☆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

► Follow the mod plurk for updates: interstellar5555
► Check out the game NAVIGATION
► Check out the MUSICIAN TDM
► Ask the mods some QUESTIONS
► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on March 4th at 12:01AM EDT

Comments

[possessedbygreeed]

Do you happen to know what Steven's dad's first name was? [Just so that he had all of the information on the people he was looking for. When she started describing her friends, he pulled a small notebook out of his inside jacket pocket and started taking notes. Just like any other eyewitness account, really. It really made the whole 'cop' thing pretty obvious.

Yeah, the changes, that would be inconvenient. He tapped his pen against his lip in thought for a moment.]

Ankh wears a lot of red. He already dressed kind of like a rock star, really. Lots of leather jackets, chains hanging off his belt, pointed shoes, things like that. He also likes birds and he really likes ice cream bars, popsicles, things like that.

[woomy]

No, no one I know is here, but I know some people who could be kidnapped, so I'm taking a preemptive strike and helping out. ... Who's Baryl?

[ She doesn't think she knows of a rescuer with that name... 3 feels like she should know about him if Roy knows about him. ]

[stylistic_disloyalty]

Luci blinks at him. "Oh you're precious too," she says, her face breaking into a sly grin. "I suggested he sleep with his boyfriend. Engage in coitus. Have sex with."

A2

[off_the_edge]

No.

[He is standing, loose shouldered, with his back to whoever's talking to him. He does the only thing he can think of - he shrugs. Then, slowly, he raises his right hand, almost to the back of his neck, but not quite. His fingertips curl, not wanting to feel whatever's there.]

There's something on my back, isn't there? Something heavy.

[Of course there is - a battered old sword, its simple blade dented. The round studs on the guard are black around the edges with soot and old grime. He's wearing simple, dark purple clothes that don't feel like they fit, but in a way that feels familiar.]

[spaghettimonster]

Think nothing of it! Just think of the poor people who have been kidnapped. We hardly have a moment to waste!

[Papyrus pulls out his phone to text them. But... the phone doesn't quite seem to be working. Hmm. Maybe a note on his dashboard will be enough? He leans over into his car, and starts digging around for a spare piece of paper and something to write on.]

[He stills as something Connie said finally sparks a memory.]

Hmmm. Hey, didn't you say they've been brainwashed? So they don't know they're in danger? Do they... by any chance... not remember who they are?

B2

[hypnotised]

Wheezing, groaning - !

Sarah hears it with the hairs on the back of her neck - pushing away from the window and sprinting towards it. She's been told the Doctor was kidnapped, so it's really indecent of him to show up here, too.

"Perhaps it's another one," she thinks aloud, used to chatting as she runs down the corridors of spaceships - "him from before, or him from after. But he never used to like doing that, did he? Like someone else at the party wearing the same outfit. Was that how he put it? I wish I could - "

She skids to a halt when she sees the sound is coming from what she can't help noticing is a rather shabby woman. She stares. From her own mouth she emits a useless squeaking sound that is definitely nothing to do with a scream.

"What's going on?" she says, surprised by how angry her voice is. "How do you know that sound?" And then she gives a miserable giggle, feeling silly for thinking it was the Doctor - "Can you do other noises as well? Can you do a Trim phone?"

[hypnotised]

[Over the years with the Doctor, Sarah's become deeply attuned to anyone trying very hard to look harmless and mildly amused at things. In her experience, it usually means they're interesting, or dangerous, or most likely both.

What an odd looking fellow. A bit skinny, she thinks. She doesn't think he noticed her watching - she had been careful not to make eye contact - but she isn't certain.

Either way, it doesn't change the way she chooses to introduce herself - she falls behind him as he walks, matching his pace, and joins in with the song he's humming.]

[spaghettimonster]

"Of course I do!" Not especially well, since Papyrus really isn't that great at making friends with people, but he at least knows of them. "Their life must be hard, unable to walk and run around. If you see them, be nice, okay?"

His attention is still at least half on the idea of what colors Alphys and Undyne would be wearing. Alphys is yellow, so Undyne wearing yellow would match. He's a little unsure about the blue for a few minutes, until it finally hits him. "Wearing each others' colors! That is cute. But, blue for Undyne's scales? Why not green for her magic?"

[variaboss]

[ Those are great, tbh. Until they bring the carrion birds. But then there's just more birds for the cats in and around the grounds to hunt and drop at his doorstep, making the cycle continue. ]

Of course I do, you brat. Like I would forget something like that. I'm...I'm mafia. I'm the son of the Don of Dons. I'm the heir and I'm going to be the 10th some day.

