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.

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John nods and takes the letter, scanning it quickly.

"Guess we've both been kidnapped by someone who's seen too many horror movies," he says lightly, almost jokingly, even though his face looks deadly serious. He has no idea if this is real or not, but he's pretty sure this means they're in some kind of danger if this is the person who's trapped them here.

And then there's the dreams.

"What kinda weird dreams have you had, exactly?" He swings his legs off of the bed, going to the door to inspect it himself. His tone suggests that he absolutely believes that they may have had similar weird dreams, because that kind of thing happens where he's from on occasion.

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It hasn't never happened in Wren's world, so even if it isn't exactly common it's not beyond the pale to believe possible.

"Some entity calling itself 'the mayor' saying this is called White Pines and I'm here because I'm 'cursed'," and further errata, but that's the most salient points of the whole thing. Where they are, why they're here. They get up off their bed as well to watch as John makes his own inspection of the door. Maybe he'll see something Wren missed.

"My name's Wren, by the way. Like the bird."

"Nice to meet you, Wren. I'm Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard. You can call me Sheppard. Or John. Or Lieutenant Colonel. There's lots of options."

It's a lot easier to talk about this than to talk about being cursed.

He peers at the door, halfway listening.

"You think this is real and not like, a prank?"

That's a lot of name. It is, however, much easier to talk about that than the whole curse thing.

"What makes you think it can't be both?" Wren asked, crossing their arms and stepping back to start searching the room for something sharp. Then again maybe only people who knew sorcerers and witches would think someone would pull a prank that involved some kind of blood magic lock. It wasn't Wren's area, but they knew people.

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