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interstellar55552016-05-02 01:59 am
interdimanagers) wrote in interstellar55552016-05-02 01:59 am
☆TRACK X: PLAY ALONG
Who: Everyone!
What: Vista City amps up for Pride and Virgo's WORLD TOUR with HYPE WEEK.
When: May 1st - May 5th 2055
Where: Various places in Vista City
Warnings: Could be anything.
What: Vista City amps up for Pride and Virgo's WORLD TOUR with HYPE WEEK.
When: May 1st - May 5th 2055
Where: Various places in Vista City
Warnings: Could be anything.
“Try to make it look like it's all somehow getting better, 'Cause I know how to play it pretty good against the measure. Everyone started out a little insane, But we learn pretty quick how to fake it for the game.” ☆PLAY ALONG  Hype Week is less an official label event, and more something that the media has created in response to a particularly odd situation. Pride and Virgo appear to be functioning in unison - launching separate world tours on practically the same date, launching vast quantities of new material and media events, and making a point of never mentioning or acknowledging the actions of the other. Could this be some kind of collaborative event? A viral marketing campaign? No one is really sure, but the local economy is happy to capitalize on it in order to make it as big of a city-wide ordeal as possible. For musicians, this means all kinds of event that they have to attend and cooperate with - everything from photo shoots, to signing, to music video premiers. For rescuers, this means one last opportunity to track down those still trapped before they are whisked away on a world spanning journey. Events that will be happening: ► NEW SINGLES: Hot new singles are getting released by bands all over the place. While actual concerts and performances are not actually happening much during the hype period, each band is probably releasing at least one new single and hyping it all to hell with one song performances here and there on TV and the like. You can have fun defining that single for your band, or leave it ambiguous! Up to you. ► PANELS AND INTERVIEWS: Musicians will get carted all over to various talk shows and public question panel events - a lot of questions will be asked about the World Tour and its specifics, of which the musicians themselves seem to know very little. This goes for the veterans as much as it does the fledglings. ► MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERS: In which a bunch of fancy music people go to fancy theaters and watch all the new music videos for the new singles, and then write articles about this. This is also something you are welcome to create specifics for. ► SIGNINGS AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES: While many of the veterans and doing things like autobiographical books signings and what not, the newer musicians are more likely to just be signing millions of World Tour specific posters and CD releases. Its quite likely that they are going to be totally run down after all these appearances and preparations - try to stay awake at the table! ► WORLD TOUR PREMIER: This will be covered in a second log a few days from now. For now, the musicians are just being prepped for a music festival to end all music festivals, that will start May 5th and cover the entire weekend. They've been practicing rigorously all month - they'll have to hope they have the stamina to make it to the actual performance. All the while, Gold and Silver have been mysteriously absent. Silver has been here and there, handing out supplies and necessary tech, but guidance for rescuers has been minimal. Gold hasn't been seen at all. Part way into the week, at least, Shep will return with a new batch of rescuers, just in time for the premier! New musicians and band combinations will slowly be announced over this week as well, with some of them being saved for the premier festival itself. That is, any OOC changes made to bands and last minute new members are going to get announced like they are big exciting unveilings, because spin doctoring is what the labels do! ☆SINGULARITY Everyone hearing the new singles will be able to tell that they seem especially ear wormy - extra hip, extra catchy, like the best examples of each bands radio popularity. Rescuers in particular, though, will notice something sort of strange about them. It's more than just song being catchy. People who are not musicians themselves will find themselves being unnaturally charmed by them, as if each time they hear these singles they are being slowly brainwashed into becoming more and more fixated on the artists performing.Of course, this can be stopped by just not listening to them for a few days, but it's hard to avoid when pretty much every public location has been playing these singles non stop. Along with this effect, there are some particulars: ► PREDATOR DREAMS: The Pride band Predator is the same as the others, in that it has a particularly intrusive single that's just been introduced. There is one difference. It may take a while to notice, but it can be noted that one starts to feel somewhat tired and dazed after listening to it repeatedly, like they are somehow drained. The single is called The Spaces In Between and it is somewhat unusual that Cass, the member who usually primarily focuses on instrumentals and back up singing, is now performing lead. If your character hears this song several times, they may suffer some weird DREAMS - especially if they received a dose of Gold's magic powder in the Better To Pretend event. If you'd like to receive a dream, please write "DREAM PLEASE" in your subject line, along with a written section describing an instance of your character having regular dreams that I can manipulate. Anywhere else and I might miss it. ► ESCAPED MUSICIANS: Musicians that have escaped and are now in hiding will find themselves particularly mentally manipulated by the singles released by their home label. They will find their minds unusually filled with thoughts of returning to their labels, as well as increased paranoia about being caught. Any remaining programming will be particularly triggered and brought to the surface. They'll be able to push it down with self control and assistance from other characters, but the thoughts will become more invasive the more they listen to it. “'Cause everybody's so scared, We don't wanna go there. We don't wanna make a move, We got all our lives to lose. Screaming in the dark while we just play our part out. I play along, Like I don't know what's going on.” |
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He takes her hand. Through the hologram, his fingers feel like nothing but bone. His grin widens, and he winks conspiratorially. Except, in this case, it seems that the Sans conspiracy is also excluding Lapis.
