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

[goateeocracy]

[He grumbles and moves a small stack of notebooks so she can sit.]

Go ahead and sit.

[He leans back and continues to glare daggers at the water bottle as it starts to vibrate again.]

What do you hear?

[This should be an interesting exercise, considering she can't see what it is that's making the noise.]

[zhiend]

[ He was the one who told her to come over, so had nothing to complain about. Even if it's just with some grumbling. ]

Thanks, buddy.

[ She pats him on the shoulder once as she sits down, then tilts her head to listen. ]

Vibrating. And I'm pretty sure it's not your phone this time, since I heard you try to suffocate it. [ She points toward the pillow he hid it under, only narrowly missing pointing right at it. ] What is it?

[goateeocracy]

[He picks up the bottle and bumps it against her arm so she knows to take it from him. Of course, the damn thing stops vibrating as soon as he does. He scowls at it like it's betraying him and sinks back against the couch.]

It makes no goddamn sense. I'm sure there's some sort of explanation for it, but all I can find on the internet is bullshit. Even if there were such things as ghosts, why the hell would they haunt a water bottle or a cell phone?

[zhiend]

[ At least she can hear that it stops buzzing when he picks it up. And that sure is no phone. She moves the bottle from one hand to the other, her unseeing gaze curiously locked on the bottle. ]

Hmmm, there are horror stories where phones are haunted, I think? And there's poltergeists.

[goateeocracy]

Didn't I just say there's no such thing as ghosts? Don't tell me you actually believe in that bullshit.

[It just seems so silly to him. Why would there be anything like that? You die and it's over. That's it. If there was something more to it, scientists would have figured it out by now. He actively doesn't want to think about it because it's such a waste of time. There's got to be a perfectly acceptable explanation to whatever the hell is going on. Well, the explanation would be acceptable. The disturbance to his peace of mind certainly isn't acceptable.]

[zhiend]

Actually, you only made clear that you [ she pokes him lightly in the arm with a finger, ] don't think there are any ghosts. I think that if ghosts exists, that might be amusing.

[ You only live once, but who is there to say that there is nothing after death? It couldn't be proved, one way or the other. ]

[goateeocracy]

[He looks down at the spot on his arm that she poked like it's some sort of personal insult. Why do people disagree with him? Their lives would be easier if they didn't.]

It's not amusing, it's a nuisance. And it's not a matter of opinion. Ghosts don't exist.