IC INTRO #1

[cursedmods]

IC INTRO #1

A Blood Offering

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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

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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

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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

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All the same guidelines from the TDM still apply. You can continue your TDM threads here or start new ones! And of course, you can start making your own prompts in the log or network communities at your leisure.

Our first event will be going up in about a week!

Please do not add character tags to any posts just yet, we'll add them to this post manually.

Comments

[funhinged]

Ooh, yes. The more of us who can compare notes, the better, right?

[ What could go wrong with putting together a group of obvious fish out of water to stare at the general public? Nothing, it's perfect. Source: Stede's opinion.

He gives her his full attention while she makes her breakaway, grinning ear-to-ear in shared excitement when she makes a solid go of it. ]

You're doing it! Oh, that's fantastic! If I wouldn't fall and get run over in the process, I'd be applauding!

[maritorious]

See? I'll have to ask about, see when everyone's from.

[She laughs, wincing as it pulls at the split in her lip. Doesn't matter: got praise from a dad figure.]

Thank you, thank you. You should try! It's not like walking at all, you have to put all your weight on one foot, then the other!

[funhinged]

[ The dire ramifications of giving someone joy only to cause them physical harm. It feels foreboding, somehow. No one wants to examine that on the roller rink.

Stede fishes a handkerchief out of his breast pocket and offers it to her, just in case it re-splits. ]

More of a scoot, would you say?

[maritorious]

Thank you. [she dabs at her lip, and slips the handkerchief in her pocket, wondering how long it would take to pick out the stitches. Old habits die hard.]

Ah, yes, just like that. A little scoot.

[And she scoots.]

C'mon, you can try. I'll help pick you up again if you fall.

[funhinged]

Oh, it'd be undignified to make a lady do that, wouldn't it? Better if I just don't fall.

[ Nothing Stede's done since he got to this town has indicated he cares about dignity, but go off.

A little scoot. That makes much more sense than just sort of watching and trying to parse and hearing people say stuff like "glide." He's done zero gliding. That's for certain. But, well, no pain no gain.

He lets go and valiantly manages... a scoot. ]

Wow, that is better than just trying to walk them!

[maritorious]

I've no dignity to protect, and I'm hardly a lady, [she tells him, before her eyes fly open wide. Weird. Very. Weird. She didn't mean to say that, not in the least. Oh god.

Still.] I'm sorry- I don't know why I said that.

[She forces a laugh, watching him scoot along.] See! You're getting it!