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

Oh, the looks. Definitely the looks. This joint looks like somewhere that'd fit right into my shitty little hometown, but I've never seen anybody who looks like you do.

[ The tattoos, the brightly colored hair - maybe they'd be less eye-catching somewhere like New York or L.A, but they still wouldn't be anywhere close to the norm. It's pretty fucking cool, Eddie thinks. Not exactly his style, but he can appreciate it for how different it is.

They skate along the outside edge of the rink ever so slowly, but it's a lot better not being alone. ]

Cool, man. Metal's like - basically my whole life, so I don't think either of us are gonna be able to get any requests in. Apparently the mall's got a record shop, though.

[ It hits Eddie for the first time exactly how much he's left behind in Hawkins. Maybe he should be more grateful that he's not just straight-up dead, but what's life without his band, his guitar, Dungeons and Dragons?

Skating around in a big circle to get the privilege of a Walkman, apparently. ]

Apparently you get a tape with it. I hope I don't get some Madonna bullshit.

[ Well, the looks were what he expected, at least. So no surprise there. He'd always made it a point to leave an impression on people so at least it was still working even here. Maybe it wasn't so much his intention here - especially not most of the visible tattoos - but he'd take being the token freak. ]

If I knew the mall had a record shop I probably woulda skipped this shit and gone straight there.

[ He could have spent his time looking for shit he knew and liked rather than crawling along this wall like a newborn deer trying to walk. It had been so long since V was actually bad at something, and he recalled how much he hated this feeling. ]

Bein' real - I'll take anything at this point. Whole lot better than havin' nothing.

[ It didn't help that there was a ton of music here that V flat out didn't recognize, and what little he did was, well, it was almost 100 years old. There sure was no Samurai here, no Kerry, no Bea. There was even a chance Johnny himself hadn't been born yet and, fuck, that man was an actual fossil.

It was really cementing in V's head just how much he didn't belong here and how much he'd lost. His gold-plated boyfriend wasn't born yet - not even a thought, he was sure - and so far in the future V would never see him again; his music was all gone, his cyberware taken from him, and... Well, V never really had hobbies, he just found creative ways to waste time. ]

So, uh, I'm just curious and you seem pretty nova - I'm from a place way bigger than here. Lot more people, lot more shit to do. Place like this - what do you do for fun?

[ He knew that Eddie likely wasn't from here so they probably didn't know what all was around but if this place was comparable to where he was from, well, he'd have a much better idea what to do here than V would. ]

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

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take it back eddie madonna's great