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

Nell had woken before him, taken a glance at the sleeping form in the other bed, and decided the strangeness that was their new situation didn't warrant her waking him. Instead, she'd read over the note and frowned at it as if she could change what it said. It had fluttered to the ground and was still there, she'd made her way to the attached bathroom to see if there was anything to wash her face with.

Honestly, she'd only been in there for maybe two minutes when she hears the thud and crash from out in the room. She exits the small bathroom, a worried look on her face, "Is everything okay?"

Aside from... Well, everything else.

The second voice in the room is not what Matt would call an unwelcome surprise. He freezes instantly, back half-turned to the emerging woman and encircled by the bits of shattered lamp. Why hadn't he heard her shuffling around? Sensed her heartbeat? Smelled the remnants of where she's been on the clothes she's wearing? Something. The world around him feels cold and empty, and Matt is absolutely not okay.

"I'm fine, it's fine." Is she in on this somehow? He holds up a wary hand, like he means to shoo her off. "Who are you?"

Honestly, he probably wouldn't want to be able to pick all that up on her. It smells like decay and death, of fallen leaves and musty wood. Even with him saying things are fine, she wanders over to help with the clean-up. Eleanor crouches as she answers him, picking up the larger pieces first to nestle the smaller ones into.

"Eleanor Vance," a gentle clink of the lamp shards hitting one another, "I woke up maybe...five minutes ago? They left us a letter, I did something with it..." She glances over her shoulder as she finishes that statement, looking for the paper. "Ah, over here."

She picks it up and holds it out to him, not yet realizing he's blind, "Here."

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

blood offering

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(sorry for the delay!)