☆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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► 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

[eba02]

[So much for not making it worse. He isn't dead yet - points for that - but the ever-present threat in that tune is still pounding against his senses, and he's going to have to be extremely careful to get around that particular minefield.]

I don't. I'm sayin' dreams are weird an' I dunno if this one'll work like the last one did.

[actsmagnificent]

"I didn't have a choice." Would it startle Michiru too much to take that hand? Haruka decides it's worth the risk. Could an illusion, or an enemy, imitate the contours of her fingertips this well? "The Princess came, and...."

She's doing this in the wrong order. Haruka cuts herself off, rearranging the facts in her mind. She can do this. She has to get Michiru up to speed, so they can start making progress. Before Usagi does something to get herself further into trouble. Before the enemy realizes how much Rei has woken up--

"It's good to see you."

So much for that.

[lateforkindergarten]

The purple police officer erupts into laughter and suddenly starts shrinking and growing more hair. Amethyst points at Greg and continues laughing as she returns to her real form.

"Wow Greg! Lying to a police officer? I never thought you'd deny your love of that van! I mean look at the paint job on this mobile home!" She pats the side of the van and it slips off the sideways tire keeping it crookedly elevated, making the vehicle crash a last six inches into the sand. "Or beach house," she corrects herself. "It's better when it has wheels."

B1

[lightthedarkness]

There isn't a sound, well, there aren't any words. But there are sounds, like footsteps moving closer and quickly, like at a run. Usagi knows that she should probably say something but she's too excited as she hugs Michiru tight. While she didn't... well, she actually had never hugged the bluenette, now that she thought about it, but that didn't mean she didn't love the older woman dearly.

"Michiru-san," she whispered, so glad to see another one of her loved ones safe and sound, and maybe Haruka won't be so upset and tense anymore. Usagi knew, of course, how could she not. Simply because she was oblivious about some things didn't mean she was oblivious about others. She hugged on tight and took in a deep breath. She smelt of the sea and of music sheets.

"I'm so happy to see you."

[panspermia]

Okay, there's a lot to take in for a very short span of time. Greg balks at the little purple woman. "I, uh. This..." He looks to the van, to the beach, to her. This is... is this how it's supposed to be? But it's not real. It's a dream, it's all in his head.

His hands clench together, and he can't decide if he wants to back away or step closer. "I, I know you."

[thetruehistorian]

I'm pretty sure Luffy would recognize his own brother. [Robin steps closer, in spite of his obvious change in demeanor, her eyes searching his.] Wouldn't you?

Amethyst | Steven Universe

[lateforkindergarten]

A2

[ Amethyst's dream starts in an open blank space with only one object, the couch from the house where Steven sleeps. She could start guessing at why this dream is so plain and different from usual but this is her nap time and that means it's time to rest rather than think hard. She jumps onto the couch and flops over on it, content to stare up into the blank "sky" and wait for something interesting to happen. ]

B2

[ She might lack the space travel experience that the other gems have but Amethyst makes herself comfortable in Shep's ship pretty quickly, especially in the kitchen where an entire new set of foods and flavors are waiting to be tested out. Those who stop in the kitchen while Amethyst is there will either find her mixing concoctions out of multiple types of drinks or making her way through a tall pile of food, sometimes including the wrappers of said food. Her mouth is usually stained with something she was just consuming. ]

[exhumerus]

[Sans isn't making a move yet, and that answer has at least seemed to hold off any further agitation. The skeleton's gaze is still far from friendly, though.]

How'd the last one work?

[eba02]

[Better than it's been, at least, and he can actually answer this question.]

A lot like this one, so far. Found you someplace that probably makes a lot more sense to you than to me - last time, it was a little village in the middle of snow. Had a talk with you. [Tried to fix your tune, but that's remaining unsaid for very good reasons.] Remembered the whole thing when I woke up, but I'm guessin' you didn't.

[elegy]

It doesn't startle her, no, just because at this point she's already made up her mind: it's Haruka, could be no one but Haruka. So she simply twists her hand slightly, just enough to twine her fingers with the other woman's.

It's been a long time since she's been this absolutely lost, but at least she isn't alone.

"How long has it been?" Since Haruka had left for this mission.

b1

[intohell]

[Reno don't be so rude when a woman joins you.]

I know most prefer to be interrupted while working but we didn't have time to verify if your schedule could accommodate ours. [And their's is just a tad more important.] But I'm sure we can find a way to make it up to you.

[And that is not a come-on in the strictest sense of things, but she'll fake it at this point if it means they get more help.

At least, she's in Vista City normal attire and not her uniform. She'd really prefer the uniform and her guns, but...]

[idkmybffpyramid]

[Wow that sure is an outfit. Reno's not someone easily distracted, but it takes him a moment to actually register what's being said to him.]

