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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-03-05 10:00 pm

☆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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II

[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-07 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The 'teenager' Sora is talking to glances up to him when he speaks, blinking away whatever thoughts were in their head.]

Mm? Are you talking to me?

[Maybe it's the glamor, maybe it's Maybelline their natural look that has Mammon so doe eyed.]
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-07 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. You're auditioning to be one of the heroes, right?

[He didn't see them in the meeting room, so it's a natural assumption. Unless they'd just skipped that part.]
avidita: (pixiv 4925030) (I've done dumber things than this)

[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-09 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. Well... Someone from a punk or metal band would be my choice, but that's if I get lucky.

[A gesture to their Junkyard Carnival hoodie. Sort of a dead giveaway.]
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-12 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Punk or metal. Well, he knows a few people from punk bands, but not any metal off the top of his head. He had met Marty once, if that counted.]

Oh, Junkyard Carnival. Yeah, I think I've seen a few of them around, so they might be participating! Do you have a favorite from that band?
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-13 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the only options are Xanxus, Luci, and Yuffie, right? It seems like no one else can stick around for long.

[Yeah, they've done their homework.]

But definitely Xanxus, out of the three.
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-18 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I guess you're right. They've been through a couple of band members the last several months.

Oh, I'm Sora, by the way, I'm with Flashstep. Which is definitely not metal and not really punk, either. [He says with s laugh.] I like a lot of different kinds of music though. Don't tell anyone from Pride but Virgo's Nuclear Parliament is one of my favorite bands. Have you heard 'em?
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-19 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Briefly, Mammon flicks through their mental files of "People I Give a Damn About" and finds themselves coming up empty. Oh well, no harm in being honest about this one.]

No, not really... Will you actually get in trouble if people find out you like them?
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-20 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not real sure but Pride and Virgo top people are kind of weird about each other.

[This is said with a shrug, so he doesn't actually seem too concerned about it.]

But they did both let their musicians write and perform songs about each other at that charity concert in January.
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it was worth dealing with each other then.

[Mammon isn't going to pretend to know what's going through the CEO's minds, besides that it's a personal nuisance to them.]

But not you, hm?
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-26 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, there's plenty of nice Virgo bands and musicians. Besides Nuclear Parliament I really like Flowers Over Bones too. I haven't really seen a lot of like, weirdness about other labels in the newer bands. But then I've got one friend and band member who's kinda wary about Virgo people.

[Sora, so easily trusting and talkative. It's a good thing Mammon's not a reporter in disguise or anything.]
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-27 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nah, they're just a very dubious "rescuer". Sort of good. Kind of.]

Really? Does he buy more into the rivalry than you?
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-31 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I think he's gotten better about it. I mean I think rivalry can be fun too, it doesn't mean you hafta dislike your rival. Like Ryouta Kise is sort of a rival-friend of mine, but we have fun doing competition stuff. We've done dance-offs and karaoke competitions in our off-time.
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-03-31 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blah, blah, personal life things they don't- wait, Kise? That name's come up in the media before... Mammon tilts their head to the side.]

I've heard of him. Isn't the paparazzi making a big deal of who he's dating?
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-04-04 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Sora blinks.]

Uh...

[He honestly doesn't pay that much attention to paparazzi stuff or tabloids even, not unless they're shown to him or tweeted at him. He can't recall reading anything about Kise's dating life, other than the smooch he'd given him in October. But Ryouta himself had talked a bit about his feelings to Sora, but more just that he liked multiple people, not who he was going out with.]

Maybe? I hadn't really noticed... [He's useless in this area, Mammon, sorry.]
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[personal profile] avidita 2016-04-04 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Damn. Oh well. Not everyone can be a lead.]

I guess that explains how you can ignore the rivalry, too. No interest in the media either.