interstellar404 | ☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: DIGITAL LOVE

☆WELCOME RESCUERS

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Welcome to Interstellar's first ever RESCUER TDM! A part of the Interstellar plot that has just opened up, this covers the entrance of those recruited 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.

►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
► Follow the mod plurk for updates: interstellar5555
► Check out the game NAVIGATION
► Check out the MUSICIAN TDM
► Reserves open on January 2nd at 12:01AM EDT
► Applications open on January 11th at 12:01AM EDT

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Easily could she have maintained position. Easily stayed where and how she was for the trip in its entirety. The dark of her folded arms is quiet, safe, a barrier that allows the rush of her thoughts to slow.

But awareness seeps in -- that strange, tingling sense of being observed. Her shoulders tighten, resisting. She doesn't want to be seen.

But anxiety wins out.

Her eyes flicker over Oscar's, wide and dark, seeking out the source.

And he's been noticed. He immediately takes his eyes away, but he figures it's too late.

"I'm sorry for staring, but..." The words evaporate as soon as he thinks them he has no right to ask how he is, he knows he doesn't like be bothered himself.

He finds the words again. "You look bothered."

For long moments she can only stare back at him, caught by the question-within-a-statement and the fact that he's posed it. It hangs in the air between them up until the instant before it seems certain that she isn't going to respond.

Then, quietly, "I had to come. But I shouldn't be here."

It's a long silence, but he waits for the answer. He doesn't want to force anything out.

"Did you have a choice in coming?" He kind of didn't, but he still views being here much better than still being on earth.

He'll patiently wait for her answer.

"I had a choice." Her eyes flicker away again at that. "But . . . there's someone I need to help. That I owe."

"But . . . they said he won't remember me. How do you help someone who doesn't remember you?" Her lips press together briefly, the next words coming out slowly, even softer: "Who might . . . even be afraid?"

That's a difficult question to ask. "The response it not guaranteed, the person may not remember you at first, may not remember you at all."

But he remembers someone that tried to get to him when his own mind was covered. It wasn't successful at all, Oscar headbutted him and ran off with his gun. "But you try anyway."

"What do you owe this person?"

She shakes her head. It's not a question she can answer easily, not to someone she's just met. "I had to come," she repeats, and trails off, eyes slipping away to the upholstery of the seat next to her.

She owes enough for that.

He can understand and doesn't push it. "You have your reasons, as I have my own." It's said in a gentle manner, open to speak to her if she asks for it.

It's a relief that he doesn't ask -- doesn't try to extract it from her. This and his quiet calm bring some ease to the tension in her shoulders. Though she's quiet herself for a few moments longer, it's enough for her to ask,

"Are you . . . looking for someone?"

Now the line of questioning goes to him. He closes his eyes for a moment and tells her. "I had no reason to stay on earth anymore. But I'm not looking for anyone. I came on this ship for my own reason."

"No one?" she echoes softly.

Is that even possible? Why would someone come, put themselves into so much danger . . . for no one?

Is anyone really that altruistic?

"No. I just had to leave earth. It... wasn't wise for me to stay there." It was this or be chased until a certain person dies or Oscar is caught and put in prison.

But a small amount is altruistic with the brainwashing. He doesn't want to see anyone suffer like he has.

"It wasn't safe." She completes what he doesn't speak. That much she can hear in his words, in his voice.

That she can understand very, very well. And that makes her relax further, her legs slowly creeping downward from her perch. Her toes touch the floor, bare and blue.

"Will time still pass? At home?"

"...You can say that."

Oscar shakes his head, looks at the window at space.

"I'm not sure. But I can't focus on that right now."

If he did, he's sure he'd want to come back.

☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: DIGITAL LOVE

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