interstellar5555 | ☆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.”

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yeah I guess so, it's just I don't want that kind of responsibility on my shoulders. I doubt he wants me looking out for him.

[He smiles and shrugs casually. He isn't even sure his groupmates like him at all, except Sora. Sora seems to like him okay.]

Oh, really? Have there been any problems with you fitting in, or something?

[Maybe it's just a bad time. Things seem rougher over in Pride, at least on a shallow level.]

Nah, nothing worth worrying about. I can handle it.

[He shrugs a little, Sora told him they were missing the guy who was there before him and not to expect too much and he doesn't. It's just a little lonely for that to be his introduction to the band. Either way, he can handle it. He's used to be the lone wolf.]

If you say so... Still, maybe I should give you my phone number. Label rivalry tends to make talking with people a little troublesome, but it's nothing that can't be worked around.

[And goodness knows she could always benefit from expanding her contacts at Pride.]

Yeah okay, sure.

[He pulls out his phone and holds it to her.]

You can put it in. I just...it's nice to make friends, you know? Maybe?

[His smile is a little nervous.]

[Hardly any other prompting is needed. Taking the phone, Luce dials in her number and name- plus a smiley- with all the skills of a social butterfly who has done this a thousand times before.]

I can introduce you to all sorts of people on both sides, if you'd like! I think I know nearly every new face that's signed on with Virgo since I joined up...

[He grins at that and pockets his phone again.]

I wouldn't mind that. It would be good to get out and meet new people, right?

And you never know when you need friends to help you feel like you're in over your head!

[Friendly, inconspicuous advice. Absolutely.]

And, of course, I'm always here for a listening ear.

[He laughs.]

Are friends meant to make that worse, or save you from downing?

[Always with the water metaphors, he's always favoured them.]

Thanks, but don't be surprised if I don't take you up on that. It's good to know it's there though.

Usually it's the rescue part, although some friends are a bit rude in that area. Still.

Things can get very... strange in this industry. I'm always here.

I appreciate it all the same.

[He grins, but sighs and looks around.]

I didn't read my packet. It's probably fine...right?

Oh, these things aren't usually too difficult! Just go along, smile, and don't be afraid to ask questions when you need to.

You'll manage.

☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 1

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