☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 1

[interdimanagers]

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.”

Comments

[yellowcopycat]

Soracchi!

[And here comes Ryouta, bounding over, obviously super excited about this, and not seeing that Sora's feeling down]

Isn't this exciting? It's going to be so much fun! It's kinda like going back to our roots, huh?

[consocius]

[Well, in Ryouta's defense, he's only kinda down. And Sora kinda down looks okay for the most part.]

Hey! Yeah, seems like it's gonna be pretty cool. Our roots? Oh, you mean my acting and your modeling, right? I guess it's kinda similar. Dressing up for the part and all.

[yellowcopycat]

[Ryouta nods.]

Yeah, but we don't really have to act, just be ourselves.

I'm not that great of an actor anyways.

[consocius]

I'm glad we don't have to do any acting for it. It's kinda like when we do music videos, if you think about it. Except we get to interact with fans too! I think that'll be the most fun part.

[He laughs a little.]

Though the dressing up should be fun too. You kinda got a headstart on that already, huh?

[yellowcopycat]

I hope they don't get weird. I've had some bad experiences before.

[He gives a little 'shit happens' shrug]

It will be! Do you need help finding something to wear? I can dress you up in something really nice!

[consocius]

Who, the fans? I guess, yeah. Jamie and I did have some fans chase us once. Other than that though most of my time with them has been pretty good.

[Maybe he was just lucky like that, though. He knows other people have had some bad experiences, and that some fans have been known to get violent. He feels like they'll probably keep those ones away from this, though.]

I dunno yet. I'm not sure what fairy tale they're gonna give me. I was looking at some of the costumes they have here, though. They're not bad.

[yellowcopycat]

That's actually how I met Jamie.

It was mostly from my model days. I had girls claiming they were my girlfriends just because of my status.

[He paused, yeah, that had happened a few times. At school... wait. He was homeschooled, but he was remembering the scene vividly. Haizaki, the jerk, crowing about getting together with his "girlfriend" after she "dumped" him. He shook his head. Weird.]

Go with something generic, but that makes you look good. I can help you pick something out.

[consocius]

Only girls?

[Though he's teasing, there is something simultaneously hilarious and terrifying to think about fans chasing them and claiming to be their girlfriends. Sure, he'd gotten a few things on Valentine's Day from fans, but overall none of them had been too pushy.]

Hmm... Yeah, like something kind of Royal I guess? It'd be really cool if I could carry a sword too, like a prop one. Think they'd let me?

[yellowcopycat]

That I'm aware of.

[He looks at Sora. Somehow he can see Sora with a sword]

Yeah, that would be cool! You should ask if you can be a hero if they didn't get enough people off the street.

[consocius]

Hey, I didn't even think about that! That would be really cool. I think I'd have a lot of fun doing it, too. Already I wanna jump on those mushrooms and climb that wall of ivy. [He admits this with a laugh.]

[yellowcopycat]

Then go ask then!