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☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

☆WELCOME RESCUERS



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.


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missknight: (maheswaran (Constantly wanting to rebel but)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-09 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is one hundred kinds of Not Right. All she can think too is how much this would break her teacher's heart, and Connie swallows the lump in her throat.]

Maybe if I described her to you, you'd remember. Or maybe you do remember her, but just not the name.

[She has to try something, even if this is a horrible dream.]
missknight: (crystalgemsicons) (Do something with your life that)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-09 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean! I thought it was the sort of things that only happened in my books before I met Steven.

Um... Is it alright if I asked what happened?
missknight: (maheswaran (Constantly wanting to rebel but)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-09 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I had dreams like that not too long ago myself... [She rolls the pen between her fingers, remembering how broken and terrified Steven had looked, how apathetic Garnet had been to Pearl's name.] I wonder if they're like subconscious messages, or something like that, to tell people that their help is needed.

[Noticing he's found something, she reaches over and holds out the pen. That'll do, right?]
missknight: (crystalgemsicons) (I wish I could say "?????????" in)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-09 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if she had understood the words, Connie is so focused on the Cluster Gem that she's barely even aware words have been spoken. Steven's not here, they can't bubble this... But they have to do something. Connie swallows and steadies her pitchfork.]

We have to make sure it can't hurt anyone... I don't think they really know what they're doing sometimes, but that just makes them more dangerous.
twoscompany: (UH OH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-03-09 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But maybe not. We'll see, I see a lot of people in my line of work now.

[Given the fact she doesn't remember Connie, its not a good sign.]
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[There, there. Everyone's got a gimmick. Hers seems to be being creepy.]

I can do that. It's inconvenient, you know, being just snatched up and given a job offer. I like my job, but this might be really important: Saving the universe saves the little things in it. I thought I'd take a chance and see what happens. Maybe they'll let me out with just a suit for breach of contract, if it doesn't go so well.
ninjou: (Default)

8D you never know, you might go read all their books after!

[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now, Dazai is usually the one getting nagged or nudged around, but! He's pretty okay at shirking and shoving the easy stuff on others. It's character building! He is helping!]

It's this little helping chain? Wouldn't you rather have a genre or a type? What if your friend's friend isn't a good person? [Waving a hand.] Not that that's the case, but let's assume the role of devil's advocate.
ninjou: (Default)

[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The future is made of squid people?

[W H A T]

I can sea your point, but it's important to hold something in reserve, lest someone actually think you fishy after all.
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen stranger things. [Case in point: all manner of Abilities, including those going on in the background. Still. It's like a little war.

Hold on. Dazai focuses on it again, staring it down before walking over and touching both parties. They fade out.]


Huh. That's neat. [Time for introductions! He gives a short little wave.] Generally people call me Dazai. Osamu Dazai. [Look at him being properly Western!] Nice to meet you, Lucifer.
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Whatever it takes! It's a buffet of promises?

[And Dazai is hard to convince, and will ultimately cause a little mischief no matter what.]

Balancing cost versus effective and efficient results is important, but I'm actually listening now. Points to the proprietors.

[Thinking...]

I don't want money, though. The one thing I want the most in life, you can't give me, but that's okay. If you tell me why you're here, I'll join up.
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
We are. I usually win, but you might defeat me yet.

[But he ties a lot, and that's no fun. He'd takes the easy route if he could.]

Again, then we'll see how that goes.

[One, two, three, PAPER!]
Edited 2016-03-09 20:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] possessedbygreeed 2016-03-09 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[He considers for a moment before he answers. He still hadn't talked much about it outside of those that were involved.] Well, how do I put this?

Monsters broke free of an 800 year seal and attacked my city. I got possessed by one of them for a better part of a year. But he helped protect my sister and save the world from being devoured, so it all worked out in the end.
missknight: (maheswaran ("...anyway" as an insult is so)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-10 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, well... To start with, Pearl has, well, a giant pearl, in the middle of her forehead. Right here. [Connie points.] She's pretty tall, although not as tall as you, and really graceful. Her fighting style is more like a dance.

[If Connie could ever get to that level- being efficient, but elegant, and dangerous- she thinks she'd be happy. There are still a lot of flaws in her style for now.]

She usually wears pastel colors, and there's a ribbon tied around her middle that's a bow in the back.

[Pausing, she looks up hopefully.]

Does that ring any bells?
missknight: (crystalgemsicons) (I wish I could say "?????????" in)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh.

Wow.

So... He was a good guy, then? Even though he possessed you?
spaghettimonster: (I---THE GREAT PAPYRUS---WILL HELP YOU!)

we shall see!