... Make it up to me, huh? [He's clearly taking it as a come-on, and Reno leans in a little toward Hawkeye. Eyes flitting down to look her over with what could be construed as an appreciative expression.] Not interested.

[intohell]

[It's taken her forever to get used to the clothes so she can understand. As for his answer.]

Please tell me you mean you're not interested in me. You have no idea how quickly I'll get over the potential heartbreak.

[Seriously.]

But they must have thought you'd be interested in the pitch. Or we wouldn't be here.

[4thdimensional]

Here.

[Doc does so, though clear concern crosses his face at the expression of pain.]

Are you sure you're all right?

[ace_of_hearts]

[She's hardly winning points with him.]

I'd have to die first, so it's a pretty moot point since I promised to carry on their dreams.

[idkmybffpyramid]

What's the pitch?

[Totally glossing past that whole "is she hitting on him or not" situation, since evidently it was just an in. And also he doesn't really care. Just like he doesn't care about what this pitch of hers is. What ever it is, it sounds troublesome.]

[intohell]

[Neither one of them want to see him set on fire eventually do they? She's thinking of his safety or something. Maybe.]

Intergalactic bad guys trying to take over the universe through the power of music created by kidnapped people from multiple worlds.

[Give her a moment to look over her notes.]

Including someone from here it seems.

[elegy]

She braces herself when the footsteps begin, preparing herself for - something. She isn't entirely sure what she's preparing herself for, actually, but it certainly wasn't a hug, of all things.

"Usagi?"

Likewise, it's whispered, but her own voice is confused instead of grateful. She waits there for a moment, before turning around to face the younger girl, reaching up to gently touch her hands to her shoulders. Something seems different, but she hasn't quite put her finger onto it yet.

"What's happening?"

[lightthedarkness]

"Everything...." she said a bit cryptically, honestly, Michiru should be proud. She took a deep breath as she held onto her, not really wanting to let go, not just yet.

She looked up, she was much older, of course, not the same little girl when they had first met, not even just after Galaxia, but more to her as well.

"I wish..." she swallowed as she bowed her head again. "I wish I was enough... that we were enough, but I'm not. Please, please help us."

A2

[faithfulflame]

In her dreamscape, Rei's stumbling along unfamiliar streets, fog obscuring most of it. She hated dreams like this, and they were coming more and more frequently of late. An unfamiliar neighborhood. No. Not unfamiliar, but not somewhere she could recall. Definitely somewhere in Asia, near home maybe? But not a place she remembered before Vista City.

She rounds a corner, anxiously looking behind her, like she's half expecting someone to be sneaking up on her. Of course this has her run...rather ungracelessly...right into someone who's just starting to walk her own way.

"Ooof! H-S-Sorry..." she almost protests, but bumbles into an apology instead.

[spaghettimonster]

"It doesn't matter if he likes them, everybody is supposed to make puzzles. They're even part of his job! But he just doesn't bother finishing them."

If this is a dream, that would explain why the puzzles are incomplete again. It's based before they were even finished. But...

"Aren't dreams supposed to be symbolic? Full of meaningful things, and really confusing images? This looks almost normal. The snow isn't pink, or anything."

What a low budget dream. His mind could at least slap a filter on it, and make things look unsettling.

[spaghettimonster]

"A pity..." The skeleton echoes, nodding agreeably... for a second. His eyesockets furrow into a scowl.

"And an outrage! How could they take Sans to be a rock star, but not me? He's not showy enough for celebrity life! If it didn't leave me free to save him, I would be a little insulted, by their lack of taste!"

[actsmagnificent]

Haruka thinks, counting the days: it's longer than she'd thought, since the time's all run together for her. "Two months. There's a group recruiting people to fight a new threat to the Solar System - kidnapping people and using them as pawns."

Her hand squeezes Michiru's at that: this has not been an easy two months. "They have Rei."

And she has already said Usagi accompanied her.

She doesn't think she needs to elaborate further.

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus turns just in time... to catch the incoming human projectile! He whirls them around in a circle around himself, slowing their momentum enough to keep them both from rolling over.

"Frisk! You sound so happy to see me! I understand," he admits, knowing how wonderful it is to be in his presence, "but, I don't want to let you down. The puzzles are incomplete, and you've already solved these ones anyway!!!"

If Frisk is back in Snowdin with him, then they must want to reminisce about the good old days. Solving puzzles, fighting in the haze before Waterfall, those terrible hours where his friendship was the only thing keeping them going...

[elegy]

"Two months," Michiru repeats, slightly startled. It had to have been some time, but still - they hadn't gone that long apart since they'd met. The thought was vaguely.

So she frowns at the reveal, before she steps closer again, closing most of what little distance was left between them. "We'll get Rei back, and keep the Princess safe. But you mustn't run off without me again, understand?" Not that it was strictly her fault, but, alas.