☆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

[radiant_bloom]

She chuckled. "I'll make you a deal, I won't forget it, if you won't!" she broke the hug to offer her pinky to seal the promise. "Okay, Sora?"

[exhumerus]

[Sans raises the bony ridge that amounts to his eyebrows. Yes, the bone moves, sort of like skin and muscle. It's weird.]

Is it really that hard to imagine? Most of these people don't know anybody is ever coming for them.

[spaghettimonster]

One minute, Papyrus is staring at his brother's strange, fearful expression. What could he possibly have said to inspire that? The next minute, he's staring at a rack of glass vials. That teleportation trick is bad enough when it's used for pranks, but running away from a strange conversation? That's a new low.

At the crashing sounds, his head around, and he sees Sans staggering over some more of the fallen objects. "Sans! What was that??? Are you..." Wait, no. He stops halfway through that question, as it's obvious that Sans isn't all right. Instead Papyrus pushes away from the counter, walking across the room towards his brother.

"...Is there anything I can do to help? You're starting to scare me." If the answer is something like 'go away,' he'll need to politely refuse. Leaving his brother completely alone here seems like a bad idea. But... if they could get back home, or to Grillby's, or something, he'd be willing to let someone else keep an eye out on Sans.

[exhumerus]

Sans spends a large portion of the time Papyrus spends coming over just being disorientated and trying not to step all over the glass he's broken. He hadn't really intended to do that. Teleporting, maybe, even if it was a kneejerk response, but he'd come out of the shift sooner than he'd wanted. Probably because there's still nowhere for him to go.

He gives Papyrus a cornered looked as he approaches, his alarm showing plainly for a couple of moments - right before a sharp gasp goes through him, that quickly devolves into helpless, bordering on hysterical laughter.

"Just now I'm scaring you?" he manages, in total disbelief. God, what is normal for him, then? Is it really this? "Talk about a low bar for entry!"

[possessedbygreeed]

He nodded as they walked along together. "Yeah." He let any concerns about there being anything left of him to meet go unvoiced. Eiji still had those broken pieces of his Core Medal, right? But, he's going to change that particular subject. "So what do you usually do when you're not getting rescued or rescuing people?"

[possessedbygreeed]

[Yeah, that's so familiar it almost hurt.]

I'm here for a friend of mine, Ankh. Our friend Eiji is already out there to help him, but he did a lot to protect my sister and even the whole world. If he needs our help now, then I'm not going to leave him alone.

[possessedbygreeed]

[Sure, he'll accept a handshake. That's nice and normal.]

Is it obvious? [A small laugh at his own expense.] This is my first time, yes. I'm just a normal police detective. [Aside from being body-snatched by a demon but that was another matter entirely.]

[prince_the_ripper]

[ Dead people are pretty much a given in the Varia castle, but yes, those too. Sometimes he even strings them up with his wires and hangs them outside Boss' window for decoration, like extremely grotesque windchimes. ]

Thaaaat's right. You've got your own private quarters and an office.

[ He easily ducks between the throne when the man seems to start having one of his temper tantrums, but it's... surprisingly mild. Nowhere near as destructive as usual. He expected a rain of wood splinters, table parts and dish pieces at the very least. Hmm. ]

So, you remember that much at least, huh. [ He reaches to casually pluck one of those feathers from Boss' hair, immediately retreating to stay out of reach, and mimics fanning himself with it, grinning again. What a little shit. ] Know who you are yet, Boss?

[radiant_bloom]

Kairi blinked then looked at him wide eyed and incredulous. "There is more to life than rescuing Sora and Riku and being rescued by them?" she asked, as though completely dumbfounded. She was able to hold the expression for a whole ten seconds after the words ended before she burst out laughing.

She shrugged finally, still chuckling. "I don't know, normal stuff. Before all of this started, we used to dream about seeing other worlds, having adventures. Now, what little time we have together at home, we cherish. We went from together every single day to having adventures apart, so now instead of talking about what might be out there, we talk about what is out there, the people we met, the places we went, and all the new life taking root in our hearts." Sora had held at least two of them in his heart, Kairi and Roxas, and Kairi herself held Naminè. So long as they were together, Roxas and Naminè could be together. "We go to school when we must, though I know the boys are bored with that and looking for the next adventure. I had just hoped that when it came, we could have all gone. Together." She pushed back some hair, tucking it behind one ear.