He'll follow her wherever she goes. As far as he's concerned he's done his job. Above and beyond the line of duty.
"I do actually want that hot dog, by the way," he comments as they walk.
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The wink really doesn't help.
She finds a spot away from the rest and behind a rather large tree before she allows herself to let go, turning to face him fully. "I'm . . . not your mother."
"And you're not Frisk."
She has won the obvious, yes, but she'd like some answers now, please.
He's kind of earned the hot dog, but he only gets it if he's good.
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He tucks his hands in his pockets and then shrugs.
"Just kidding. It's Sans. Wasn't sure what else to say to get those girls minding their own business."
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"Thank you," she decides on at last, and she does mean it, though his methodology is still going to leave something to be explained next practice.
Sans, then. She's seen him a couple of times now, and she remembers what he's supposed to look like -- something more like Papyrus, though a good deal smaller.
". . . Why Frisk?"
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He blinks, and actually has to think about that one. Why had he done this, again? He's pretty sure it was just some kind of doofy prank on the kid. That sounds about right.
"The kid's a pal of mine, so I was just kind of razzing them with it, is all.They thought it was a laugh, and then I never got around to changing it."
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She gives a small nod to this explanation after a moment. Perhaps it's good instruction for her, really -- shapeshifting can be a little offputting/bewildering when you're not part of the joke.
"Why are you out?"
There's no real judgment in the words -- it's just a question of curiosity. What makes him choose to risk things like this in a place such as this when he's only just gotten free?
"Is Frisk with you?"
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"Nah. Just me. I've got left over business to keep track of with the labels, I guess.."
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"You're watching someone," she offers softly, and even as she says it, she's sure of it.
Maybe more than one. But at least someone.
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"You got me!" Sans's grin looks pretty weird on Frisk's otherwise stoic face. "Left a few important things behind. I kind of assume that's why I've seen some of you guys around before...isn't stalking kind of in vogue around here?"
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Meanwhile, she takes "stalking" with her usual blankness. Hyperbole is just not one of those humor things she gets.
"Here . . . sometimes watching is all you can do." Her eyes flick back towards the direction they came from. "You watch as close as you can, as near as you can. When you can."
It's not satisfying. And it's not a relief. The only thing it's better than is not seeing.
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"...Yeah." He leaves it at that for a few moments, then says a bit more candidly: "You know Greg and his kid, right?" He makes a vague gesture to where her gem is hiding. "You look like the species where he must have got that stone from."
Which he personally finds really interesting - just a shame he's mostly experienced what gems look like when they're broken.
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Her eyes widen a little at mention of her gem, and reflexively, her shoulders shrug a bit, tightening -- the reaction of someone who's been caught. (Funny how what used to be out, open, not even something to be considered has become something Different, Foreign, Something to Hide since her arrival in this place.)
"I know Greg," she replies, somewhat hesitant. Where is this going? "And Steven."
Even more hesitantly: "We're called Gems."
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"Greg is a really good pal of mine," he says, in way of clarification. "I took him over to see Steven when the poor kid's gem got cracked. I've kind of felt the need to keep an eye out for them since then."
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And . . . oh.
Oh.
. . . Does this mean he needs to be added to the good person list? It's kind of sounding like it.
"Thank you," she murmurs, and there's something more to it -- something deeper, warmer. She means it.
He might have just earned the hot dog.
"He-- . . . they . . . need that. To see each other." Softer, "It's . . . harder now."