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

[Wanda wouldn't consider herself graceless, but she's clumsier without her powers. Slower, she thinks, even if it's not so. Still, she's out here on skates, attempting to keep herself upright with one hand on the side of the rink until a body collides with her and she tries to not go down. This might mean a comically slow fall, between her trying to hold onto the railing and maybe holding onto the person at fault for this.]

Watch out.

[No harm, no foul, but Wanda's not exactly in a great mood.]

❰ think a combo of both — robin, weak at the knees, initially grasps onto wanda for dear life, survival instincts kicking in. since they're close enough to the wall, however, one struggling hand grabs onto the rail as she almost jams her finger from force. ❱

Sorry, sorry. I— ❰ robin quickly swaps the hand grasping onto wanda for clamping back onto the railing, legs rolling back and forth beneath her until she gains her balance — somewhat. ❱ It's not so much a 'watching' issue as it is...well, Bambi probably has more coordination than I do. Leg wise. ❰ which is evident by how hard it is for her to just stand up now, body full of nerves and inertia. ❱ I didn't think I would be this bad at this.

[Between the two of them they seem to manage to escape anyone eating the floor, and Wanda regains enough of her balance to help make sure Robin can remain upright, wobbily as it is. She keeps a hand out ready to grab her just in case.]

First time? Never would have guessed.

[There's not too much bite to the words, and they're further softened when Wanda looks her over.]

Are you okay?

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

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