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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► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on March 4th at 12:01AM EDT

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Close his eyes, too? "Uh.. Okay..." He does it without really much thought, holding his hand out as well.

"You better not be tying my shoes together or anything," he jokes.

"Nah, We'll save that for Riku," she teased. She clapped her hand into his, the charm between their palms. She closed her fingers over his hand. "So, if you want to see the charm," she teased, "you have to let go of my hand. There is a right answer," she hinted.

When he feels both the charm and her hand in his own, he opens his eyes to look down at them. A right answer? That would mean there's also a wrong answer. So he's not really supposed to let go, or what?

"Okay. How about..." He squeezes her hand slightly, then shifts his own, so he's taking the charm away but leaving their fingers together, and ends up hooking his pinky with hers again. "This?"

She made a face, trying hard not to laugh. Not at all what she had in mind, but better. So much a Sora answer. Finally she couldn't help it, she burst out into a smile. "Sora, don't ever change!" she said happily. She threw her free arm around is shoulders to hug him again.

Sora looks expectantly at her, obviously hoping he'd managed to get the right answer, until she finally smiles and is hugging him again. He feels relieved, and happy, and briefly forgets about looking at the charm anyway.

"I'll do my best. But, Kairi, I'll always be me. Even if I can't remember or some things have changed, I'll still be me, just like you'll always be you, right?"

She pulled back to nod at him. "Of course! I'll always be me, just like Riku will always be Riku, and we'll all always be here." With her free hand she touched his chest. "We'll always be in each other's hearts." Then she grinned again. "Sometimes even literally."

When she says this, the scenery of the dream changes. There's a shift, and instead of standing on stained glass in a void, they're in some type of cave. There's an expanse of water here upon the rocks, and there's the sound of water dripping, and a mural of the night sky painted on one wall, a stairway leading up somewhere on another. To Kairi, it probably looks familiar. The secret waterway in Traverse Town. Sora can't remember having ever been here, though, and he looks around, surprised at the change.

"Hey... It's different now..."

She nodded, looking around. "It's been a while," she said, thinking he was just surprised to be here, not that he didn't know where here was.

"Our hearts are connected," she said, as he had said standing there, saying words they've said one way or another to each other so many times now. "The lights from our hearts can break through any darkness. Right, Sora?"

☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

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your kairi is so great ;u;

OMG! Thank you! I've been so nervous playing with you and Riku, because you guys are so awesome.

Playing with canon mates is always nerve-wrecking at first. For me too. I'm glad you enjoy my Sora!

I adore your Sora!

thank yooou, i'm really glad u///u

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