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

[agains]

[ Keith's face falls as his peace-offering hand is rejected, but he shakes it off quickly enough. It's not the time to dwell on someone's rude behavior, it's an important confrontation that could cost them their lives. ]

Oh! You have a coach? That's very impressive! [ And maybe Keith is feeling it a little, from being knocked into a walking piece of metal. ] As is your suit. Your movements don't seem impeded at all by its bulk!

[ you idiot you're supposed to be dodging the men in black, not talking about this guy like he's a new recruit (even though that's obviously the case) ]

[wounds]

[Sorry he's a rude teen to anybody that isn't Saitama. No he's not.]

It's not a suit. [It's his actual body, this is what he gets for becoming a cyborg.

Part of him is thinking Saitama is much, much more impressive than he is. But the other part is trying to scan for danger.]

[agains]

Your abilities allow you to turn your own body into weaponry? That truly is impressive!

[ the facts



his head

does it even matter that they're fighting anymore?? ]

[wounds]

[Isn't it obvious he's not entirely human? His sclera are black and his irises are gold.

Genos is constantly on edge, scanning the skies for the Space Men.]

I'm a cyborg. Pay attention, we're in danger.

[agains]

[ No, no; Keith fell in love with a cyborg (android, same difference) and Genos looks nothing like that. Okay, that's a bit of a surprise. He's fought cyborgs and it's a relief to know this one is on his side.

It looks like they're safe for now. For now. One of Genos' missiles took out at least one spaceship and Keith's scattered some of their weaponry far enough that it'll take them a minute or two to recover.

Isn't it fun to have the false hope that you'll win? ]

You aren't a NEXT? [ His apologies are drowned out by another missile

because apparently long-range missiles are fair game now and nobody is allowed to have any fun, ever ]

[wounds]

[Not all cyborgs are mad cyborgs. Stop cyborg discrimination.

He stumbles backwards at the missile being aimed at them. He can fight, but there's only so much he can do when their opponents are staying that far away.]

What? I told you, I'm a cyborg.

[He aims another blast, at the next missile coming towards them. Sometimes he wishes he had Saitama's strength, he'd definitely be able to get out of something like this with no problems.

But he's not here, and Genos has to deal with what he's got.]

cries a little

[agains]

[ Let's get C3PO in here to negotiate some human-cyborg relations, it'll be a party.

Sadly, when you get down to it, android and cyborg are hard enough for people to keep track of when they aren't as simple as Sky High. He never learned who Cis truly was; H-01's creator expressed the superiority of machines over NEXT; it all might as well mean the same thing. ]

So you're a robot! It's a pleasure to meet you! You're very well-designed!

[wounds]

I'm not a robot.

[He's not a robot either. Sure, he's like 95% artificial but that 5% is still human. He'd argue it if he wasn't so concerned about being captured and... experimented on? Hell if he knows, he's never been in this situation before.]

[agains]

[ Whooops brainfart he's actually smart enough to know androids on sight but shhh, it's still very easy to conflate androids vs. cyborgs

He must make amends once they're safe from danger, it was very rude to assume this person was created rather than modified.

He finds it in him to summon the last of his power -- to drop the air-fishbowl and blow them both back away from their pursuers, just long enough to have a bit more of a conversation and make One Last Stand. ]

Please accept my apologies. I hope you don't mind continuing to fight side-by-side.

[wounds]

I can't be picky now.

[Even if honestly he would much, much rather have Saitama around. This is a stranger, and though they've been fighting together, they've been backed into a corner. His blasts aren't doing enough and this person seems to be running out of power.]

literally just this face. unless you want a capture ending finalized?

[agains]