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☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: DIGITAL LOVE
☆WELCOME RESCUERS
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 YOUThese 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 TRUEThese 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
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"Who are you? What are you trying to tell me?"
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Laura almost shouts it, and notices her voice doesn't carry through the empty stadium like it should. In fact, no sound echos.
It's very weird.
"What the hell do you mean: who am I? Luci it's me!"
She's hoping Luci is just being weird and vauging at her or something instead of... what it sounds like.
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"Tell me who you are! You've been driving me crazy, staring at me from my daydreams, never telling me anything-- What have I forgotten?!"
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Laura doesn't try to wrench Luci's hands off of her, knows she probably couldn't and stands there with her mouth gaping open like a fish before she blurts out:
"How the hell should I know?! You died, Luci - how the hell am I even talking to you right now?!"
Because she's convinced of one thing at least. Luci is alive. And real. This is happening, but something's wrong. Luci says she's forgotten something but Laura isn't even sure what besides....
besides her.
"You forgot me."
Her voice is no higher than a whisper now, and she sounds astonished. Like the unthinkable has happened.
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"It's true, then. I was given two years to live and--" She's dead? "No, that's bullshit! You're lying to me!" How could she dream and hallucinate if she's dead?
"No, I see what this is--" she says, a little unhinged laugh coming out of her as she points at Laura. "Santiago. Santiago slowly driving us all fucking insane. I thought you were my muse, I thought you were trying to tell me something, but you're a tool she's using to get me to sing, to work, and now she's giving me a push off the cliff. Well fuck off! I'm not going down this easily!!"
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Her voice is shrill, heavy with the growing anxiety she feels talking to a Luci that doesn't want anything to do with her because she thinks ... what. Laura doesn't know what she thinks, not when she knows nothing about Luci anymore apparently because who the hell is Santiago and 'muse'? What the fresh hell was that supposed to mean?!
"Luci just - please just."
Where do your ideas come from Laura?
"Do you know who that is?"
Laura tries to calm herself down, sound less freaked out and close to a fucking panic attack, and points down to the light gently pulsing at the stage. It's gotten less bright now that they've stopped paying attention to it.
My ass.
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The question makes her pause though-- mostly because it's so far out of left field that she actually answers it in her head before she can resolve to ignore it. Luci purses her lips and looks at the light source.
"That's not a person, it's some kind of lighting effect."
Wait...
Luci looks again, and moves down the stairs to get a better look. Something is moving in it, a woman is moving inside it. Her eyebrows come together as she tries to read what's happening in front of her.
"There's... she is the lighting effect...?"
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This is just getting worse and worse. If Luci doesn't know who Ammy is then...what the hell is she going to do? It's not like she can prove to her that she had a whole life she's forgetting.
A treacherous voice in the back of her mind asks if that's such a bad thing.
But she quickly squashes it with the reminder that this is just a fucking dream.
So why doesn't she stop trying to fix things?
"She's your best friend."
Laura hopes that's enough of a prompting from her. If she has to tell her Amaterasu's name... Laura might start crying and wouldn't that be embarrassing.
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"No, my best friends are Yuffie and Xanxus. I've never seen her before--"
Luci swallows.
"I've never seen her in person... only that once, when I had that dream..."
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But she know better.
Laura gentles in her approach. Like Luci is something feral on the verge of taming. She catalogs the names - Yuffie and Xanxus - for future reference.
"Amaterasu. That's her name."
She was right. She's totally crying now.
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Where did that information come from? How is she best friends with someone who calls herself Amaterasu? Luci exhales a short laugh and shakes her head again.
"Lucifer and Amaterasu, best friends. That's a strange pair."
Luci turns around, afraid of what she's going to see, finding herself surprised when she sees Laura crying. Her legs move on their own, climbing the stairs back to Laura. "Two friends who call themselves by the names of Gods, I started setting my fingers on fire spontaneously a few weeks ago, I'm running a constant fever..."
She stops a step below Laura and looks up at her, her face the picture of a supplicant desperate for answers. "Please Laura, you have to tell me what I've forgotten. Tell me I'm wrong, tell me what I'm thinking isn't possible, please."
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She can't feel the plasma in her head now. Maybe that's the dream. But it feels like it's leaking out of her brain.
Laura wipes at her eyes stubbornly. "We'll figure this out."
Determination is one of her very best (or worst, depending on who you are) traits. And she wants to help Luci very badly.
"We'll figure it out." The repetition is more to herself. An aside to motivate her. For the first time tonight, Laura doesn't want to wake up now. Which probably means she will. So there's no time to waste.
"What's been going on with you?" Like the last time she saw you your head wasn't all over her face and shirt.
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She can't be Lucifer, it's a stage-name.
"Oh you know. Indentured servitude to a music label. Sing or die. That kind of thing." She sounds a little dazed.
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Laura doesn't look like she believes it.
"You're... Luci where are you?"
That is a I'm coming to get you voice. Laura's only ever heard her mom use it once. She's hoping it sounds just as good as it did when she used it.
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"But last I checked, my body was laying in a bed in Pride HQ. Probably mine. Pretty sure it's mine. Unless I've been magically whisked here by Merry Murderess Lesedi Santiago again, still don't have a good handle on what else she can do."
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"Santiago?"
This is making her head spin. Laura can't even begin to make sense of all of this, much as she's trying. She can't focus because Luci is... Lucifer is...
"So...you're alive."
She sounds skeptical. Watching her head explode was a pretty definitive death but she was supposed to be Lucifer herself.
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"I've seen you before, Laura. With plexiglass between us, and a fuckton of ravens around you. And I've couched it as some hallucination, some song that's trying to come out of me, but I know it's not. Otherwise I couldn't light my hands on fire, my eyes wouldn't be turning red, and I wouldn't have holes as wide as the English Channel in my memory. But every time I try to think about it... I'm reminded that all I want is the fame. Not any of this complex bullshit, hallucinations, weird memories thing."