cursedcontent | TEST DRIVE MEME #1

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

A Blood Offering

You wake up cozy in bed at the Saturn Motel. As you observe the room you may realize that it looks a little dated. Or, perhaps from your point of view the lamp and TV are wildly futuristic. Or, like Goldilocks, it may seem just right: close to the world you just left behind. Either way, you just had a very strange dream (see the arrival scenario) and now you're here. And you're not alone: there's a bed next to yours and someone else is waking up just like you are.

You can chat for a while if you like, but if you try to leave you'll find the door is firmly locked and no amount of kicking, punching, or hitting it with an object will do you any good. Instead, there's a letter on the nightstand which reads:

"Good morning and welcome to your new home!

You may be wondering why you're trapped in this room. Fear not, the door will open easily if you offer a bit of blood. More than a few drops but not enough to be a serious wound. A handprint's worth will do, let's say, and it only needs to come from one of you.

I'll let you sort that out yourselves. See you on the other side.

Sincerely,
The Mayor"

And indeed, a handprint's worth of blood pressed against the door will unlock it and let you out into the world. Do you volunteer your own blood? Do you take it from the other person by force? It's up to you! But there's no food in here, so you better figure it out eventually.

Roller Rink

As a celebration of your new lives here (and an apology for the whole blood offering thing - they were just testing something out, really) the Mayor has invited everyone to the Crazy Eight Roller Rink for a private, after-hours party.

Attendance isn't mandatory, but it is heavily encouraged so that you can meet your fellow Cursed and know who's in on the whole secret. It'll help you down the line at some point if your Curse gets out of control and you need someone to wrangle you.

As a reward, everyone who shows up and completes at least one lap around the roller rink (you must be wearing skates, but you can crawl the lap if you can't get the hang of them) will receive a free walkman with a mystery tape inside. The color, style, and mystery tape your character gets are up to you.

Mallrats

Everyone loves the mall! Right? Right! And this group of newcomers is lucky enough to be here for the White Pines Mall Grand Opening celebration! Feel free to walk around the mall and partake in sales galore, check out the attractions, or just get to know the layout of the place.

The Mayor has given everyone a gift card for $100 that can be used anywhere in the mall as long as they attend the Grand Opening.

They also strongly suggest that you familiarize yourself with the mall and its layout, just in case you ever get stuck there for a while and have to compete with others for food and resources. But that probably won't happen.

Extra Info

The test drive meme and the IC intro log will have the same prompts, and threads between two accepted characters can count as game canon.

The first prompt is flexible: technically you're supposed to be with one other person, but if you want to do larger groups that's fine.

Rooms at the Saturn Motel initially contain two beds for the prompt, but upon leaving and returning characters will find that they all have their own rooms with one bed. If you want a roommate, someone better be ready to sleep on the floor or snuggle up! The room doesn't have to look exactly like the reference image as long as it's not too fancy and suitably dated.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ It's not a terrible thing to have a partner in horrific kidnapping and/or extremely involved hallucination be so gung-ho, really. Stede appreciates that. Because whatever it is going on here, he can't have a proper breakdown about it until he's alone. And fine as he is to put it off for a while, it would just sort of be nice to make sure the aloneness option is available before anything else.

He looks over from where he has, with some distaste, been trying to work out what material these curtains are even made of

She's so young, though. It's one thing if all this happens to him. Foisting it onto some poor young lady is just uncalled for. ]

Oh, you got taken with a sword on you! Gosh, I'm jealous. All I've got is my trusty petrified orange. [ And it's his favorite thing he owns, so he obviously cannot put it at risk merely to try to open the blood door.

Damned new sciences, indeed. ]

Well. I reckon I can volunteer if you promise not to impale me. Happy to be gentlemanly about it, but really not up for getting fully stabbed. I'm sure you understand.

[ That young lady turned to size up her impromptu cohort. When she bothered with her posture, she had him overmatched by a noticeable hair in height and a considerable bit more in musculature. While she kept her expression schooled, she had him appraised as...a soul softened by the finer things in life. Not immediately useless in a fight, but she could smell the court life on him without needing to hear either a name or title from him.

Perhaps she shouldn't be too harsh. He had readily offered his own blood after all. All without looking like the prospect wouldn't have him retiring to the fainting couch, so Ciri decided to give the poor fellow a bit of slack. They were, after all, both on in the same boat, so to speak. ]

A petrified what? [ Ciri asks, the extensive line of scar flesh around her eye exaggerating the incredulous look on her face. ]

Never you matter, a quick scrape along your hand should suffice but I'm just as willing if you've second thoughts uh... [ Introductions hadn't been made, which was far, ] sir.

[ Hmm. He detects perhaps a hint that he should table the petrified orange for later. Inasmuch as someone could consider an outright dismissal in the moment a hint, which is kind of like getting fished out of the ocean and saying "well it's a bit damp in there."

Stede employs understatements and overstatements equally. Straightforward statements? Who's to say. ]

Oh, you can call me Stede. Nice to meet you. I mean, not that nice. We're captives. [ It would be nice if they weren't captives, probably. Still. This rugged young lady hasn't tried to kill him or threatened to cut his nose off as of yet, so he feels like first impressions at least aren't as terrible as they could be.

He finishes rolling his sleeve up. ]

No second thoughts here either way! Or hard feelings. I promise I'm very neutral about scrapes.

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

blood offering

that username has me dyingggg

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