interstellar5555 | ☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 1

Who: Famous musicians, hopeful auditioners, and random onlookers.
What: Hit gameshow series “Fairy Trial” is celebrating one of its anniversaries, and it’s invited you onboard. For more deets, check out the OOC post!
When: March 11th.
Where: Sevetop Entertainment’s studio.
Warnings: Mingle log mystery bag.

“It's so much better to pretend
There's something waiting for you here.
Every letter that you wrote
Has found its way to me, my dear.”

☆BETTER TO PRETEND

For musicians in either Pride or Virgo, the job offer is delivered by their managers- a suggestion to accept an invitation from Sevetop to participate in a successful gameshow. (A message that is delivered perhaps a bit more pressingly to some, with the unsaid words of “This is a chance to make it up to us”.) For others, strangers just trying to make a living and wait for their chance to save their loved ones, the message is delivered over their communicators by Gold, with promises that infiltrating this event will aid you in liberating the captives from their label's control. Either way, all roads lead to Sevetop Entertainment.

Sevetop might not have the weight that musical giants Pride Labels and Virgo Entertainment do, but that’s because it’s not into the musical industry. Sevetop is all about television and the big screen. For these purposes, it has its own little area of the city, a bustling kind of Hollywood filled with the more office-like buildings, auditoriums for additions, and even various sets. Whether you’re driven in style via limo, or brought to a regular line of buses, this is where you end up at.

Musicians, of course, end up at the more posh meeting room. A spread of delicate little lunch sandwiches, veggie platters, cupcakes, and assorted beverages are on a table for anyone to snatch up, and regularly refilled. Every celebrity is handed a small folder with papers inside going over both the boring legal things and explaining the purpose of the show. “Royals” are the ones to be “saved”, but they don’t have to make the journey easier on their “Heroes” and are given tools at their disposal to help or hinder. Heroes have one goal to accomplish, ‘rescuing’ their Royal, but it changes depending on the challenge.

Much to your surprise, some of those aspiring Heroes might just look familiar. Don't tell!

☆THE HEROES

In another building, next door, various people picked off the street (some coincidentally, others not so much, thanks to Gold's glamour witchcraft) are being given very much the same kind of presentation… In a room much more cramped, with not nearly enough chairs, on a slideshow. The only refreshments available are small bags of chips (try not to take more than one) and coolers full of bottled water.

After the separate presentations are done with, everyone is allowed to check out the sets for past seasons, which includes what look like giant mushroom tops that are made of very bouncy rubber, climbing walls made of fake vines, pumpkin shaped carriages (horses not included), and other such things.

Of course, it’s not all play. While you’re messing about, you’ve all been given numbers. Once you’ve been called, you’re to stand in front of Fairy Trial’s hosts and commentators: siblings Bella and Maurice Hooks. Both of them are equally friendly, although her more outgoing to his easygoing, but they have plenty of questions for this little audition. Tell them about yourself: hobbies, job, your favorite fairy tale, what you think your best skill is - and then, the most important, you get to display a choice "talent" in front of the audience. It can be whatever you like, as long as it's crowd appropriate.

Be careful, though, because the rock stars you're hoping to work with are watching, too. At the very least, don't make an ass out of yourself. Gold's enchantments are good, but there are some things that even magic can't charm its way through.

After all this, you’ll get a chance to just rest and mingle while your rides come back to take you back to the mall or HQ you were picked up at. Obviously for certain famous names, they’ll probably be the first ones out, but who knows… Maybe there was a traffic delay, and now you have some time to spare waiting around here as well. Just take note that you’re not allowed to wander too far from the Fairy Trial sets. Security is keeping an eye on folks to make sure they don’t steal or wreck anything.

And don’t worry, you’ll be told about the results within a week! They promise.

“You can make believe that what you say
Is what I want to hear.
I'll keep dancing through this
Beautiful delusional career.”

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Duh.

[That's Artolo's answer to what he'll do to his hero, and it's accompanied by a big grin.]

I mean, come on, Sora. It wouldn't be much of a game if we made it easy for them!

[He's right. Sora should have expected this answer from him. He laughs, though.]

Yeah, I guess that'd be more entertaining for like the audience too, since it's a show.

Exactly. [He flicks his finger out to point at Sora.] You shouldn't go easy either, you know.

I think it depends on who I get and what their course is and stuff. Like making it easy would be boring yeah, but I don't wanna make them completely miserable either. Gotta give 'em a fighting chance so that the audience will root for them.

Huh, I guess... [Artolo himself doesn't think he cares about any of the contestants in this little audition, but hey.] You talk to any of them much?

I've seen a few of them around...

[He crosses his arms over his chest, giving a quick glance around for anyone in their immediate visible range that he recognizes. Usagi's kind of hard to miss.]

The blonde girl with the long pigtails and buns on her head? That's Serena. She's a friend, she works at a flower shop I've been to and I've run into her a couple times. She's nice.

Oh, her. Yeah, she's gonna kill me.

[Should he not say that so casually? Whups.]

[Well it does get him a comical, wide-eyed and startled look from Sora. Who continues staring at Artolo like he just grew another head or horns or something.]

What? Why?

Because I'm a dick.

[Sora, like most of Flashstep by some weird twist of fate, has not gotten to see this aspect of his personality, Art knows. Still. Them's the breaks.]

A collision happened, arguing, et cetera. In my defense, when I say 'give me back my shades', I mean it.

[To be fair, Sora has been friends with plenty of people who can be dickish. Even best friends. It was hard to imagine anyone getting on Usagi's bad side, though.]

Yeah you've kinda gotten attached to those shades, huh? B's pretty attached to his too, come to think of it. Are they like presents you gave each other?

[He's thinking of the pair of keychains he and Jamie share, that the sunglasses thing with Art and B is something like that.]

[Wow, that would sure be romantic if that was true. Maybe they should have thought about that.]

No, I'm just a hungover asshole. You were hungover once, right?

Yeah, once. It sucked a lot. Wait, you mean you do that to yourself all the time?

[Frankly, he looks amazed. Artolo never fails to surprise him. And he's never boring, that's for sure.]

[He doesn't, actually, but like hell he's going to give the actual reason.]

Duh, of course. No pain, no gain. It's not like it's impossible to manage anyway.

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