☆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

► Follow the mod plurk for updates: interstellar5555
► 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

[radiant_bloom]

"Wait... Sora was... brainwashed?" Again? Really? "The ones in charge of this... was there a young girl, my height, blond? Sketch pad?" Naminè. Was someone forcing her to hurt Sora? Again? If so they had more of a chance then they realized, because she wouldn't leave them without hope. No matter what. Kairi trusted her. With her very heart. And.. with his.

[lightthedarkness]

"Naminè? No, not at all, she's trying to help us save him. She's as sweet as can be. No, Blanche and Santiago are horrible people who have kidnapped dozens, maybe even hundreds, and have caused real harm! Why would you even talk about Naminè like that?" she frowned, not liking someone attacking one of her friends.

"She's the one who even told me about all this and asked me to help save everyone."

[radiant_bloom]

"She was forced to try and do something like this to Sora once before. I'm glad she's safe," she assured her, "Just... if they were using her power, then she could help us undo it. It would have been a case where saving her would be saving everyone at on...... wait. If Naminè is there and helping... what about Roxas?"

[lightthedarkness]

"Naminè is helping us. Rather than accuse her out the gate perhaps you should have asked that first. And I told you, Santiago and Blanche have kidnapped dozens from all sorts of worlds and universes, this has nothing to do with her powers. They're brainwashing people who don't know anything about Naminè or her abilities. You shouldn't accuse someone of such a thing, especially if she was forced to do it the first time. And I don't know who that is, look, this... might be a whole bunch of questions for Riku. I don't actually know... about your world. We've not really talked a lot about our home worlds. We've been trying to save those who were kidnapped. It's dangerous, it could very well get us all seriously injured or even killed. These aliens that kidnapped our loved ones mean business, accusing others is not going to save Sora. We don't have time for issues between us. We're too small a group to have fights between us because of matters of the past, whatever they might be. Tell me now if Naminè being there is going to be a problem for you. I won't let you hurt her because she was forced to use her powers against her will once before." Usagi would protect Naminè and everyone, even this girl. That was her role.

"You need to stop focusing on Naminè's ability in this, she's doing what she can to help, she's not helping these horrible people."

[radiant_bloom]

"I wasn't accusing her! Ask her, I'm the last person to ever think she would mean Sora harm, mean anyone harm. I know her heart...as well as I know my own. I'm focusing on her because I know she'd want to help, because I know that she, perhaps better than any of us, can. I would want to fight along side her again. We owe her everything. She is a part of us, one of us. As is Roxas."

[lightthedarkness]

"Ah..." she listened and couldn't help but smile as she heard Kairi mention that she knew Namine, that she well, she loved her, honestly. It was sweet to see. Though she had no idea who "Roxas" was.

She nodded and grabbed Kairi's hand, the seriousness from before all but gone, though in truth it was just below the surface. Usagi was always one to protect her friends. But she was also someone to easily make new ones too.

"That's wonderful, and I'm really glad to hear how much you love her. She's an amazing girl, you know? And you are too, wanting to help with this."

[radiant_bloom]

"She is. Me? I'm surrounded by amazing people, I just have to do my best to try and not get left behind." again. "Tell me what I have to do."

[lightthedarkness]

Usagi held out her hand while she pressed the other to her chest.

"Just take my hand and I'll take you to the ship, Kairi."

[radiant_bloom]

She didn't have to be told again, she reached out and took the woman's hand, trusting her, as she had trusted Naminè. "Let's save our friends."

[lightthedarkness]

She didn't waste any time once Kairi took her hand. She smiled as she pulled her further and further from the world she knew towards the ship shaped like a guitar.

"We'll do it all together, without fail."

[radiant_bloom]

She nodded. "Together," she agreed, tightening her grip, her keyblade appearing in her other hand.