TEST DRIVE MEME #1

[cursedmods]

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

A Blood Offering

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Comments

cw for shounen dumbass disease (self-injury)

[zangetsu]

That's it?

（ said in the absolute deadpan of someone who's accustomed to far heftier costs than that. he doesn't have anything sharp on him, except — well, he's in his civilian clothes, and without thinking too much about it, he pulls his belt out of his pants, flips the prong of the buckle out, and stabs it right through his hand.

there were surely easier ways to do that, but does he care? no. no he does not. pain tolerance level: shounen protag used to being run through with swords.

the belt gets tossed on the bed afterwards and, cupping his uninjured hand under the other one to catch the blood, he marches right over to the door and smears the blood on it. that's 'offering', right? ）

What the hell, do we have to say 'open sesame' too?

（ oh. well. it worked. ichigo at least has the presence of mind to rip a strip off his shirt and wrap it around his hand helpfully (when your father is a doctor you think you'd care a tiny bit more about infection, but nope, not he). ）

[fawcetted]

Whoa, dude!

[ There's a sluggish moment between Steve putting the letter down to watching Kurosaki move his hands down to his waist when he thinks the guy is going to pants himself. For what reason? Who the hell knows.

But no. It's freakin' worse than that. The belt is removed and then there's blood, and then said belt is being thrown aside as his roomie heads straight for the door to press his palm to its surface. Like this is totally normal.

This is totally not normal!

It takes another moment before everything catches up with his brain and Steve rushes towards man and door and watches him bandage his hand up. Like it was no big deal. Not only was that extremely crazy impressive ('metal', Eddie might say), but it was just plain and simple crazy. ]

Dude!

[zangetsu]

It's fine.

（ his tone isn't dismissive when he says it, more reassuring as he goes back to get his belt. rather than thread it back through the loops of his pants, he just wraps it a few times around the non-stabbed hand. you know. in case he has to punch someone.

look, he's a hooligan. ）

Come on, let's go. Try to stay behind me. We have no idea what we're going to find out there.