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

( peter's brow furrows and knits together in scepticism as rodney questions what his decidedly not vague, thank you very much, but okay maybe a little bit hand gesture meant. ) Cool it? ( he suggests, intonation edging towards questioning, but it's less a question to rodney and more a question of rodney. "how did you not get that?" it says. the response overlaps with rodney's own continued ramblings about how he'd totally definitely do the blood thing if only his hands weren't super special and important; and peter's not sure if rodney actually heard him, really, genuinely cares about the response or if he just likes to hear the sound of his own voice.

peter knows, oh, he knows he shouldn't judge, but the more rodney speaks, the more the despair that peter feels deepens. he's not going to make assumptions as to what rodney's like in a fight, but he feels with bone-deep certainty that if they get out of this room and encounter less-than-friendly faces, there's not a chance in hell that peter's going to let this guy talk and ruin everything for them.

the letter said about a handprint's worth of blood, but it didn't say it had to come from a hand, so peter starts rolling up his sleeves — both, because if this makes a mess, these are the only clothes peter has for the time being, and he's quite fond of them, you know? they've served him well and they're really comfortable.

he opens his mouth to either reply to rodney's deluge of words or to sigh, it's not quite clear. peter's attention is fixated on his sleeves as his mind wanders through his options: maybe he could just pretend to die and rodney could go on without him once they get the door open. he'd finally get some peace and flarking quiet in his life.

that'd be nice.

but as soon as rodney questions ship, peter's focus snaps back to him, fingers remaining folded around the sleeve of his shirt mid-roll. then rodney says daedalus and he scoffs, gaze immediately softening. dismissively, he says— )

Who'd name their ship after Icarus's son? ( not a guy who named their ship after winona, evidently. ) No, ( he adds, with barely a breath of a pause. ) My ship's the Ryder.

And if it helps, I was trying to take a trip to Knowhere. ( pronounced exactly as it sounds, which is to say: there's no indication that peter's not saying 'nowhere'. ) But apparently it's taken a vacation from floating around at the edge of the galaxy, ( he adds, lips pressing together momentarily. that whole situation was really weird, probably weirder than this and probably linked to the whole — thanos deal, which peter missed because groot decided it wasn't important enough.

—mmm, not thinking about that. nope. ) which is kinda annoying. ( beat. ) Do you have a knife?

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

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