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

Right? What, they need to give us a hundred dollars to get us to go? That's like ... Losing money for them.

[ So it's definitely the mall giving her some anxiety. He can't blame her, he knows that what happened to Billy hit her harder than she was willing to let on to them. Luckily the mall's not the only place around here to go to. ]

You seen the arcade yet? Don't tell anyone this, but I've never been to one.

[ Not cool enough for King Steve. The closest he's ever gotten is picking Dustin up sometimes. ]

[ She scoffs in agreement, shaking her head at the ridiculousness and that physical thing to hook onto and make fun of. The absurdity of it all minced down to a singular event -- a singular item.

Any retort she might've had quickly leaves, her jaw dropping slightly. If Steve had been edging for a distraction outside of shitting on the mall, he'd found his mark. ]

I can't believe no one ever dragged you to the arcade. [ Granted, they'd all been insanely busy and part of growing up was finding out how much you cared about looking cool versus just being yourself. While she'd never expect Steve to go in on his own, she'd have expected one of the guys to have dragged him in there a few times. ]

We have to fix that. Maybe they'll take these stupid gift cards for game credit.

[ While that wouldn't be wise, considering the mall had changes of clothes and other amenities she'd need down the road, she'd have to set foot in there first to get them. Besides, she was used to washing her own clothes and getting creative with it. ]

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