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

[ This whole experience has been...just completely overwhelming, to be honest. Completely and utterly baffling, like one long extended nightmare or a bad drug trip.

She's assuming. Chrissy never got the chance to do any drugs, after all.

But when she was offered a pair of rollerskates, when she was told that the prize would be a Walkman with cassette, she couldn't help but grin. It feels like it's been a hundred years since she got to listen to any music — since Eddie drove her to his trailer and nearly leapt out of his skin when his radio blared to life with a scream of guitar, fumbling in his efforts to turn it down so as not to startle her — and maybe she doesn't know what the cassette would be, but she knows she's going to win one.

Hawkins doesn't have a roller rink, but the next down over does, and Chrissy grew up on a cul-de-sac that was quiet enough that she could skate around and around on the street and not worry about getting run over. She circles the rink in no time at all, collects her new pastel yellow Walkman, and then starts to skate around again, just for the fun of it all. It's been so long since she's done anything for fun.

It's hard to miss both the flailing and the heavy thump of a body hitting the floor, but Chrissy can't help the double-take she does when she finally puts together just who she watched wipe the fuck out. ]

Eddie? [ She immediately skates over, flow of traffic be damned, and skids to a stop in front of him. ] Eddie, it's you! [ Two hands are immediately thrust into his line of sight, her fingers wiggling at him until he lifts his hands and takes hers so she can help pull him to his feet. ]

[ He didn't hit his head on the way down, did he? Because he's heard that voice before - in person, not nearly enough as he would've liked to, and in his nightmares, far more often than he cares for.

Eddie looks up to see the smiling face of Chrissy Cunningham, and he can't help but laugh. The last time he'd seen her alive, she was levitating toward his ceiling, her limbs snapping, her eyes -- ]

Chrissy - holy shit, Chrissy, you're -- you're here!

[ He hesitates to say alive, because he's pretty sure neither of them are. How could they be, after what they went through? But she's here, and she's smiling, and she's not mutilated and contorted or anything. Her smile is infectious, too, and Eddie can't help beaming as he takes her hands and shakily rises to his feet. ]

Thank god. I thought I was gonna have to crawl the whole lap.

[ It's his first instinct to joke, but he can't just leave it at that, can he? ]

It's really good to see you again.

[ She's trying not to think about what it might mean that Eddie's here too. She woke up here after feeling her limbs snap like a pencil, after her jaw was ripped out of its socket, after she felt her eyes squish like grapes right in her skull. Agonizing, unbearable, searing pain completely consumed her from head to toe, and then...

Here she is, in a roller rink lit with neon lights and a disco ball, skates strapped to her feet, helping Eddie Munson clamber back up to standing.

Did Vecna get him too? ]

I can't believe it! [ Once he's more or less standing, she lets go of his hands so she can skate into him and wrap her arms around his middle with absolutely no hesitation, tucking herself up against his chest and squeezing far tighter than anyone looking at her might expect. ] I'm so glad you're here.

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