[variaboss]

Xanxus is disgusting. That's just a fact of life. It has nothing to do with being human and everything to do with being him. Besides, it's not like he's ever met a skeleton, let alone dream about a walking talking one.

"You....were born a skeleton...." Yeah. Give him a few second to wrap his brain around that one. "Right. So... You're a living skeleton and I'm definitely dreaming. So that means I need to wake up. Because no way am I crazy enough to have dreamed something like this. So I'm going to wake up and you're going to go back to my subconscious where you belong."

Hallo!

[iwantmythief]

She carries on for another moment, before straightening and brushing herself off. She gives the other woman a sharp look, "No, well, yes, but I won't. It's a dreadful sound." She makes a haughty kind of 'hmph' sound, but then she really looks at the woman's face. Recognition dawned on her features and she points to Sarah, "You! I recognize you! One of his strays! Lovely dog you had too!"

Well, Sarah, make of that what you will.

[iwantmythief]

"I think it was probably someone else's. But they weren't here when I got here." She starts wandering towards the walls of the ship, reverently touching her. "Someone else put me in here. I don't know why, but I can find out and fix it after I get my Thief back."

[oceantier]

"Bad things happened here," she replies softly. She still isn't looking at him. "They remembered this place exists. I . . . didn't help."

[oceantier]

She doesn't ask for more. One of the gifts of being reticent oneself is being able to recognize when another doesn't want to give further detail. She watches him a moment more, silent, before replying to his question.

"To the ship. To . . . help."

[missknight]

Huh, I guess not...

[That's dreams for you.]

Mostly I just know about Gems... and I guess Gem monsters. I think that's different than what you're talking about, however.

[missknight]

[Just for that, Connie purses her lips up at Leonie but doesn't say anything. But really. Now they got jynxed.]

I guess there's no choice but to check it out.

[And, to prepare for the worst, she's readying her pitchfork.]

[missknight]

[This is starting to seem familiar. Eerily familiar. Connie tries to keep her calm.]

Well... Do you remember the others? Do you remember living at the temple?

[missknight]

Oh! [Straightening up, because the notepad makes this seem so much more professional, Connie nods.] His first name is Greg! Greg Universe.

[Now it makes her feel kind of guilty that she doesn't have a notepad on her. There's just a pen that was tucked into her pocket, but it's kind of useless without anything to write on.]

Red, rock star, birds, ice cream. Got it! I'll be sure to look out for him.

[missknight]

[A shame all she has is a pen tucked in her pocket, but no paper. Still, Connie waits patiently for him, because leaving notes is important. The question makes her perk up, head tilting up again.]

That's right. The kidnappers made them think that they'd always grown up on the planet they were kidnapped to... Including erasing their memories of the people they really know.

[Something she knows from personal experience, and her arms tighten around Rose's sword.]

[consocius]

Briefly, surprise flashes across his face before it settles into recognition as he looks at the charm. "Hey! This... I saw you making this." He laughs a little. "It kind of looks like me now, though. Did you draw on it?"

[twoscompany]

...I remember Steven.

[How could she have ever forgot him...]

Amethyst...she can shapeshift. And...Rose Quartz. Ruby and Sapphire. We're the Crystal Gems. That's all I can remember.

[notcivilion]

[Its hard to tell "vaguely sheepish" from a lion face but there's definitely a tinge of it there. She's a professional. But there's a tinge.]

Unfortunately. [That gun's coming out too.]

[hearted]

"Just like Riku," Minako observed with a fond shake of her head. "Why am I not surprised? C'mon, let's get moving."

[4thdimensional]

In that case, I think I know what to ask once we're on our way.

[He steps right over the threshold without hesitation. Totally ready for takeoff here.]

[heymcfly]

[ All of the stuff this old guy is talking about is hilarious. Marty, a high school kid? Putting together some kind of cheap garage band? It sounds like he was the star of a cheesy movie, something that seemed like a good idea at first but was absolutely cringeworthy the older it got. It brings a smile to his face, at least until Doc starts talking about himself.

Maybe some of his suspicions were right; this guy kind of did look like the wild scientist who blew up entire towns, or set rabid things on the loose. But Doc was nice. His eyes looked kind of crazy, but he talked nice and seemed nice in general.

This all sounded really, really familiar though. Marty couldn't get rid of the feeling that everything the old guy was saying was absolutely true. He tries to remember more, or focus on the little things, but all it gives him is a hell of a headache.

He points to somewhere nearby, offers a smile. ] You wanna grab a coffee, maybe…?