☆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

[determinate]

Frisk can't help but chew on their lip for a moment, but they try to keep their expression stoic.

"Okay." Sans is never going to show up. Even if this were real, he wouldn't. But they won't wait here forever; eventually one of them will wake up. Maybe Papyrus won't even remember the dream once it's over. It won't get a chance to disappoint him.

Better, then, to just take this time while they have it and not worry. "I can make a snow-me this time!"

you are amazing, pls know this

[missknight]

[Connie has been raised to be a mostly polite and decent young girl who definitely doesn't judge strangers on their appearance.]

[Still.]

[Still.]

[There's a brief moment of hesitation when she looks back at the older woman talking to her. After that, however, she shakes herself out of it.]

Oh, um, I'm sorry, but Lion doesn't really belong to me. He's my friend Steven's.

[As much as a large cat can belong to anyone, anyway.]

[missknight]

"Yes, Steven!" At least he still remembers him. That's reassuring. With that bright spot found, Connie lets herself fall down from the burst of panic that had overtaken her.

Alright, so, he still remembers Steven, and he's starting to remember her again. Connie hums and presses her knuckles against her chin. Well, there's an obvious cause here that she actually overlooked...

"Is this... a Gem thing?" she asks, tentative. If that's the case, well, her original thought had been to take him to her mom, but Pearl or Garnet would be better off if it's a Gem thing.

[missknight]

Frozen?

[Oh boy, it sounds like he has his own problems to work out. Maybe they can all help after this. For now, however, Connie shakes her head.]

No, it's something else! A bunch of different people from across time and space have been kidnapped and brainwashed! Their souls are being leeched for power.

[She's trying really hard to sound professional here, despite still being a little shaky on the details.]

[missknight]

[Since she was old enough to understand words- and probably before then- her mom has always been the type to stress about not talking to strangers. At the same time... This is a dream, right? Common sense is off the table in dreams.]

Well, um- [A flicker of uncertainty again before she calms herself and forges ahead. Just a dream, right!] I think I'm a little lost, sir. I'm supposed to be back home.

[Still, this is kind of cool. She's heard of having lucid dreams- especially after Steven's problems trying to find Malachite- but this is a first for her.]

[thetruehistorian]

Their dreams? [That took Robin by surprise.] You think both of your brothers are dead?

[missknight]

[Well, the lava is new and weird, but hey! There's another person. There's a brief pause, and Connie waves right back before calling out.]

Hey, do you know where we are?

[This is pretty obviously a dream, right? So who knows what kind of answer she'll get.]

[missknight]

[In the quiet of the street, Connie has been trying to find a stick or rock- anything at all- when the sound of footsteps catches her attention. Stepping away from the gutters, she blinks at the sight of a woman with a lionness' head- ]

[And drawing a gun, oh crud.]

[For some reason, it's the more mundane and recognizable part of this whole scenario that hits Connie first, and she throws her hands up with her fingers spread out defensively.]

Don't shoot me!

[panspermia]

"A what?" His face screws up. He should definitely know what a Gem thing would be. Like the thing in Steven's stomach, or the stones he sees from the women in his memories. That's what she's talking about, isn't it?

"Sort...of? That's a magic thing, right?" He rubs at his forehead. "It's complicated. But there's a lot of magic involved, I'm pretty sure."

[notcivilion]

[Something about the girl's voice bugs her. It sounds like a cub's voice. Which immediately strikes a cord of guilt in the lioness. She decides to try for a gentle tone of voice. If the cub (?) turns out to be something more sinister, well, she's sure she can draw her weapon faster.]

Don't worry, I won't. [She makes a point to demonstrate putting the gun back in her holster.] The streets can be dangerous if journeyed alone. Are you alright?

[fantasyseal]

Well that could have been better. Dreams that had a a sort of sentience was new. but very unnerving. Time to do some clean up although the fact that this startled her isn't hard to tell. "I thought I saw someone behind you. No need to freak out."

Waving her hand like it was no big deal. Obviously this was going to work out in her favor...right? Nailed it obviously.

[forgottendecade]

It's connected to my nervous system, so it'll hurt no matter what I do.

[He pried free the broken wire and took a new length of wire to feed into the hollow section. There was a slight hiss and a puff of smoke and he started to twist the ends together. another tool - this one some kind of strange mutant cross between a mini-blowtorch and a glue gun appeared and he pressed it. His fingers twitched .]

I take it you never seen cybernetics before?

[notcivilion]

Seems to be military procedure. The bourgeoisie adore that sort of thing.

[That sure is a lioness head on a relatively normal human body. Looking irritated with this whole scenario.]

[avidita]

Thing of it as less 'heroism' and more 'self preservation' then. After all, apparently, they have someone important from around here.

Does the name 'Cloud Strife' ring a bell?

[avidita]

Excellent. We'll be glad to have you along. We could use some more technical help.

[They'll bet Silver will be pleased with that, at least.]

There's a ship that will take you where you need to go. The shape is... unconventional, but it certainly does what it needs to do.

[avidita]

[It doesn't help that, unfortunately, Mammon looks rather sketch. Illusionist they might be, but they can be surprisingly honest in some areas like how they are.]

No one you'd know the names of- [Partially because Mammon is pretty sure that Shep is the only one using his real name.] -but essentially... freedom fighters of a sort. It's a rescue mission.

[avidita]

"Apparently they're extremely powerful." Which is annoying, but not impossible to deal with. Shifting their weight to one foot, Mammon crosses their arms.

"The kidnappers have put something into their heads that keeps track of them, so kidnapping them back is difficult until we have the instruments required to remove what's in their heads. So far, that's what we're focusing on right now, and then we can get to the real work." Probably, anyway.

[determinate]

[Frisk nods and produces a pad of paper from somewhere - it's a dream, why not - to scribble on.]

Hotland.

In a dream.

[thetruehistorian]

[Robin is quite accustomed to people looking sketchy. See: the inanimate, fully clothed skeleton with an afro asleep to her left; the speedo clad cyborg asleep to her right. A person in a dark coat with a hood is... well. Rather normal, to be honest.] Ah, that explains it. [At least this person doesn't beat around the bush.] What are the mission parameters? I won't agree to join your cause blindly.

[ace_of_hearts]

It's pretty funny that you don't.

[And funny... like not funny at all. It's not dripping with sarcasm, but given the context, the sarcasm is there.]

[eba02]

[Second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and so much worse. At least the village struck a chord. He keeps his voice calm and even when he speaks.]

An' I'm tellin' you again: I dunno how much I can say. From what I know, you an' your friends have been brainwashed to hell an' back, an' I can't give secrets to someone who might not have the choice to keep 'em.

[exhumerus]

You should consider explaining this kind of logic upfront next time. I thought for a minute that you might be working for them.

[Sans stuff his hands in the pockets of his lab coat, looking no less grim.]

You might have a hard time surprising me at this point, buddy. Someone else has already had the pleasure.

[riveres]

"The people we are fighting against are evil, I doubt they have taste. Then again, maybe your brother is strangely charismatic?" Papyrus is tall and looks like a hero, maybe his brother is even more impressive?

[eba02]

[Given that that's the second time he's been mistaken for - presumably - Virgo staff, J's thinking that maybe he should change up his approach a bit. Maybe it's the suit throwing people off.]

[Oh well.]

[Wait, what.]

That's kinda why I was askin' what you already knew. If you don't mind my askin', who'd you talk to?

[Ten to one odds it's Frisk.]

[exhumerus]

[Sans narrows his eyes, his left one still flickering occasionally. There's something protective about the look.]

Give me one good reason to decide you actually aren't trying to jack my mind?