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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"Ugh, those are so pointless. But I suppose you need to do something when you don't have any actual musical talent." Nobody took it as seriously as Peridot. If you asked Peridot.

Bring it. 'youve become so brave since you sold out #admirable #attentionwhoreforfunandprofit'

"You know we mix your weird numbercore bullshit out of the tracks, right? And you're never plugged in. People come to ROCK not to do math." Jesus this bitch. Rocking was about having the biggest, baddest party possible on someone else's dime.

Consider it BROUGHT. 'Y u hat'n my body positivity and alternative lifestyle? #bigotsbebitching

"You think I haven't noticed that you unplug me every time? I suppose you don't listen because you're too busy with that discordant noodling I have to hold up. Because I'm the only one providing any structure to our sound." She shook her head. "Like a mass of hippo guts on toothpicks, but I still make it work."

Is that all you got? 'so sorry i degenerated your only excuse to be a complete slob #sjwnonsense'

"If by structure you mean boring ass chord progressions. Try to sneak Pachelwuss' bullshit into the next set and I'm gonna break your wrist." It's been done. It's been DONE to death and PUNK was not baroque. It was Broke! Getting paid was a nice change, though. "People don't come for structure! They come for a party."

And Peridot barely knew how to party.

Just getting warmed up. 'so sorry ur still such a sorry salty excuse for a rocker #jobopenings #canyouplaythekeytar'

"Oh well, forgive me for trying to stay in tune! Or to finish a phrase now and again! I'll just play my instrument with my lips like you prefer!" Just because she had an actual ear for technical perfection Peridot had to fix EVERYTHING. "Are those parties? Sounds to me like you prefer rioting!"

Wow, nice cliche. 'so sorry you wouldnt know real music if it walked up and laid eggs in your head #probablyalreadyhas #wouldexplainsomuch'

"You're just mad I get all the girls hot and all the men jealous." Tongue skills for DAYS. Even if it got caught on her lip piercings now and then, a little blood was worth it. "Party's not a party till someone's gotten arrested and someone else's in the hospital."

'Who died and made you queen of anything? Fucking no one, two note bitch. #onlyknowstwochord #alldamnday'

"Oh yes, you and your little predilections. I forget, is it 25 or 26 diseases you've accumulated so far from catching panties with your teeth?" The whole scene she courts is repulsive and Peridot wants nothing to do with it.

"It's only too bad that the ones in the hospital are so often our roadies. But I think we both know who's fault THAT was."

'you know you couldnt handle it #justhereforthecheapsexappeal #idoalltherealwork'

"It's NONE. One good thing about the label, healthcare." Though they did try to get her to quit doing that. Hey. If they were gonna toss 'em that high, why NOT catch them? She only ever ends up in the hospital lately because of busted teeth, bruises, or the odd concussion. Peridot fought DIRTY.

In a way she could respect that.

"Hey, YOU threw that last bottle and hit Reggie. I was busy with my guitar solo. Not my fault you missed." Idiot.

'u no u can't AFFORD it #notthatcheap #bitchdidyouHEARmylastsolo'

Of course she does. Why fight if you aren't fighting to win?

"Oh, I missed, did I? If you'd just let it hit you, Reggie would have been fine. I've seen you take far worse, you were just being a little baby."

'you can get better literally anywhere #suredid #itwasgreat #forascreechytunelesssortofthing'

"Reggie was a jerk anyway." Never remembered the smoke machine. Or the pyrotechnics. Ugh. "I didn't know you were throwing it, so I didn't have to dodge."

'Bullshit i'm the best and you hate it. #aharmonicNOISEmachine #itsagenrething #bitch'

"Suuuuuure you weren't. And anyway, he was...No, I can't defend him. He was a jerk." And a whiner. Stop fighting guys! You're going to get us kicked out again guys! Anyway, had that been the first bottle she'd ever thrown at her, Peridot might believe it. But it was not. Not even close.

'the best bitch you can buy on a budget #thenoisepartisapt #ruinedyourowneardrums #sobstory'

"Stop fighting girls, why don't you get along girls, but I don't WANT you to break my arm girls. Ugh. No fun at all." On that much they could agree.

'Punk ain't about money it's about the lifestyle #2hardcore4u #popbitchispop #contractlockedfail'

"So glad he's gone. At least the new one is a little better." In that Tim knew when to run and hide and went somewhere that wouldn't annoy them when he needed to bleed.

'so you admit youre completely broke #punkmeansneverhavingtohaveabudget #bitchimnotstuckwithyou #yourestuckwithme'

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