interstellar404 | ☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: DIGITAL LOVE

☆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
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► 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

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First time in space?

[Her voice is distinctly English, but the rest of her is... otherwise. Vastra, elbow resting comfortably on the hilt of her sword, approaches the awe-struck man with a gentle smile and joins him to watch.]

It isn't mine, but I can tell you we're in a part of it I'm almost certain I've never been to. [Perhaps that would make him feel a little better.]

[Connor starts at the sound of her voice and instinctively his hand goes for a weapon, but he relaxes again once the moment's passed. Or, well. He relaxes as much as he can when he realises he's talking to some kind of... Lizard woman? The look on his face probably isn't alien (ha) to her, but he quickly looks back out to space. He doesn't want to be rude.]

I had no idea travelling the stars was so commonplace for some. [...] What part are you from?

[He asks as if he's even heard of anything past Saturn.]

[Oh it definitely isn't foreign to her at all. At least he hadn't started screaming, though the disinclination to stare is appreciated. Vastra understood human curiosity of course, they stared endlessly at things that they didn't immediately recognize, but she'd never felt wholly comfortable with it.]

Judging by your manner of dress, the same as you. [Vastra smirks at him, eyeing him sideways for the reaction.] Earth, though the year was 1893. You seem to hail a little before then.

1783.

[This is SO WILD. He's talking to a lizard woman from the future! IN SPACE! Dobby will never believe it.]

Are you... [UM.] Where... [Oh no.] Are you from?

[He's still not looking at her, but she can probably see how awkward he looks suddenly.]

Earth. [Vastra repeats, looking even more charmed and amused by his confusion. But he seems like a good kind of man, so she won't let him remain that way too long. He's at least asking.]

Before apes and, consequentially, humans, my people, the Silurians, inhabited Earth before the dawn of time as you know it. However a cataclysmic event killed most of us and most life on the planet, paving the way for mammals to take control of the planet. The naysayers of this apocalypse stayed on the surface and died. Some built ships like this one and gathered the animals your people call 'dinosaurs' and took them into space. Others, like myself and my sisters, put ourselves into a deep sleep underground and waited there for the Earth to be hospitable again.

...we overslept a little. [She admits with a wry smile.]

[This is so cool! SO COOL!!! Connor looks at her inquisitively. There's... So many questions. So many.]

You... Slept beneath the Earth?

[IT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY, CONNOR, Vastra is never bothered by answering the questions of the inquisitive.]

Yes. Induced hibernation, quite a ways down. We were only awakened when a group of tunnel diggers came upon us while building the London subterranean rail system.

[At least... she woke up. To find her sisters being murdered by the terrified workers. That had been a trying week underground.]

By then, humankind had spread over the entire planet, and I had little choice but to get along with the lot of you. [She smiles-- it's a joke. A kind of backhanded one, but that's how she rolls.]

[Connor turns toward her, leaning on the wall so he can face her properly. Any discomfort he had about her appearance is gone, replaced by the curiosity plain on his face.]

We are a difficult species. [And there's just a touch of amusement in his voice as he says it.] I suppose that much has not changed.

No, humans, from what I understand, are always difficult no matter the time or place. That's not to say my people were simple and uncomplicated-- our problems were only different from yours.

[Like a giant asteroid coming to destroy their way of life. Different problems.]

But you are not without your charm. I did marry a human, after all.

Edited 2016-01-16 21:43 (UTC)

You married a human? [Wow.] What is that like? Is it not difficult for you and him?

[Connor Kenway: makin an ass outta u & me]

[Aw Connor, it's okay. It's not whether you know immediately she's a lesbian.]

I would think if I married a man it might have been difficult at first, but my wife is quite unconcerned with our producing offspring.

[It's whether or not you look horrified or perplexed now.]

[Neither! He looks surprised for a moment (and also a bit embarrassed because that's not the kind of difficult he meant) but then he nods.]

Are people accepting of it, then?

[He actually seems really concerned about it. People can be super intolerant, this is something Connor knows well.]

Oh no. There's nothing that can be done about it, so their disapproval doesn't stand for much in my eyes. Jenny's very family disowned her over it, not even because I wasn't human. I was prepared for them to express objection to marrying someone with a "severe skin condition", but I confess I was expecting them to be happy their daughter had found love.

[Jenny had been so accepting of the truth, she'd thought that understanding nature had come from her parents. Nothing could have been further from the truth.]

But, simply another example of humans displaying frustrating behavior.

Edited 2016-01-16 23:37 (UTC)

I am sorry to hear that. [He frowns, looking down at his hands, and then he looks up with a hint of a hopeful smile.] But that the two of you have found eachother-- that's wonderful.

That is, fortunately, enough for the two of us.

But enough about myself. [She says that like there aren't a million questions presented just by her face.]

Who did they take from your time?

Nobody I know of.

[He shrugs a shoulder.] But I couldn't know about this and do nothing.

...no one?

[She looks surprised, but pleasantly so. She had imagined most people here had a specific goal or person in mind, but apparently this man is a good Samaritan. Who have thought...]

[She smiles and extends her hand.]

Madame Vastra of Paternoster Row.

[He takes her hand in a firm handshake] Connor.

[Well. That feels deeply underwhelming. He doesn't even have a surname to add a few syllables here.]

[Let's just move on. Smooth it over.]

'Paternoster Row'?

The street I live on. I run a small detective agency out of our home, it's a habit.

So where are you from in 1783, Master Connor?

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