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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042015-09-13 03:08 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME: THE SELF TITLED ALBUM

☆WELCOME TO INTERSTELLAR
And welcome to our first 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 tour. 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?

☆THE MAGIC TOUR BUS
By default, these prompt 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. They take place after being kidnapped and brainwashed, on your character's first tour under their new label. As it turns out, it seems like brainwashing aliens isn't the only thing the abductees have to worry about.



B1) PLAY IT STRAIGHT: It's just another day on the tour bus, in between long stretches of highway. How do you fill your time? Do you practice your instrument, or do you take full advantage of the open bar? Do you sulk and try go to bed early? Do you yell at your bandmates for ruining the toilet? Do you troll people on Twitter? Tours being what they are, everyone is probably at least a little bit tired or cranky. Just don't do anything that will get the Manager on your ass, because that's always more trouble than it's worth.

B2) THAT'S NORMAL: The Managers aren't here, as far as you can tell, leaving you in a moment of relative relaxation. Something about those guys just make you uneasy, and they're always shoving you around and making you do things you don't really want to. However, these moments of peace don't last long, because it stars to become increasingly apparent that your tour bus might be...haunted? Whether its the bus turning on without a driver and without a key, wine glasses falling off tables, or guitar static sounding like frantic whispering, things are starting to get weird. Yet, at the same time, something in your subconscious is strongly suggesting that you should ignore it, and that everything is normal and fine...

B3) THEN WHO WAS GUITAR?: These weird experiences eventually culminate in a kind of phantom music bleeding in from the air around you. The source is impossible to discern but it's somehow...familiar? Like something that played at an important moment in your life, even if the event itself just won't come to mind. What's weirder, is that everyone seems to hear something different. It gets to you in a way that your programming doesn't like - but how do you react? Reluctantly take it in, or throw a fit until it stops?

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demonspacepirate: (Let me think...)

[personal profile] demonspacepirate 2015-09-14 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
If you spent more time paying attention and less time drinking my sake- [ It was just as likely to be anyone else, but he was here to blame. Besides. it'd keep her from getting really pissed at someone else later. Play fighting is easier. ] maybe I wouldn't have hit you. Duh.

What, like Peridip at the back of the bus? Ugh. She could take a few more concussions.
tigermillionaire: (get down here and face this like a gem!)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2015-09-14 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
If this is blood, it smells and feels really...soapy. Okay, no, it's washer fluid. He can't believe he just screamed because of washer fluid. This is so embarrassing, he has no choice but to act extremely defensive.

"I'm not scared!" he insists angrily, though the word 'scared' hadn't even been mentioned. Tiger Universe is a master of subterfuge. He's totally not hurt, or scared, he's just failing around in the dark, covered in soap, with a bruised knee, probably. He gets up in a huff.
Edited 2015-09-14 18:52 (UTC)
twoscompany: (HMPH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[She can tell. She's seen the changes in him. And frankly, she's tired of this brat's attitude.

She walks behind him, as if to leave, taking several steps before, without warning, she turns on her heels and grabs for Steven's earphones.

She's not leaving. Not until she gives this kid a proper attitude adjustment.]
sailorlaughter: (Fancy dressin')

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Pinkie shrugs, at least as well as she can from her position. That sounds like something he'd do. "I dunno. I think it'd be cool if you like...shaved the sides?" She presses in the sides of her own curls, leaving bits of pink escaping her fingers and one giant poof on the top. "You'd have a curlhawk!"

Is that a thing? She may have just made it up.

"Or you could dye it a COOL color," she says, releasing her hair again. "Like green! Or orange, tigers are orange!" And striped, yes.
misophrenic: it begs for forgiveness (all this fight in me)

b1.

[personal profile] misophrenic 2015-09-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ worick can't resist being a little shit towards a bandmate. it's like a national pasttime at this point. ]

You know we're stuck with this food for the rest of the tour, yeah? You really wanna risk asking the manager for something else?

[ hey, it's not his funeral. ]
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (uwah?!)

B1, I should mention that

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2015-09-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh."

Normally Jecht feared no person, man or woman, but -- well, Samus was a special case. On the one hand, she was strong as hell, as that punch to the wall proved. On the other hand, she was hot as hell, a fact that failed to escape Jecht at any time of day, and possibly more at night than she really wanted to know. So he actually cared about not getting on her bad side.

Slooooowly, he began shifting the can in his hand behind his back. Slowly and with all the subtlety he could muster, which was literally none at all.
Edited 2015-09-14 18:55 (UTC)
sailorlaughter: (Oooooh shiny!)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you SURE? I saw a video of these guys playing with a Ouija board one time, and it got SUPER weird.

...oooooh, we could buy a Ouija board!
sailorlaughter: (Did someone say party?)

B3

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Get what?

[It's not like she can't hear it too. But maybe if she pretends it's not there, it'll go away!]
tigermillionaire: (get down here and face this like a gem!)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2015-09-14 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey!

[She gets the earphones before he can even try to snatch them back, and since they are wireless there isn't even a chord to grab. His sunglasses fall down again in his haste to stand up, and he discards them to the floor.]

Give those back! They're mine!
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (fist pump)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2015-09-14 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's one of those alternative rhyme schemes. A 1 B 2 C whatever --" Jecht waved a hand like that really lent weight to his argument. He knew what he was talking about even if he couldn't express it. "Come on, work with the spirit here!"
panspermia: (★ How this works)

[personal profile] panspermia 2015-09-14 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, he's whining and lashing out, so it can't be too bad. Greg breathes a sigh of relief. He'll take scared and indignant over actual damage any day.

