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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042015-11-01 08:30 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME: SECOND STAGE

☆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.

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nandemonai: (together with you)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-06 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[again, the scene unfolding in front of Maki is just unbelievable. she wonders, at this point, if she is dreaming all this up, from the snowstorm right up to the student fighting off the men in black.

and then Mako calls her pretty, and Maki's cheeks turn a bright shade of pink. receiving compliments is hard, even in the most dire of situations. she quickly shakes her head, willing the blush to go away]


That... That doesn't make any sense! I don't get you! [was that really the issue here? who cares if she makes sense or not? right now, wasn't running away the most important thing?]
nandemonai: (i want to feel them)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-06 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[the name rings a bell! Maki extends her hand out to shake, equally as dainty. but she also notices the arms, and the dress doesn't seem to fit Kerra. she doesn't know why she thinks that]

It's nice to put a face to the name. [when she pulls her hand back, she uses it to finally remove the sunglasses, revealing her sharp, lavender eyes] I'm Maki Nishikino.

[maybe the name is just as familiar. Maki is the lead singer of a new pop group. though when she is onstage, she is a lot more lively than she is now. currently, at this party, she's reserved, but not timid. just minding her own business, not trying to cause a big scene]
lowres: (Upset ✣ If this endless road)

[personal profile] lowres 2015-11-06 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
But why are they attacking?
trn451: (love)

[personal profile] trn451 2015-11-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. [Peni twists sideways to avoid an electric net, then calmly snatches the offending launcher and snaps it in half.] I got sucked into an alternate dimension where I had to run away from a bunch of guys trying to eat me, and when we finally all beat them and got to leave, I showed up here instead. Then those guys showed up and started shooting, and they won't tell me why even when I beat down entire squads.
losingherhead: (Aliens are nervewracking)

[personal profile] losingherhead 2015-11-06 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Well. Shoot.

She keeps up the defensive posture, glancing behind her at the pursuers. They have a small lead buuuut...

She turns back to this robo guy and offers a hand to help him up.
]
erranthero: (Calculating/Roguish)

[personal profile] erranthero 2015-11-06 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[In truth, it probably doesn't fit Kerra very well. She looks more like someone who should be leading the charge in a military operation, or fighting fires or some other occupation where that muscle might be more useful. Still, she's made quite a splash on the music scene, and seems content with that. Maybe she just takes pride in her appearance? Or maybe she's a swimmer? Regardless of any of that, the name does ring a bell.

Kerra's eyes flash with that recognition and she meets Maki's lavender gaze with her own hazel. The drink in her hand rises to her lips and she cocks her head to one side before taking a sip. A roguish grin spreads across her face as she answers.]


A pleasure, Miss Nishikino. Or may I call you Maki? Because you're more than welcome to call me Kerra. One lead to another, and all that.
hanginginthere: (when at last the work is done)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2015-11-06 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[...well, now that she's not waving a scythe at him, she seems nice enough, whatever species she is. not a Transformer, that's for sure, but he'll take that hand, the audials of his helm twitching as he catches sight of the masked men behind her.

he looks back at her, alarmed.]


They're still coming-! We need to find somewhere safe...!

[but with everything so strange, where is that?]
punchesyu: (HEEEEEYYYY RISSSEEEETTTEE NOTICE MEEEEEE)

joining the B1 train

[personal profile] punchesyu 2015-11-06 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Even in this universe, Youske is a giant fan of hers. Biggest fan? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, he saw her here and he has to come say hello. Has to introduce himself.

Has to fanboy.]


Hoooooooooooooly crap!!!! It's her! It's really Kanamin!!!!!! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, Kaaaaaanamiiiiiiiiiiin!!!!!!

[He waves his hands frantically, the member of the boy band Flashstep acting like an idiot in front of all these people.]
nandemonai: (la la la lovelive)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-06 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Maki tucks her sunglasses into the top of her dress so they hang there, ready to be grabbed if she needs to put them on again. she eyes the drink Kerra has curiously, wondering why it fizzes the way it does. was it some new kind of soda? then her gaze is back on the other woman again.

first names already? that was quite bold. or maybe that was the way it was done in the world of musicians. she thinks about it for a moment before nodding her head once]


I guess that's a fair trade. Maki's fine for now.
erranthero: (Aggressive/Ardent)

[personal profile] erranthero 2015-11-06 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[In no universe ever is Kerra not bold. It wouldn't matter where she was, or what she was doing, audacity was a central trait...even if she could hide it. Her attention never wavered, and Maki's interest in the drink was not unnoticed. Inwardly, the scoundrel grins like a caught that caught the canary and she makes any reaction with another sip.]

Heard your new single. Catchy.

[Turning, Kerra made a point of letting her eyes linger on the cutie and gesturing with her drink towards a couple of couches that'd been set up around a table. It was empty, save for that hookah and a bead-curtain that obscured it from all but the most attentive eyes.]

You wanna sit and have a drink? I'm curious about your work, if you're willing to chat.
meatyidol: (★ 002)

[personal profile] meatyidol 2015-11-06 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whoa, Shen Bai was actually engaging her in conversation? And he seemed happy about it? Pinch her, she must be dreaming!

...Wait, was that a short joke? Haha, that was funny. ]


Whaaaat? You? No way! I'm sure you do just fine at these party things!

[ She bumps her shoulder a bit against his, giggling a bit more. Wow, she's super chummy right now. Obviously all she needed was a bit of a drink. ]
meatyidol: (★ 002)

[personal profile] meatyidol 2015-11-06 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Really? They get better than this? That's amazing!

