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

You don't need a knife, the woman says and if there was anything more - or less- reassuring that this woman wasn't a thread it was in how stupid the statement was to her. No adult who knew better would ask a street kid to throw away their knives. Even Rosethorn, who disapproved of them doing so, knew better than to ask her and Briar to not have them on them.

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?

Yeah, street kids aren't exactly her forte. "Or keep it if it makes you feel safer. Will used to have a teddy bear, I guess that's just a shiny sharp teddy bear."

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?"

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