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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.”
magic_to_do: (When you're extra-ordinary)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-01-26 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, yeah!


[She grins right back, then gasps dramatically as an idea occurs to her.]

Oh. My. Gosh! Do you know what we should do?!?
consocius: ([up]; encourage)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-01-28 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[He has no clue as to what this idea might be, but Trucy's enthusiasm is contagious, so he's excited anyway.]

What? What should we do?
magic_to_do: (feeding the turtle)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-01-31 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
We should write a cover song made up of different lines from different songs! Like, we can use one song from every band in Pride!

[Never mind that they're not even in the same band. Obviously this is a thing they should do.]
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (ponder.)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-02 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Kinda like my phone is doing except we get to choose the lines, right? That's a great idea! Though... Pride's got a lot of bands, and I dunno if I want to do a cover of any of Predator's stuff...

[Not that he thinks Trucy would want to, either.]

Maybe just all the ones that got started this past year like our two did?
magic_to_do: (On how moths got into the tapestry)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-02-02 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Well, yeah. No one likes Predator. We'll just use the good bands. Not the jerk ones.

[You have to have standards after all.]


But I think we'll wind up with a pretty good song.
consocius: ([up]; beginning of hope)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. So really all we gotta do is make sure the sounds go well together into a song, right? And I guess make sure the lyrics make sense?
magic_to_do: (Patching the roof)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-02-06 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as it sounds good I don't think we need to worry about it making sense.

[Trucy just explained a lot about herself in that sentence.]
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (but all the possibilities)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Sora gives his head a scratch as he thinks about that for a second.]

Yeah, I guess that would be easier. I've never mixed songs together before, will we need like special equipment for that?

[Listen. Sora is mostly a dancer. Not that he doesn't enjoy dabbling in all aspects of music, but there's still a lot he doesn't know about it.]
magic_to_do: (Deedleedee)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-02-09 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but they have all the stuff in the recording studios.

[Which she naturally assumes they'll just be allowed to use.]

And I know how to use most of it. We'll be fine!
consocius: ([neutral]; casual)

[personal profile] consocius 2016-02-10 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Considering Sora's never done any recording stuff completely on his own before, he's pretty much going on the assumption that Trucy knows what she's doing.

He's fully back to being excited about this.
]

Okay! How do we start? When do we start?
magic_to_do: (Exciting mystic and exotic)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-02-13 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's go see if there's an open recording studio. Inspiration like this can't be wasted!

[Inspiration to create a bizarre remix? At least she's excited.

And actually her excitement and generally forceful personality is probably what's going to convince some hapless techie to help them out.]