[ Color her totally shocked! Man, she needs to get out more often! This is great! Everything is great! Yes! ]
meatyidol: (★ 002)

choo choo~

[personal profile] meatyidol 2015-11-06 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ohmygosh it's Yosuke Hanamura! He isn't the cutest member of Flashstep, but even still!

Wait, is he freaking out over her?! Whoa! Okay, Kanami, be cool. You can totally handle this! She gives him a cute wave and a bit of a wink before walking toward him. ]


I didn't know you would be here too! Wow, I'm totally starstruck!
nandemonai: (i want to feel them)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-06 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[it's Maki's turn to smirk inwardly. of course her single was catchy. she wouldn't have recorded it if she didn't believe in what she was singing about. ...she thinks. the princess was picky, and so her lyrics were usually chosen by the most discerning eyes.

and what could Kerra be curious about? her thought-process? her training? maybe she was a rival and wanted to learn all of Maki's secrets. Maki was wise to her games, though. she would be on guard the entire time]


That sounds lovely. [she adjusts the collar of her jacket before turning and heading over to the couch. she's young, maybe 15 or 16, but she continues to move with confidence, sophisticated. on her way over, she plucks a tall glass from a waiter's tray. it's just soda for now. Maki pushes aside the curtain when she gets there, for Kerra, and then lets it fall once both girls have passed it] I wonder why no one's sitting over here. It's, like, the best spot.
erranthero: (Sarcastic/Flippant)

[personal profile] erranthero 2015-11-06 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kerra’s steps are confident as well, though a different sort. She carries herself with the effortless, lazy grace of a predator, strong and open motions that speak of athleticism and physical power. She wasn’t stalking someone this time, but the image wouldn’t have seemed out of place with her stride, though Kerra seems utterly unaware of it. It’s almost like that bravado is reflexive, a bone-deep part of her that fit right in with her elegant gown and manner of speech.

Kerra’s eyebrow arches ever so slightly as Maki takes a soda, of all things. That’s going to have to change a bit, she thinks to herself, fully intending to be the agent of that change, but all in time. Once the curtain drops, she takes a seat on a couch and pats the cushion beside her. Come sit, kitten. Ms. Westen won’t bite. Much. Unless you like that sort of thing.]


I’ve got no idea. Maybe they’re all too busy bickering with one another or hobnobbing with the execs. [Kerra Westen stayed out of workplace politics. She was here for the applause, and the fun.]

Either way, good for us, eh? Less chance of someone pestering us.
hanginginthere: (for long you live and high you fly)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2015-11-06 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[this is what happens when you give the poor kid unrestricted access to alcohol. all those worries about how to talk to people- well, they don't matter anymore.

maybe they should. he makes a rather undignified snort-giggle, kind of half-shoving her back]


I'm not good at acting stupid!

[Shen, pls.]
hanginginthere: (and tears you'll cry)

B3?

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2015-11-06 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[when Steward leaves the restroom, she'll find that she's not the only one who visited. which in itself isn't weird, but the youth sitting just outside the men's and still wiping his face - well, maybe that's a bit more strange. or not; certainly he wouldn't be the first potential to have overindulged or even burst in to tears, but Shen seems even more shaky than a combination of those two might have been expected to create. he's casting wary glances towards the rest of the party, still very much reluctant to rejoin the crowd.

maybe he should just go back in and hide...]
dishevelment: (loose -- state of affairs)

[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, you should see the antics that the Carnies get up to when they have free reign.

[He gave a half shrug; Junkyard Carnival's reputation was no secret both on the streets and within Pride HQ. They were the bad kids on the block, so to speak, and nothing they threw could be topped.]

...Let's get you somewhere comfortable, Miss, [Koumei added, holding out a hand for the girl to hold on to if she chose. She seemed rather unsteady...]
losingherhead: (Headhunting)

[personal profile] losingherhead 2015-11-06 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[There has to be some kind of shelter or defense against these monsters. Anything. She looks around at their surroundings (which we'll assume is some kind of deserted plains) and spots a series of hills that seem to lead to a mountain range. There's gotta be a cave or something up there, right?

She gestures to the spot, already starting to move in the direction away from the aliens.
]
losingherhead: (Default)

[personal profile] losingherhead 2015-11-06 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wasn't planning on even bothering this evening, but Kido's a good conversationalist and this is something she didn't prepare cards for. She pulls out her phone and starts typing.]

You've been to a couple of these things, right? How often would you say the juice gets spiked?
thelittlemerman: (smile//you seem boring)

[personal profile] thelittlemerman 2015-11-06 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He grins, but it clearly doesn't reach his eyes.]

I'm actually very good at it, when I'm not being threatened with the removal of my fingers.
hanginginthere: (long you live and long you fly)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2015-11-06 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[maybe- yes? Stampy looks from her to where she's pointing, trying to understand what she's 'saying']

You think we should go over there?

[he'll just be starting to jog to keep up...which isn't really difficult for a speedster like him.]

Um- my name's Stampy.
blindfoldcode: (until i grasp your hand)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2015-11-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Just about every time. It's most of the reason why I show up. [That and, well, she's required to.]
scalpedsociety: (surprise)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2015-11-06 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's common for a lady to leave the restroom wiping away a telltale white dust away from their noses. Such are high-class nightclubs in Vista City. Aramat's checking up on her eye makeup, done up to goth perfection but was comprised by the sudden tears.

She spots the nervy boy out the corner of her eyes. Did he hear things like me? But she chooses to leave him alone for now. She does try to watch the boy with fair hair though.]
losingherhead: (Don't need a brain to think about this)

[personal profile] losingherhead 2015-11-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Should I ask what it IS?

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