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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Garnet | Steven Universe

[twoscompany]

A2

[They came. She didn't know how or why. Or where, but that didn't matter. They weren't Gems, and they had attacked her home, somehow. Somehow, even if this place wasn't her home, and she was just...here. Wherever here is. So she fought.

And is still fighting. Garnet isn't one to be taken down easily.]

Crud!

[How were they still coming? Why?

...Hopefully, it's just her, and not Steven. She'd prefer no one got wrapped up into this, but...]


B3

[Something tugged at her from this.

Something's wrong. For the longest time, Garnet never questioned anything about her life, but right at this moment, she does. Hazy figures in her mind seem to run to her with the music, from memories she didn't but did have, one in particular happily crying out Garnet! Garnet!

She can't place anything. Yet...it felt...it felt...]

I don't get it.

[...Confusing. Comforting, but so confusing.]

B3

[sailorlaughter]

Get what?

[It's not like she can't hear it too. But maybe if she pretends it's not there, it'll go away!]

[twoscompany]

...

I don't understand this music.

[Which is horrifying, because she's so amazing she can understand ANY kind of music? Even the terrible music.

This? Wasn't terrible. Yet at the same time...]

But I want to.

[sailorlaughter]

You think? Iiiiiiiiiii don't know.

[She's not sure if she likes it or not. It's just kinda weird and makes her stomach go funny.

She wouldn't turn it off though. Even if she knew how, which she TOTALLY doesn't because everybody's been looking.]

[twoscompany]

...You too, then, Pinkie?

[sailorlaughter]

[Siiiiigh]

Yeah. I guess.

B3

[panspermia]

[Most often, he'd know not to bother her. Garnet's not someone to harass with little stuff, and she gives him a weird vibe. But in this moment, Greg is overwrought and desperate, and she's the only one around.]

Garnet! G, please, you gotta help me out, here, I'm losing it.

[twoscompany]

That's not surprising.

[Garnet's generally a perfectionist, but she never sweat that small stuff because she'd already solved it. Because she's a diva amazing like that.

Still, this time? Greg looks....well, he's not drugged out or anything. Which is worrisome, to say the least. She may not agree with some of his lifestyle choices, but he's not a jerk, so she can always muster some concern for him.]

What's the matter?

[panspermia]

It's... it's this song. I can't stop thinking about it. [This may not sound like an emergency, but he's tugging at his hair in evidently genuine distress. ]

This jam is so good, G. You gotta help me get it out, it won't leave me alone!

[twoscompany]

...Jam?

[She noticeably freezes at this.]

You've been hearing a song in your head?

[panspermia]

[He rubs at his forehead, too frustrated to properly pick up on her reaction.]

It's killer, G, some kind of rockin' duet. It's... jeez, it's like someone's playing it, I can hear it, but I can't get it out on paper, or anything!

B3

[yuruse]

There are some things in life you just aren't supposed to get.

[Weasel's low-spoken words are accompanied by a brush of his fingers against the strings of his bass guitar. It's not plugged in, so the effect isn't all that amazing, but the light twang it provides still purposefully clashes with the other music he's hearing.]

Sometimes music crashes into many minds at once in a wave of unconscious thought. It's a culmination of the divine vision granted those who have become fully in tune with their inner muse.

[Or this is a load of bullshit he's whipped up to make himself feel better about the situation.]

[twoscompany]

...You know I don't do drugs, Wheeze.

[That is some crazy New Age stuff you are spouting good sir. Her voice is flat.]

That's the problem. I feel like I should understand the music I hear. On the tip of my tongue, like it's been a thousand times before, you get it? Except I can't because I don't know where I know ot from.

It isn't right.

[yuruse]

Is that a jab? You know I've been sober for about two years now.

[It's been two years, hasn't it? That sounds about right. Details aren't important.]

Anyway, songs use similar lines and beats all the time. It's probably some... remix of old stuff the managers want us to pull inspiration from.

[Also more bullshit. He can do this all day.]

[twoscompany]

More of a poke on your 634 days of cleanliness. Since I would have thought you of all people would know my feelings on that.

[Considering she's one of the people who helped to drag him to rehab? Y E A H.]

A remix?

canon blind to su but let's do this! A2

[trustme]

[Doctor could see someone up ahead effectively fighting off the masked soldiers that were attacking just about every person he had come across as he ran from his own group of kidnappers. For all he knew this person was trouble themselves but when in this sort of danger the enemy of your enemy was your friend.]

