☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

[interdimanagers]

☆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 game NAVIGATION
► Check out the MUSICIAN TDM
► Ask the mods some QUESTIONS
► Reserves open on February 27th at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on March 4th at 12:01AM EDT

Comments

[hypnotised]

"Well, don't!" Sarah says. "I know it's difficult for people who aren't human, because you think differently - but I'm a person too, and I think you ought to treat me like one. I'm Sarah."

This woman's attitude was really getting on her nerves - though, she thought, it was all well and good getting on her high horse about this when she was the one who couldn't remember her.

"And I've got no idea what you're talking about - the Doctor never gave me a dog called Canine, or Fido, or anything at all." Of course he'd call a dog 'Canine' - he'd probably have named her 'Homo sapiens' if it had been anything to do with him. Or Fido.

"Still wearing blue..." she says, looking at her appraisingly. But it's no good. "I'm sorry, I just can't think of anything. How do I know you?"

[iwantmythief]

She starts making the whirring, grinding sound of the TARDIS again with a knowing smile. It isn't just vocal chords making the sound, but her spirit, if you could call it that.

"Though I do think this may be the first time you've considered me a person." All-in-all Sarah is one of the Doctor's companions she's more fond of, and so, like the Doctor was prone to do, she wanted to coax Sarah into figuring it out for herself.

[hypnotised]

"Oh, oh, something blue - " Sarah groans to herself, flinging her arms and pacing in irritation. "I wish you'd stop trying to take me on a ride - "

And suddenly, her eyes widen.

"You're the TARDIS!" she gasps. She runs up to her, amazed. "How was I supposed to recognise you! I didn't even know you could talk! And you're all different, and - and you aren't even wearing the same shade of blue!"

She blinks and glances down. This was completely ridiculous. But she'd seen the Doctor change his form before - why not the TARDIS? And what sealed it was the sound; she could feel time itself stretching and rippling to make it, the same way you could feel a bass drum with your lungs.

"But I don't understand! How do I get inside you?" she says, and immediately blushes scarlet.

[iwantmythief]

She raises a brow at that question, laughing a bit, "You don't. I was taken out of my chassis and shoved in this one. It was rather rude, really. Type 40's like myself aren't designed for speech. Foolish Time Lords rarely even realized that we are sapient!"

She shakes her head gently, "We met a TARDIS that normally takes a human form, but you would have to ask her that question. Something about this universe had limited me somehow, otherwise, hm. Well. I'm not meant to be in a human body. If not for the effects of this universe I will not be able to remain as I am. Would? Tenses are a strange thing. How do you all use them so easily?"

[hypnotised]

"You're in a chassis," Sarah repeats, glad the TARDIS hadn't taken offence to what she'd said earlier. "Look, I'm sorry, but I've never - I mean, I didn't realise you were a living thing at all."

Her eyes flicker as she remembers Hilda Winters, sneering at her while she explained to her that poor old K-1 was a thinking being - Miss Smith, this is absurd. I think you must be the sort of girl that gives motor cars pet names.

"I hope I never did anything, or said anything, or tracked my dirty shoes through you, or hit you, or... I thought you were just a sort of very clever car," she says.

Hit you, she thinks, making a mental leap and ending up somewhere she doesn't like. Something comes over her; she purses her mouth, tilts her head, and moves closer.

"I think I need to have a word with you," she begins, voice soft and sympathetic. "Because I don't think the Doctor realised you're a person either. I've seen the way he treats you sometimes. How when you don't go where he wants he kicks you, and calls you names. And sometimes, he goes over to the console and he's all -" she vaguely imitates the deep, mannered voice of the Bohemian, and mimes the particular sort of way he'd stalk over the console and caress its knobs - "yeees, yeeees, old girl - I mean, you don't have to put up with that treatment when all you're trying to do is work! I'm a feminist, and that's what I believe. You should leave him on a volcano for a few hours and run off, and he'd come with his floppy hat in his hand to beg for you back."

[iwantmythief]

"You say that like I don't like it," she says with a tone that suggests something a little more sexual than Sarah was probably expecting. "Besides, I don't have nerves. It isn't like it hurts when he does that, sometimes it does jostle things just right. If he does do something I don't like I let him know!" She laughs a little, "You see how he jumps when I spark!"

She leans in a bit, "Though I did once leave him on Skarn. Will leave him. I'm not really sure."

[hypnotised]

"Er," says Sarah, leaning slightly away. She was still trying to get used to the idea of the TARDIS as intelligent; the idea of it having a sex drive was a bit further than she was willing to accept yet. Also, how would that even work? And what would it be in aid of? "So it's more like he's giving you a rough massage?" And an image pops into her head of the Doctor with his eyes boggling out of his head, sucking on the end of his singed fingers after tugging on the wrong switch. She laughs.

"He's sometimes like that with me too - just between you and me." She's a little ashamed to admit it, but there's perhaps something competitive in her eyes. "Sometimes we'd be hiding behind something and he'd lower his big nose and sniff my hair! And there was one time when he actually dragged me into the TA - through your doors, by the ear! And I believe men shouldn't do that sort of thing but when he does it, I don't actually mind."

Ooh, she thinks, this is getting a bit too personal.

"I've never been to Skarn," she says. "But I've been to Skaro and I've been to Karn. I didn't much like either. Skarn must be as bad as both of them put together."