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interstellar55552016-05-05 03:55 pm
interdimanagers) wrote in interstellar55552016-05-05 03:55 pm
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☆TRACK XI: THIS FIXATION
Who: Everyone! Especially Lapis and all musicians.
What: The Final Festival finally begins.
When: May 5th, 2055, at 5:55PM.
Where: Concert stages for both Pride and Virgo, as well as throughout the city.
Warnings: Lapis related violence.
What: The Final Festival finally begins.
When: May 5th, 2055, at 5:55PM.
Where: Concert stages for both Pride and Virgo, as well as throughout the city.
Warnings: Lapis related violence.
“I think I'm drowning. Asphyxiated. I wanna break this spell That you've created. You're something beautiful; A contradiction. I wanna play the game. I want the friction.” ☆THIS FIXATION  The start times of the festivals are very explicit. The first notes are to be played at 5:55 PM – no sooner, and no later. This has been enforced by every recital leading up to this point, and today the word is law. The audience view it as a peculiarity. How could both labels independently decide to do something so particular? Those on the stage will feel it in their hearts. There’s more to it than just another concert. Something is happening, bigger than all of you, and something deep down tells you that you are powerless to stop it now. There’s a momentum that’s been building for centuries, and only now will the show truly begin. Those with magical, spiritual, or musical sense will feel it strongly. The magic of it is thick in the air, enveloping the entirely of Vista within its breadth. The music begins, and a terrible tension in the air finally breaks. In that precise moment, something has been released – and there is no going back from here. ☆THE SHORT AND DIRTY The ritual has finally begun. So let's break this down.► The same moment the festivals begin, and occult magical ritual has been set in motion. That special time window that the labels were waiting for? This is it. Why the number 5 is so important we may never know, but the key thing to note is that the force of musical power behind the labels are now multiplying, and will only be getting stronger the longer the ritual goes on. Those with Fame Power abilities will feel more and more potent as time goes on as well. Magical juice will come easier and they will get bigger magical effects for their effort. ► The festival will begin with the labels biggest acts, so only a few of the player characters will be on stage at that point. Veteran musicians will start things off on a high note, and the rest will be lined up and ready for a seemingly unending roll of music all through the night and into the entirety of Friday and Saturday. Friday has been deemed a city wide public holiday because that’s how seriously Vista takes its music. Fledgling bands with characters of Fame Power 4+ or Fame Fortune 4+ will have the honour of being part of the first wave of performances, all starting at 5:55PM. This is a seriously big deal. So don’t fuck up. ► Very shortly after the beginning of the festival, Lesedi Santiago is going to fuck everything up for you. ☆LESEDI FUCKS THINGS UP And this is how Lesedi will fuck things up: she's getting Lapis Lazuli to do it for her.Lapis was recently captured by Pride Records while trying to sneak out information to the rescuers. She has been powerfully enchanted by Lesedi to attack and kill Virgo musicians and Rescuers alike, and her water powers will be temporarily enhanced by feeding off of Lesedi's magic. Lapis is being sent to attack Virgo musicians first - ideally disrupting as many Virgo performances as possible and FUBARing Blanche's ritual right from the get go. Juno will quickly regroup and start sending Virgo's magical adepts to try to stop her, while keeping as many of them on stage as possible. Meanwhile, this is all occurring in broad fucking daylight. So what do the civilians think? Well, they'll be scared and try to save themselves from any attacks they get caught in the middle of, but otherwise...it's like they've been reduced to zombies. None of them seem capable of acknowledging that anything weird is happening - the only thing they can focus on is the music, and as long as it continues their minds are ensnared. Rescuers who have been heavily effected by the brainwashing of the musical singles may also feel entranced by the music at the concert as well, and may have a similar lack of survival instinct. They'll be drawn to the music regardless of all else, up to and including the risk of death. Lapis's player has been planning out a variety of fight threads in advance, but since Lapis as the ability to create a lot of collateral damage, people can also be free to assume that they are trying to save civilians from surprise water hazards as this goes on, or simply trying to survive themselves. We will be assuming there are no deaths caused by Lapis unless it is cleared with her player first. This includes random audience members. This will go on for a while, until eventually Lapis is chased away from the festival and goes to attack the rescuer warehouse with the chip removal equipment instead. Silver will sent out an urgent message warning the rescuers of this, urging them to get over there as quickly as possible and help to remove the equipment and take it to a safe place. Silver themselves will not arrive immediately, and Gold is still nowhere to be seen - at least, not until the very end, when they will make a surprise return appearance to help attend to the Lapis Lazuli problem. “Now that you know I'm trapped- Sense of elation. You'd never dream of Breaking this fixation. You will squeeze the life out of me.” |
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The medical machinery was too valuable to lose now. Who knew how long it would take them to track down another.