"You're braver than me, man." He straightens up too, knees of his pajama pants stained with soapy mud.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (back to you all)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2015-09-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll get back to you on that when I actually take up drinking. [Weirdass thing, but Jecht never touched the stuff. Didn't need it to have fun, claimed he didn't like the taste of it. That's a lie, he likes the taste just fine, but something about staying sober is important to him.]

[Couldn't tell you why. Maybe a promise he forgot.]


Hey, leave the girl alone. Stick to pickin' on someone your own size!
panspermia: (★ Kidding myself)

B3

[personal profile] panspermia 2015-09-14 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Most often, he'd know not to bother her. Garnet's not someone to harass with little stuff, and she gives him a weird vibe. But in this moment, Greg is overwrought and desperate, and she's the only one around.]

Garnet! G, please, you gotta help me out, here, I'm losing it.
twoscompany: (YEAH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[One advantage to being 7 feet tall: you can hold something up really high and pretty much anyone shorter than you has no chance of snatching it away.]

Not until you clean your mess up! I don't know what crawled up your backside lately, but this is my tour bus! You follow my rules! And while you may do so, I don't live in a barn like a lazy pig!

So get recycling and pick up your cans, or you won't get these [Shakes the headphones] back! Got it?
Edited 2015-09-14 19:18 (UTC)
demonspacepirate: (Just a little talk)

[personal profile] demonspacepirate 2015-09-14 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, right. Sober rockers rock harder, yeah?

[ Anyone else? She'd call bullshit. Jecht? She'll buy. She's seen his shows anyway, god damn. Looks like it's soda for her.

Not like she wants approval or anything but she does try to not drink around him. Try! Not always manage, but she does try. ]


That little bitch swings twice was hard as a roadie double her size. It's a fair fight, trust me.
tigermillionaire: (yikes)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2015-09-14 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[In a moment of pure frustration, he awkwardly baps her leg with his fist, since that's mostly what he can reach. It doesn't really do anything. He immediately feels regret.

Sinking at the shoulders, he winces, and reluctantly relents.]


I...I'm sorry.

[He pulls back and makes like he's going to pick up cans, warily glancing at her like he's worried about her retaliating. Yeesh, she's sort of scary.]
twoscompany: (UH HUH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not surprising.

[Garnet's generally a perfectionist, but she never sweat that small stuff because she'd already solved it. Because she's a diva amazing like that.

Still, this time? Greg looks....well, he's not drugged out or anything. Which is worrisome, to say the least. She may not agree with some of his lifestyle choices, but he's not a jerk, so she can always muster some concern for him.]


What's the matter?
twoscompany: (SUPERTRAMP'S THE LOGICAL SONG)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I don't understand this music.

[Which is horrifying, because she's so amazing she can understand ANY kind of music? Even the terrible music.

This? Wasn't terrible. Yet at the same time...]


But I want to.
Edited 2015-09-14 19:36 (UTC)
tigermillionaire: (where are you going???)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2015-09-14 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That seems to appease him, at least a little. When he looks up and back out into the dark, his expression is a lot more wary, however, his eyes wide and round.

"How did someone get into the bus to do that?" he asks the air.
twoscompany: (UH HUH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't move. She's not going to retaliate, as tempting as it is because you little piece of--but she is going to watch him. She's not going to leave.

Stare.

Better get cracking.]
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (fist pump)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2015-09-14 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Stuff like that's fake! Someone was moving it with their hands! And if you got one I'd do the same thing. You'd ask it who was haunting the bus and wonder why it kept telling you to give Jecht candy.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (big grin)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2015-09-14 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say she couldn't throw a punch. She just can't compete with you period. That makes it not a fair fight.

[As usual, Jecht flirts with all the subtlety and grace of a landslide. And that wicked grin of his never really offers a clue if he means it or not. Even odds he's just making fun of her.]
twoscompany: (UH OH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2015-09-14 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...

We need to get out of here. If we find anyone else - if you see anyone you remember - we bring them with us. Right?

[Though the sinking feeling she has...no matter if they find ten or ten thousand people...]

You're going to have to help me. If we want a chance to get out of this place...!
Edited 2015-09-14 19:47 (UTC)
yellowcopycat: (sighing forever)

Kise Ryouta | Kuroko no Basuke

[personal profile] yellowcopycat 2015-09-14 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
B-1

[Ryouta was humming to himself as the bus drove down the winding road. Alternatively looking out the window or looking at his twitter account. Ah, the life of a musician. It was fun, if exhausting. Still, there was nothing more Ryouta liked than singing and dancing before an audience. He always made sure to pour 100% into his performances and hoped the crowd enjoyed it

He began to read the twitter comments about the latest performance and was dismayed to see comments like #Ryouta can suck my dick and #Ryouta singing is similar to having a cat shirk at you, but at least he can shake that ass]


How mean! I can't believe so many people would say such mean things!

B-2/3

[Ryouta wasn't a particularly brave soul, so when the bus' hauntedness got too much for him he took to hiding in the bathroom.]

NO! I'm not coming out! This place is haunted! We need a new bus!

[He might be crying. Still, there's something familiar about what's going on...a phantom member of the band? No, that's stupid.]
Edited 2015-09-14 20:11 (UTC)
sailorlaughter: (So I just giggled at the ghosties and th)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pinkie sticks out her tongue.]

I just won't let you play, then! Just me and the ghostie!

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