☆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

A2

[variaboss]

This...This had to be a dream. He's had some real doozies recently. Something about magic toddlers in purple hoodies. But skeletons. That's definitely new. The fact that there is snow and ice cements that. That he's dreaming. Most all of his nightmares have to do with being trapped in ice.

But they didn't feature a skinny skeleton. Thus, Xanxus' immediate reaction.

"Shit... I need to stop snacking right before bed... This must be the revenge of the t-bone I just ate." That's the only explanation, right?

[spaghettimonster]

That comment sounds like a pun and like the speaker has been eating bones. Not quite the worst possible first impression, but close to it.

Papyrus groans as he turns, asking, "Is Sans giving you bones? Because if I told you once, I've told you..."

He frowns at Xanxus, and peers around like he expects there to be someone else behind them. But no,they're the only apparent source of that comment. "You don't look like a dog. Do humans eat bones, too?!"

[variaboss]

Damn, and here he was going for the worst, mostly because he doesn't like ice at all. He hates dreaming about it. But at least it's not slowly crawling up his legs and swallowing him whole. So probably not his dream...but who the fuck would dream they were a skeleton.

"Fuck you. I'm not a dog. If anything, I'm a liger or something. And I love steak and sometimes it has bones in it. But you...you're a skeleton. Are you even alive? How are you alive?" Maybe he's just really high. This is just really damn strange.

[spaghettimonster]

What an absurd plan, it isn't like the skeleton cause the snow and ice to exist in the first place. At least, aside from the way that the setting of their shared dream is from his memories. This ice didn't do anything to him.

"Yes, I am a skeleton! A living skeleton! It's so very good of you to remind me of that. I might... have forgotten?" It's a bit of a stretch, and it takes a little effort, but Papyrus manages to interpret Xanxus' response as a compliment. "If you're not a dog, why do you think I'm revenge for some other bone???"

[variaboss]

Hey. Xanxus is the king of absurd plans. Most everything he plans is crazy and ends terribly for him. So why be any different in dreams?

"How can a skeleton be alive... Once you die and you decay, you become one. You don't walk about and talk..." He's really trying to make sense of this all. It's hard. He's still trying to get over the fact that he's talking to literal bones.

"Because I eat steak that has bones." A shrug. "And maybe it was bad meat to give me dreams like this."

[spaghettimonster]

Being polite is really difficult when your partner in the conversation insists on being disgusting. Not that being human is disgusting. He has human friends, and knows a little bit about their physiology. The fact that they're secretly skeletons under all the squishy stuff... it really makes him feel a sense of kinship with them.

But this is too much. "Oh my god, I'm not a dead human. I was born a skeleton!"

Papyrus frowns, resting his hands on his hips. "If your food gave you dreams that feature me, you should be glad! Everybody should be so lucky as to dream of me.

[variaboss]

Xanxus is disgusting. That's just a fact of life. It has nothing to do with being human and everything to do with being him. Besides, it's not like he's ever met a skeleton, let alone dream about a walking talking one.

"You....were born a skeleton...." Yeah. Give him a few second to wrap his brain around that one. "Right. So... You're a living skeleton and I'm definitely dreaming. So that means I need to wake up. Because no way am I crazy enough to have dreamed something like this. So I'm going to wake up and you're going to go back to my subconscious where you belong."

[spaghettimonster]

It's just a day of firsts all around. Or maybe, a dream of firsts. A bad dream. Even if Papyrus is laying the blame on all the wrong aspects of the situation.

"I'm not going anywhere, terrible dreaming human. This is obviously my dream!" He looks around their surroundings again, and points at a distant sentry station. "This is near my house! Or, my old house. I probably made you up! Based on... some rude person on a street?"

[variaboss]

Totally a bad dream. He can't wait to wake the hell up from this. Though that does bring the question of who was dreaming who. It could be a tandem dream.

"The hell it is. No way you made me up. I'm fucking real, you bag of bones! And I'll prove it. I'll wake up." Only, yup. He's not quite waking up.

[spaghettimonster]

'Tandem dream'? That sounds like a fake thing. Or a plot contrivance to make soul mates, or mortal enemies, meet before they finally encounter each other in reality. Which is... surely not the case.

"Nyeh! Heh heh heh! See that, you can't!" He laughs triumphantly, then gestures at Xanxus to follow him. "But don't worry, dream person. I am a benevolent skeleton! I could treat you to dinner while waiting to wake up."

[variaboss]

Is it sad that he's been so surrounded by insane people at one point, with crazy laughs that the skeleton's laugh is almost nostalgic in a way. Still, it's sort of angering that he can't wake up. He doesn't like the idea that he actually might have been dreamed up by someone else. But until one of them wakes, they're stuck.

"Dinner? What the hell do skeletons eat? Wouldn't it just fall right though you?"

[spaghettimonster]

"I'm partial to pasta---And, of course not! You're thinking of human food!!! Monster food doesn't go through monsters. We... digest it?"

With what magical invisible stomach, exactly, is a mystery. Maybe the food just straight up dissolves into his bones.

[variaboss]

Pasta? Okay. Maybe this skeleton isn't so bad after all. Nothing makes an Italian happier than good pasta. Though he's super picky, so that's going to be hard to accomplish. "If this isn't my dream, then I guess I will have to suffer your pasta. But if it's mine, I'm going to just will me up some lasagna."

[spaghettimonster]

"Good luck with that!!!" Papyrus shoots back over his shoulder. "Not just because this is my dream... but, as it should happen, there's an infamous lasagna thief in this neighborhood!"

The fact that they only steal it from the countertop where it's cooling, and probably wouldn't show up in a dream, hardly seems relevant.

[variaboss]

This is truly a nightmare if delicious lasagna gets stolen. If anyone dared to steal his food, Xanxus was certain he would make them pay for it. Something tells him that there are some sort of wierdass laws in place about not bothering him when he eats.

"Well, if he comes to take it, then you and me are going to kick his ass, dream or no dream. No one fucks with good pasta."

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus swivels and stares at Xanxus, walking backward because he knows the path better than the back of his hand, and almost certainly wouldn't have an accident.

"Oh my god, nobody's offered to help stop it before! Maybe you're not so bad!"

[variaboss]

He doesn't know what the hell he said to get stared at like that. After a moment, he frowns a little more. "Hey. Watch your mouth! Just because I think it's a crime to steal good food doesn't make me good. After all, I catch your pasta thief, I'm probably going to kill them." Because death is totally a fitting punishment for such a evil crime.

"But that depends on just how good it is. If it tastes like crap, they can totally have it."