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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.
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Wren doesn't interrupt as Alec lists places that are well beyond the reach of a late 80s mall food court, even a higher end one, mildly relieved when he seems to realize his own situation without being reminded of it. Okay, not hopeless.
"Absolutely not the pizza or the hot dogs then," Wren concluded, figuring those likely to be the worst offenders of being grease bombs masquerading as food if they held true to the malls Wren was familiar with. "Salad Bar probably the best bet for non greasy, I think the smoothie place has sandwiches that are also probably acceptable. Chicken Wings - sorry, wingz might have some waffle options? The burger place could also have a breakfast menu, it's early enough. You'd probably have better luck at some mom and pop diner outside the mall for pancakes though, if not an IHOP."
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"Are you familiar with any of the places in town?" Alec hadn't really been looking for restaurants during his first day, too busy trying to keep everything under control as it became more and more apparent that Magnus might not actually appear out of nowhere to portal him back home and lend a sympathetic ear to all of Alec's petty complaints about the place (and the 80s, which he blessedly missed the first time around and isn't thrilled about getting to experience firsthand now.) "Or are you— new here, too?" Clearly he does know better than to be particularly open about he circumstances of his arrival, so that's something.
A beat, and then a touch sheepishly: "Uh, I'm Alec." Gratitude coming soon, honest! Probably.
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"Wren. Also new here - I ... like to know an area if I'm going to be stuck with it for a while," they say, as that's probably a slightly more mundane sounding thing than explaining a habit for doing tactical recon, which has no excuses that don't make you sound crazy in a best case scenario. "So no, not familiar with the places, just walked around town as much as I could to make a mental map of it in case I need it."