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?

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A2

When it comes to evading mysterious masked attackers, there are certain advantages to being a huge robot who can also be a car.

Unfortunately, most of those advantages a dampened a little by the fact that, as Bumblebee is finding, he's having a lot more trouble than usual getting any speed in his altmode, not to mention the total lack of power behind his blasters. He would be worried if there were any time to worry.

He darts behind the nearest possible shelter - rock formation, particularly large tree, whatever - with his blasters still at the ready, comparatively useless though they may be. If he's going down, he sure as hell intends to put up a fight.

B1

So B sure did get in a fight. Again. It's probably a pretty common sight by now - the singer sitting on his bed, staring down at his knuckles as he wraps bandages around his hands. Fortunately for everyone who has to interact with him now, it looks like he probably won, judging from the light of triumph in his bright blue eyes. He also managed not to get punched in the face this time! Good for him.

Apparently Bumblebee wasn't the only one who thought that pile of rocks looked like a good hiding place. Trucy has been lucky so far, evading the masked men with stealth alone. But that luck has just run out.

"Eeeeek!"

She can't stifle the surprised scream in time. In all fairness, she was not expecting any robots to roll up on her hiding spot.

Bee jolts a little, whirling toward the tiny human - he had been distracted, more focused on watching his back than his front, and hadn't even realized she was there.

He cringes and crouches down in front of her, desperately holding a finger up to his mouth and making a soft whirring sound meant as a reassuring shush.

When he doesn't attack her, she relaxes slightly. Maybe he's not as scary as he looks. There's still a nervous quaver in her voice though.

"Wh-who are you? You're not... with those guys..."

She means the masked men. But it's not really a question. Instinct is telling her that he's not an enemy. Trucy has good instincts.

Bee shakes his head adamantly, shooting a glare in the direction he had last seen them and letting out a quiet, angry whirr.

He turns to Trucy again, tapping at the emblem stamped into the metal at his waist. "I'm Bumblebee. I'm an Autobot-- a friend." Of course, he's run into enough humans by now to realize that she'll probably only hear his words as whirrs and beeps. But it's kind of hard to get out of the habit of trying to just talk to people.

Sadly, Trucy doesn't speak robot. But she gets his meaning well enough and she hesitantly smiles.

"I thought so. You don't seem like a bad guy at all."

But the bad guys are out there. And it's probably only a matter of time before they're found.

"Um, I don't really know where we are or how we get back home but... I think we're going to be in trouble if we just stay here."

Trucy had been crouching there for a while, and it has long since occurred to her that even if she can stay out of sight, she'll never get out of here if she just stays hidden.

He nods in agreement, then looks around again, the wing-like doors on his back flicking slightly as he thinks. After a few seconds, he points out another rock formation nearby. It's not much, but at least they can keep moving, and maybe find something eventually.

Trucy follows his gaze to the other rock. It's a risk, but it doesn't seem too far away. She nods firmly.

"Good idea. Maybe we'll be able to see something useful from there."

She looks back up at Bumblebee thoughtfully. It's probably not a good idea for both of them to just run out there. If they go one at a time, then even if they're spotted, at least the masked men will only catch one of them.

"I'll go first. If I make it safely, you follow."

Bee blinks, his eyes whirring briefly shut like a camera's shutter as they refocus. Then his eyebrows drop down and he shakes his head insistently with a disapproving trill. He points insistently at himself, then toward the rock formation.

If one of them is going to act as a guinea pig, it's not going to be this tiny human. Not if he has anything to say about it.

"You want to go first? Are you sure?"

It's pretty dangerous, and he's a lot bigger than she is. There's a higher chance he'll be spotted. And she hates to think that anyone would put themselves in danger for her sake. He seems pretty determined though. Trucy gives the distance to the next rock another look, then nods.

"Okay. But be careful."

It may not be the best plan, really. It would probably make more sense if his blasters would work, if his vehicle mode could get any traction... But the fact remains that he doesn't want to risk letting her get captured.

He nods decisively, shifting his stance to stay crouched close to the ground as he sets his sights on the rock formation. Before leaving, he pauses, glancing down toward Trucy, and gives a quiet, reassuring beep and a quick thumbs-up. He doesn't know how reassuring that can actually be, under the circumstances, but he's trying.

With that, he digs his feet into the ground and darts forward, his gaze shifting around to keep an eye out for enemies as he heads for the rocks.

Trucy returns his thumbs up with a grin, ever willing to err on the side of optimism. She waits with baited breath as he crosses the distance. At any second, those masked men could appear and-

No, no actually he makes it just fine. Huzzah! Once he's on the other side, Trucy waves to let him know that she's on her way. Then she takes off running. She's about halfway, thinking she's going to make it, when she hears a shout. Several of the masked men have spotted her and are heading this way. The rock is large enough that they haven't seen him yet, and that may be why Trucy stops. If she keeps running that way, they'll catch him too...

TEST DRIVE MEME: THE SELF TITLED ALBUM

Bumblebee | Transformers: Prime

A-2: Is he in car form or robot form?

robot form!

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