☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: DIGITAL LOVE

[interdimanagers]

☆WELCOME RESCUERS

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Welcome to Interstellar's first ever RESCUER TDM! A part of the Interstellar plot that has just opened up, this covers the entrance of those recruited by the lone space pilot Shep to join him on a mission to the planet Terra to rescue those held captive by Pride Records and Virgo Entertainment. Rescuers will not suffer any memory loss and will enter the game as they are, in contrast to the memory loss/force humanization of the musician half. Powers will be nerfed to a certain degree upon entering the game fully, but during recruitment they will remain at full power.

☆A DREAM ABOUT YOU

These prompts are designed to be game canon, for both rescuers and musicians both new and already in game. For those in game, they will start occurring around New Years in the form of dreams. The dreams will be very clear while happening, but after waking, they will swiftly fade away into something barely remembered. For rescuers, these dreams will occur very shortly before they are approached by Shep or other already recruited rebels to join the rescue squad and go save the people being held captive in Vista City. Rescuers will remember these dreams as clearly as something that actually happened in real life.

Both of these prompts take place in the dreamscape, ostensibly, and the surrounding will appear as whatever fits those taking part in a scene. It can shift and change as a thread goes along, as well, and may resemble things from a captive's home, the game setting, or anything else appropriate.



►A1) FOR THE CAPTURED: The kidnapped musicians of Vista City will dream of being themselves - in a way more true than they have been for months now. They'll dream of themselves as they're meant to be, in physical form and manner of dress, and their personality will align more easily with their true nature, even as the confusing influences of their programming nag at their mind. It could alarm them, or it could feel somehow natural. Either way, their memories will still be gone, except for what they've recovered - but they feel somehow much closer to reach, like they may break through if only given the chance to dig just about deeper. They may dream of home, they may dream of Vista, but either way...when the morning comes, their memories of this experience will be all but wiped away. Including the memories of the strangers that promised that they would find them and take them home.

►A2) FOR THE RESCUERS: The dream is the first sign of something being wrong. You'll find yourself somewhere else - either a scene from your home, or someone else's, or an alien world you've never seen. In this dream, you'll find a person. Perhaps it's someone you recognize, someone you love dearly, but that doesn't remember you. Maybe it's a stranger, lost, confused, and desperate for help. Either way, you find yourself reaching out to them - but outside of this dream, you are helpless to save them. The dream will fade but stay with you in your memory, and may be a key component in you choosing to believe and join the other rescuers when they come to your door. Something has been taken, and you will take it back.

☆MAKE THESE DREAMS COME TRUE

These prompts are design to be kept as game canon after acceptance, and can be used as the official story of how your character entered the game. Importantly, the technology used to enter 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 encountered multiple ways, or going in more than one direction, before the timeline settled on a final path.




►B1) JUST SAY YES: Soon after these dreams, rescuers will find themselves in a strange situation. Time will abruptly stop for every part of the world except for them, and fade into a ghostly vision of its former self - just in time for them to be approached by some mysterious strangers. Whether your rescuer chooses to run, fight, or talk, eventually they'll be told the truth - people of the multiverse have been captured and taken to a universe far away to be harvested for their souls...in the form of forcing them to becoming rock stars. You heard it here first, folks.

The people recruiting you will mostly be other player rescuers that have already been recruited (regardless of whether or not that's been threaded out - you can assume your guy got recruited by someone if you want to recruit OTHER people.) The pilot and owner of the space ship doing this appears to be a blue man named Shep. He's the guy that's apparently in charge of this whole thing, but he's so busy with the dimension hopping that he's kind of hard to find and talk to. He presumably recruited some of the first members personally, but things have been sort of getting more complicated since then.

►B2) INTERSTELLAR DISCO: After you've agreed to come for whatever reason - to save you lover, friend, some guy, whatever - you're be taken upon the guitar shaped spaceship to wait out the tide of the temporal distortions picking you up has caused. It's a long journey back to Vista City, and you've got plenty of new comrades to get to know. This mission could take a while, so you better get comfy. You're in for the long haul now.

NOTE: If you want to see the interior of the spaceship (or if you want to see Shep dance) watch the music video posted up top. It's going to be a fair bit bigger in Interstellar to accommodate the big crew, but the essence is there.

☆HELPFUL INFO

► Follow the mod plurk for updates: interstellar5555
► Check out the game NAVIGATION
► Check out the MUSICIAN TDM
► Reserves open on January 2nd at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on January 11th at 12:01AM EDT

Comments

Wii Fit Trainer | Wii Fit/Smash | yes really | B1 and B2

[fitnessenthusiast]

B1

The fact that she's had any kind of dream at all it already a sign that things are horribly wrong. Sleep was one of those things that happened to other people. Being the kind of person that she was, time wasn't a very big factor. At first she thought the clock was broken, before the training room became... faded. This was a change. Something new. Something different.

She didn't like that.

After a quick deep breath exercise, she began to examine the room carefully. Perhaps this was some new design the Center was experimenting with. They usually talk about these sorts of things.

