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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A2

[Enter a grand courtroom, one that currently seems to be after hours. The lights are dimmed, and the vast space is currently every empty. The primary exception is Phoenix Wright... a man in his mid 30s, who seems to be rummaging through his briefcase at one of the stands.

But he hears something nearby. The spiky-haired lawyer perks up and glances around curiously.]

Who's there?

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[Phoenix is quickly feeling like this is the most surreal and unbelievable adventure of his life, and this is someone who's cross examined a robot and an orca whale within the last few months. As baffled as he still is by the situation, he is filled with concern. For Trucy, his daughter, who is lost out there. As powerless as he feels, being just a normal mortal man, he's still determined to do everything that he can to save her.

At the moment, he stands by himself looking at this reflection in one of the ship's windows. The view of space is fantastic and beyond anything he could have imagined. So this is outer space. Where no man or galactic scooter has gone before! If only Apollo were here to see this...! But thinking of Apollo also reminds him of Trucy and some unspoken truths which weigh on him, keeping him from getting too carried away with excitement.

You can catch him looking out the window with some mix of pensiveness or wonder; or you can see him tryin to explore the ship; OR you can find him right after yelping in slight pain after pinching his arm just to make sure he's not still dreaming.]

[A dot of violet light might glow in the witness box, and if he tracks it, he might spy a tall, pale man, sitting in the box, an e-cigarette in hand as he blows a plume of vapor into the air.]

That would be me... [He'll take another drag from the e-cigarette, looking around the courtroom before blowing out the vapor.] Are you come to prosecute me for my crimes? I might even plead guilty, knowing what I've found in my head. [He might reach up and tap his forehead with one long, graceful hand.]

[ A weary and oddly familiar voice replies to Phoenix's latest yelp after pinching himself. ]

I find that hugging myself makes the scary thought that I might die lightyears from home a lot easier to bear.

[ Apparently Larry hasn't realized exactly who he's talking to and he's making the huge assumption that the other fellow in the room is crying out in emotional pain. He's seated on the floor with his arms wrapped tight around his knees, staring out the large window at the stars. If the ship lights aren't enough to light his face, the starlight shimmers in the tears in his eyes. He looks like he hasn't slept in days. ]

[It's strange but... the courtroom is familiar somehow. In a strange dream-logic way, Trucy isn't wondering how she got there, just where she's seen it before. But those thoughts fly right out of her head when she sees him. Because she knows him. He's one of the people that keeps cropping up in those strange visions she sometimes has. Her gasp is overly dramatic, but completely genuine.]

Oh! It's you...

[She can almost remember who he is. It's so close to the front of her mind....]

☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

Phoenix Wright | Ace Attorney

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