TEST DRIVE MEME: THE SELF TITLED ALBUM

[interdimanagers]

☆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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Comments

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[sponsorigami]

[ He gives a final nod. Soon he's throwing his shuriken to bring the chasing masked men closer together. Then the smoke pellets are thrown. Ivan uses their blocked sight to give himself the opening to close in and kick the both of them. A good solid hit could do it if they're not wearing heavy armor and don't manage to team up on him instead. ]

o7

[magic_to_do]

[OOC: Sounds good to me!]

[variaboss]

Fish is fish is fish. Doesn't matter how fucking expensive it is. It's still fish. Which means it's gross and he hates it. If it wasn't for the alcohol, he might have even puked. That's how much he hates fish.

The chair goes flying and yep. He's yawning at that. Because property destruction is the norm for them. Though it feels like he should have been doing a lot more breaking shit than his band mate.

And he glares more because you don't say no to him. So he's going to actually get his ass off that couch and run the hell after his cracked out guitarist. "Get the fuck back here, you shit. Take your beating like a man!"

SCREECHES AT THIS THREAD TBH

[sharktrash]

Rude. Does he hate Squalo, then, because everything about him screams fish even here. Wait don't answer that...

He retains enough sense to chuck the tape somewhere safe (or, more likely, into one of Xanxus's guitar cases) while speeding through, unfortunatly, he runs out of bus in a moment. Which means he's fucking cornered at the front, at the door to the driver's cabin, with nowhere to run.

So he does the reasonable thing: slides sideways and starts banging his fist against the emergency door button, apparently planning to hop right out of the moving vehicle as soon as it opens.

He presses himself to the door as Xanxus closes in, crazy written all over his face. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!!"

...knocking him out is probably the best course of action here, to be honest, since he's usually back to (relatively) normal when he wakes up again.

Yells even moar

[variaboss]

What's that thing about always hurting the ones you tolerate? That was it right? Well whatever, cause he's up now and that means someone is going to get his ass kicked. And it probably annoys the fuck out of the other band members that haven't decided to hide under things until Tropical Storm Squalo and Nuclear Bomb Explosion Xanxus are through playing grab ass.

Or in this case, grab belt, because that's what he gets hold of as Squalo is trying to hit the emergency door release. Too bad. Your escape pod it too slow. He's got Squalo just as the door is opening. "Never, huh? Looks like never happened, you coked up jackass." Looks like Squalo is saved from leaping out of a moving vehicle.

An idea starts forming and there's a smirk. "Hey, Superbia." Cause he knows how much Mr Lucifer hates that name. "tuck and roll." And Xanxus is totally chucking his band member out of the bus himself and laughing his ass off. The driver will probably stop once he sees Squalo in the mirrors, but until then, Xanxus makes his way back to his couch to flop and snooze once more.

amazing

[sharktrash]

Yes obviously. Hurt the ones you tolerate and kill the ones you don't. A+ policy, would recommend. The other band members are smart enough to at least get out of the way as the devils surge past, but they're too used to it to be in any way scandalized or whatever.

Meanwhile, Squalo is struggling for his freedom. He's halfway through removing his belt by the time the door starts opening, and then he's blinking up at Xanxus for a moment before he's looking angry again. "Heeeeeyyy! Don't fucking call me that!" he manages to get out before he's fucking flying out.

He does roll, but whether or not it's intentional is another question. He also probably hits his head on a rock, because he looks a little wobbly as he gets up again, screaming after the fucking bus (yes, it can still be heard even with the rapidly growing distance). "Fucking asshole, I'll spit in your dinner until the day your liver crumbles!!"

With that, however, he flops over into the dust. Since most of their bandmates probably saw Squalo flying past the windows, at least one (probably Lussuria) will go to ask the driver to turn around. When they make it back and the manager (or whoever it is that always ends up wiping their asses) hops out to retrieve him, he looks fucking dead.

Except as soon as another cheery bandmate (probably Bel) starts prodding him with a stick, laughing and saying something about roadkill, he swats at it, turns over and starts snoring. All well that ends well? Back to the bus with everyone, because they obviously can't afford to stop for a hospital checkup. There's nothing a colorful bandage and a glass of booze can't fix, right?