B2

Helping people, the most important thing a trainer could ever do. Of course she had to agree. She'd be failing her duties otherwise. After rolling up her yoga mat, she followed the fellow rescuer to the ship.

Now she was sitting around said ship, preparing one of her regular exercises. She smiles at anyone that passes her by with a strange not-smile, like it was more of a responsibility than actual joy.

"Hello there! Ready to work out today?"

B2

[riveres]

This is one of the more... bizarre things he's seen. (And Oscar's on a ship about to travel to the stars, he's seen lots of strange things today.) But this woman is... pale, like paper pale. And while her exercise moves are flawless and graceful, she sounds... stiff.

"...I guess."

[fitnessenthusiast]

Excellent. A new student means a happy trainer.

"Let's work on toning your ab muscles."

[riveres]

Oh, so she actually does it. But he does take off his jacket and shoes.

"Lead the way..."

[fitnessenthusiast]

"We'll begin with the single-leg twist exercise." She lifts up her leg to meet her arm in demonstration.

[riveres]

She has perfect balance to be honest. It's vaugely not human... But he follows directions, admittedly he kind of stumbles.

[fitnessenthusiast]

"Stand on this leg. Remain within the yellow balance zone for ten reps."

She forgot to bring the yellow balance zone thing but that's not important. Just do it.

[riveres]

He doesn't know what the yellow balance zone is, but he tries to remain in that position, he shakes a little.

B2

[avidita]

On one hand, the reasonable thing to do after suddenly becoming an adult would be to get used to the length of their limbs and all that so that they're better prepared when they actually hit planetside.

On the other hand, Mammon is lazy as sin.

They eye the woman from beneath their hood suspiciously. They could just say 'no' and leave it at that, but they've come to recognize stubborn people. It's never as simple as that. So, instead, they divert attention from themself.

"Do you know how to help frogs exercise?"

On top of their head, Fantasma croaks.

[fitnessenthusiast]

"All of the Wii Fit Center's Trainers are professional trained to help everyone reach their full exercise potential."

That wasn't a yes. Which means she wasn't lying to a student, per se.

[avidita]

That is absolutely not a real answer, but now Mammon is kind of curious.

So they gently remove Fantasma from her perch and lean down to put her on the floor. "Here you go, Fantasma."

The frog croaks and looks up to the Fitness Trainer expectantly.

[fitnessenthusiast]

She smiles (?) down at the frog.

"Hello there! Ready to work out today?"

[avidita]

Fantasma looks up and gives a croak.

She has her reserves about this, strange woman, but you have your chance to prove her wrong.

[fitnessenthusiast]

"Let's start with the jackknife exercise. Please lie on your back and form a v shape."

She demonstrates by using her body in an exercise designed for humanoid bodies. In which she is attempting to instruct a frog in.

[avidita]

Let it never be said that Fantasma isn't willing to try, unlike her owner. She rolls onto her back, which is the easiest part of this by far. The next part?

Hm. Yeah. Not so easy.

Her legs flail, and the bend of her more powerful hind legs ssssssort of comes close. Alas, a frog is not really meant to bend like this.

[fitnessenthusiast]

But she's trying and that's all that matters.

After several reps, the exercise is complete.

"Great work! We're all done!"

B2

[heroforfun]

Weird, Saitama pondered when he looked at who was speaking to him. He'd never really seen someone look that white, even with makeup. Maybe she's a weird alien or monster? But she seems perfectly friendly. Then her question registers.

"Oh, I can't get stronger. What kind of exercise do you do?"

[fitnessenthusiast]

"Exercising every day improves one's posture and overall well-being.

I am in charge of strength and yoga training."

[heroforfun]

"Strength training, huh. What regimen do you do for that? I can tell you what I did."

[fitnessenthusiast]

"Regular routines at the Wii Fit Center include exercises such as the jackknife, torso twists, lunges, and more."

[heroforfun]

"I did 100 sit-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 squats and 10k run every day," he explains with a shrug. Is this lady an android? Maybe. He's never talked to one of them before. "Eat normal meals, but a banana in the morning is fine... don't use AC or heating to save money... yeah, that's about it. I did that regimen until all my hair fell out - and then I was strong."

[fitnessenthusiast]

Bald Guy upgraded to the Trainer's favorite person. Still, there's improvement to be made.

"Why did you stop?"

[heroforfun]

Saitama shrugged. "I could defeat all my opponents in one punch. My hobby got really boring once I got that strong, so I didn't want to keep improving. I still eat healthy when I have money and go for runs to try and find monsters and stuff, but even though I quit exercising I haven't gotten any weaker."

[fitnessenthusiast]

Quit.

Exercising.

"There's always improvement to be made."

Must return this soul to the light of fitness.

B2

[charleslee]

What an unusual woman. But then, everyone on this ship is unusual. Connor stops what he's doing to look at her, giving her a considering look before he nods.

"Yes," he finally says after a moment or two. It's hardly as though he has more important things to do, "it is... Important, given the trials ahead, that I keep training."