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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 SEARCHThese 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 HOMEBy 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► Follow the mod plurk for updates:interstellar5555
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Bolin | Avatar: The Legend of Korra
[ He feels like he's been wandering for ages, no way of telling just how long it's been since he somehow ended up in this weird place. The air ship is nowhere in sight and neither is anyone else in team avatar. And worst of all, he's lost Pabu. ]
Pabu? Buddy? [ He looks around again, cupping his hands around his mouth as he calls out a few more names. ] Mako? Korra? Where are you guys?
Where the heck am I?
[ Is that...? Oh, it is! Another person! Bolin waves his arms at the other figure who's joined him in the weird rainbow wasteland. ]
Oh, hey! Do you know how to get back to the Earth Kingdom? I got pretty turned around there and now I'm lost. Plus I lost my friends.
[ A2 ]
[ When the kidnappers come, Bolin reacts on instinct. Being part of Team Avatar has gotten him used to that sort of thing. His technique is to throw chunks of ground at the kidnappers and then run like heck. The most unsettling thing is that his earth bending is starting to get kind of... wonky and not work some of the time.
At some point he spots another in the same situation, hurrying to back them up with some well timed earth bending. ]
Are you alright? We need to get outta here before more of those creeps show up!
[ B1 ]
[ If there's one thing Bolin is good it's schmoozing with the fancy looking folks. Or at least he'd like to think he's good at it. He's wearing a slick new suit and his best smile. He fought long and hard to get here and he's not going back to being some nobody so easily.
For the moment he's wandering the room, just getting a feeling for who's who, carrying a champagne flute. He turns enough to check out some gorgeous thing across the room and- crashes right into someone, spilling his drink down the front of his suit. ]
Are you kidding me? This suit is brand new!
[ B3 ]
[ The feeling of something being wrong has been lingering for a while now. More than once he's looking over his shoulder expecting to see someone he can't remember. He drifts off from the crowd a bit to look out the window and this time when he turns there's a name on his lips. ]
Mako you've got to-
[ And then the thought is gone, just a quick flash of someone who felt painfully familiar. A tall guy with a red scarf. Someone he didn't know but at the same time he did. ]
...Maybe I should lay off the bubbles.
B3
Hey, Bolin! [She hands out a flute of the stuff to Bolin. There's a faint but noticeable pink tinge to the drink.] You gotta try this, it's great!
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Oh hey, Miss Huang! [ He grins and accepts the glass. Rule number 1: never say no to a lady. He takes a sip of the pink stuff from Pao-Lin's flute and grins. ] You're right, this is awesome!
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That's Mademoiselle Huang to you!
[IF BOLIN IS GONNA INSIST ON BEING FORMAL, MIGHT AS WELL TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL...]
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[ He winks and does an exaggerated bow. ]
Then how about Monsieur [ Pronounced more like Mon-sewer than its intended pronunciation. ] Bolin escorts the pretty Mademoiselle over to the bar for a refill?
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I would be honored~!
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[ He takes her hand and leads her toward the bar, grinning the whole time. ]
Are all the label shindigs this cool? I've never been anywhere this fancy before.
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dragonpegasus through the air.Well, I've only really been to one big one so far. But it was amazing! You should've seen the food they had there!
[Pao-Lin is practically drooling thinking about it again.]
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This one seems way more... drinky. A buffet would have been pretty sweet.
[ Maybe that's why he's been feeling so weird. Those hors d'oeuvres they were carrying around on the trays were tasty but they definitely didn't fill a guy up for long. Drinking on an empty stomach was an awful idea. ]
Not that I'm complaining, but man a guy needs more than a tiny hot dog on a stick, you know?
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[She probably would have regardless of her manager's thoughts on binging on things that aren't sweets, but the caterer nearby was giving her a dirty look and she didn't want to potentially get her bandmates in trouble for not keeping an eye on her well enough.]
B1
Ivan stumbles from the bump, wooden geta clattering on the floor as he tries to regain his footing. No luck. He crashes to the floor. ]
... ow...
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I just got this thing today...
[ Once the champagne is wiped away as much as it can he shifts his attention to Ivan and offers him a hand up. ]
You really need to watch where you're going, dude, someone's gonna get hurt.
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[ He says with a resigned sigh and takes Bolin's hand. ]
I'm sorry about the suit, though.
[ He never likes it when someone else suffers from his strange lack of presence or klutzy nature. ]
A2
I don't think there is a way out. [She spins, grabbing the smoke launcher of a man behind her and spinning with all her might. The weapon fires wide, easily missing the pair. She kicks him in the groin and hops out of the way, but the man will recover soon.] That's the point of all this weird stuff. They trap you here and slowly drain your powers.
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Well running isn't a power! They can't drain that, right? Let's do that before more of these guys catch up!
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Thanks! [ He throws a few smaller rocks at some of the attackers who looked like they were going to take another shot at Peni. ]
I've got your back if you have any ideas!
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What do they want, anyway?! I'm just an earth bender! [ He tries to throw up a wall of rock between them and the kidnappers, a move normally as easy as throwing a punch. Except this time he can barely raise it higher than two feet. ]
Oh come on!
B2
[Bill laughs, with far more enthusiam than such a situation would ever require, seeming little to care for his own splashed garments. Nevertheless he fishes out a handkerchief to dab at Bolin's attire.]
"Eh, gotta break em in anyway, right, slick?"