☆TRACK X: PLAY ALONG

[interdimanagers]

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.”

Comments

[inversekeyblade]

Where would he be? "..probably school." In all honestly, that makes the most sense. And it's not the worst alternative, right? "I'm sure it wouldn't be perfect, but my life would be more.. normal." The way he says that is with longing, as if it was the only thing he had ever wanted. And maybe it was, but as far back as he can remember this is the life that was given not forced to him, so he has to deal with it.

[nibelungvalesti]

"Anyone can live a normal life." In this moment, her disdain was both artificial and genuine, a mixture of the warped duty that lay within her and the Chooser of the Slain's purpose and drive. "That is no aspiration, and an insult to the human spirit, when it is capable of so much more."

[inversekeyblade]

"Is it such a crime to want to be normal?" With all the troublemakers out there and people who have no other intention than to be cruel, that can't be the worst thing in the world? "To be normal, to help people where you can, be happy and maybe spread that happiness.. I think that's a good life. Doing good like that."

[nibelungvalesti]

"Doing good is not normal," the Valkyrie said, her contempt aimed at humanity at large. "Were it, the world would be a better place by far."

[inversekeyblade]

"Maybe doing good is not normal for some people. But there's plenty of others where it is. Not everyone is cruel." Though a hell of a lot of people certainly are. His life prior to this place is a good example of this.

"I'm obviously not going to be able to live that life anyway, so it doesn't matter." That will have to stay buried in the back of his mind. "Is the world and everyone in it really that bad?"

[nibelungvalesti]

"Bad? It is the world. It is what it is. To say it would be better is not to say it is beyond hope -- it could be far worse than it is as well." Meril shrugged, a gesture that seemed subtly constrained. "People as a whole are neither good, nor bad. They are merely people."

[inversekeyblade]

That's fair. But call him crazy for holding out too much hope here, because he's going to keep doing that.

"Can't have it all, huh? I don't know whose world this is, I'm just living in it." For all he knows, tomorrow it may not exist. Or he'll be somewhere entirely different. It's happened before.

"It is a little better with music like yours out there though." Other than the obvious aesthetic appeal to someone of his mind, those tracks are catchy.

[nibelungvalesti]

At that, Meril let her lips curl in an arch and cold smile that would have been better suited to Freya, or Hrist.

"Yes. Our music will change the world."

[inversekeyblade]

That is a healthy amount of ambition to exhibit. Roxas could take a chapter out of that book. "I'll be looking forward to it.. hey, I gotta find my band members so we're not late to this group interview."

Thank goodness it's with the group; less one on one talking. "I'll probably see you on the flip side.. this tour is going to be something else."

[nibelungvalesti]

"Enjoy your interview. And enjoy the tour. It will be... magnificent."

Whatever had changed in her in the past few weeks, apparently it had included the blatant unsubtlety of a comic book villain.