GERONIMO! [He yells as he charges straight for one of the masked men coming up behind Garnet, intending to knock him over. To his luck it works though his opponent starts wrestling against him and Doctor struggles to yank at the man's mask and pull it off.]

AAARGH! Temples! Temples! Let me reach your temples! [He pushes his fingers hard under the man's mask to make contact with his forehead. In an instant the man goes limp. Doctor looks up at Garnet to see how she's fairing against the others.]

HI THERE

[twoscompany]

[Well, she's seven feet tall and wearing gauntlets. Which are currently punching someone in the face. She's not doing half-bad. She could probably go on quite a bit longer, actually. But they just keep coming.]

...You!

[Turning towards him--wait, her inflection seems to indicate she knows him. Huh? How? Why?...who...]

You won't be able to do that in the next ten minutes! Use your weapon!

You'll have to tell me why she "knows" him

[trustme]

Weapon?!

[He sounds disturbed. What makes you think he of all people would be armed? Still it's a fair point. He digs into his pocket and produces a bright blue and orange gun. Er. Technically a type of gun. He points it at the nearest masked man and starts yelling.]

Hey hey hey! Back off or I'll blow you all to hell! I have a very nasty weapon here!

[Garnet might know it better as a water gun.]

See the OoC note!

[twoscompany]

[R e a l l y. That's what he goes with. That's what he pulls out.



Well, it's better than nothing. Hopefully, it buys them time. Or...something. She does keep a neutral face, at least, as she chimes in - and punches another masked individual.

Hopefully, they'll fall for it.]

He's not joking! Its pretty bad! Its capable of sending 10,000 joules of kinetic energy through you!

Also, it will probably kill you.

[[OOC: EXPLANATION! She has a power called Future Vision, which basically allows her to see different possibilities of the future. Hence, she "knows" him from seeing him in various possibilities in the hunt. Albeit, that won't make any lick of difference in the long run since she can't find a future where she or anyone else she encounters escapes... :p]]

A2

[willneverleaveyou]

[A few minutes in, and a girl in school uniform with blonde hair comes in, out-maneuvering the pursuers with amazing speed. She's needless to say, shocked upon finding someone else here. And it seemed the black soldiers were after her too. Moving quickly, she picks up a rock on the ground.]

Please, look out.

[She throws it at the soldier right behind the woman, with force strong enough to knock out the soldier...and several behind it.]

[twoscompany]

[Thankfully, Garnet has enough sense and agility to move her head just so, allowing the rock to hit their intended targets.]

Much appreciated.

[Now it's her turn. She flips over Aigis and picks up a soldier, tossing him into the pile his by the rock.]

A2: IT'S GARNET'S TURN

[tigermillionaire]

[Maybe it's luck, maybe it's their relatively close proximity to the same starting point - but as Steven hides on the sidelines of the soldier's movements, he hears Garnet's voice.

It's a surge of hope where he was starting to lose hold. He's had to resort to ducking and huddling behind phantasmal wreckage, but knowing there's still someone out there to help fight, he knows he can't hide anymore. He can't let Garnet fight alone.

Running up the side of a sort of sharp ledge in the rainbowy dimensional fabric, he slides down towards her and the thicket of black clothed kidnappers she's dealing with. He sees someone starting to aim an electrical net - and he plows straight into them before they can, bringing out his shield just long enough to make the impact. The soldier staggers off to the side, and Steven lands in a crouch.]

Garnet! I'm here!

[They're not alone in this.]

[twoscompany]

[Oh, no. No no no no no-]

Steven!

[Her expression, even under her glasses, betray the turmoil she feels on seeing the child. She'd seen every possibility for herself - knew she wouldn't get out of here. But not every possibility included Steven. She'd hoped that none of the futures where Steven would also succumb to the darkness, wouldn't come to pass.

It couldn't be like this. But, it is.]

You shouldn't be here.

[tigermillionaire]

[Steven can't know that their fates are already as good as sealed. He understands the possibility of it, but Garnet has always spoken of things in terms of such open potential - he believes that as long as they are together, they have a chance.

But things don't always work out that way.

Steven only has a couple seconds before a gas gun is being aimed in his direction - he raises a flickering shield to block it and holds his breath. Just being down here without a mask is enough to make him feel woozy. He stumbles back towards her, visibly fatigued, but still standing.]

I don't even know where this is! Garnet - what...who are these guys?

[twoscompany]

I don't know!

[She goes to grab the boy, to run from the men, the gas.]

I just know what they want. Us!

[And she's going to get Steven out. Stuff her Future Vision - there had to be a way to get Steven out!]