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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.”
wounds: (THE RESULTS ARE IN)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-26 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
['How? Any clues?']
trn451: (terminal)

parker | virgo | duty | open

[personal profile] trn451 2016-01-26 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Parker hasn't felt this productive since being kidnapped.

It had started as a vocal line at first, then a beat and a synth part, and then it had all come together so fast she'd nearly torn her guitar strap and dropped her laptop trying to connect everything together and set up a demo. She is not loud — this is not by any means a loud song — but she is clear, with obvious feeling.]


If you’re a dancer you should know,
The choreographer is lonely,
Even if she falls in love,
She’s still scared to be alone.

Memories turn into daydreams,
Become a taboo.

I shouldn’t have to be afraid
The deeper that I go,
It takes my breath away,
Soft hearts, electric soul,

Linked-up minds and eight black eyes,
Is this taboo?

I think they built this house
On memories,
Ripped through to here and now
Scan my brain and read it,
And when their fantasies
Become our legacy
We won’t find a place
In the house of memories.

I am rhythm art and rhyme,
And my spirit shows right through
Metronome keeps time,
Radio counting true.

There’s a quiet hero somewhere,
She sings to me...

I think they built this house
On memories,
Ripped through to here and now
Scan my brain and read it,
And when their fantasies
Become our legacy
We won’t find a place
In the house of memories.

Those thoughts of
A soldier,
Her face always haunts me.
I can’t stop
Searching for
Some sign that she’s not me.
But all I
Remember
Is looking through her eyes,
As she watched over the sky…

I think they built this house
On memories,
Ripped through to here and now
Scan my brain and read it,
And when their fantasies
Become our legacy
We won’t find a place,

I think they built this house
On memories,
Ripped through to here and now
Scan my brain and read it,
And when their fantasies
Become our legacy
We won’t find a place
In the house of memories.

In the house of memories,

We won’t find a place.

Edited 2016-01-26 07:27 (UTC)
giglio_madonna: (What would an ocean be without)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-26 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[This is... a lot less horrifying than she thought. Still uncomfortable, enough to make her skin crawl, but nothing horror movie like yet. It's enough to keep her calm right where it is.]

Hello. I can hear you.
wounds: (Sulky)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-26 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He hesitates.

'A ghost or someone invisible?'

It's not his secret to give away.]
giglio_madonna: (I'd tell you why you're wrong but)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-26 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Neither have I. Frankly, I was worried that this would turn out like all the horror movies.

[But, fortunately for her, it seems like he's... not immediately bad. And, fortunately for him, he's chosen one of the most calm and stable people in probably this entire building.]

So you can talk to me better now, right? Can you explain a bit more now that we aren't relying on a mirror?
trn451: (focus)

parker | duty

[personal profile] trn451 2016-01-26 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Catch Parker in a studio, knee-deep in the writing process. She sits on a bench with her laptop next her, mapping a beat into her DAW, singing the vocal harmonies into a mic. Eventually, the backing is enough, and she strums her guitar and—

I'm tired.

>You're too young to be tired.

D, you knew my dad. Was he a cool guy?

>Well,

>He was calm, and he never had a whole lot to say, but even through the machine, you could feel a sadness. Like something was missing from him.

>But I thought he was pretty cool.


Her hand falls for a second, before she stops the sound coming through the laptop.

Until terminal failure. Parker has never made a promise like that in her life. She doesn't even think she's capable of it.

But if the other girl had...

She grabs her laptop and opens the lyrics document again. There's something there now, she knows it.]
Edited 2016-01-26 07:52 (UTC)
wounds: (Ergh)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-26 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He scowls at the page in annoyance. He's pretty sure nobody he knows has spirit connections- or if they did they sure didn't talk about it.

'Do you know anybody?']
Edited 2016-01-26 07:56 (UTC)
giglio_madonna: (sassybird) (Where do boys get off thinking they’re)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-26 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully not while I'm in the shower, or I'll revoke my consent in... whatever is happening here.

[Don't make her do it, man.]

So... You're really not going to do anything besides talk to me? It's not going to be like what happened to Ivan?
giglio_madonna: (sassybird) (Remember remember this is now)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-26 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he didn't answer, which is suspicious in its own way, but there are more important things to learn here, such as ignoring how strange this all feels and just focusing.]

Why did he do that? Was it because of the music Juno was making us play?
wounds: (Huh?)

[personal profile] wounds 2016-01-26 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
[UH.

Well... okay.]


See you.

[Hopefully soon?]
giglio_madonna: (Don't be Bob the Dead Guy over)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-01-26 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
[That makes sense... Did Juno know that would happen?]

Well, I appreciate the care. Ivan, the person your friend possessed... He's very important to me. Pao-Lin and Rei as well. The situation is dangerous, but... I'd like to keep them as safe as I possibly can.

Especially since after your friend did that, Juno took him and... I don't know what they did.