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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.”
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan looking upwards (折紙 Didn't know Blue Rose could do that)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-09 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Battle princess?

[ Ivan likes the idea of it. Self rescuing princess. He hasn't gotten into costume yet. The wardrobe department seems a little busy, so he's waiting. (And he isn't looking forward to it, honestly.) ]
nibelungvalesti: (removing helmet)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-10 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Royalty should be able to defend itself, should it not? After all, a king is a knight, as is a prince or a noble. Why not a princess or a countess, then?

[Besides, the other way would be no fun.]
sponsorigami: manga icon of Ivan smiling (漫画 I won't let you say I'm invisible)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-11 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. A king should be someone strong and the best at protecting people.

[ Ivan can almost see someone standing tall on a stage with lights focused on him, having the admiration of everyone. The title means something to him. Though it's incomplete. ]

And a queen is the very same. Honestly, I almost feel like a queen would be most dangerous, no matter her size or age.

[ Funny how he feels like he knows someone who could be queen someday, beyond an ice queen. That's... someone different. ]
nibelungvalesti: (considering a thing)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-11 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ivan has surprisingly strong feelings on the subject.]

And would you, then, be a knight? [That is close to how he strikes her, if not perfectly accurate.]
sponsorigami: Ivan cleaning his shuriken (忍 Shuriken maintenance time)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-12 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ He does, and it's a case of something being on the edge of his memory. ]

Maybe... perhaps ninja is more fitting. I can't really see myself becoming king.
nibelungvalesti: (what?!)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-13 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
That seems a... touch out of genre. [Fairy tales don't have ninjas, Ivan.]
sponsorigami: Ivan in a ninja themed kimono (ゲーム Made in Japan?)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-13 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not Americana ones.

[ But that doesn't mean there aren't any in other culture's fairy tales. ]
nibelungvalesti: (considering a thing)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-13 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think you would be able to spread that diversity here to this show? The audience might be less likely to respond to a tale of kitsune and yokai.

[Meril's home is a weirdly diverse world.]
sponsorigami: icon of a sympathetic Ivan (漫画 I mean... it's fine if it's not me)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-13 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I a;ready play a shamisen and dress like a ninja with a kitsune mask...

[ It's kind of his thing, so if anything, it's on par with his style. ]
nibelungvalesti: (considering a thing)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-14 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but that is not this. We are not liable to see fairy tales with strong punk and metal influence, either. [Really, Ivan. Aren't you being a bit naive?]
sponsorigami: manga icon of Ivan thinking (漫画 A word to the wise is enough)

Wow, where'd that semi-colon come from in my last tag?

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I guess...

[ But this is also a special collaboration. The rules could be different. ]
nibelungvalesti: (what?!)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-15 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Meril frowns slightly as she realizes how she sounds.]

I am not trying to discourage you, merely being realistic. If you can persuade them, then I will be happy for you.
sponsorigami: icon of a sympathetic Ivan (漫画 I mean... it's fine if it's not me)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-17 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ And Ivan has lost some of the confidence and uncaring attitude his rock star brainwashing had given him. ]

I guess we'll only find out later. We don't have a lot of the specifics yet.
nibelungvalesti: (what?!)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true.

...Perhaps you could be a roguish sort like Robin Hood? [That's as close to a legendary ninja-equivalent as she could think up off the top of her head.]
sponsorigami: manga icon of Ivan dressed like Kotetsu (and maybe Sanji) (漫画 Of imitation and flattery)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-18 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps... if they decide to switch me over to being a Hero. We're stuck as Royals, aren't we?

[ Is that a possibility? Ivan tried to read the entire stack of papers they were given, but there were some tiny text he could not make out no matter how much he tried to. ]
nibelungvalesti: (considering a thing)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-18 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
One could make the parallel. As leader of his group and a representative of the will of the rightful king against a usurper, could he not be considered among that number?
sponsorigami: Ivan looking disturbed (ゲーム Please don't touch me)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-19 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's possible. I guess, I just have to be patient to find out my role in all of this.

[ What is he kidding? If the label wants him to be something, then he'll have to be it. ]
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[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2016-03-19 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope it is a good one, and I hope you find the whole thing enjoyable.

Even if you have to make it so. [As she suspects they all will.]
sponsorigami: Ivan cleaning his shuriken (忍 Shuriken maintenance time)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2016-03-20 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. And I wish the same for you.

[ They certainly will need to. ]