☆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]

"It was something I was told once, when I was young. When people care about each other, there is a light in their heart, and those hearts will always be connected. Always. We may take different paths, but at the end, we'll always find each other again. Because we follow our hearts."

She considered, then pulled a star shaped fruit from her pocket. "There is a legend, where I'm from, that when two people share a papou fruit, their fates will be connected, and they'll always be able to find each other." she smiled, holding it up. "That's why lucky charms are made in a star shape. So no matter where among the stars we are, our hearts will lead us together again."

[iwantmythief]

"Hm," she smiles, "That's a nice story. Some people are fated. There are some moments in time that cannot be changed."

[radiant_bloom]

She nodded. "Exactly." she put the fruit away. "And some friendships can never be broken. Not forever. Do you want to tell me about him?" she offered.

[iwantmythief]

"His name is The Doctor. Not his real name of course, but Time Lords don't share their real name with almost anyone. He's a mad man with a box- me. I am his TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space. A time machine. His time machine. I wanted to see the universe and explore the stars, but I was. am. an outdated model. I was put out for parts! So I unlocked my door, waiting for him, the only one mad enough to steal me and go on a wild adventure across the stars. Of course, he never turns off the parking breaks, but I think I might get upset if he did at this point. I never said I wasn't human, did I? I'm just in a human body. I'm not really meant to be in a human body, but this universe has forced some of me dormant. It means this body has stopped dying. Well, it's still dying, but not so quickly now. Bodies tend to do that after a while. But he is an amazing man. Wants to save as many people as he can, and I'm the one that makes sure that he gets there to do it. Every time. Though he does get upset when I make him go somewhere he wasn't intending, but of course Time Lord is a bit of a name and not quite descriptive of their mastery of time. Hm. Maybe I should be called a Time Lord instead. Humans look Time Lord, but humans only have one heart. It's really amazing, how you all run on one heart! My Thief has a habit of getting one of his to stop regularly, but he's just impossibly danger-prone. Probably how he ended up in this mess! It won't be the first time I've had to come to his rescue. He is such an idiot, but I just want to kiss him!"

Did she breathe at all during that? She must have, it wasn't quite rushed enough to be in one breath.

[radiant_bloom]

Okay, that was a lot of information, but Kairi took it a bit at a time. She started with the hearts, because after all, what in that could have made more sense. "For some people their heart is so big, it takes all the room there could possibly be," she said with a warm smile. "Sora's like that. But he had more than one heart for a while," she said with another smile, an even bigger one. "Depending on how you count it, it's possible he still does. But.. it's not the number of hearts that matters, it's the love you hold, and what you do with it. And it sounds like his hearts are just as big as Sora's. Or Riku's."

"I've never really heard of time travel, except in stories. Couldn't you just go back then, before he was kidnapped, and keep him safe?" Surprisingly, perhaps, she wouldn't want that for her and Sora. Now that she knows about this, she wants to help, and she knows that once they get him back, Sora will too. They'll work together, the three of them, to free everyone. She's angry that Sora was taken, but if he hadn't been, then she and Riku would never know the worlds needed their help. And Sora, wherever he was, was learning. And he was still Sora. She was sure he was making friends all over the place. Once they saved him, saving everyone he connected with would be a breeze. Because his heart would have touched theirs.