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

Of course you could.

[Rodney thoroughly rolls his eyes before glancing over, acknowledging Ronon's arrival and general being here with a huff and a scowl.]

And just where have you been anyway, huh? Sure could have used you earlier for the whole blood sacrifice situation? Your timing sucks.

[Translation: Oh God, he is so glad to see you and that you are here and that you are okay, don't go away, this place gives him the creeps. Some tension in his shoulders eases, hinting further at the underlying relief which will not now nor ever be put into words.

He looks down at the adapter disapprovingly, back up at him.]

It's not a flail, Spartacus. What are you going to do, bludgeon someone to death with it?

[And because he regrets the question as soon as it leaves his mouth, he quickly raises a finger.]

Don't answer that.

[ See? Exactly in line with his thoughts already. McKay is fine.

There are different ways he complains depending on how fine he is, and right now he's mostly the right kind of complaining. Like annoying, but the kind that's normal, the kind a person gets used to after a while and might, maybe, get antsy about when there's a tone shift or a stretch of radio silence.

Most importantly, he's where Ronon can keep an eye on him. (There's relief in it. Not being alone out here. He's fine alone, he knows how to shut up and do "alone," but having someone here from Atlantis feels more-- anchored.

Will he discuss these feelings, no, will he feel them, yes.)

Ronon rolls his eyes and drops the power converter back into the bargain bin. Ask a question, immediately refuse the answer? The audacity. ]

You don't hear me asking where you were for my blood "blood sacrifice situation." Couldn't DOS anyone out of that?

Okay, first of all, if the two of us were in a room together and the task was to get something sharp, mutilate our bodies and smear our blood all over the place, who would do it? Not me?

[So there.]

And second...

[... and second, the idea of admitting that he was unable to open that door with other means makes his skin crawl and causes him physical pain. So his mouth just opens and closes a few times, his finger drawing useless lines in the air before he looks away, clearing his throat.]

Right. Did you learn anything useful since you got here?

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

the SOUND i just made at that username

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