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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552015-10-21 07:23 pm

☆TRACK III: THE STREETS ARE EMPTY

Who: Drafted Virgo Members
What: Juno makes everyone do a seance.
When: October 21st-22nd.
Where: The basement of the Virgo residential tower.
Warnings: Ghosts, apparently.

“You can't shake the feeling.
Be quiet not one sound.
But the wind seems to speak,
Something's here in the room with me.”

☆THE STREETS ARE EMPTY
Juno arrives without notice. In fact, you can’t even really remember seeing her approach. One moment you’re doing your business, and the next she is telling you that you have to come down to the basement with her, in order to complete a “task” you’ve been assigned. This sort of thing would seem preposterous to a normal person, but even if you don’t realize it, you aren’t one. As Mr Blanche’s personal assistant and sometimes second in command, her word seems to carry almost as much weight as his does.

You don’t really have any choice but to agree.

“Bring whatever instrument you know best,” she says. “You’ll need it.”

She snaps up every one of you that she sees in her initial sweep, and soon she has a whole pack of Virgo newbies following her down to the lowest floors of the residential tower. It feels weird, but it’s like you can’t quite articulate why. No one else seems to be able to either.

Most of the lights are turned off on those lower floors, but it’s easy to tell it’s a place you’ve never been before. It’s strangely...hospital like, down there, in both aesthetic and a sense of sterility. Maybe some kind of laboratory setting? Which seems like a super weird thing to be in the basement of an apartment building, but this is yet another thing you can’t quite bring yourself to ask about. Juno leave most of the lights off, except for a few central features. The ambience is dim and cold.



She tells you not to stray, and you don’t. The thought of going against her becomes somehow repulsive, like you don’t even want to think about it too long. You try not to think about your surrounding too hard, either.

She lines you all up, and then after some strangely intense eyeballing, she starts breaking you up into some incredibly lopsided groups that seem to have nothing to do with your actual bands. In the end, she looks disappointed with resulting teams, but carries on regardless. Each “group” is given some complexly timed sheet music and a funny looking mobile speaker.

She says that you have a half hour to compose a group piece to play alongside the sheet music , and that it needs to be good. Then, she wanders off to start pacing the basement in a strangely arcane series of movements, and leaves you all to it. Only among your peers do you start feeling like you can voice any of your previously stowed concerns, but make sure Juno doesn’t overhear you – occasionally she’ll come by to bluntly critique anyone who is performing inadequately.

You feel lucky that she doesn’t have a whip with her, because you’re almost certain that she’d use it without much remorse.

☆THE SEANCE
The performance is about as awkward as you’d expect, given the set up. The four groups are set up so that they’re facing each other, as if standing at the corner of a square. Each speaker is set up in the center of its group, and the precisely timed electronic beat that plays from them is what you’re supposed to perform along to.

Odds are that you do your level best, but, outside of your control...something goes wrong.

“Have you ever felt...
Something evil,
Lurking around?
The moon is full,
The streets are empty.
Shadows cover the town.”
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-10-25 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Truly, this whole thing is a trial that poor teenagers shouldn't have to deal with. (That no one should have to deal with, Luce is starting to think at this point, but she won't say that just yet.) Still, she nods a little bit at some plinks before she smiles over to the younger girl.

"Still having trouble, hm, dear?"
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[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2015-10-28 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm...a little, yeah. What do you think about this for measures 30-35?" Pao-Lin plays a short melody on her glock. "Too complicated, or...?"
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-10-29 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Carefully, Luce listens and tries to match it up with the notes she's hearing in her head. After a moment, she nods. "No, no, I think that should be fine. Complicated might be what she's looking for..."

Probably? Maybe. Who knows.

"It's good to see you're pushing through it."
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[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2015-11-04 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Pao-Lin shrugs with a shy smile. "What else can I do? Even if I don't know what's going on, I still want to do a good job..."

Sure is tough without much direction, though. And in a creepy basement.
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-05 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"That's all they can really ask for." Encouragingly, Luce reaches over to brush her hands lightly over Pao-Lin's hair.

"This might be just a kind of test. The end result has to be just a small portion of what we're being judged on." At least, it's the only thing that makes sense.
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[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2015-11-18 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
"It's kind of a -- " Pao-Lin stops herself from saying stupid, mindful of Juno's presence. "It's kinda out of the blue, though." Normally she's okay with rolling with the punches, but she'd really wanted to catch up on the cartoons she hadn't been able to watch while touring.
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-18 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, they really can't be expecting us to perform at our best like this..." The atmosphere, the rush, all of it. Luce sighs but turns on her smile again.

"I'll make it up to you tonight. Assuming this doesn't take too much out of us, I'll make some of your favorites, alright?"
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[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2015-11-19 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
A tiny giggle. "You always make me my favorites!" Luce absolutely spoils her and the rest of the "kids" in the band, after all. Though it also helps that Pao-Lin has a lot of favorite foods.
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-20 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"My dear, that is because-" Cheek poke! Luce winks. "You have so many!"
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[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2015-11-21 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Pao-Lin laughs again, pressing a hand to her cheek, but suddenly freezes when Juno glares in her direction. "...I guess we'd better get back to work, huh," she whispers to Luce once it seems like Juno is out of earshot.
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[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-22 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Still smiling calmly, she nods and waves until Juno glances away. That's when she gives an exasperated shake of her head before murmuring back to Pao-Lin. "A musician's work is never done," she sighs.