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☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

☆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

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He watches as her face goes red and tears well up in her eyes. None of the others had reacted this way so far- they were always confused or denied that he had forgotten them, most of them just continued on with whatever they had been doing or saying because they were only illusions from his memory of friends and companions. But this time, this woman clearly was more than just a memory, he can feel her strong emotions there in front of him as if they're really standing next to each other.

"Oh! Oh! No, not on purpose! If I promised, I would never of my own will!" He raises his hands and comes close to trying to pat her shoulder, not sure if it was right to, so he's left waving his hands awkwardly. "It's a long story but I've been taken away from where I belong and some very very bad people did something to my head. I can't remember my life. I- I don't entirely know who I am. I'm sure I'll remember you again, it just hasn't come back yet."

"I... I don't know Kairi. Men like him don't really have friends. He had followers, people who might have considered themselves his friends." He shook his head.

"Maybe when he was younger, but not now."

No, that's real. But only the last few months of it.

[He smirks]

So your little boyfriend is real. For now anyways. Who knows if he's the real him though. You got off light when it came to the brainwashing, since your heart and mind have already been messed with enough. The others? Not so much.

At this Vanitas has a very visual reaction. He slaps his hands to his eyes as if that will block the vision of Sora and Jamie... doing... that.

Vanitas is a pure being. Pure darkness, but still, he's technically four... ish? It's confusing.

"Thanks! I always wanted to imagine that goody two-shoes going at it!"

Luci cackles, clearly taking way too much joy in burning this kid's brain from the inside out.

"Knocking boots with another sweet and innocent boy, wide-eyed and just wants to go to the beach," she smugly snaps her fingers and lights a cigarette. "It's so fucking cute, it's cute fucking."

When he feels both the charm and her hand in his own, he opens his eyes to look down at them. A right answer? That would mean there's also a wrong answer. So he's not really supposed to let go, or what?

"Okay. How about..." He squeezes her hand slightly, then shifts his own, so he's taking the charm away but leaving their fingers together, and ends up hooking his pinky with hers again. "This?"

"You say that like I don't like it," she says with a tone that suggests something a little more sexual than Sarah was probably expecting. "Besides, I don't have nerves. It isn't like it hurts when he does that, sometimes it does jostle things just right. If he does do something I don't like I let him know!" She laughs a little, "You see how he jumps when I spark!"

She leans in a bit, "Though I did once leave him on Skarn. Will leave him. I'm not really sure."

[ Oops Doc you're gonna regret giving Marty the opportunity to brag. He's not even going to wait until they're sitting down to begin his ego trip, nope. ]

'S okay, I guess. It's not like you could help it, right…? I guess? [ This is all super confusing, and pretty damn weird. But he'll go with it, why not? ] I'm in a band called Defying Atmosphere. We're a part of Virgo Entertainment. I was picked up not too long ago and got lead guitar. [ Marty's absolutely beaming as they take their seats. ] The band wasn't doing all that hot when I first started, so it's been getting better. Some people actually say our band's cursed.

[ Or so the tabloids say. ]

Before me and a bunch of my other bandmates started, half of the band got fired. After we got the job me and someone else-

[ Oooh no, we don't talk about that. It's probably not the best to explain this to a fan-to-be. At least, with the ghosts and everything awful that came afterwards. Marty shakes his head and chomps down on the inside of his cheek. ] a-ahh, got in trouble, I guess. Then I took a break. Kinda threw things off, I guess.

[Oddly enough, Doc's all right with this. Marty seems proud of his accomplishments, and seeing that spark reminds him of what he loves about his old friend.]

And I'm sure it's excellent---I'd love to hear it sometime. But all this talk of firings and trouble. I take it your management plays a very active role?

[They better not be hurting him. Nobody hurts Marty if Doc's around to do something about it.]

She nodded a bit. "I meant when he was younger. If he had friends like you and Sora, I wonder what could have happened to make him this way." She was wondering if there was a way to help him.

