TEST DRIVE MEME: SECOND STAGE

[interdimanagers]

☆WELCOME TO INTERSTELLAR

And welcome to our second TDM! We've got two types of prompts to use this time around: the first takes place while your character is in the process of being captured, and the second is during their first brainwashed rockstar networking gig. The former is designed to be considered 100% game canon if you make it in officially, while the later is more speculative and will only work if you get lucky during label and band selection.

☆THE TALENT SEARCH

These prompts are design to be kept as game canon after acceptance, and can be used as the official story of how your character was captured. Importantly, the kidnappers entering your timeline causes massive time distortions, which means that the outcome of this scenario will stagger and replay itself multiple times before settling on an outcome. This means that after the fact, you character may remember being captured multiple ways, or going in more than one direction, before the timeline settled on a final path. Or at least, they'll remember this until their memories are wiped shortly afterwards, but that's okay! That's what memory regains are for. Read this page for more specifics on this situation. Any powers the characters have will be weakened and prone to malfunction to the point of uselessness.



►A1) THE SEARCH: It always starts out this way, doesn't it? At some point in your life, you were just doing your thing, wherever you call home. Then, all at once, it's like you've been torn from your dimension by the roots. Time and space displace, and it's like you've been shifted one layer of reality to the left - like some kind of subspace where you can see your reality through it, like a rainbow surrealist image of your home. Even if you can see this ghost image of where you were, you can't interact with it meaningfully. Any friends or family are somewhere else. As you begin to wander, without any other options, you'll find that the scenery gradually shifts to ghost images of other places, other worlds. If you wander long enough, you'll even find other people, lost just like you are. But you probably won't have much time - you've been brought here for a reason, after all.

►A2) THE HUNT: It could happen almost immediately, or it could happen hours later - but, at some point, your dimensional kidnappers start to do their sweep. Space Men in black body suits and gas masks pursue you on foot and in small spaceships, trying to sweep you and the other displaced up like fish in a net. Their guns contain a weird pink gas that will knock out most with only a single breath - and for those more enduring, they have the heavy artillery, like electrical nets and guns. The fallen will be sealed up into stasis pods for transport and loaded onto the ships, which seem like the only way to get out of this place by choice. This is where it ends, but are you going to put up a fight?

NOTE: Characters already in game can't really tag into these sections, so try to tag around to other first time character tests if you can!

☆WELCOME HOME

By default, these prompts aren't considered canon, but if after you are accepted and sorted they can be tweaked into working for you, it'll be totally okay to keep them as a part of your rockstar's personal history. This occurrence is something that will be happening around November 15th game time, but of course, what remains canon and what doesn't will be subject to who is accepted and where they are placed. This takes place after being kidnapped and brainwashed, as your character is first joining their new label. As usual, this is celebrated with a party.



►B1) PLAY IT STRAIGHT: It just another large scale soiree, something typical to the high music society of Vista City - but maybe it's not yet typical to you. For a number of the freshly signed on newbies, this is their first real taste of what their new label has to offer - either Virgo or Pride - and the sheer glamour of it may be intoxicating. Industry big wigs scatter the floor, as do performers of all the tops labels and bands. Maybe you feel intimidated. Maybe you want to make your mark. Or maybe you're not quite as new as some, and are just trying to get through the evening. Either way, they is plenty of booze available if you need some liquid courage. And is that a hookah pipe corner over there? Probably.

►B2) TOTALLY NORMAL: The signs of it are small, at first. Glasses you set down seeming out of place, stuff that almost looks like words written in the condensation on your glass. These little hauntings only get more and more persistent as the night continues, almost like some otherworldly presence is following you. You can feel them lurking nearby at times, like an unusual spot of cold or warmth in the air. None of the higher ups seem to notice but...to some of your new peers, this feels like old news. Eventually the signs become bolder, and at some point in the evening you'll hear it whispered in your ear or written on the bathroom mirror: "Remember."

►B3) REMEMBER: And you do. It strikes you suddenly, a feeling like a foreign presence straying through your mind. You remember something of your past, pertaining to the emotional affinity Love, Duty, Passion, or Hope - whichever feeling describes the person you used to be best. Except you know nothing of that life now, nothing except this single, strange thought in a room full strangers.

NOTE: Current characters definitely go to this party on November 15th, but it isn't required play. Besides the haunting and meeting new characters, it is considered business as usual.

☆HELPFUL INFO

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► Reserves open on November 6th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on November 11th at 12:01AM EDT

Comments

A-1 And apologies for the rusty muse

[dame_tsuna]

[As it turns out, she walks right into the back of another unfortunate victim of this strangeness. Not that this is unusual. Tsuna is always an unfortunate victim of some strangeness or another. You'd think he'd be used to it by now and take everything in stride.]

HIIIIE!!!

[Nope. He squeals and stumbles away from her in a brief panic which ends with him tripping and falling on his butt. Good job Tsuna. Way to make a good first impression.]

not at all i am rusty too

[lowres]

[Well this is familiar to her! She smiles at him warmly in her Mary Sue way, and offers him out a hand when he falls.]

You do not need to be afraid! I am a human, as well.

[dame_tsuna]

[Tripping all over himself in front of cute girls is equally familiar territory to Tsuna. But he gratefully accepts the hand up.]

Th-thanks.

[He does wonder why she feels like she needs to reassure him that she's human. That's... worrisome.]

Um... you don't know where we are, do you?

[Somewhere in the middle that sentence morphs from a question to a statement. Of course she doesn't. That would be way luckier than he ever is.]

[lowres]

I am afraid I do not. I was searching for someone who might be able to tell me that, actually.

My name is Nia. What's yours?

[dame_tsuna]

I'm Tsuna.

[It figures that he's in yet another crazy situation with no idea what's going on. Still... somewhere in the back of his mind Tsuna had been wondering if maybe Reborn was behind this nonsense.

Now he doesn't think so. Reborn had no problem throwing Tsuna to the wolves, but is usually careful when it comes to non-combatants like Kyoko or Haru. Nia strikes him as that sort of type. So... if this wasn't Reborn's fault..... then the situation is a lot worse than he thought. To his credit, he's trying very hard to keep the rising panic from showing on his face. No sense in scaring her, after all.

He's not really succeeding but it's the thought that counts.]

Um, Nia? Since we're both lost, m-maybe we should stick together for now...

[lowres]

That is a fantastic idea. That way we can find our way back to where we belong together.

Might I ask where you are from? You do not dress like the others...

[dame_tsuna]

Namimori...

[The answer is automatic. He 'doesn't dress like the others?' Well that has unpleasant connotations to it...]

Um, what 'others?'

[Her outfit looks like some kind of cosplay, but if that's normal for her....]

[lowres]

The other humans I have met on the outside. Simon and Yoko and Kittan and everyone else! If you are from another climate, though, that would make sense. Rossiu dresses a little differently, as well...

[dame_tsuna]

Um, well... this is pretty normal where I'm from...

[The other humans she met on the outside? Outside of what? Who has she been talking to that isn't human? Tsuna isn't really sure which of those is the more concerning question.

What he is sure of is that he doesn't want to know. Let's assume she knows a lot of foreigners and just change the subject. Preferably before his sneaking suspicion about her being from some other world entirely is confirmed. They have more important things to worry about anyway. He selects a direction quickly and points.]

Maybe we should try over that way? We could use that hill to get a better veiw of the area...