interstellar404 | 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?

☆HELPFUL INFO
► Follow the mod plurk for updates: interstellar5555
► Check out the game NAVIGATION
► We are still looking for some mod help, so if you are interested let us know!
► Reserves close on SEPTEMBER 25th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on SEPTEMBER 24th at 12:01AM EDT

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Actually, I never went to sleep.

[Koumei leaned back to regard the young woman, although he was aware that the gesture was likely meaningless to her, and audibly patted on the curb next to him.]

Why not join us? They're very friendly tonight.

I never said I thought you were asleep.

[ Her eyes might not work, but her ears still does. Finding the edge of the curb, she used his shoulder as support when she sat down beside him, and put the plastic bag between her feet. ]

Having fun hanging out?

It's peaceful, [He decided after taking a moment to briefly set her to-go bag closer to their place on the curb.]

You'll want to be careful with that, they're very hungry tonight.

[ Oh, yeah, that might be a good idea. She gives him a nod in thanks. ]

I would share with them, but I'm not sure if birds should eat spiced food.

Some birds actually prefer spicy food, [he said, with a soft chuckle,] but I don't think these really care.

...Would you like to try feeding them?

Really? I didn't know that. [ You learn something new every day. ]

Sure. Do you want food too?

I've got some right here.

[And, with that said, he gently nudged her and placed a bag of leftover french fries in her hand.]

Of course, this can't be that healthy for them...but bread isn't really either.

[ She grins at him, hearing that. ]

Oh, nice!

[ She poked at the bags contents, to see what was in it. She twists one between her fingers, as if considering it. ]

Should I really give this to them, then?

[He shrugged, and made a noncommital sound to accompany it.]

They like it. That's all the reason I need.

[ Dropping one of the fries for the birds, she tilted her head to listen to them while she picked up another. ]

Well, I suppose that's as god a reason as any.

[The birds cooed jumped over to snatch their prize from the ground in a flurry of feathers, earning a chuckle of amusement from Koumei.]

It's also nice to watch them, [he confessed,] we don't get much time to stop and enjoy the world while we're on tour, do we?

[ It sure sounded fun, plus, Sala was happy when people she liked were happy. ]

I bet it is. [ She lightly bumped her shoulder against his. ] Then make sure to take advantage of the time you have properly, Koumei.

[He chuckled sheepishly.]

You don't need to worry about that, Sala.

...Too bad these birds are still shy. I was hoping that we could coax one over to hold.

Oh, I don't? That's great.

[ She gave him a calm smile. ] It's alright, perhaps next time.

[He had wanted to bring one over for Sala to hold, so that she could enjoy their fluffy little friends while they ate their dinner. Koumei smiled in return, though he knew that she didn't see it-- she was plenty able to understand the world without needing to see.]

Perhaps. We'll need to work on being more welcoming, won't we?

TEST DRIVE MEME: THE SELF TITLED ALBUM

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1

b1