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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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consocius: ([what]; break)

A2

[personal profile] consocius 2015-09-13 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Considering Sora had still been meandering about in a confused but curious manner, it's probably a good thing Pinkie Pie shouts that. He hadn't noticed the oncoming group of baddies until they were practically on top of him.

But the pony came first, and for that he's grateful. Because now he's running alongside her, eyes wide as he keeps glancing between the talking pink pony (he's seen odder things, not gonna lie), and the men in gas masks chasing them.
]

What do they want?! [Sora, why does it matter?]
sailorlaughter: (Running)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, but they shot a net at me! They missed, but it was all electric and stuff!

[She doesn't really even know what they ARE. Probably the same thing this guy is, but he's obviously not with them. They're so tall!]

They must live in here!
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (question.)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-09-14 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry for trespassing, but we're not here on purpose! [He shouts over his shoulder at them. Like this will help. Except it doesn't, because he has to dodge to avoid an electric net himself. This earns the space men an indignant shout:] Hey!!

[Back to the pony:] Did you just get pulled here, too? [This isn't exactly the right time for a chat, but he'd still like to know why they're being chased, and what he can do to stop it.]
sailorlaughter: (Are you suuuure?)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! I dunno what this place is! [She yelps and puts on a little speed. Apparently all the dodged nets aren't making the gas-mask things happy.] I thought it was kinda cool-looking at first, but I wanna go home now!
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! ([what]; realize)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-09-14 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
I don't blame you, they aren't really giving us a very friendly welcome! [Okay, so trying to explain their presence to these guys hadn't helped. Second plan for Sora is fighting. Except when he tries to call on his keyblade, something that is practically second nature now, nothing happens. So he slides to a halt, staring at his empty hand in disbelief.] Wait, what?
sailorlaughter: (Oh no -!)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-14 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

[Don't just stop! Pinkie scrabbles to a halt as well, turning to grab the closest part of him (which turns out to be his pant leg) in her teeth and tug.]
consocius: ([down]; surprise)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-09-15 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The tugging immediately brings him back to the situation at hand.]

Huh? Ack!

[RIGHT, RUNNING. That's definitely what they need to be doing. Especially since fighting is now out of the question, not without a weapon. He puts on more speed in an attempt to make up for those few lost seconds he'd spent standing still.] I was going to-- I was gonna try fighting 'em! But my keyblade won't appear. Do you have anything to fight with?
sailorlaughter: (FLAIL)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-09-15 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope! We've gotta find someplace to hide!
consocius: ([neutral]; heard)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-09-17 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hide. Right. [That being said, he takes a glance around them as they're running. It's all weird out-of-phase stuff, almost ghost-like.] Uh... See anything solid?