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 know, I remember the 80s. And the 90s. And the 00s. And ended up back in NY a couple of years back so I can pretty much track the journey of coffee past to painstaking present.

( pourover? what's that and why does he have to wait five minutes for one cup of coffee? )

All I'm saying is that there's gotta be some kind of middle ground, and this clearly isn't the actual 80s, so...

I was kinda hoping.

( having a minor breakdown over coffee is a lot easier and a lot more preferable to dealing with the multiple issues at hand, namely that none of the other guardians are here, that thanos is apparently still a threat (surprise!), there's a gamora kill squad en route to ... gamora, and he's cursed. apparently. he's still not convinced by that latter point, but whatever. )

Same, but look, if it's really that serious you can look if there's a grocery store, they might have...something.

[It just feels like it's really that serious, poor guy.]

How about I keep an eye out for it, and let you know if I find anything?

What's your name, so I can track you down?

Edited 2022-08-22 19:04 (UTC)

"Something."

( punctuated by a delay, because it's really not that deep and he wasn't really expecting anyone to take it as seriously as all that. )

But man, this has really blown up into way more than I meant it to. It's not that serious, I'll drink shitty coffee if I have to but it just means that I'm going to complain about it.

You end up travelling around the ass-end of space in a ship that has 'storage' more than storage, you end up with compromises. Freeze-dried beans and powdered milk are not the worst things I've put into my body.

Thanks, though.

Peter Quill.

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