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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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( peter's never been superpowered, never been in possession of anything to miss beyond his elemental guns which he does miss but he's never understood how they work and as much as he'd like to say the opposite, given wanda's lack of access (question mark) to her abilities, peter's not convinced the guns would work as planned either.
what he does have in his favour is physiology and a familiarity with and — in all honesty — frequent participation in fights. if it comes to it, he thinks he'll be able to hold his own for long enough for them to be able to—
—well, make a break for it, mostly. in a world (galaxy) of aliens, superpowered so-and-sos and beings literally created to destroy thanos, peter's never been particularly special.
he's just the (semi-)ideas guy. the keep it all together guy.
(and he's not always great at that last one).
he picks a direction at not-quite-random, opting to head in numerically decreasing order than otherwise, internally reasoning they'll either (in theory) hit an exit of the ordinary and/or fire related variety at some point. )
Just let me know if you start seeing creepy twins. ( anyway. ) What's the last thing you remember?
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[She follows, one hand gently applying pressure to the other palm. It's quiet. Peter asks another question, a good one, and Wanda listens to their out of sync footsteps on the carpeting as she considers how much she wants to reveal.]
A dream. And before then.... [A nightmare. Buried beneath rubble once more.] Well, there's always a villain to fight, isn't there? It was over. What about you?
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(aside from the whole gamora kill squad and thanos downloading his brain into someone else thing, but boy, peter is trying is hardest not to focus on either of those two things.) ) You know, the usual.
( a lie. kind of. ostensibly, it's not anything that peter would find unusual — if future him walked up to past him and said 'hey, so gamora's going to go nuts for five minutes, kill you but not permanently, then shit's going to go down, something thanos, something the galaxy', he thinks he'd probably just groan and, like, internally cry or something because of course. this is his life.
it's fine.
he slows a little, attention shifting to the numbers on the doors, discoloured brass and paint that says they building's been here a long time (or the halls have been frequented by smokers. or both.) he thinks of his ship, of groot and bill, phyla and moondragon; of his and wanda's awakening. ) How many others do you think there are?
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Depends how big this place is and if we think two people are behind every locked door.
[She pauses to try the handle of one door. It's locked, and when she leans closer to the door, she can't hear anyone inside.]