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-10 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
['Character building,' huh? Making others run your own errands is something people do sometimes, when they know they can't do it themselves... But when it's something they can do? Truly, Papyrus could just sense the resemblance to his brother. Does his insight know no bounds?]

If my friend's friend isn't a good person... then my friend is helping them be a better person! Anybody can be a good person if they try. And what would make them want to try, more than seeing what a good person I am? [Hastily added as an after-thought.] Or my friend is.
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[personal profile] possessedbygreeed 2016-03-10 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
He's a being known as a Greed, created from human desire. There's not really any good or bad when it comes to that kind of thing. Honestly, he was a huge jerk. [A small chuckle.]
twoscompany: (UH HUH)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-03-10 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[There isn't even a pause. Nothing about it clicks, and Garnet can only shake her head.]

Doesn't even enter the bell tower.
spaghettimonster: (TO BE HONEST I WAS A LITTLE AFRAID.)

welly well well. now that i'm not focused on helping my fellow appers get their threads big enough..

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-10 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
To think he once thought lasers on conveyors were bad. They're nothing compared to this moment in this place. This is Papyrus' least favorite nightmare.

Papyrus flinched a little at that, hurt for a split second... But no. Sans is the one hurting, here. There's no way he would talk like that if he wasn't so out of sorts that he couldn't cover it up. One of them needs to be the bigger skeleton, here.

"No, it really isn't," Papyrus agrees, slowly and solemnly. He straightens a little harder, and does his best to look heroic and reassuring. "I can see how much pain you're in from forgetting me! I knew I was a big part of keeping you together, but I never suspected it was this much. Don't worry, Sans! I'll help you find your missing memories. Then I can wake up, and this will just be a bad dream."
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-03-10 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Something about that sets Sans back - the idea that his anxieties are so fully on display just seems completely distasteful, and a little bit frightening. He freezes for a few more moments, and then clenches his fist, taking a step back while watching the other skeleton warily.

On a deeper level than he can truly understand, he's knows he's not supposed to do that. He knows that it's more trouble than it's worth. His anger is temporarily weight down by the fact that he doesn't know whether he's more frustrated or ashamed.

Though to a stranger it sounds like idle boasting, Sans can't possibly know how right Papyrus is about that assumption.

"Nothing I'm waking up to is any better," he says, after a moment, pressing a hand over his left socket. His voice is softer, weakening down to something exhausted after that flareup of temper has passed. "I think they really did a number of me...an' there wasn't a lot there to start with."

He looks up and around the room again with a haunted expression.
woomy: icon of a happy Agent 3 (Inkin' awesome!)

[personal profile] woomy 2016-03-10 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Agent 3 laughs, and her voice is still a little bubbly and aquatic despite learning English. ]

Well, the humans went extinct because they melted the ice caps, so the world you know sunk. If you catch my drift.
spaghettimonster: (I---THE GREAT PAPYRUS---WILL HELP YOU!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-10 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, yes, thank you for the pen. He starts jotting out a quick, capslocked note TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, since it's meant for any friends that find it.]

They're very motivating! Knowing, first hand, what it would be like... if my brother didn't know me... [Not just didn't know him. But if Sans was angry, and scared, and so out of sorts that he was openly shoving things around instead of hiding in his room...] If I had any doubts about helping, remember that dream cleared them up!
lateforkindergarten: (is everything... okay?)

[personal profile] lateforkindergarten 2016-03-10 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ For Garnet that's a very sincere pretend shock. Not a drop of sarcasm. On second thought, is that real actual shock?

Amethyst lowers her legs and returns her limbs to the normal number.
]

...Garnet? What's going on? Why are you acting like you've never seen shape shifting before. Or Pearl for that matter?
lateforkindergarten: (is everything... okay?)

[personal profile] lateforkindergarten 2016-03-10 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I know humans are all squishy but like HOW can you or Steven just forget about each other or ALL of this?" She points towards the city. "I know from the movies that people get knocked on their heads and forget stuff but that couldn't just happen to Garnet. She's a Gem!"
panspermia: (No shame in bailing)

[personal profile] panspermia 2016-03-10 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. It sure seems like a guy could live out an exciting life here."

Greg looks over the city, searching for any sign of the life he supposedly spent here. He doesn't see anything. Just a completely unfamiliar seaside town.

"Amethyst, right? I'm sorry. I dunno what they did to us, but me, and Steven... and Garnet... showbiz is our whole lives." It's so hard to wrap his mind around--that it could be any other way, let alone this way being altogether fake. He wants this life so badly. Right?
twoscompany: (GRRR)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-03-10 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I haven't!

[Taking another step back.]

I mean, I remember you can do it, but...but seeing it...!

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