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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.”
sharktrash: (frown // ugh gross)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-02-28 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah. Most of a riot you're gonna see in this label, to be exact.

[ Once again, that's not necessarily true but he obviously believes it. MANTICORE more like HARDCORE. ]

[ He does notice the something too, though, and looks around suspiciously. ]


Aw shit, did it follow me here?!
maipokerface: (but there were so many red flags)

[personal profile] maipokerface 2016-02-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
At least the couches here are nice.
psyvampexperiment: (Snoozing)

[personal profile] psyvampexperiment 2016-02-28 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That should balance out the ghostly denizens evicting us from our rooms. And on that note, I'm bunking down for the night on one of said couches.
iitrebel: (sassybird) (Two shots of tequila for breakfast?)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-02-29 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, wha- [This is sure a change of things.] Why're you sure they're dead?
iitrebel: (sassybird) (Troll Jesus was obviously not given)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-02-29 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that's generally how ghosts are made, man." This is what he gets for talking to people who are high, when he's not high himself. Still...

"Lesedi Santiago seems like a pretty hard bitch. I wouldn't be surprised if she did kill someone."
consocius: ([up]; beginning of hope)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He sighs a little, and looks down at the floor.]

Yeah... Nari's in a rough place right now, she was really close to the drummer who was there before you, so it hit her hard when he was fired and just kinda... Disappeared without a trace.

[Another thing to mark down as being weird, to be honest. He looks back up at Sabo and smiles.]

I'm sure you'll make friends with 'em all eventually, since you'll be living together and everything. Me and my band mates are pretty much best friends now.
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (run.)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-29 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah he didn't hear that question. Once in the store, Sora's off like a flash to go look at things. He's leaving the balloons to Artolo in favor of grabbing dumb little party favors: kazoos, whistles, blowouts, bubbles, dumb little temporary tattoos of random stuff.

Once he's got everything he wants, he'll find Artolo again with his new treasure trove of assorted ridiculous things. Including little plastic animal figurine toys.
] I'm ready! [He's wearing a party hat.]
Edited 2016-02-29 05:04 (UTC)
connivingbird: (i think i get it)

[personal profile] connivingbird 2016-02-29 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
A signed one? And what would you want it to say? "To Luci, thanks for all the kisses?
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (do I exist?)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2016-03-01 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
They were halfway to it last I saw 'em and that was years ago. You slam enough stuff into your body, you hit the point where the amount ya need to feel it is more than the amount you need to kill yourself.
variaboss: (embers)

[personal profile] variaboss 2016-03-01 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
He gives a high little nod. "I bet she has a lot of bodies. But she wouldn't be the sort of person to leave that shit around to find. No. I doubt there's any evidence at all. And I bet that's what happened to Fetch and everyone we've lost. They're all ghosts now."
stylistic_disloyalty: (001)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Luci tilts her head, curious about what he wants her to do, but she imagines he's going to explain once they were in a more secure place. Like maybe his bedroom.]

Can I help with that? [She asks, gesturing to the bottles he's putting away.]
stylistic_disloyalty: (011)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-01 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
"You're just realizing this now?" Luci smirks in triumph as Xanxus rubs his head. Yeah, violence was the Carnie way when it came to solving problems, and it had apparently served her well this time too.

"What kind of messages?" Luci pauses. "...Fuck was it that cologne I like?"

Priorities.
stylistic_disloyalty: (002)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-01 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds perfect to me~ [She laughs.] I think I should give you more to make 'all the kisses' sound better than just two.
sharktrash: (diplomatic // no srsly keep your trash)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-03-01 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gives her a grin and hands her a bottle. ]

Sure thing.

[ Whoops he assumed 'help' as in 'help to finish it all again'. ]
thelittlemerman: (neutral//nope still smarter)

[personal profile] thelittlemerman 2016-03-01 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Finnick's already been trying to reach out to his bandmates, trying to get them to listen and be careful. He doesn't want to be alone here, doesn't want Virgo to make him feel isolated and scared like he feels whenever he has one of those visions. But he's certainly not going to say that much to Doctor.]

We're done here.

[Frowning, still suspicious, Finnick turns away.]
mildwildchild: art by Mint-Drop ([contemplative pause])

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2016-03-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd probably be a good idea. I don't wanna screw around with people like that if I can help it. I mean, that one guy was a jerk, but still.

[Jamie puts a little more heart into his strumming and tries to focus on how his fingers are moving and what he's feeling. The emotions return, slowly, and while they're a little tense at first they mellow out into something more mild - the energetic equivalent of someone taking deep, meditative breaths. It's relaxed, but a little more calculatedly so.]

[He lets out a quiet, soothed noise when Sora leans against him, something that Sora can probably feel thrumming through him than hear.]

Wonder how come I can do that but you can't. Maybe it'll happen later for you, or something. [Yes, Jamie, music mind-control powers are just like puberty. Totally.]
mildwildchild: (/thoughts on yaoi)

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2016-03-01 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Jamie looks uncomfortably surprised. "I'm sorry."

...this doesn't prevent him from trying to get to the bottom of Artolo's cat obsession, though. "Well, maybe that's why you wanna adopt so many cats, 'cause you were kinda in the same boat. Maybe you sort of identify with 'em. Like a subconscious thing or whatever."
iitrebel: (askthestargazers) (I feel like the Devil slapped me in)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-03-01 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Holy shit, now he almost feels inadequate with just his worryingly large supply of balloons.]

Are you sure, man? Want to buy out the whole store next?
iitrebel: (sassybird) (Two shots of tequila for breakfast?)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-03-02 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Shit.

[He stops throwing things, fiddling with what he had in his hand.]

...Guess some people just need that hit.
iitrebel: (sassybird) (Troll Jesus was obviously not given)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-03-02 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
...Okay well this went from, what, 15 to 100 real fast. Artolo pauses, glancing around for a moment like he's looking for help, before continuing. "You think she killed them all herself?" That has to be the drugs talking.
iitrebel: (askthestargazers) (I feel like the Devil slapped me in)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-03-02 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Amusement or annoyance? He's not sure which he's leaning towards more right now. Normally people would just leave it, or at least accept it as some random eccentricity. Yet Jamie just won't shut up about it.

"Okay, why do you care so much, man?"
stylistic_disloyalty: (070)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-02 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[...well, fair enough. Luci grins and breaks the seal on the tequila, knocking it back straight from the bottle. It's been a stressful couple of days, who can blame her?]
sharktrash: (why you little // teeth)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-03-02 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Damn it gurl you go. Once most of his purchase is put in order, he'll follow her example, though he'll probably chug vodka instead, as usual. Not as much as usual, though. He puts the bottle down and leans over the bar, almost conspicuously. ]

So. How easily grossed out are you?
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (aeon arm)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2016-03-02 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
And now y'know why I asked for root beer. [Jecht lifts the bottle with a smirk.] Telling you right now there's a hell of a lot more fun in a long life full of it than a short one stuffed TOO full.
connivingbird: (there is a thing)

[personal profile] connivingbird 2016-03-02 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering that is all the kisses I have, but if you want. I mean, I wouldn't say no. I think I like them.