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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Comments

[worthlesspride]

Of course I'm addressing you by that name. Who else would I call Wolfie, Wolfie?

[He gives Wolfram a smile as sweet as poisoned honey.]

That doesn't sound like me at all, now does it? Though you should feel grateful I am gracing you with my presence. I am, after all, the most interesting man here.

[Nope he came over here to tease Wolfram because it was fun, duh. Keep up Wolfie]

[incensus]

Hell if I know. Sounds like the name of a stuffed animal to me.

[His voice remains laced with disinterest, and that smile is met with a look of... well, rather casual judgment. Casual for Wolfram, anyway.]

I don't really care what "sounds like you" or doesn't. Believe it or not, I don't spend my spare moments pondering over what you're like.

[He tosses his head slightly to push the bangs from his eyes, then idly begins adjusting the frills of his sleeves.] ...only if your definition of "interesting" is synonymous with "dull."

[worthlesspride]

You wound me!

[Tooru puts a hand over his heart in mock pain, there is, however, a slight twitch in his jaw. He doesn't like being called dull. Obviously, he's anything but]

But, when you put it like that, Wolfie is the prefect nickname for you! You're cute as a button and utterly harmless.

[incensus]

[And as easy as it was for Wolfram to at least find a weak spot (though he hasn't noticed it yet), it's apparently just as easy for Tooru to find one of his. Wolfram's gaze snaps to him quickly, and there's a lot more anger there than there was before. One of his nicely manicured hands has curled into a fist at his side.]

Harmless! Oh, if this bottle of wine didn't mean far more to me than your worthless self... [He doesn't finish the threat, but doesn't feel like he needs to either. It's heavy and made of glass. It would make an excellent weapon were Wolfram actually inclined to part with it. And he isn't, yet.]

[worthlesspride]

[A roll of the eyes and grin] Please, Wolfie. You talk big, but the worst you would do is slap me across the face. Maybe claw me across the face.

[A waiter walks by and Tooru plucks a champagne flute and sips at it delicately, looking over rim at Wolfram, eyes dangerous now. He's taking in everything about the other musician. That's what he does, observe, and then destroy with the weaknesses he finds. Really, he should be lawyer, except being a musician is so much more enjoyable. When he speaks though, his tone is still light] And you'd end up regretting that very, very, quickly.

[He lowers the glass, feigning thoughtfulness] What instrument do you play again? I can't recall.

[incensus]

I'm not sure how you think you know this about me, are you judging me by my appearance? I knew you were dumb, but I didn't think you were that dumb!

[He's seething. And trying not to appear as mad as he actually is. But throwing something at Tooru is very sorely tempting right now. However, he straightens out with this next question, seeming disinterested again.]

Why should I tell you? If you're that damn forgetful, I don't think you deserve to know anything about me. Go ahead, keep calling me that ridiculous, childish name. I wouldn't want to hear my real name coming from the likes of you anyway.

[At this point, he casts his eyes away from Tooru, like he can't stand to look at him anymore, and moves to walk past him to find a place where he can drink in peace.]

[worthlesspride]

[Tooru is obviously enjoying himself. Yeah, this is a win for him. He knows his risking more than a slap, but it's just so much fun to rile the boy up.]

Hmm, I wouldn't say that I forgot, Wolfie. More like I couldn't be bothered to remember. Anyways, time and place. Would you really risk your career by throwing shit that could hit a CEO? You're smarter than that. Or maybe not.

[he steps aside, as if allowing Wolfram to leave]

Bye bye Wolfram [of course now is the time Tooru chooses to use his name. Don't tell Tooru Oikawa what to do. ]

[incensus]

[Stopping mid-stride, Wolfram stands still to give Tooru a look of increasing suspicion. He's not a fool, and he doesn't trust him enough to walk that closely to him. Turning on his heel, he heads the complete opposite direction, and throws the other musician a few angry parting words over his shoulder before heading into the crowd.]

From now on, make sure you can't be bothered to remember my name then, either, as I've already forgotten yours!

[worthlesspride]

[Oh, those are fighting words. But he calls out cheerfully]

That's a lie and you know it~ There's no way you could ever forget me~