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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.

☆HELPFUL INFO
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bestbancho: (concentrating....)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)


Ah!

[...And Mako let's herself be dragged along without question.]

--Hey, Miss Red? [She just made up a nickname-- it was easier that way---] You haven't seen any other girls around, have you? I'm looking for my friends, but all these weirdos keep getting in the way!
nandemonai: (la la la lovelive)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-07 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maki keeps a firm grip on the other girl. she... probably doesn't need to, in all honesty, because Mako seemed to be strong. she didn't look it, at all. she just appeared to be a normal high school student. but there was nothing normal about those punches she was pulling.

...there was nothing normal about any of this.

when Mako speaks, Maki watches her out of the corner of her eyes before looking out in front of her. the scenery was doing weird things again]


I'm looking for my friends, too. They got lost in the middle of everything. The only other person I've seen around here is you.
bestbancho: (concentrating....)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-08 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)


[Half of her strength was her own spunk; the other half was the power of her two star uniform and her love for her friends.]

Then we're both stuck, [Mako said, undeterred by any strangeness that happened around them.] We oughta go look for the guys responsible-- it's not right to take a couple of girls who just wanna wear pretty clothes away from their friends!
nandemonai: (Default)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-09 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
The guys responsible? [Maki bites her lip. it sounds like a good idea, sure. find whoever was doing this and get them to stop. but...] What would we do if we found them?

[Maki is... just a girl. she doesn't have a powered-up uniform, or even a weapon!]
bestbancho: (srs mako is srs)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
We make them send us back, of course!

[And thus Mako crossed her arms, stubborn on that one singular point. Surely, anyone who had brought them to this weird place could send them back-- and Mako knew she could convince them to do it right away!]
nandemonai: (our never ending stage)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-12 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Make them? [still running, Maki dodges when more canisters of gas are sprayed at them. those scary men are getting closer!] We'd need, like, a whole army!
bestbancho: (srs mako is srs)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Mako just leaped over said canisters running as if she didn't even have a care in the world.]

Nope! We can do it-- I'm sure of it!!
nandemonai: (together with you)

1/2

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-13 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[exactly what is this girl? she's incredible! Maki wonders if she should pinch herself to see if all of this is real]

There's no way... [but she trails off. she was already sounding as though she'd been defeated. she can't help but think if Honoka was here, she'd be saying the same things as this stranger. and Maki had done some pretty incredible things with Honoka taking charge]
nandemonai: (within those wishes)

2/2

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-13 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[she shakes her head to clear it]

What I mean is... How do we go about finding who is in charge?
bestbancho: (OBJECTION!!)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-13 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
We beat them all up until we get to the top, of course!!

[Duh. It's really not hard to imagine!]
nandemonai: (i want to see lots)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-13 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[..........of course. why hadn't Maki expected an answer like that?]

...Okay, fine. [she starts slowing down, looking for something she can use as a weapon. as unsure as she was, Maki was going to give it her all, fight with what she can. for the sake of µ's!] I guess we should start now.
bestbancho: (giddy)

[personal profile] bestbancho 2015-11-14 12:28 am (UTC)(link)


[Grinning, Mako pulled a giant, nail studded baseball bat out from somewhere in the folds of her oversized bad girl trench and passed it off to Red.]

Take this-- it's dangerous to go without it.

[And thus, whipping a morningstar from somewhere in the Bad Girl Trench of Holding (tm), Mako stopped her mad dash with such force that she kicked up a cloud of dirt from underneath her steel plated geta.]

Okay! Let's do this MAKOOOOOOOO PUNCH!!!

[With a blow from her MAKO bedazzled free hand, she smashed her way into the fray-- all giddy shouts, flailing weaponry, and a feats of astonishing strenghth for someone who weighed the approximate equivilent of ten pugs.]
Edited 2015-11-14 00:32 (UTC)
nandemonai: (miracles and chances are)

[personal profile] nandemonai 2015-11-14 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Maki watches as the girl plows her way through some of those men again. she's... not sure she can do that she's not from that kind of anime. but at least she has a weapon now.

so, Maki takes a deep breath, closes her eyes for a moment, and then she's rushing in after Mako, yelling at the top of her lungs and slamming her bat against whatever is near her]