interstellar404 | 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.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Well, to be fair, it is a pretty nice outfit. Long military-styled leather coat with some metal adornments and two rows of buttons. The person in it doesn't seem particularly nice, though. In fact, if he feels that gaze lingering on him too long (so for more than three seconds), he'll be turning toward the guy to glare at him. ]

What are you looking at?

[well, the gaze does linger, but when it results in the aggression - it lowers to his glass. Shen makes a neutral shrug, hoping that the other will lose interest if he doesn't say anything and just takes a sip of his drink, trying to seem as harmless as possible.

that's all he needs, to become a target, really...]

[ How cute. A shy one. Now, a mature person would probably shrug and leave it be, but Squalo isn't really known for being a rolemodel adult. Rather, he finds bullying entertaining and someone obviously trying to avoid conflict looks like the perfect target. ]

[ He's not going to move from his spot at the bar, not just yet, but now he's openly staring at the other, an unfriendly grin spreading on his face. ]

Heeey, I'm talking to you. Didn't your mom teach you manners?

[wonderful. this is starting to feel like school - thank goodness there's no lockers nearby. Shen can feel the other's gaze on him, and he rubs his finger along the top of his glass as he considers. from experience, he knows that some peolpe will just keep going until they get a response...or bored. and he really, really doesn't want to wait out the latter, so...]

...You have a nice jacket.

[flattery's a thing, right? complete with as flat a tone as he can muster.]

[ Flattery is definitely a thing. Especially for this guy. He actually seems to back off somewhat -- he had shifted to the edge of his seat as if he was ready to pounce on some unfortunate prey, but now he leans back slightly again, even slouching against the bar a little, his expression turning smug. ]

I know. Heh, at least you've got some taste.

[Shen doesn't smile. he's still a bit wary; this could turn sour at any moment. but at least the flattery worked; clearly, he should continue]

...a little. What brand is it?

[ Of course it would. That's what makes life fun, right? ]

Florenzio. [ Probably a reasonably famous but not the most expensive brand hailing from the part of Europa where Italy used to be. Squalo doesn't like splurging on clothes, but he does appreciate homeland quality. ] If that tells you anything.

[by the way Shen perks up, it seems to. but he seems more confused than anything else.] I thought they were having problems with their manufacturing? [implied; why would you wear someone's clothing if they're in legal trouble]

[ Child labor accusations or something? Squalo just shrugs impassively and throws back a drink. ]

That's their problem, not mine.

[ isn't he a charmer ]

[something like that, he just remembers hearing them in the news. he doesn't watch too much, but occasionally things catch his interest. apparently, it's not the same way for this other guy, which isn't surprising, but...

Shen makes a small sound - something like 'mnm' - shaking his head and looking back out over the floor. he's so not getting involved in that tabloid, when it eventually happens.]

[ Hey, any publicity is bad publicity. Especially when half of your commercial appeal hangs on you being the scum of humanity. It's actually a little dangerous to go onstage sometimes. Never know when someone feeling righteous might bring a gun to a concert. ]

[ But he's lost interest in the trashy guy now, so if he doesn't say anything else he'll just be turning away and focusing on the drinks again. ]

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