interstellar404 | ☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

☆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
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► Check out the MUSICIAN TDM
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► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on March 4th at 12:01AM EDT

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

...I remember Steven.

[How could she have ever forgot him...]

Amethyst...she can shapeshift. And...Rose Quartz. Ruby and Sapphire. We're the Crystal Gems. That's all I can remember.

[Wait, there's a name missing there...]

You don't remember Pearl?

[The expression on Garnet's face is all Connie needs to see. Its a look of an unrecognized name falling on unfamiliar ears.]

I don't know anyone named Pearl.

[This is one hundred kinds of Not Right. All she can think too is how much this would break her teacher's heart, and Connie swallows the lump in her throat.]

Maybe if I described her to you, you'd remember. Or maybe you do remember her, but just not the name.

[She has to try something, even if this is a horrible dream.]

Maybe. But maybe not. We'll see, I see a lot of people in my line of work now.

[Given the fact she doesn't remember Connie, its not a good sign.]

Alright, well... To start with, Pearl has, well, a giant pearl, in the middle of her forehead. Right here. [Connie points.] She's pretty tall, although not as tall as you, and really graceful. Her fighting style is more like a dance.

[If Connie could ever get to that level- being efficient, but elegant, and dangerous- she thinks she'd be happy. There are still a lot of flaws in her style for now.]

She usually wears pastel colors, and there's a ribbon tied around her middle that's a bow in the back.

[Pausing, she looks up hopefully.]

Does that ring any bells?

[There isn't even a pause. Nothing about it clicks, and Garnet can only shake her head.]

Doesn't even enter the bell tower.

Oh...

[Disappointment weighs down her shoulders, and Connie stares down at the square plate. If descriptions don't work, then what will? She can't just give up...]

[Oh! An idea hits her, and her head snaps up.]

Are your gems cracked? Maybe that's a problem and they made you forget somehow!

I don't have any gems.

[She sounds a bit troubled, at this. She remembers having had them, once. She doesn't remember where, but...

Connie will notice, though, as she brings a hand up to rub her neck, that there is, indeed, no gem on her palm.]

Look, I don't even know who you are...

Oh! Oh. Right. If you don't remember me... This is really weird...

[Crud. She'd gotten carried away. Tearing her eyes away from the eerily blank spots on Garnet's palms, Connie clears her throat.]

I guess... My name first. I'm Connie Maheswaran. I guess if you have any questions, I'll answer them.

...Garnet. But it seems to knew that. Are we really supposed to know each other?

Yeah. You live with Steven and the other Gems, so I visit all the time... It's been over a year now.

You know Steven?

[Literally, the only thing which clicked with her. Actually, she looks worried when she asks that.]

Oh. Do you know Greg, too?

Yeah. I mean, he is Steven's dad. We talk, sometimes.

[And it's nice to talk to someone who's a human in all of this, although she'd never say that to Garnet or any of the other Gems.]

Of course. Someone like him is probably very busy, what with what he can do.

[Car wash wizard!]

Yeah, it does seem pretty hard to run a car wash by yourself.

[That's a lot of machinery, after all! ...This is what they're talking about, right?]

...A car wash?

[Now she's incredulous.]

Please tell me you mean a magical car wash, right?

What!? No, it's a normal car wash- Steven is the magical one!

[Greg avoids magic, to her knowledge, or at least he tries to for the most part.]

But he uses magic! I've seen him do it! I--look, are you sure you've got the right Greg Universe?

How many people are named Greg Universe!?

[It's a pretty uncommon name, y'know.]

...

You never know.

[...LOOK, she has this idea of Greg being a half werewolf wizard, let her be in denial for longer!]

[Okay, let's try this again. Connie take a deep breath.]

Greg Universe. Fell in love with Rose Quartz. Is Steven's dad. We agree on that, right?

...I'd have to assume that, since Steven himself told me, and I remember Rose Quartz being his mother...

[She's seen him magically change his clothing!]

Right, so that's that. And, um...

I guess 'runs a car wash' is where we run into problems...

But...he has magical powers! I swear I'm not making this up.

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