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interstellar4042015-09-13 03:08 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME: THE SELF TITLED ALBUM
☆WELCOME TO INTERSTELLARAnd 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 SEARCHThese 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 BUSBy 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
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But for a ninja, not having a presence really helps...
[ There is clearly a discord with his hero persona and image and role in Helperidese Finances. Ivan's a ninja hero who helps citizens, and his power allows him to sneak up on criminals.
Even if Ivan would like to be able to face them down head on...However, as a Hero TV hero, he also has a responsibility to his sponsors to help get their name out there. He has to be visible for that. ]Um, well... I mean, when it comes to dealing with enemies... It's too late right now.
[ He can't really work on having more of a presence here to have the people back home realize he's missing. ]
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[Because ninjas and magicians are at all similar. And yes, she is just accepting him as a ninja without question.]
A strong presence is a must for any showman. And I can tell you have it in you to be the flashiest ninja around!!
[Because any ninja wants to be flashy? She is actually trying to cheer him up though.]
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Ivan scratches his check and glances away sheepishly. When he sees a fast food joint where a he swore a park was earlier. Is the scenery changing further? Is that sky green?! ]
I... think we're getting off track. We should probably figure out what to do about this first...
[ They can work on stage presence after they do something about being lost in some world. ]
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[She does at least have the grace to look a little embarrassed.]
So what should we do? I know people say that when you're lost you should just stay where you are, but I don't think those people have ever been this lost.
[Plus 'where they are' doesn't seem to want to stay where they are. The scenery around them keeps shifting, becoming stranger by the second.]
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Well, a NEXT could probably create something like that, but Ivan's not one to think positively. And... negatively would be that this is something well beyond his scope of understanding. Could this be the work of kami spirits or ghosts?! ]
I stayed still at first, but it was like I couldn't touch my own world.
[ And it's probably the same thing for her if she didn't stay still. The only option available to them right now is to keep moving. ]
... Um, would it be okay for me to tag along until we understand what's going on?
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Of course! This place is much less scary if I'm not alone. So which way should we...
[But she stops short as something else occurs to her.]
Oh! That's right!
[Clearly this will be an important revelation... or not.]
I never got your name! I'm Trucy. Trucy Wright.
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[ He stops, about to give the name "Origami Cyclone" instead of his real name. ]
Sorry... it's Ivan. My name is Ivan Karelin.
[ The name actually sounds weird on his ears now that he says it. How often does anyone call him "Ivan" anymore? Edward and Principal Massini, Ivan supposes. He doesn't really have friends or a social life outside of the other heroes, and they call each other by their hero names. ]
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[Trucy has a special knack for picking up on little uncertainties in other people, so she does take note of him stumbling over his name. It's not important right now, but you never know what might come up later. Sitting in on various court cases has taught her that.]
So.... which way should we go?
[She glances around the strange landscape looking for anything promising. Promising in this case being anything slightly less psychedelic. No such luck.
She's about to shrug and simply pick a direction when the sound of a gunshot rings out from somewhere nearby. Trucy squeaks in surprise, luckily managing to suppress a scream.]
D-did you hear that?!?
[It's clear that something unpleasant is happening over there. To go toward or away from the danger, that is the question.]
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I-I think so...
[ It takes Ivan another moment to make out just what he's hearing. Gunshots? They sound different than normal gunshots, but they are still shots. The smart thing to do is to stay away. However, heroes aren't known to do the smart thing; they're sacrificial when someone else is involved. ]
I'm going to see if someone needs help! Stay somewhere safe!
[ He runs off in the direction of the shots. What happened to staying with Trucy? He can't ask her to run into a potential gun fight with him. He won't ask that of her, even if tiny girls can kick serious butt. It's still a potential gunfight. ]
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[...you? But he's already running. And Trucy can't just let him go alone. What if it's dangerous? So after only a moment of hesitation, she follows.
But she did not expect the sight that greeted them just over that ridge. Masked men, carrying strange weapons, standing over an unconscious person. Trucy at least has the sense to lower her voice.]
Wh- what's going on? Who are those people?
[Although the bigger problem is that the two of them will be spotted any second now.]
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Ivan turns slightly so that his whispered voice is easier to hear. ]
I don't know. I can't tell if they're police or...
[ One masked man paused with a slight lift of his head, as if he just remembered he left the oven on. Then he turns to face in their direction. His gun is raised. It chases any further hesitation from Ivan's mind to wait and see if the masked men are law enforcement.
With a flick of his wrist, Ivan has a shuriken ready in his hands. ]
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Th-those are not cops!
[Trucy is pretty sure of that. She's seen angry police officers, lazy police officers, even incompetent police officers, but even they don't just point guns at civilians. She's so wrapped up in that, she doesn't even notice Ivan pulling out a weapon.]
Ivan! W-we have to run!
[But it may be too late for that. Now the other masked man has seen them too, and is also raising his gun. They take aim, ready to fire.]
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I'll be right behind you!
[ But he's not going to start running without throwing some shuriken at the attackers' feet. He made the choice to investigate, and he does feel responsible for bringing Trucy into danger. He'll do whatever he can to keep her safe.
He strikes the nearest masked man in the feet causing him to stop in pain. The others continue on their hunt, not worried about the fallen person getting back up and escaping. Ivan turns around to start running after Trucy while getting out another shuriken. ]
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They're gaining on us! What do we do?!
[She starts mentally running through what she has on her. The list is long, but not terribly useful. She does have a few throwing knives and a couple of smoke pellets. But it's pretty hard to stage a disappearing act while fleeing danger.]
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Keep going. I'll distract them.
[ If only he had his hero suit. He'd have more things at his disposal, and he'd be a tougher target to take down. ... A little bit tougher at least because of the armor. ]
Do you think you can find a place to hide?
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I- I think so. But what about you?
[There's not any time to argue though, as their pursuers are closing in fast. Trucy steels herself, then reaches out to hand him something.]
Here. at least take these.
[Pulled seeming from nowhere, she's handing him a couple of smoke pellets. At the very least, they might help him evade the attackers.]
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Thanks, Miss Trucy. These will help a lot.
[ If he can throw the shuriken and then the smoke pellets, he can distract and hopefully cover either his own escape or another attack. He sides on the idea of attacking again and knocking them unconscious. Ivan stops where he is to give Trucy more time to get to her hiding spot. ]
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Good luck.
[And then she turns and runs. The only thing she can do now is not waste his efforts. She has to make it to safety. The temptation to look back, just to see how he's doing is overwhelming though, so about halfway there, she risks a glance.]
End it here and fill out details if it become relevant later?
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