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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-03-23 03:44 pm

☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 2

Who: Royals, Heroes, and Rebels.
What: Hit gameshow series “Fairy Trial” is celebrating one of its anniversaries, and it’s invited you onboard. Check out the OOC post for IC match ups!
When: March 21st.
Where: Sevetop Entertainment’s studio.
Warnings: Mingle log mystery bag.

“Every prince is a fantasy,
The witch is inside of me.
Her poison will wash away the memory.”

☆BETTER TO PRETEND



The day has finally come for Fairy Trial filming to begin!

No matter if they’ve arrived by limo or taken the bus, everyone involved gets star treatment as the makeup and costume departments go wild with the models they’ve been given. At least Sevetop has good accomodations. While it’s a chaotic and crowded scene, everyone still manages to fit in the two buildings Sevetop has dedicated for Fairy Trial’s purposes in this area. It’s one of the only points today that anyone will have a chance to everyone else. After all, once everyone involved in a particular challenge is done with, they’re hurried out the door and to their particular destination.

Every challenge has a different area it takes place in, after all. For some pair ups, they’ll find themselves merely being escorted to another set on Sevetop’s huge property. Others will find themselves being escorted to some very classy transportation and taken outside of Vista City to special obstacle courses that simply wouldn’t fit anywhere else. On the bright side, once the actual filming is done no matter the location, the crew involved seems to relax considerably. Whether they’ve done great or not, Heroes and Royals are treated to dinner and a change out of their costumes. Good job, everyone.

“We kill the lights and put on a show.
It's all a lie, but you'd never know.
The star will shine,
And then it will fall,
And you will forget it all.”
spaghettimonster: (WHAT???)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-04-05 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[The first couple barrels, it's easy enough that Papyrus doesn't even need to lean on his magic to hop neatly over them.

So of course it can't stay that easy. His Royal hollers something, distracting him enough that he glances up and over where they're restrained. A few spray guns activate across the obstacle course, so it seems like Shen was warning him about them. And he misses that the newly released barrels are coming with more momentum.

One rams into his shin, and Papyrus ducks down to rub at the sore bone.]


Ow! What in the...

[He barely dodges the next, and the next. Good job, Royal, your Hero is now being kept on his toes.]
hanginginthere: (this could take all night)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2016-04-06 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[that was actually kind of funny but he can't really laugh. not and be in character! funny, though, this feels somehow...familiar...

he shakes his head at that. he hasn't had those deja vus for a while, he doesn't need one now!]


Please!

[...that was more heartfelt than he meant it to be]
spaghettimonster: (I HAVE ONLY GOOD FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-04-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[It's televised, right? He can always watch it and laugh later. Certainly Papyrus intends to watch it later. Not to laugh, but to admire his (obvious, certain) triumph at the end of the challenge.]

Don't worry! I'm coming!!!

[Has Papyrus forgotten this is a performance, or is he just really in character...? Either way, he leaps past the last of the barrels at the top of the ramp, reaching the spinning platform and holding on.

With those foam protrusions as grips, he can take a quick breather for a couple of rounds, right? Or will the Royal activate those spray guns again, and send high pressure water jets to try knocking him off? ]
hanginginthere: (when at last the work is done)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2016-04-06 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[this feeling of distress is too real for him. there's something pushing at his memories, another time he was held back and afraid and at another's mercy, and he shakes his head again as he tries to fight it. that's wrong, that's wrong, that's not real!

he pushes another button. he'll stop those feelings!

...yep. yep those are water guns.]
spaghettimonster: (and he memes! oh my god does he meme) (NYEH!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-04-06 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Nyeh! Another one??

[Fun fact: the foam protrusions make pretty good grips when you're on a spinning platform. Until they're soaking wet. Then it's a struggle to hold on tightly enough not to slip backwards from the momentum of the spinning.

Between his wet footing, the slick foam, and the pressure of the erratic water jets? There's no getting a breather here. Like trying to climb a waterfall just to stay on it.

He eyes the final challenge, and leaps forward when it's coming near.]
hanginginthere: (and balanced on the biggest wave)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2016-04-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[it's still there. that sense that there's something out of reach, something missing, but...

he's still trying. Shen's...actually kind of impressed, in a part of him not feeling unhappy with this fear and anxiousness and...hope?

belief.

he bites his lip as Papyrus lunges forward - and makes a decision. he pushes the last button - the one to slow things down. maybe he can do this...]
spaghettimonster: (I---THE GREAT PAPYRUS---WILL HELP YOU!)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-04-06 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, thank goodness. Slowing that final obstacle, the foam bar moving along the half-circle walkway, was just what he needed.

Sure, he made the jump off the spinning platform onto the walkway. But the bar up here is designed to knock him off, even if he's lying down. Shen's choice to slow it gave Papyrus enough time to get back to his feet and skitter forward, around the walkway and up to the Royal's platform.

Well, enough time to do it without relying on powers that would get him in all kinds of serious trouble, given that he's being televised right this instant.

He reaches Shen's platform with a wide grin, panting from the exertion.]


Are you alright??
hanginginthere: (run and tell all of the angels)

[personal profile] hanginginthere 2016-04-06 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[there are those who may have scolded him for those buttons, insisting he build up from slow to fast - certainly not the opposite way around! but as Shen meets his rescuer face-to-face, he can only offer a tired (if anxious) little half-smile]

If you get me out of here, I- think I will be?
spaghettimonster: (CoolSkeleton95) (COOL DUDE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-04-10 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe it didn't have the tense, fast-paced climax that some would want... but it works, in a way. After watching the hero triumph over those unexpectedly steep obstacles along the way, the rescuee/saboteur was won over. The real fight wasn't against the obstacle course... but against Shen's heart. Or something like that.]

I just need a minute!

[Papyrus fishes out the keys, and kneels before Shen to better reach the restraints. In short order, he's freed.]