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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.


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missknight: (crystalgemsicons) (Do something with your life that)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
[The most heroic skeleton. Connie has never met one so heroic, although mostly on the basis that she's never met many skeletons. Or, at least, ones that talk. She beams when he agrees.]

Yeah! Thank you! Oh- [She holds out her hand.] I'm Connie! And this is Lion.

[Lion yawns. He is, alas, not impressed. Cats, even giant magical pink ones, usually aren't.]
spaghettimonster: (I HAVE ONLY GOOD FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-02 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, if and when they find some other talking skeletons, he had better still be in the top rankings for heroics. Especially since Sans is still the only other likely skeleton, and he's not really known for his heroics. Not normally. Who knows what bad good influence that Greg Universe is having on him???]

[His smile widens as he shakes her hand.]


The lion is named Lion! How convenient and easy to remember. I... am Papyrus! And. Hmm.

[Papyrus looks around at their frozen surroundings again.]

I should probably at least leave a note warning people where I'm going.
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[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-04 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right! Sorry, I hope we didn't show up at an inconvenient time.

[What if they ruined his grocery shopping? That would be horrible.]
spaghettimonster: (. . .)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Think nothing of it! Just think of the poor people who have been kidnapped. We hardly have a moment to waste!

[Papyrus pulls out his phone to text them. But... the phone doesn't quite seem to be working. Hmm. Maybe a note on his dashboard will be enough? He leans over into his car, and starts digging around for a spare piece of paper and something to write on.]

[He stills as something Connie said finally sparks a memory.]


Hmmm. Hey, didn't you say they've been brainwashed? So they don't know they're in danger? Do they... by any chance... not remember who they are?
missknight: (maheswaran (Constantly wanting to rebel but)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-06 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[A shame all she has is a pen tucked in her pocket, but no paper. Still, Connie waits patiently for him, because leaving notes is important. The question makes her perk up, head tilting up again.]

That's right. The kidnappers made them think that they'd always grown up on the planet they were kidnapped to... Including erasing their memories of the people they really know.

[Something she knows from personal experience, and her arms tighten around Rose's sword.]
Edited 2016-03-06 03:49 (UTC)
spaghettimonster: (I'M SORRY.)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-09 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like something out of a nightmare. Literally! I had a bad dream, a little while ago...

[It was a very unhappy dream, suffice to say. To see Sans like that, so angry and afraid... and nothing Papyrus said reassured him, because Sans didn't even recognize him, let alone remember that they were brothers.]

Well! I wouldn't want anyone to go through that kind of thing being real.

[Oh! Hey. A copy of the menu from that take-out place they tried the other day. One nice thing about the surface is that there's many places to eat, not just a few (unless you go all the way to New Home.) They've found a few places with food both of the skeleton brothers like, a true marvel. But there's a nice blank section on the back, under the map. Perfect for writing a short note in.]
missknight: (maheswaran (Constantly wanting to rebel but)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-09 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I had dreams like that not too long ago myself... [She rolls the pen between her fingers, remembering how broken and terrified Steven had looked, how apathetic Garnet had been to Pearl's name.] I wonder if they're like subconscious messages, or something like that, to tell people that their help is needed.

[Noticing he's found something, she reaches over and holds out the pen. That'll do, right?]
spaghettimonster: (I---THE GREAT PAPYRUS---WILL HELP YOU!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-10 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, yes, thank you for the pen. He starts jotting out a quick, capslocked note TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, since it's meant for any friends that find it.]

They're very motivating! Knowing, first hand, what it would be like... if my brother didn't know me... [Not just didn't know him. But if Sans was angry, and scared, and so out of sorts that he was openly shoving things around instead of hiding in his room...] If I had any doubts about helping, remember that dream cleared them up!
missknight: (hawkesbicep) (Who else is blossoming into a)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-03-11 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean...

[Seeing Steven with his gem like that, too terrified to even come out of a cage and so damaged... Connie shakes her head sharply, her hair swinging with the motion. She won't let herself get caught up in worries!]

But we'll put a stop to any brainwashing or kidnapping, and rescue everyone!