☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 1

[interdimanagers]

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.”

Comments

[iitrebel]

[An ugly snorting noise tears through his vocal chords.]

Wow, hoping to nail a boyfriend on this show?

[intohell]

No. [That might have been a little more forceful than necessary.]

I mean, isn't that the point of all of this? Reach the royal and save the day, all part of being a good hero.

[A better definition than the one she knew from home.]

[iitrebel]

That a thing you're into, huh?

[Reaching into his pocket, he pulls out some godawful spicy candy to pop into his mouth.]

[intohell]

I'd hate to be a bad hero and get someone killed if this were the real thing.

[iitrebel]

[For some reason, that makes him laugh, candy tucked into his cheek so he doesn't choke on it.]

Would it really?

[intohell]

Make me a bad hero? Or be a bad thing, because I'm almost certain it would be.

[iitrebel]

And if they didn't want you to rescue them in the first place?

[intohell]

As long as they have all the information to make that decision? It's their choice.

[iitrebel]

Well, there's something, at least. Weird how fairy tales don't do choice normally anyway.

[intohell]

Most stories don't. They have a specific end in mind which means they have to lead you along.

[The genre of the story didn't matter in that case, they were all the same.]

If people were to choose, it wouldn't be the same story.

[iitrebel]

The same stories told over again are overrated.

[intohell]

Wouldn't that depend on the story? If there's a lesson to be learned, repeated hearing means you'll eventually get it.

[iitrebel]

Naaaaaaaaaaah.

Besides, if you need a story to teach a lesson, maybe you just really suck at teaching.

[intohell]

Maybe. Then again, I'm not a teacher.

[iitrebel]

Yeah? What do you do, anyway?

[intohell]

Club security. I help with extra details during some of the shows at the local clubs.

[iitrebel]

Have you had to throw any of the performers out?

[And can he get names, to be a shit?]

[intohell]

Sorry to disappoint you but, not yet.

[iitrebel]

Awwww. C'mon. If you had to throw out some asshole, who would it be?

[intohell]

The closest was probably a member of Manticore.

[Shouldn't take anyone with a brain more than two seconds to guess who.]

[iitrebel]

[Awwwwww shit, he knows who it is, and Art's grin could split his face.]

Loudmouth, right?

[intohell]

[Does she even need to answer that?]

I don't think I've heard that description applied to at least four of the members.

[So yes.]

[iitrebel]

Do you need help kicking his ass? I'll help.

[This is probably illegal, or at least discouraged, but oh well.]

[intohell]

Thanks but we settled things.

[More or less, as long as he stops the digs on a certain bandmate of his. She'd really hate to shoot someone she was supposed to help save.]

Not a fan?

[iitrebel]

We're just general assholes a each other.

[Because that's how Pride works, and totally nothing to say about their own god-awful personalities.]

If you do have a chance to kick his ass, you should call me. I'll pay you and everything.