She made a face, trying hard not to laugh. Not at all what she had in mind, but better. So much a Sora answer. Finally she couldn't help it, she burst out into a smile. "Sora, don't ever change!" she said happily. She threw her free arm around is shoulders to hug him again.

[He's momentarily surprised by the fact this guy instantly knew Jamie was his boyfriend. But then it occurs to him that, if he'd been residing in his heart like he said he had, of course he would know that.

His expression turns hard, stubborn, determined at the rest of what Vanitas says. He doesn't believe for a second that Jamie could be anyone but himself.]

Brainwashing or no, you can't change someone's heart. And mine and Jamie's are connected, and they always will be. Even if there are differences, he's always going to be him.

[There are so many things he loves about Jamie, but the most important thing is his heart. And there's no way Sora could ever stop loving that, he's sure of it.]

Sora looks expectantly at her, obviously hoping he'd managed to get the right answer, until she finally smiles and is hugging him again. He feels relieved, and happy, and briefly forgets about looking at the charm anyway.

"I'll do my best. But, Kairi, I'll always be me. Even if I can't remember or some things have changed, I'll still be me, just like you'll always be you, right?"

When his hands move towards her, she shrinks back reflexively, even though he doesn't look like he's going to touch her. She's not ready yet. She keeps analysing his way of speaking, which reminds her more of the Dandy, and his way of talking with his hands, which reminds her more of the Bohemian -

but then she's doing the one thing she promised herself she wouldn't ever do to the Doctor, which was to compare him to his previous self. And she hates the fact that her human way of seeing faces means she can't help it, and feels very stupid and small.

"I'm - sorry - " she says, taking off her jacket and using it to wipe her eyes. "I can't believe you've caught me blubbing like this. It's not even your fault!"

She puts her jacket back on and takes a breath. She allows herself to notice that he has very lovely green eyes, full of boylike concern even though he couldn't remember her, and it makes her chest hurt a little less.

"It's not your fault," she repeats, trying to make it real. "Who did this to you? Can't we do anything? We'd usually be able to do something, wouldn't we? I mean - " she shakes her hands, trying to come up with something helpful - "remember when Sutekh took over your mind, and all you could do was praise Sutekh, and you couldn't even recognise me when you looked at me? You got out of it by convincing him you were dead, so that he let go."

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"Er," says Sarah, leaning slightly away. She was still trying to get used to the idea of the TARDIS as intelligent; the idea of it having a sex drive was a bit further than she was willing to accept yet. Also, how would that even work? And what would it be in aid of? "So it's more like he's giving you a rough massage?" And an image pops into her head of the Doctor with his eyes boggling out of his head, sucking on the end of his singed fingers after tugging on the wrong switch. She laughs.

"He's sometimes like that with me too - just between you and me." She's a little ashamed to admit it, but there's perhaps something competitive in her eyes. "Sometimes we'd be hiding behind something and he'd lower his big nose and sniff my hair! And there was one time when he actually dragged me into the TA - through your doors, by the ear! And I believe men shouldn't do that sort of thing but when he does it, I don't actually mind."

Ooh, she thinks, this is getting a bit too personal.

"I've never been to Skarn," she says. "But I've been to Skaro and I've been to Karn. I didn't much like either. Skarn must be as bad as both of them put together."

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She pulled back to nod at him. "Of course! I'll always be me, just like Riku will always be Riku, and we'll all always be here." With her free hand she touched his chest. "We'll always be in each other's hearts." Then she grinned again. "Sometimes even literally."

[Wait, there's a name missing there...]

You don't remember Pearl?

[ooc; taken from ch. 19, please also read the content warning post in his journal. also SPOILERS FOR THE ANIME.]

A2
[Funny thing about this is that even if he cares Dazai is making a grand show of not caring. He looks relaxed as can be as things unfold around him, his protégé--okay, his responsibility, let's not go too too far--is sitting right there, legs stripes and teeth bared, ready to fight. He's spilled some secrets (how clever!) to this kid, so he's just waiting... watching...

