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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-01-23 10:20 pm

☆TRACK VII: IN REACHING OUT PT. 1

Who: Everyone in Pride and Virgo HQ.
What: Ghosts need your help.
When: The evening of January 30th, 2055
Where: Pride and Virgo HQ.
Warnings: Phantasmal violence, possibly some real violence.

“Hold your colours against the wall,
When they take everything away,
Hold your colours against the wall,
With me (soaking through)”

☆IN REACHING OUT



Starting around the 20th of January, the heavy lockdown and supervision of the musicians of both labels will begin to fade. While they still require escorts to be out and about, the guards that have been routinely stalking them around their own homes and HQs will be gradually phased out, until it is just the regular managers and security remaining. Sweet deal, right? Over a month after the hysteria of the ill-fated solstice party, things seem to be finally letting up a little. Whether because you've played nice for long enough, or whether their attentions are being directed elsewhere, it isn't clear.

Either way, this is the also the start of some increasingly familiar paranormal activity. All the way back to the first tour of this generation of musicians, members of both Pride and Virgo have found themselves haunted by strange and inexplicable happenings. Starting on the 23rd, these happenings begin to flare up again - lights switching on and off, TVs starting on their own, and even things falling off of shelves unprovoked. (These minor happenings can be made up by you and don't need to be mod designated - however, they should not be anything that would be threatening or dangerous to the characters.) For some people this will be completely new, and for others it may even be faintly nostalgic.

This will continue until the night of the 30th, when things finally seem to come into swing. The hauntings will become more pointed and explicit. The details are specific to each HQ, and there and you can make yourself open to an NPC haunting down below.

☆PRIDE RECORDS
About halfway through the evening on the 30th, Predator will begin prowling the halls of Pride HQ. At first it won't be clear for what, but after catching a few snippets of conversation (this can be handwaved) characters will have a change to realize that they are looking for the ghosts that have been causing a fuss recently. How crazy this will sound to you will probably depend on how new you are. They will actively shake down random musicians they meet for information about what they've seen the last couple days. As usual, Jenny is leading the pack, with Cass and Donny (nsfw) providing back up muscle.

Provided you lie well or tell them the truth, they will move along fairly quickly. If you start shit with them, they will probably rough you up a little. Any major confrontations with them will be handled on the companion OOC post, and a few top levels may appear over here that can be tagged into in limited amounts.

Beyond those activities, Pride members will feel various effects based on their EMOTIONAL ALIGNMENTS:

ALL: Their connection and desire to create music will be especially heightened. They will find themselves subconsciously beginning to tap out rhythms, hum, peck at instruments, or straight up sing things even when it would otherwise be totally inappropriate. Strong emotions will cause them to want to sing and play to each other. They may also feel very strongly that they want to dance, to a particularly addictive beat that seems to emanate from the air. It may shift and change as the night goes on, but at any given moment everyone will hear the same rhythm. It sounds like particularly great percussion.

LOVE & DUTY: They will have no extra special effects, but they will feel this urge to create music even more strongly than the rest, as it seems to be focused on them as they are not being directly targeted by any other sensations. When Hope and Passion musicians hear music made by these characters, they will feel stronger, like energy is being gifted to them.

HOPE: Characters of this alignment will feel increasingly like they are being drawn somewhere, or like someone is calling for them, but they can't quite make out the direction it's coming from. The aspect of hope will be empowered within them, and they will find themselves unusually trusting towards the other characters, as if they only have the most optimistic outcomes in mind. Beyond this, they may feel dazed or confused by the sensations they are feeling. They may also experience strange visions, or the sensation of being another person they are not (and not just their true self this time, someone else completely).

PASSION: Characters of passion will be targeted by the 'hauntings' much more directly than the others. More than random acts, the hauntings around them seem like someone is actively trying to communicate with them. Sometimes it will even feel like someone is trying to speak in their heads, though they won't quite be able to make it out. Passion characters who request haunting instances will get the most major effects.

☆VIRGO ENTERTAINMENT
Soon after things start to get extra weird on the 30th, Juno and a couple Virgo veterans (Anansi and a man you recognize as a popular folk artist named Brett Hogan) will start wandering the halls. They will pull individuals aside for questioning in private rooms, asking about the strange occurrences. They will not attempt to rough anyone up, but excessively resistance or attempts at violence towards them may result in characters being locked in their rooms for the rest of the night.

