☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

[interdimanagers]

☆WELCOME RESCUERS

"Daft Punk - Digital Love" (Watch on YouTube)

Welcome to Interstellar's second RESCUER TDM! A part of the Interstellar plot that first opened a couple months ago, this TDM cover the second round of recruitment for those approached 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. Rescuers that are already in game can also end up in this dreamscape, and can run into both new musicians and new rescue team recruits.



►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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► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on March 4th at 12:01AM EDT

Comments

[rising_wing]

I'm sure he is.

[Riku nods and takes a step back, looks around him.]

I know Pearl, haven't really had a chance to talk to her that much though.

Think there's enough space here?

[rising_wing]

Some are still on Terra, some...

[He pauses, and then sighs]

I don't know. They might have been captured.

[rising_wing]

[This is like Maleficent declaring her the Mistress of All Evil with all the powers of Hell at her command

he just crosses his arms and sighs. She seems more in line with Pete, personality wise, but still, despite being so openly a villain she was a trained scientist, which meant she was was smart. Probably. Best err on the side of caution.]

I've gone against madder scientists than you.

[oceantier]

He earns a glance from that -- or his feet do, her eyes still lowered. It's not the same -- and he must know that.

But she has no desire to talk about it, either. The home she's craved for thousands of years died thousands of years ago. Better that she forgets it if she can; she'll never get it back.

The ghosts of shapes, faces still play behind her eyelids.

"I met Steven not very long ago," she finishes quietly, and looks away.

"Why . . . did you think of this place?"

[panspermia]

"I don't really know."

As much as he wishes he could remember for his own sake, right now he just wishes he could give her answers.

"I barely remember this place. I know Steven lived here, and I sort of did too." He glances back to the broken van. "But I don't remember it ever looking like this."

Now he crosses his arms, discomfort mounting. "Whatever happened, I get the feeling I was pretty useless here."

[radiant_bloom]

Aqua... why did that name sound familiar? Why did that make something stir in her heart? "Coming from you, I'll take that as a complement," she said sweetly.

That was Dream Drop Distance, right?

[radiant_bloom]

"Maybe, I still don't know everything you two did without me," she said. "But I don't recall seeing you go off to do that. And I don't know why you'd have gone without me," she said, pointedly.

[thetruehistorian]

[Robin really should have seen that coming. But it's like nothing she's ever experienced before. A dream shifting around someone else? She doesn't have time to mull over the implications as she's pushed aside.] Sabo, wait! [Robin nearly gags on the stench, but she has to do something. If it's lava rolling down the side of the wall, then perhaps she can slow it a little. She drops to one knee, inhaling sharply. She has to think about this one, and focus carefully. Her arms cross just below the wrist and her eyes close. And then hundreds, perhaps even thousands of disembodied hands appear in the air, hooked at the thumbs and fluttering briskly like moths. A gust of wind picks up, driven toward the advancing lava by the sprouted fleur. They increase their tempo, like a woman fanning herself lest she faint, the gust of wind picking up speed. The lava cools slowly, and only slightly. With a gasp, Robin releases the summoned hands and falls forward onto all fours, breathing hard in spite of the fumes. It is a lost cause.]

[riveres]

[Silence...]

They really take this seriously, don't they?

[missknight]

[Mission accomplished, Connie leaves the dispenser where it is and goes to sit across from Garnet. Clearly, this is a dream, so logic is... out the window, she guesses.]

So where are the others?

[She means Pearl and Amethyst, of course.]

[missknight]

[Nodding, Connie reaches out for a handshake only for her dark skin to turn darker with the blood that rushes up to her cheeks.]

Oh no, I just like reading stories! My mother is a doctor, but... I'm training right now to be a swordfighter, actually.

[missknight]

Oh. Uh.

[This keeps feeling more suspicious, and maybe it shows on Connie's face.]

My mom has always told me not to take food from strangers, sorry.

[missknight]

[And follow she does! This is starting to seem like an adventurous dream, and that's more than enough for her to run into this headfirst.]

I've been trained how to use a sword! I was actually looking for something I could use to improvise before you appeared.