He doesn't expect what happens next, a replay of the annoying sort, the kid impaled by something dark and equally toothy, but filled with (annoyingly) oppressive malice.

Unlike some, Osamu Dazai is buying into this being a dream. Not a nightmare, no, but a very strange remembrance of an occurrence, the opposite of a coincidence. It's proof that he's not in Kansas anymore, so to speak, but not proof that he isn't in someone else's clutches.]

Whoever's responsible, you can stop the game now! I'm totally convinced.

B1

[A bargain. It's not a compromise, but an inescapable situation. What's troublesome is that it's taking him away from the important task of not letting people die on his watch, but they're capable enough, and if this is some little joke or he's stuck with an Ability he's not seen before--likely, always--he's going to have a tiny bit of hell to pay when he gets back. Nothing he can't handle, but that group he works with, they're a bunch of scamps, to be sure.

He looks gently dubious, but calmer than anyone you've ever seen, with this oddly placid smile...]

I don't see what's in it for me, but if I don't have a choice, and I can't really fight you... [He puts his hands up, as though a criminal caught.] ...I think we're down to rock, paper, scissors, aren't we?

[Fingers tightening around the pitchfork, Connie makes her way closer to the suspicious sounds with light footsteps. Whatever shows up, she's prepared for the worst case scenario and to leap away.]

[When she rounds a corner, however- ]

[She recognizes what it is, even if it's not exactly the same as the pair she's fought before. A tangled mess of limbs, colors clashing and twisted, the faintest glint of a gem-]

[Connie takes in a sharp breath and jerks back, but doesn't take off running.]

Oh no...

[The expression on Garnet's face is all Connie needs to see. Its a look of an unrecognized name falling on unfamiliar ears.]

I don't know anyone named Pearl.

But who says this is just a game~?

[Barely five feet tall and maybe ninety pounds wet, the little girl in white hopped up onto a table that maybe wasn't there a minute ago, and crossed her legs. There was a slightly odd accent to her words, maybe British, maybe American, and like the slightly odd way she smiled, there was a hint of other about her. Like she wasn't suppose to be there.]

From what I've been told, this is not the game that mere mortals are playing.

When she says this, the scenery of the dream changes. There's a shift, and instead of standing on stained glass in a void, they're in some type of cave. There's an expanse of water here upon the rocks, and there's the sound of water dripping, and a mural of the night sky painted on one wall, a stairway leading up somewhere on another. To Kairi, it probably looks familiar. The secret waterway in Traverse Town. Sora can't remember having ever been here, though, and he looks around, surprised at the change.

"Hey... It's different now..."

She nodded, looking around. "It's been a while," she said, thinking he was just surprised to be here, not that he didn't know where here was.

"Our hearts are connected," she said, as he had said standing there, saying words they've said one way or another to each other so many times now. "The lights from our hearts can break through any darkness. Right, Sora?"

[ Nope, she doesn't know Baryl, but he sounds like a good guy if he's helping the kidnapped musicians remember and rescuing his friend. Agent 3 nods in approval. ]

Good, you should trust her. And you can trust me too. I'm gonna make sure you get out and back to normal. Squid's honor!

[She had no intention of letting Connie lead the way, but the girl was self-possessed and confident, enough that even Leonie deferred here briefly.

Which brought them to this thing. She freezes up as she tries to process what she's looking at. Its... god, its monstrous. She isn't even sure how she would describe it. She tightens her grip on the gun.]

Bordel de merde... [Presumably the dream didn't translate it for the purpose of keeping Connie's young mind free of swearing.]

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☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

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your kairi is so great ;u;

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OMG! Thank you! I've been so nervous playing with you and Riku, because you guys are so awesome.

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Playing with canon mates is always nerve-wrecking at first. For me too. I'm glad you enjoy my Sora!

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I adore your Sora!

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Osamu Dazai | Bungou Stray Dogs

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thank yooou, i'm really glad u///u

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