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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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► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
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The ocean seeps back into itself, settling back into its waves.
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After a futile attempt to wipe some of the water out of his eyes, he holds out a hand to her. "Can you stand?"
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"Why did you . . . ?" She doesn't finish the question, but he can likely guess the words.
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"Oh, uh. I just--you looked like you were having a hard enough day already, without getting, uh, whatever that was." He scratches at his neck.
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He's definitely different from the Greg that she saw in the city. Older. More worn. Rounder. And definitely . . . redder. But this is also the one that she remembers -- the one that came with Steven what now seems like a lifetime ago.
He's still dripping, making a puddle around him in the sand. With a blink, she gestures, tugging the torrent of seawater after him, sending it in a light spiral back into the waves.
"I-I'm sorry. I thought . . . you were someone else."
Anxiety flickers through her face, as though she hasn't quite let go of the idea that the one she expected might not be here after all. But no waves rise again.
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"Oh." Okay, that changes things. He gives her a weak smile, feeling foolish. "Hey, don't worry about it. Easy mistake to make." He thought he was someone else, too.
It took him a little while, between her color and everything else distracting him, but her face is starting to register as familiar. Her voice and anxious mannerisms help nail it in.
"We--you're that woman, right? With the... uh. The fries."
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She hadn't been expecting that. At all.
Should she be worried? She isn't sure.
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Greg deflates, looking down at himself. "This is me, right? How I'm supposed to...?"
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It's not admittedly what she'd hoped.
But it's something.
"Supposed to . . . ?" she echoes softly.
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"How I'm supposed to look."
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But it seems important not to say anything else right away -- to let him absorb it.
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With a deep breath, Greg straightens up. This is all right. He's all right. More important things ought to be focused on.
"So--is this your home, too?" He grins, weak but hopeful. Surely this is a more pleasant conversation topic. "You're helping raise Steven too, with the others?"
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"No." For a moment, it's just that word, simple and stark. There's an enormity here too large to explain, even if she wanted to.
"My home is . . . gone."
She knows that in her heart . . . but saying it aloud is another matter. It makes it real -- too real. Her hands tighten.
"A long time ago."
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"I--I'm sorry. I thought..."
He rubs at his neck, gaze down on the sand.
"Hey, I live in a van apparently, it's not all bad."
Wow that could not compare less and he knows it, but he can't think of anything else.
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But she has no desire to talk about it, either. The home she's craved for thousands of years died thousands of years ago. Better that she forgets it if she can; she'll never get it back.
The ghosts of shapes, faces still play behind her eyelids.
"I met Steven not very long ago," she finishes quietly, and looks away.
"Why . . . did you think of this place?"
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As much as he wishes he could remember for his own sake, right now he just wishes he could give her answers.
"I barely remember this place. I know Steven lived here, and I sort of did too." He glances back to the broken van. "But I don't remember it ever looking like this."
Now he crosses his arms, discomfort mounting. "Whatever happened, I get the feeling I was pretty useless here."
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