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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.
Emma Frost | Marvel Comics
[There’s a lot to process here, though Emma’s not particularly interested in tackling most of that until after she gets out of this room. The dream and her powers being gone are concerns of course, but there’s little to be done about any of that so long as she’s stuck in this motel room with whoever’s in here. And being here with whoever is also not immediately high on her list of concerns either, these things happen, and it’s not the worst waking up with someone random she could think of.]
Shall we get out of here? I can’t say I like the idea of spending any more time than I have to in such a mundane motel room, or really in motels in general…
[Five star hotels sure, motels, no thank you.
And with that, she’ll go check out the note on the nightstand and frown slightly. Ever so slightly. Once again there are worse things, but really...]
And it seems there’s a bit of a check out fee…
[Emma’ll pass the note over so her new buddy can read it for themselves.]
[Mallrats]
I suppose this will have to do.
[Said while inspecting the giftcard. She’s used to having a bit more of a spending limit, Paradiso isn’t quite her style, but more in line with her spending habits, as is Gold Standard. But like she said, she’ll just have to make do. Hardly the worst thing, though for a moment she does feel the urge to comment that this is clearly the worst thing, but no, she’ll refrain.]
Still, I’ve had less to work with, really, being past disco is the real kindness.
[There’s really only one member of the X-Men who can pull off disco after disco and it sure isn’t Emma. Visiting the roller rink for that whole meet and greet is as close to sharing fashion choices with Dazzler as she’s comfortable with.]
[Wildcard]
[Feel free to throw something else at me or bug me over at
Mallrats (don't worry about matching prose, it's just easier for me to write.)
The other woman was, well, Joyce felt every year of her age standing beside someone who looked like that and carried themselves with that sort of air of superiority. Pretty much the opposite of herself, and Joyce couldn't do much but try and straighten out the flannel shirt she had over a t-shirt.
"Looks like they have a lot of stores though. That's got to be a plus, right?"