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

Oh, you know...these parties do tend to feel the same after awhile.

[That's a lot of liquor...She feels somewhat compelled to stay with his man. Perhaps he doesn't realize how much he's actually had.]

It does get same-y. Though some of them you just can't turn down.

[He seems perfectly fine, like he's done this far more than he should.]

Want a drink?

I suppose, but my heart simply isn't in it tonight. You could say...I don't want to be "party" to this, haha!

[There she goes again.]

Ahem...ah, just some tomato juice, if you're offering. Thank you.

[Man those horrible puns... They almost remind him of somebody, but that can't be right.]

Your choice. I'm not about to force a lady.

[But he will pass over a non-alcoholic tomato juice.]

[She accepts it with a gracious and refined nod, before holding out her other hand for him.]

Ah, you are too kind...my name is Toriel. It is a pleasure to meet you, Mr...?

[He takes it, his grip is still firm, even for being (supposedly) drunk.]

Genos. Just Genos is fine, if I can call you Toriel.

If you wish, you can call me Tori. I do not mind, Just Genos.

[Well, that's another corny one...but it would bother her less if he seemed more drunk. She glances at him askance, but it would be rude to pry.]

Please...Tell me about yourself.

Tori, cute name.

[He's done this too much, and he's built up too much of a tolerance.]

What's there to tell. I'm a guy who wanted to get into the music industry. And now I'm here, just like I should be.

You're too kind...And very lucky!

[If her smile looks a little strained, it's only because she knows what it's like to have a dream job and for her...this simply isn't it.]

There's nothing more wonderful than having a dream come true. You do seem as though you were perfectly cut out for this life.

[Best to keep to safe statements when she's feeling unbalanced like this.]

[And Genos doesn't even notice. Talk about a self-absorbed rock star.

He grins at the compliment.]

Damn right I was. There's nothing better than this.

[... That seems wrong, somehow...]

[She's used to the self absorbed, and focusing on him means she doesn't have to feel sad about her own situation.]

That must be a wonderful feeling...

[Or she could say that. Well, perhaps he won't even notice.]

[He frowns into his glass-

Remember-

He takes another drink. He's just hearing things, that has to be it. It's a crowded room.]

It is. Don't you love it?

I-

[DOES she love it? It wasn't her first choice, true, but she'd been grateful for the fact that she'd been able to start over but her children had been-

...Her children. Remember them...they'd be thrilled, right?]

Well...it isn't the worst second chance I could have found. I think my children would have found it more exciting then I do, honestly.

[A memory, only half there. His body being burnt by acid, melt-

No, he's always been this person. He's always wanted to be in this industry. It was a weird dream- a day dream? He could use it in an album...]

Do you get to see them enough?

TEST DRIVE MEME: SECOND STAGE

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There's a Genos-cide joke in here and I'll never get to use it so it goes here

Bless

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