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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 YOUThese 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 TRUEThese 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
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B1
[And excuse you, gramps, black hoods are always in style. For, you know, cultists for most of history except the more recent bits, but listen. Shut up.]
The actual cause is going to sound ridiculous, so I'll just start off with the result first, which is that someone's disrupted space and time for imbecilic reasons, and we need every bit of help we can get to put things back in order.
[A pause.]
Also, happen to know brain surgery?
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[Funny, it's usually him or Marty doing the disrupting. But he's listening---he absolutely cannot allow any nefarious alterations to the timeline. As far as that other query...]
I'm a nuclear physicist by trade---biology's never been my strongest suit.
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[Pity about no brain surgery experience. Damn. They'll have to keep looking. Why can't Shep put them some place decent for once?]
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The purpose of the brainwashing? They want slaves?
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[Because that's the point they're at now. Still, might as well get it over with.]
Yes, slaves, but specifically, music slaves. That is to say, they've brainwashed everyone into thinking they've signed into music labels to become rockstars. Apparently, music generates some sort of power, and they're leeching off of it.
[...Even with that added, it still sounds ridiculous. Sigh.]
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But that's preposterous...
[Or is it? Doc feels an odd familiarity about his situation now that he looks at his faded surroundings. Like a voice in a dream, an image both close and far away...]
Or so I've been led to believe by my educational grounding, though I don't stick to scientific convention either.
These rock stars...their previous identities were erased?
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Yes. As far as they're concerned, they were always raised on the planet they were kidnapped to. [A pause, and they tilt their head to the side thoughtfully.] Of course, with what I've experienced... I think there are cracks in the brainwashing. Their true memories seem to be surfacing a bit, although I couldn't tell you the rate or quality.
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How long is the list of victims?
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...50 or so, I think, but probably far more. Some musicians seem to become 'fired', but their whereabouts are unknown. We haven't figured out why yet.
[Or, at least, Gold and Silver haven't talked about it.]
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[Still, 50's a small enough number that there's a good chance this guy might know.]
Is there a Marty McFly among them, by any chance?
[Doc thinks he'd be likely to go along with this regardless, but that horrifying possibility has burrowed itself in his head.]
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[There's the stirring of recognition as they repeat the name. There's a lot of people, but a name like that at least has the benefit of standing out a bit.]
I believe so, but I haven't looked for him myself. I've been focused on other things.
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[That slots a few pieces in place for Doc---he can feel the chill of dread creeping up his back. Doc starts pacing on the spot, his hands swinging to emphasize various points of distress.]
He's my best friend, though I haven't seen him in quite a while due to our temporal separation of a hundred years. But on a recent night I had a vision of the two of us in a void. And he was as you describe: an aloof rock star with no memory of our friendship.
[He drops his fist into an open palm.]
If they've got him, I'll make damn sure they come to regret this.
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[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.
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[He nods, raising a hand and clenching it. Real space travel, slingshot around the moon...he'll enjoy it if he can, but there's one and only one thing on his mind: his best friend needs him, and like hell will he ever back down or turn away.]
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[A spare change of clothing, if nothing else.]
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[A silly private joke. Doc takes a few minutes to gather a thing or two, kiss his sleeping wife and children goodbye before he can second-guess this, and then he's out and bearing a grim expression.]
Lead the way.
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Alright, stick close. And try not to laugh.
[They lead the way... right to a guitar shaped spaceship. Because that's the kind of adventure he's signed up for.]
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That's...different, but considering what we might face? Perhaps not entirely unexpected. I imagine music is going to factor into this mission somehow.
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[But hey, all aboard now. Good thing there's an open door and walkway leading up into it.]
Or perhaps our pilot just has very bad taste. I haven't asked him.
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[He steps right over the threshold without hesitation. Totally ready for takeoff here.]