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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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[ Which, yeah, totally falters when something gets in the way and blocks his air. Not quite enough to choke or anything, but it's still uncomfortable and he jolts awake, blinking blearily and looking utterly and completely confused about having something in his mouth. ]
[ Then he bites down on it and scowls. ]
Thfe hell?
[ It's muffled by the eclair. ]
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Sugar. Su-gar. Eat it, perk up. Or eat it and food coma, I really don't care, I just couldn't waste a great eclair. [She grins and sits down on his table, legs dangling fully off the edge.] How much longer do you have? I want to get out of here.
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Seriously? [ GURL he's long past the place where sugar could help him stay awake. His eyes do hopefully wander toward the food stands, though. ] Fuck, I need an espresso. [ He chews on the eclair, seemingly at least a little more alive. ] Me too. You're a life-saver. [ Glancing at his watch, he groans. ] Another forty minutes. I'm gonna fucking die here.
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I just gave you free pastry. 'I need coffee with this' is something you say to your assistant, not your bed-buddy.
[Forty minutes? Ugh. Luci sighs heavily and swings her legs a little from her perch.] ...well, you're here for the fans at least. They get more out of this than our managers do, that's what gets me through these things.
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Fine, fine. How can I ever repay this divine favor?
[ It's probably a bit muffled, since of course he's talking with his mouth full. ]
Yeah, you're right. [ And he's already signing more CDs because of course that group of youngsters noticed he was awake again. He gives them his trademark grin, the tiredness behind it almost unnoticeable. ] I do enjoy being worshipped.
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It's good, right? [It's a great reason to stay, right...?]
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[ After taking some selfies, the fans walk off, and he shoves the remaining eclair into his mouth. ]
...yeah. It's good.
[ He thinks it's better than what's waiting for him at home, but he's a little allergic to being anyone's fucking slave. ]
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...you don't sound convinced. And I don't blame you. [She says this, never breaking her pleasant demeanor, as the fans retreat-- probably because she feels like everybody's watching them. The musicians.]
This shit is going to go pear-shaped any day now, feels like.
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[ Another few teenagers with CDs, and there's momentary peace again. He frowns, and the look he gives her is strangely somber. ]
No kidding. Might as well put it like this, [ he does his best to yell less than usual, ] love the job, hate the management.
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[She asks this point-blank, tone still reminiscent of a pleasant conversation. But from where she sits, Squalo has as much of a reason to get out as anybody. Lesedi threw him across her office, probably a couple of times. It would only escalate from there.]
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[ Just as pointedly. It's not hard to figure out what's keeping him put, what with his almost daily visits to the Carnival suite. ]
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