All three of them seem particularly hard to lie to for some reason, tonight. It's possible, but while you make the effort to do so, the words seem to be on the verge of falling out of your mouth. Juno seems to have something very particular in mind as she searches the HQ, like she can see something you can't. There will also be top levels for these guys appearing.

Beyond those activities, Pride members will feel various effects based on their EMOTIONAL ALIGNMENTS:

ALL: Their connection and desire to create music will be especially heightened. They will find themselves subconsciously beginning to tap out rhythms, hum, peck at instruments, or straight up sing things even when it would otherwise be totally inappropriate. Strong emotions will cause them to want to sing and play to each other. They may also feel very strongly that they want to dance, to a particularly addictive tune that seems to emanate from the air. It may shift and change as the night goes on, but at any given moment everyone will hear the same song. It sounds like someone riffing expertly on a guitar.

HOPE & PASSION: They will have no extra special effects, but they will feel this urge to create music even more strongly than the rest, as it seems to be focused on them as they are not being directly targeted by any other sensations. When Love and Duty musicians hear music made by these characters, they will feel stronger, like energy is being gifted to them.

LOVE: Characters of this alignment will feel increasingly like they are being drawn somewhere, or like someone is calling for them, but they can't quite make out the direction it's coming from. The aspect of love will be empowered within them, and they will find themselves unusually loving, connected, and emotionally open to others, even if this would usually be out of character. (This can also mean they are more inclined to get physically intimate, if you want to.) Beyond this, they may feel dazed or confused by the sensations they are feeling. They may also experience strange visions, or the sensation of being another person they are not (and not just their true self this time, someone else completely).

DUTY: Characters of duty will be targeted by the 'hauntings' much more directly than the others. More than random acts, the hauntings around them seem like someone is actively trying to communicate with them. Sometimes it will even feel like someone is trying to speak in their heads, though they won't quite be able to make it out. Duty characters who request haunting instances will get the most major effects.

☆PLOT NOTE
This will be a two part event, and the second part will be posted in a few days and will only include those that choose to help the spirits. This can be discussed OOC. Any alignment can assist, though the Passions from Pride and the Duties from Virgo will be the most directly pursued because they will be the easiest for the spirits to communicate with. Realize that participating is serious business, though: there are good odds the characters will be caught eventually, and there will be consequences. Do not volunteer your characters for this plot if you don't want them to suffer potential physical or mental trauma.

“Fading gently, soaking through,
And starting not to show at all.
In reaching out and into you,
nothing else could touch me.”
blindfoldcode: (said if you won't save me)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Tiger. That is a lot of pacing. Kido's eventually going to get out of her seat and set her notebook on his curls.]

You're driving me crazy. What's wrong?
blindfoldcode: (said if you won't save me)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I can probably take him. He didn't kill me last time and he tried.

I'll just bring a knife this time.
vivelarevolution: (concentrate)

[personal profile] vivelarevolution 2016-01-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Chairs don't just fall by themselves.

[he tosses the coffee cup, wiping his hand on his pants and flinches a little at the unexpected pain-- finding it burnt for some reason.

Well nevermind. He kneels and looks at the bottom of the chair, pressing his fingers against the legs, looking for any kind of spring trap, and then across the floor. But it doesn't even seem to be on a tilt, which is expected in a building this caliber]


Strange things have been happening for a while now...

[and he'd really rather not have to think about them because he doesn't want them tobe true]
tigermillionaire: (what the fuck this face illegal)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He dreamily takes the notebook off of his head and looks at it in bewilderment, frowning slightly before holding it between his hands and looking out the window again. It's like watching a cat that wants to go outside scratch at the door.]

You mean you don't feel any of that?
blindfoldcode: (desperate and broken)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Feel what, exactly? [She raises an eyebrow. Not unbelieving. Curious.]
psyvampexperiment: (What's this?)

Kazutaka Muraki/Kiernan "Sariel" MacLeod | Yami no Matsuei | Crown of Thorns

[personal profile] psyvampexperiment 2016-01-25 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
The night on which the haunting began, Sariel found a melody lurking in his head that he's trying to pick out on the piano, a haunting refrain that he finds he simply has to commit to the page, or at least to memory... It's as if he's possessed by this melody, and he finds himself trying to put words to it, words inspired by the M.R. James stories he was reading earlier in the evening. He even switches on a digital recorder for a rough cut of the song -

And then the recorder emits a loud crackle of static and the lights around him flicker.