[missknight]

That's right... And then we made Stevonnie.

[The softest of pulls, to encourage but not force.]

We probably can't make them right now... But we can still dance, right, Steven? I'll help keep you up.

[And maybe, hopefully, that can help encourage him out of the cage.]

[notcivilion]

[That gets an eyebrow raise.]

You fence? [Kind of a sport for bourgeoisie. She'd be highly suspicious of the girl's class background if it wasn't for the fact women weren't allowed to fence. And no fat cat (literal or otherwise) would break tradition.]

[spaghettimonster]

What an absurd plan, it isn't like the skeleton cause the snow and ice to exist in the first place. At least, aside from the way that the setting of their shared dream is from his memories. This ice didn't do anything to him.

"Yes, I am a skeleton! A living skeleton! It's so very good of you to remind me of that. I might... have forgotten?" It's a bit of a stretch, and it takes a little effort, but Papyrus manages to interpret Xanxus' response as a compliment. "If you're not a dog, why do you think I'm revenge for some other bone???"

[spaghettimonster]

Humans prefer living in places where it's always changing? No wonder Frisk was able to traverse the Underworld so quickly. They were already used to a constantly changing environment...

Papyrus considers the amount of snow actually on the ground here, and his grandiose plans, and realizes they'll need more. So he heads to the top of the slope, gathers a big ball, and guides it down. A few bones stopping it every couple of feet handily keeps it from gaining too much momentum.

He continues musing aloud, "I can only imagine how big the average human's closet must be... Should we have moved somewhere with a bigger one???"

[determinate]

Frisk pauses in their own efforts to watch Papyrus retrieve more snow. It's always interesting to them, how the monsters use magic just in their normal daily lives. Humans are a lot stronger, but maybe that book in the library had a point about the whole expression thing. They don't feel like their determination is very fun to use.

"It's okay." They shrug. "Not everyone has a lot. Or you could get a dresser." Do the skeletons even need weather-appropriate clothing anyway? Maybe they just want to fit in.

[spaghettimonster]

Admittedly, Papyrus tends to wear dark tights under his battle body; the better to match his walk sprite's portrayal. But those are just thin leggings. They provide minimal warmth, given how little he wears on top of it. His clothing choices are entirely for fashion and morale. There's nothing for getting into the mindset of exercise like a Jog Boy tanktop.

"A dresser...? Like Sans has?" He considers the possibilities, hauling the big snowball on top of the future-car mound. "Oho! I could keep season-relevant clothing in the dresser, and everything else stored in the closet! That would be incredibly functional. And so easy to remember!"

[avidita]

[When he comes back, Mammon is right where he left them, this time with a fat black frog in their hands. They seem to be observing something before glancing up at his voice.]

Alright, stick close. And try not to laugh.

[They lead the way... right to a guitar shaped spaceship. Because that's the kind of adventure he's signed up for.]

[eba02]

[J raises an eyebrow. How much did Frisk tell the guy? And he doesn't seem to remember dreams, so it probably happened somewhere in the city...]

[This could get interesting - more than it already is.]

I am, yeah. We're...workin' on it.

[exhumerus]

[Way more than they should have, by any rights. Sans more or less got an entire briefing for his efforts.]

They said you weren't ready to pull anyone out yet, but when you are...we gotta talk. I've got a major in.

[tigermillionaire]

[He blinks heavily, like he's trying to focus, but he lets her take his hands. They are still bound like they were when she found him, but he lets her guide him upwards without resistance. Maybe he's too distracted at the moment to be scared of leaving.

Her words have obviously caught his attention and drawn his focus.]

I...I remember that.

[It happens suddenly - he remembers what happened at the end. They'd fused! Just like him and his dad had! The idea feels him with warmth, and his cheeks flush slightly, even here.]

And we...got donuts?

[eba02]

[Hello, that is not a development he expected.]

Yeah? How d'you figure?

[exhumerus]

Heh. Kinda like this.

[Sans vanishes without a sound or movement, reappearing behind J in the same moment. His grin is wide.]

A bit of a side project of mine. Call it a disappearing act.