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

[implanted]

[ Of course he could have.

Wash is at the point where he genuinely believes that. But hey, if he doesn't have to, all the better. It's easier on his nerves if he's there. ]

Yeah, you too. [ That is, until Tucker spoke. Nobody could really copy Tucker well enough to fool Wash, even if it was in his own head. Was it? He's not sure. ] I don't know—I've never seen anything like this before.

[fuckingaqua]

[ In hindsight, he guesses it makes sense that neither of them would know what this is or why they're stuck here. Pretty hard to recon in a Lisa Frank sticker or whatever. ]

Uuugh, tell me about it. I gave birth to alien jesus and this is still way too weird! Why does this stuff always happen when we're on break from almost getting killed? [ It's all fun and games until someone pulls them into a civil war or shoots them. With as many times as it's happened since he first got stationed on Blood Gulch, the question is more or less rhetorical. Tucker's followup is less so. ]

I couldn't find any open channels, either. There's a jammer or some weird sci-fi bullshit or something messing with the radios. [ Forget rainbow connection. It's straight-up slasher flick in this mess. All they need now is to get a car and have it break down. He bets that if his sword could have been bothered to show up here, he could just cut through some psychedelic brainwaves like any dude with a machete in the jungle in the movies. Problem solved. ]

[implanted]

[ No, Tucker, that's still really, really weird. Like, possibly on the same level as this. ]

In theory... it's not that hard to do. [ He has to pause, shake his head a bit. The imagery isn't easy to look at. ] But there shouldn't be anything like this on Chorus. Not unless it came from the tower.

[ And even then. they don't really know what all it even does. It was impossible for the Purge to start, wasn't it? This isn't what he'd peg as a genocidal weapon, but... who the fuck knows. ]

[fuckingaqua]

If this came from the tower, it better have a good excuse for leaving my sword behind. [ It's one of the most badass, handy things he ever accidentally fell down a hole to find. He plants his hands on his hips, scuffs the ground (if that's what it can even be called) beneath him with the toe of his boots. It may be a while now since he was doing the ambassador thing, but something feels like it's not the right style to go with that tower. ]

No holograms, no weird languages, no other-dimensional chicks with three boobs... this place blows. I vote we just wing it.