"How about you?"

[missknight]

Ankh... I'll remember his name. What does he look like?

[She's already here to rescue her friends, after all. Of course she's going to help out with others.]

[possessedbygreeed]

[A small chuckle.] Like me, actually. With blonde hair that's all on one side. [He gestures on the right side of his own head, from front to back, at about ear level.] How about the people you're here for? Steven, his dad, and Garnet, right?

Yup

[rising_wing]

"There's a bit we haven't gotten around to telling you yet, but you already know most of it."

He sighs. "The timeline is really messed up in because of all the holes Santiago and Blanche are making"

[rising_wing]

They do.

This is... extremely dangerous, more so then we originally thought. No one will judge you if you back out.

[rising_wing]

The cargo hold would probably have enough space.

Though it's probably filled with trash, still, it'd be good training. Get used to uneven surfaces.

[missknight]

[No judgment is on Connie's face as she reads everything, and, when she's finally done, she gives an understanding nod. This sounds like something from one of her books.]

So you have an even more important job than being royalty. It must be hard.

[missknight]

[And, frankly, if Leonie met Pearl in person, that impression would only sink in further. For now, however, Connie gives a nod.]

It just has to be something I can hold in my hands. Anything would be better than having nothing if something happened.

[determinate]

[Frisk shrugs.]

I guess. I think they go easier on me because I'm a kid.

Where are you from?

[missknight]

[The most heroic skeleton. Connie has never met one so heroic, although mostly on the basis that she's never met many skeletons. Or, at least, ones that talk. She beams when he agrees.]

Yeah! Thank you! Oh- [She holds out her hand.] I'm Connie! And this is Lion.

[Lion yawns. He is, alas, not impressed. Cats, even giant magical pink ones, usually aren't.]

[missknight]

Band?

[Yep, weird dream territory alright.]

Oh, I think Steven told me about this once- Amethyst does drums, right?

[spaghettimonster]

[Well, if and when they find some other talking skeletons, he had better still be in the top rankings for heroics. Especially since Sans is still the only other likely skeleton, and he's not really known for his heroics. Not normally. Who knows what bad good influence that Greg Universe is having on him???]

[His smile widens as he shakes her hand.]

The lion is named Lion! How convenient and easy to remember. I... am Papyrus! And. Hmm.

[Papyrus looks around at their frozen surroundings again.]

I should probably at least leave a note warning people where I'm going.

[spaghettimonster]

Frisk's wardrobe is going to become increasingly flashy. Descriptive labels, bright colors, bizarre imitations of cutting-edge human fashion. Hopefully somebody intervenes before they get too absurd.

He begins at the top, sculpting an exquisite replica of his own skull. "Undyne and Alphys could get matching coats! Just imagine how cute they would be." Those two would certainly want them, considering the warmer areas they've lived in.

[spaghettimonster]

Being polite is really difficult when your partner in the conversation insists on being disgusting. Not that being human is disgusting. He has human friends, and knows a little bit about their physiology. The fact that they're secretly skeletons under all the squishy stuff... it really makes him feel a sense of kinship with them.

But this is too much. "Oh my god, I'm not a dead human. I was born a skeleton!"

Papyrus frowns, resting his hands on his hips. "If your food gave you dreams that feature me, you should be glad! Everybody should be so lucky as to dream of me.

[spaghettimonster]

That expression, that laughter... Just what is going on here? Sans doesn't seem drunk or anything. But he's out of it, unguarded in a way Papyrus just isn't used to.

"Well, no, not just now!" Utter exasperation. What an absurd question. "But now it's bad enough that I can't just let you pretend it's nothing. You can't even aim your secret teleportation right! You might end up in a wall."

And that's what normal for Sans; pretending all is well, especially when it's not. So if he wants somebody to tell him what normal for Sans the Skeleton is, he's just gonna need to wait for those memories.

[twoscompany]

No, Sabo does drums, now that Richard's--

[Wait. She used Steven's real name.]

You know Steven?

[riveres]

No. I'm not.

[He may not know one person that got captured, but no one deserves that. No one.]