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☆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.

“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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Shin laughs a bit, "I don't think most people do, man."

He sighs fondly, "I wonder if that love will be enough for me."

"You won't know until it happens, right?"

Something breaks the 'silence' down below; the sound of a crowd cheering loudly, younger fans getting wild, possibly obnoxious, quickly fills the air. With an eyeroll, "Oh boy.. someone fancy just arrived. Who do you think it is?" It seems like everyone is releasing new music now, so they're all in the spotlight.

"I don't know. I know I want that reception though." He leans back, making more fingering motions, his mind working on the new song. He was pretty sure he didn't have this skill before he came here, but that made it all the better to stay.

Shin sighs, "I want to do something big. Something that will turn heads."

Edited 2016-05-17 01:08 (UTC)

Thinking to what it's like when they do play on stage, the excitement from the fans when their favorite song comes up, the bouncing bodies at the front that can't get enough, "I think it's a matter of time. We've kind of been busting our asses, after all."

Hm. "Hopefully it's for something good." The tabloids have already hit once before, and they do love to target those up and coming in the business. As hard as he tries to imagine the specific melody Shin is playing in the air, he can't quite grasp it. But he can tell Shin is working really hard at it. "Man, you really got something going there."

Shin laughs, "I don't know how good it is, but it's something." At least the kid isn't excessively proud. He knows damn well he's good and learns faster than most, but he only tends to brag when someone tries to out-do him somehow.

He lets his arms drop with a laugh, "It's ironic, ran off here to do more work at this point."

With a smile, "The managers would be so proud. Stella might even flash you a wink for that one."

That's a big might. "I'd rather be watching the sky myself, but with all the noise going on down there it's going to ruin the mood." They'll have to go back soon.

"Oh, my heart be still!" he puts his hand to his heart and laughs.

"I want to do something to steal the attention. I wish we had our instruments, but it's hard to get drums around."

"Too bad I can't summon them out of thin air." What crazy talk. Materializing things from no where.. who does that, even? Though if Roxas could, it probably wouldn't be drums.

"There's instruments on the ground somewhere. We can prop up, set up, and go. We'd definitely get in trouble though if it was done unannounced. But if we were going to.." no, he hasn't thought about this, "We'd probably want to move in between sets when they're not in use."

Shin knows that he's joking, right? Why else would he elaborate so much into detail about a foolish idea?

Shin grins. "We're supposed to be a punk band, right?" He tends to point that out when they're going to get in trouble. "You want to try something really crazy?"

Punk rock, with a light emphasis on punk if anyone ever asks for Roxas's opinion, but sure.

Oh boy. There's that smile. Last time he saw that they were on a motorcycle right after he did a line careening towards who-knows-the-hell wherever. "I didn't really have any other plans today," other than this event, "So kind of?"

"Let's play 'Virgo and Pride' right in front of Pride's building," he says with a devilish smile. This is probably a horrible idea. It could possibly even start a literal war, though Shin still figures the possible 'war' to be figurative.

That sounds like an awful idea.

But he kind of wants to do it.

"..yes. But it'll be just us, there's no way the others would do something like that. They're too new."

"Fuck them. I'll sing," he says with a smile. "We'll keep playing until they make us leave!"

"Okay! Great!" This enthusiasm is something that can be addicting, even if it's coming from a place that isn't very sound. "So, which set are we going to take over, then?" It's going to have to be someone; they can't haul all that equipment with just the two of them.

"Let's bring in our own, right in front of the building. You know, we do have fans that would be thrilled to be roadies for a guerilla concert." Shin bounces back up, smiling, "I wonder if we could get a threesome...."

That's a brilliant idea. With the both of them, it wouldn't take much to round up a crew to help move in the equipment needed. Also, most important, move it out when needed. "I have a few numbers, I'm sure a few will be willing to show. Hell, a few might be here."

..what's that about a threesome? With a smile, unable to hide his curiosity at the thought, "..maybe." Out comes his shitty phone, cracked screen and all. Time to start texting. "We doing this now?"

"Tomorrow. We should plan this a bit more carefully. We should do it in the middle of rush hour," he smiles smoothly. "We'll be done right in time to hit the clubs. We can take one over with our fans."

Tomorrow it is. Rush hour? Sure, he'll text that to those 'numbers' he has in his phone. Click, click, click.

With enough messages sent out he puts the phone away for now, knowing that any immediate replies to them may mean he's too eager. Which, apparently, is a no-go. And effective, as his pocket is already buzzing with responses.

"Alright.. we'll have a few. Definitely."

Whatever the hell Shin means about take one over, Roxas doesn't try to put thought into right now. The current focus is getting everything set and in place for the plan. Then getting everything out of the way. And effectively getting to the club. "I hope this works."

Shin sends out some texts himself, and slips his phone to silent. "Let's get back inside so we can get to the next gig." He goes to the fire escape and walks right off the edge of the building to land on the platform below him. Is he trying to give Roxas a heart attack?

What the hell!? Roxas shouts, as if that's going to keep gravity from taking Shin to the ground, and stumbles up to his feet rather quickly to run over to the edge.

It would be too late to save him, so all he could do is look down and.. what?

Oh. He's okay. Watch this face, Shin. It's a clear indication that Roxas is very unhappy. "You dick."

Shin grins up at Roxas. "Love you too," he says with a wink. "Come on."

It's Roxas' own fault he didn't keep track of where the fire escape the came through was.

Bits of coke. Weed. Liquor. Coke! These things don't make it easy to remember convenient facts like that.

Fine, fine. "Give me a minute." He's not in the mood to play parkour here or anything, so he'll climb down the escape like a normal person.

Shin's laughs as Roxas gets his way down. "You're taking too long."

More disgruntled Roxas. "Yeah, I don't want to mess myself up or anything doing something stupid like jumping down."

Maybe when he's more 'about himself.'

Shin swings back into the building, "let's get going."

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