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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.Roller Rink
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.
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.Mallrats
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.
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.Extra Info
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.
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.
Sam Winchester | Supernatural |
Sam struggled to wake up as his grief still seems to weigh him down reminding him that he is now the last living member of his family. As such he doesn't see anything wrong with the room at first. It looks like any number of hotels he's stayed in over the years. But then he gets up and reads the note. Rather than upsetting him, Sam simply sighs and sits back down on the bed looking over at the person next to him. "I can do it," he says sounding tired, "it wouldn't be the first time."
Roller Rink
Sam had been to a roller rink once or twice in his life, so they aren't unfamiliar to him. It had been mostly for cases and not for skating, so it took the tall hunter a few laps to get the hang of the whole idea. He may of used his Curse at lease once to push himself upright though he's uncomfortable with doing so. Still he finds the motion soothing and when he gets his Walkman with the mystery tape and hears the familiar notes of Kansas begin he loses himself for a little while in the motion and the music.
Mallrats
Sam found himself clocking all the entrances and exits as soon as he entered the mall. It was a force of habit that he couldn't seem to break himself of. There was something odd about this whole situation and it was making his hunter instincts scream at him. He walked along glancing at the shop windows from time to time trying to see with anyone was following him.
He made his way to the food court planning on using part of his gift card on some lunch before trying to figure out what to do next. He feels weirdly out of his element here and it shows as he glances around trying to see what everyone else is up to.
Arrival!
But it's awfully difficult to be productive when trapped in a tiny room like this.
As soon as Sam finishes with the letter and speaks, Alec regards him like he's seeing him for the first time. He isn't, obviously, but he'd been a little busy freaking out internally there. "You think that's a good idea?" As a rule, Alec tries not to mess with any magic that isn't Nephilim magic. Better to hire someone who knows what they're doing, and not go smearing anybody's blood all over unfamiliar wards or spells, if he can help it. Especially if they're able to render all of Alec's Enochian runes totally useless: he's never encountered anything like it and it makes him a touch nervous. "Wait, do you know what kind of spell this is?" Since it wouldn't be his first time, he'd said.
Re: Arrival!
Sam considers the question with the weight it deserves. It's clear the other man has been around magic too, so he's not going to have to sugar coat anything. "It seems like a simple locking spell that uses blood as a base...that's not a typical use of magic where I'm from but it isn't unknown. I don't think it will take much to unlock the door...but that note wasn't clear as to how much we need to give up."
He frowns. It's like this place is playing games with its residents already and he doesn't like it one bit. If he hadn't watched Chuck being destroyed he'd say it was him pulling the strings here. "Someone is trying to put us at each other's throats and I don't like people who play games with people's lives." He'd lost enough and he wasn't about to just walk over someone else because he wants to get out of here.
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"Are you a warlock?" He's not against Sam's willingness to get them out, obviously, he's just a highly suspicious person at the best of times, and this is not a particularly good time. Weird dream and mysterious location aside, he really does not like feeling powerless. "I'm not interested in fighting anyone unless I have to," he tacks on, because he knows that most people who are familiar with magic aren't all that likely to trust a Shadowhunter not to be at their throat, and he's really making an effort not to be like the worst of his kind these days.