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

I. A BLOOD OFFERING

( the dream was certainly odd and waking up in some dusty bedroom was even more odd. but the note definitely took the cake on the oddity scale for maggie. and that is when she decided that she certainly had enough of this bullshit for one day. it's enough that she's recently become a fugitive thanks to the actions of ava fucking ire. she doesn't need to do some weird blood ritual shit as well. )

Hello?! Okay, this is funny and all but also really stupid! Whoever is out there you can just cut it out and actually let us out?!

( there's no answer. of course there isn't. just her luck! realizing that she's actually going to have to do something more than just shout, maggie gets to her feet and gives a quick glance around the room. there's nothing noticablely sharp around which brings in the question of how exactly they planned on getting any blood from anybody. there was no way she was going to willingly slam her head against a wall or anything. but perhaps there would be someone that could...

her eyes go over to her resting roommate. she sits down on the edge of their bed, awkwardly twiddling her thumbs. )

So... how willing are you to give your blood so we can escape?

II. KITCH'N WARES

( spending all of her money inside paradiso was all too tempting. but she also understood that she was in a foreign land without any way to get in contact with tuls. just from arriving here and having that strange dream instead of ending up in the domain of the demon was enough of a hint to have her on edge. any attempts to manifest her powers resulted in nothing so she needed different means to defend herself.

and a knife seemed simple enough. it was light. the only downside is that it was close range.

maggie gives a few test slices against the area around her, quickly coming to a stop when she very nearly slices the unfortunate soul that happens to walk past her. )

Hey! Watch it!

III. NETWORK (UN: LOVELYROSE)

okay so!
just making sure. did the people reading this post have that weird dream?
follow up question if you did: what the heck is up with all the secrecy about this whole curse thing?
is everyone else gonna like gang up on us or something?

IV. WILDCARD

( feel free to throw something at me or contact me via my plurk

graywaves )

"Whoa! Hey!" Joyce had been looking through stores more than looking for things. She was still trying to find her kids, or anyone from home really.

Joyce had her hands out, palms flat in front of her in a classic nonaggression move.

"Don't worry, I'm not looking for a knife, that one's all yours."

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

Maggie Lacivi ( Ava's Demon )

Shopping! (Don't worry about matching prose, just easier for me to write)