevant places
....and their planets are destroyed by meteors :(
the void i talked about separates the groups of players
it is impossible to navigate unless you are a master of time or space (like me! :D)
so yes i guess i am saying that it is like the dream bubbles but....
..
...not
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idonot think games work that way
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normally they do not
i think it just functions like a game because that is easy to understand
the goal is to create a new universe
but we also did a bunch of other things that had pretty far-reaching consequences in the past and the future
the session my friends and i played kinda went off the rails though
in ways that even i had trouble understanding
[ ...meaning that that can of cosmological worms is already half-open; even if you're curious, only worse confusion awaits. ]
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?
*...not that that's much to go on.*
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that probably did not make any sense
sorry :B
uhh
did you understand my theory about 'bubbles'?
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r.i.p. me the holiday season is out for blood
yeah, it'll do that B\
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