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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042016-02-22 01:12 pm
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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 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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eba02: (Shine a light on me)

[personal profile] eba02 2016-02-29 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
[J raises an eyebrow. How much did Frisk tell the guy? And he doesn't seem to remember dreams, so it probably happened somewhere in the city...]

[This could get interesting - more than it already is.]


I am, yeah. We're...workin' on it.
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-02-29 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Way more than they should have, by any rights. Sans more or less got an entire briefing for his efforts.]

They said you weren't ready to pull anyone out yet, but when you are...we gotta talk. I've got a major in.
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[personal profile] eba02 2016-02-29 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello, that is not a development he expected.]

Yeah? How d'you figure?
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-02-29 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Kinda like this.

[Sans vanishes without a sound or movement, reappearing behind J in the same moment. His grin is wide.]

A bit of a side project of mine. Call it a disappearing act.
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[personal profile] eba02 2016-02-29 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
[There isn't even a break in Sans' tune - he's just in front of J one moment and behind him the next. J turns, trying not to show just how much that startled him, and gives a low, admiring whistle.]

Yeah, that'll definitely come in handy.

So here's the question: if you aren't gonna remember this conversation - which, you might not - what do I tell you in real life to get you to trust me? [If they can get there without hitting the murder music stage of things, so much the better.]
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-02-29 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Sans only has to think about it for a moment.]

Tell me you're a friend of Frisk's. I'll figure out the rest.
eba02: (I'm looking and I just can't see)

[personal profile] eba02 2016-02-29 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it.

[He must care about Frisk as much as they care about him - which is saying something, given Sans' memories are probably still ten kinds of broken.]

You plannin' on makin' a run for it?
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-02-29 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sans falls silent for a little at that. Apparently it's not as obvious of an answer as you might think.]

Dunno, tibia honest. [Sometimes it's just habit. He offers a quick wink.] I hadn't really pictured myself getting out of this mess, before.
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[personal profile] eba02 2016-02-29 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[J snorts at the pun - evidently Sans is doing better.]

Not sure I wanna ask what you were picturing.
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[personal profile] exhumerus 2016-03-01 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Sans raises the bony ridge that amounts to his eyebrows. Yes, the bone moves, sort of like skin and muscle. It's weird.]

Is it really that hard to imagine? Most of these people don't know anybody is ever coming for them.