"All right... I know I was inspired by haunting events, but this is ridiculous," he murmurs. And then, without him touching it, the music manuscript book on the piano stand slides off into his lap...
magic_to_do: (everyday things)

Trucy Wright | Pride Records | Love

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-01-25 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Trucy is feeling unusually prolific today. She could write a song about anything. In fact, maybe she will. After composing a cheerful song about waking up in the morning, a song about what she had for breakfast, and a song about the first person she sees when she leaves the penthouse, Trucy feels like it's time to take this show on the road.


By which she means, down to one of the common areas. Where she's flagging down the first person she sees.]


Hey! You busy?
blindfoldcode: (is falling down on all)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
That's an understatement. [They've been happening since the tour bus. Maybe moving to a hotel won't help after all...]

We probably shouldn't... talk about that stuff. You're new, right?
tigermillionaire: (eh...)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno...

[He shuffles uncomfortably. They've had things like this in past, where people just feel things for no reason. He guesses this time it's just him, at least for this part.]

I saw something...like a memory, except it wasn't mine. I feel like I need to do something.
blindfoldcode: (let's begin)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Being duty she was just protective last time. And that's really no different from normal? She crouches to be on his eye level. She's taking this very seriously.]

What do you think you need to do?
magic_to_do: (over the size of the compost heap)

I

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-01-25 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa!

[She was just passing him in the hallway when Sora's phone decided to run a musical medley of a line or two from a dozen different songs. Trucy seems more impressed than surprised.]

It's like a glitchy remix!
tigermillionaire: (a lonely night with the sword)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I...I don't know that either.

[And it sounds like it's distressing him, but not in the hopeless and tired kind of way it often is. It's more like he is champing at the bit to accomplish whatever task he's imagining.]

It's like I'm supposed to go somewhere but I dunno where.
blindfoldcode: (struggle until it comes true)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think it's somewhere in the city?
tigermillionaire: (uh...?!)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhere here...

[He looks up and at the ceiling, seeming to refer to the general HQ. It wouldn't be surprising.]
blindfoldcode: (goodbye)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Want to go looking? I'll come with you.
wounds: (Ergh)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-25 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I really don't need to bail you out of jail too.
wounds: (Sensei)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-25 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[His focus isn't on Sabo for the moment, a little lost in the lyrics and who they're directed to.

Why is he so certain this man is so empty? That he keeps people at arms distance on reflex.]


You waste all your memories
Your love, your luck
Your beauty sleep

Building all those barriers
Don't you know they never work?
Building all those barriers
To try to keep away the hurt
tigermillionaire: (BOOOOKS)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[This is normally where Tiger would get scared and say that they shouldn't, that he's scared of getting in trouble, that something bad must be happening. But he doesn't look scared. He doesn't even hesitate.]

Okay.

[He pulls away from the window and passes the notebook back to her.]

I think...I think it's really important. Whatever it is.
blindfoldcode: (of promise)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She stuffs it in her pocket.] Okay. Where do we start? Should we go from the top down or the bottom up?
blindfoldcode: (let's look for the lasting words)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
You'd bail me out of jail? [LOOK WHO'S SO FUCKING SURPRISED BY THAT and also pleased.] Where were you two years ago?
wounds: (Really...)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-25 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
... Does everybody I know end up in jail?
blindfoldcode: (calling out to all)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2016-01-25 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I was homeless, shut up. [She plucks a tune on the bass.] Apparently that shit is frowned upon. I'll have you know that I haven't been arrested since.
wounds: (Glance)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-25 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He's been humming to the tune of "Holding Out For A Hero" the entire time he's been walking around HQ-- significantly less embarrassing than the actual lyrics he's come up with.]

Not at the moment. What's up?
sailorgenerous: (I must admit it wasn't my best design)

[personal profile] sailorgenerous 2016-01-25 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
She adds that glance to her mental list of things that are distinctly not reassuring, and finds herself furtively glancing around as well, though she has no idea what Greg is looking for. "So it's not just me." Sariel goes unmentioned, as she is not about to throw him under the bus. "Does Kimiko know? Or any of the managers?"
tigermillionaire: (THE TRUTH...?)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-01-25 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
If we go up, someone will probably stop us, right?

[Up is towards Lesedi's office, where they interrogated them that one time, and where she...and he...

He pauses, quivering slightly. That's there the elevator to that medical room was. The one they took him to when he confessed to having memories, and the one that they all appeared in when Naomi Rivers tried to kill them.

It's like a feeling of being lost, and trapped...]


People are going to get in our way.