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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.Roller Rink
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.
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.Mallrats
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.
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.Extra Info
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.
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.
blood offering
She's out of bed in moments, grabbing at her sleeves where the knives are hidden. She doesn't have as many as Briar's eleven and she knows against any Emperor soldier without her pwoers she's as weak as a kitten, but - She'll fight them tooth and nail if she has to.
Except the voice that hails her isn't an obviously Emperor soldier. The room they're in doesn't even look like it's something out of anywhere she's been. And while it doesn't make her anymore aggressive, she hunches back on her feet with brown eyes cold. "How should I know?" She demands, sounding far rougher than she should.
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"Whoa, ok. Who are you? Are you from the institute?"
Was this yet another government agency that was after her boys?
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And she's acting just as confused as she is. It's a fact that only confuses Evvy further, wary that it might be another trick of the empire and they hadn't actually gotten out. For now, she keeps to the one knife, but the others feel hot on her skin in their hidden places.
"What do you mean?" She throws her own back. An institute sounds like a stifling place that adults went to, so she insists. "I'm just a kid." For her, the use of the word kid is simple slang - Usually frowned upon in polite company since it's more for street kids. Of course, for Joyce, it's not really slang at all, so the only implication there is in the 'are you dumb' kind of way she says it.
Sorry, she's just slightly on the side of feral cat.
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"Uh, ok. I'm Joyce and.... I have no idea where I am right now. But I have kids, two boys and a girl, and I need to find them. And their friends if they're here too."
They could be out there, alone, scared. Alone anyway. She'd had to face the facts that the kids were entirely better at taking care of themselves than she'd ever have wanted them to have to be. It had taken her longer to understand what had been happening in Hawkins, but once she did, she'd been on their side, fiercely.
"Where are you from? We're from Hawkins, well, we were from Hawkins, Indiana. Now Lenora Hills, California." she held her hands out, palms flat to put the girl, as she could now see she was young, at ease. Carefully and slowly, she took a seat on the corner of her bed.
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Because of that she doesn't let go of the knife or of her posture - Very much the form of a trapped animal ready to leap and fight for a way out of necessity. Wary and guarded, she shifted on her still healing feet. She wouldn't get very far on her own if she got out of here but for a moment she stares at the woman, blinking in stupid confusion.
"You say that like it's supposed to mean anything to me," she offered after a moment, mouth dipping in a frown, "we were on our way outta Gyongxe to Emelan -" Which aren't names that Joyce knows any more than Evvy knows California or Indiana. She's careful to say she's from Yanjing. Especially with all the Emperor had done recently, she doesn't want to claim the place that's only kindness had been selling her to slavery so she'd find Briar and Rosethorn her birthplace.
"How would you even know they're here?" Here, the way she says it sounds like she's not sure what that it is - With this strange woman who doesn't understand a (former) street kid when she wants it and her weirder Hawkins. What kind of name for a place was that?
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After all she'd seen, Joyce was willing to let the girl hold on to the weapon if it gave her some security. She certainly wasn't going to try to take it from her. She lowered her hands to rest on her thighs, showing she was no threat, or at least trying to.
"I don't know any of those places. They don't sound like anything from the United States that I know of. I guess we're from really different places." And she wasn't about to try and guess what that meant right now, she had other puzzles to put together.
"I don't, but I have to look for them. I have to make sure they're ok." She shrugged, it wasn't like this was a choice for her. But noting how the girl moved, she frowned slightly. "Are you ok?"