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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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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-09 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. They seem really familiar. Is this something like Alice in Wonderland, or is there another tale that uses them too? Maybe something with a really large tree?

[ He's trying to remember the Big Tree amusement park back in Stern Bild. Mushroom characters are some of the mascots there. ]
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-12 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Sora nods, and crosses his arms as he thinks.]

Alice in Wonderland, yeah. That's what I was thinking of. Sometimes I have dreams where I'm in that world like Alice, being tiny and everything. The mushrooms are like this. The trees are gigantic too when you're tiny, if that's what you mean. Oh, and there's the Thumbelina story too.
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-12 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
I guess. I don't know. I can't really remember it clearly.

[ Something from his real home, he wonders. It's possible. ]

So many of these props can be used for more than one tale.
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-13 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's true. I guess because a lot of fairy tales have like the same stuff in them. Especially the ones with forests and castles. Maybe it's some other forest you're thinking about?

[Not that there are really any forest-y places around Vista City, but Sora's aware he could be thinking about a place from his visions. Or memories? Since seeing different people straight from his own visions in the real world, and getting his keyblade back, he's inclined to think they're memories now.]
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-14 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Another forest? No... forest doesn't sound right. Ivan shrugs. ]

I don't think it's that big of a deal. It'll probably come to me later. Um, kind of when you're looking for something you've lost. You find it when you stop looking for it.
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And sometimes things just come back to you when you least expect them to.

[He lifts his arms up to casually cross them behind his head, still looking over the set pieces.]

So do you have a favorite fairy tale? Or like one you think it would be fun to dress up as?

[He asks with a grin, always curious to learn more about his friend.]
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-20 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to take part in a fairy tale from overseas.

[ Read: Japan ]

You know, to broaden people's horizons and let them compare the differences and similarities in the stories.
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-25 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Right! Like... Uh...

[There was a smile that had lighted up when Ivan first mentioned this overseas thing but it shifts into a kind of blank look as Sora realizes he has... no idea what that might be. Finally he laughs.]

I guess I can't really think of anything, unless you count like Europa stuff. Like Peter Pan, or Pinocchio.
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-26 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Isuun-boshi is kind of like Tom Thumb or Thumbelina who saves a princess by fighting a demon many, many, many times his own size. That would fit in, right? Or maybe just one based on a kitsune?

[ Stop him now, Sora. He may get carried away with talking about Japanese culture. ]
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-03-30 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[But what if he is enjoying this conversation?]

Yeah, that sounds like it would fit in. What's a kitsune again, though? It's like a fox, right?
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-30 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
A kitsune is a mythical fox spirit or monster that can shapeshift. Sometimes they can have many tails based on how old they are.
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[personal profile] consocius 2016-04-04 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Are they good or bad? Do they have a lot of fairytales about them?
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[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-04-04 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
They could be either really. It depends on the story. Sometimes they are tricksters, but sometimes they are valuable allies or even loved ones.