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

Oh thank god, [Nancy actually says out-loud, when she sees a man in clothing that looks at least similar to what she might encounter if, say, she happened to be a fancy lady instead of a grown-up street urchin. Her dress is large, but not unwieldy, and she's got it hiked up slightly with one arm so she can see what her feet are doing.]

Sorry- I suppose it is exhilarating. Maybe it has something to do with the year? That these roller skates are common in... the 1900s?

[She shuffles along, holding on to the wall as well. There's a nice little line going of people who don't know what the hell they're doing.]

I think it's supposed to be like ice skating? Have you ever done that?

[ Oh! A same temporal hat situation? In this weird world? Or at least vaguely similar. He can't pretend he knows what's in high fashion everywhere back home, and he can't say that this dress style looks too in line with what he last noted. Still, god knows it's the closest aesthetic to familiar that he's seen since he got here.

Maybe that shouldn't be a relief what with his social success track record, but he's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. There is a bit of relief to it.

She's awfully young to be stuck here, though. So many of these people are. ]

I haven't! Not a lot of ice in my region, I'm afraid. [ Might have been a fun way to pass some time. ] Roller skates must be pretty popular these days though, right? If they've got a whole business built on it.

[ The financial security of a roller rink... it must be something. ]

Apparently so!

[She laughs lightly, keeping a hand on the wall still.]

And everyone seems so good at it. Must come here quite often.

[She sees people spinning, skating backward, it's quite shocking, and fun to look at.] I don't suppose you know what this walkman we're supposed to get is, do you?

[ Ohh. That's onto something. There's no way some of these people haven't done this sort of thing before.

Which Stede honestly hadn't really thought about. He went very worst-case, everyone must be relatively new to this yet here some of us are struggling. Not that the solidarity of joint struggling hasn't been nice. It's just a helpful perspective. ]

Oh, I have no idea what it is. [ And that's kind of thrilling and mysterious! Mysteries are loads of fun. ] I suppose they're not a very rare treasure around here if they're giving so many of them away. But seeing as we've never heard of it before, it sounds like it's gonna be a rare treasure to us. You and I are really coming out on top tonight!

Someone had- they looked like orange ear muffs on, d'you think that's what they call them here? Walkmen? [She's been learning so much, even in just a few hours here. The future is weird. The future. America. Everything]

So we are! That's a positive way to look at it, I wouldn't think. We'll have to figure it out together.

[She shuffles a bit more, careful not to put too much weight on either foot. The wall is a big help. Love the wall. Go wall.]

It's hard to go wrong with a bit of teamwork. I've always said that.

[ Debatable, but no one is here to say he hasn't said that. A win for Stedes everywhere.

He belatedly glances around like this person in orange ear muffs is going to magically manifest in front of him just because he's thinking about it. So many people here have so many little quirks. There's something nice about that. ]

Must be something like that... walkmen... I'm always forgetting to think about regional dialects. Not that it's very easy to do that when I don't know what the region is. [ He gives himself a little push-off and lets go of the wall for a rousing 2 whole seconds before he has to grab it again. ] Bit of an oversight on the Mayor's part.

Good t'know.

[She flashes the older man a smile.]

Maybe. [Speaking of regional accent, hers is a very Cockney one.] It would be nice, if he told us where we were. And maybe more information for those of us that are wildly out of place. [There were a few others, too, but for the most part, the people she'd met seemed surprisingly at home here.]

I think at least, we're in America.

[ hopped us over to the intro log! ]

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