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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042015-09-13 03:08 am
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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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diediediediediedie: ([01])

[personal profile] diediediediediedie 2015-09-14 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Keytars are not cool. Now drum machines. Drum machines are cool. Precise and accurate and easily programmed if you know what you're doing. Unlike the keytar which you can apparently just slap your palms on like a circus seal and still have a career.

Peridot only BARELY suffers the other members of her band. They aren't nearly as musically proficient as she is in her estimation and they annoy her to no end personally and professionally.

Like right now, for example. She slaps her head like she's been bitten and glares at him.]


Watch it, clod.
testgasm: (i-it's not that i like watching you test)

[personal profile] testgasm 2015-09-14 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes Wheatley a moment to realize what has happened, and he almost looks apologetic when he does.]

Oh--sorry, I didn't mean--I was aiming for the rubbish bin, I--

[When he realizes he's being insulted, however (probably for like the twelfth time today), he's quick to spring to the defensive, setting his notepad on the little tour bus table with a slap.]

Is that necessary, really? D'you always have to go right to the name-calling?
diediediediediedie: ([04])

[personal profile] diediediediediedie 2015-09-14 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[He probably didn't mean "rubbish bin" as an insult to her. Wait, no, he probably did. She rolls her eyes and sighs as theatrically as possible.]

What can I say? I look at you and insults just leap to the front of my brain. Can't think why...
Edited 2015-09-14 04:00 (UTC)
testgasm: (are you for real)

[personal profile] testgasm 2015-09-14 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but, I'm saying we don't have to do that.

[Wheatley has a lot of feelings about his bandmates--they're talentless hacks, he's the only one with a vision, an ounce of originality, he's far too intellectual a musician and they're holding him back, etc. etc. Peridot is the worst of them all, and though he's doing his best not to let her get under his skin as he tries to get the creative juices flowing. Unfortunately, she tends to know exactly how to annoy him.

He coughs, closes the notebook, and adjusts his glasses, trying to appear less bothered than he actually is.
]

I mean, we're stuck on--we're stuck on this bus together, I'm not sure why exactly you're so dead set on making everyone miserable.
diediediediediedie: ([13])

[personal profile] diediediediediedie 2015-09-14 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Funny enough, Peridot also has feelings about her bandmates. Those exact same feelings, in fact. It's like a safe around her neck, trying to drag these losers kicking and screaming into something that could pass as music.

Wheatley is the absolute
worst though, always injecting idiotic flights of fancy that never work and always derail the entire song. At least this time he has the good sense to crumple what he's doing up. He's a menace to her entire creative process.]

I think they call it..."give and take." This certainly isn't where I'd chose to be right now either. What are you even working on over there?
testgasm: (i just have a lot of feelings okay)

[personal profile] testgasm 2015-09-14 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[LOOK those flights of fancy are far from idiotic, they are words from his very SOUL how DARE. The word just isn't ready for him and his incredible keytar talent yet.]

I'm writing, if you must know.
diediediediediedie: ([02])

Peridot probably writes the most soulless dreck imaginable

[personal profile] diediediediediedie 2015-09-17 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[His soul is about as shallow as a puddle, which would be fine if he understood that. But he doesn't. Because he sucks.]

Again, huh? Well, let's see it.