cursedrp | IC INTRO #1

IC INTRO #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

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Thanks.

[ He offers a bit of a smile as he takes the clothes that Wren's helped pick up. Honestly, Steve knows he shouldn't have this much stuff picked out when he can really only get a couple things, but, well. He needs to try stuff on, right?

At the question, though, Steve huffs out an amused sort of laugh. ]

Yeah. With the whole blood and the door thing?

[ That is what people who Shop for Clothing as a regular enjoyable act usually do, yeah. Wren, who carries the banner of 'I'll wear my clothes until they fall apart just so I don't have to go shop for more' doesn't get it, but they don't get plenty of things they can respect as not to their tastes and move on from. Like country music, and whatever dark impulse insists people dip french fries in milkshakes. ]

Oh, yeah. Red cross is getting real aggressive with their blood drives these days.

[ ... It's an attempt at a joke. ]

[ It makes Steve snort. Not a great joke, no, but Steve can appreciate the effort. ]

Did you - [ He'd gesture, but his arms are full. ] My friend got punched in the face so that's how we got our blood to get out.

[ Wren gives Steve a mildly concerned look. ]

... Did you punch him?

[ Look, when Wren woke up there was only one other person in the room with them, and from what they've heard from others that seemed to be the status quo. Unless Steve's friend had gotten punched before he arrived and it was still bleeding from that... ]

What? No!

[ And honestly he looks offended that someone would even ask, but then he realizes that they obviously think it was just Steve and his friend in the room. ]

No, this asshole we went to school with was there, too.

Huh. That's interesting. I've only heard of people showing up with two in their room. I wonder if that's significant in some way or if there were just an odd number of people. It would be worth looking into, to see if there's anything... uh. Sorry.

[ They realize they're nerding out and put some breaks on that. Right. There was a question Steve had asked. ]

Yeah though, I just found something sharp and cut myself.

[ They hold out their hand to show a bandage on the back of it. The healing at least is coming along nicely. ]

[ Honestly, Steve hadn't really thought about it. He just figured it made sense that he'd show up with those two people as opposed to anyone else, and no part of him wanted to look into anything about it.

So he just nods, particularly when they show him the bandage. ]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was gonna do before he decided to throw his fists around. Either way, not a great welcome to this place.

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