Silver has already mostly packed the machinery away by the time Lapis arrives - ready to be moved, but not yet absent. They really wish someone could explain what the fuck was happening here, but they can practically smell Lesedi's influence on her when she enters, which answers more than a few questions. Alright then.
Not wasting any time, Silver flings open the doors and stamps out a dance pattern that is magically echoes by a powerful, reverberating base. The shockwave will be enough to send Lapis flying back out the way she came.
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But slowly, determinedly, she pushes herself back upward to her feet. Steps forward again. The pipes start to shiver in the walls. Rattle. Then groan.
Underneath the pavement, there's a dull roar, a trembling that shudders through the area like a great beast awakening deep beneath the concrete.
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"Fuck's sake," Silver groans, glancing back towards the warehouse. If Lapis causes an earthquake with that shit, it could damage the machinery even if she never gets to it directly. This is bothersome. Silver stands their ground, for the moment.
"C'mon Lazuli. Santiago is screwing with you, isn't she? You gotta fight back."
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One step forward. Then another. The concrete goes on shaking, shuddering like the beast stretching, shrugging its skin. A network of hairline cracks forms in the surface like a spiderweb.
CRACK!
Concrete grinds against itself, snaps upward into small, splintered mountain ranges, fragments flying into the air as water, freed, gushes from down below.
It all happens within moments.
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"Last call, Lapis! I'm gunna have to do this by force, and I don't know how gentle I'll be..."
What isn't immediately clear from the outside is if they're delaying to give Lapis a chance, or if they're actually delaying because they aren't totally sure what to do.
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Threads of water join each other, twisting into two waterspouts. One barely finishes forming before it dives at Silver, seeking to snatch them up in its grasp. If it misses, its forward velocity will likely tear out part of the roof.
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The start of magic propelled music begins to overtake the area, the first notes beginning to play - just in time for Gold to literally leap through the streams of Lapis's waterspouts, shaking them into raindrops. They bounce off the side of the warehouse as if they are in zero gravity, and end up on the roofing on the other side of the street.
Well, this much can be said: Gold is annoyingly powerful right now, and Silver is well aware that they are about to absorb this entire fight into their musical sway.
"Now you show up? Gold, I swear to god - I am going to kick your ass!"
"Just stopping by," Gold says cheerfully, ducking and rolling in time with the music. "Don't worry, I'm not staying. But I'm not about to let your operation fall apart, even if I'm not part of it."
Silver stands and clenches their fists.
"I really hate you sometimes, you know that?" they shout.
"Oh, I know," Gold says, and then focuses on Lapis instead. "Hey, over here!" With little effort, they crack a bolt of electricity in the gem's direction.
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And then Gold swings through, and both scatter to droplets. Both waterspouts shatter, raining downward on the pavement below.
Because water has no form, though, it easily reforms -- and is doing so even as Gold and Silver have their spat. One of the spouts is headed for Gold even as they finish, bearing down much the same way that it did at Silver a moment before, ready to take out the roof even if they step aside.
Lapis herself yanks out of the way of the bolt thrown in her direction, lashing the second waterspout back at Silver in from the side.
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Silver, meanwhile, is bolting up the side of the warehouse roof, narrowing missing getting a thrashing from Lapis's attack. But, instead of continuing to run far enough to disappear, they stop at the point of the roof and turn back to stare, just as Gold's song starts in earnest.
"And another one bites the dust," Gold begins, their movements becoming fluid to match Lapis's attacking, rolling and swerving through the water's lashing as if preforming elaborate interpretive dance. "We know that this can conquer love."
"And I might have thought that we were one-
Wanted to fight this war without weapons."
As Gold moves, their influence seems to take a stronger and stronger hold over reality, and soon even Lapis's attacks are being forced to follow the rhythmic flow. Her will is still bound by Lesedi, but her movements are starting to belong to Gold.
"And I wanted it, I wanted it bad,
But there were so many red flags.
Now another one bites the dust-"
Some of the water not currently under Lapis's control begins to power to their control as well. All while dodging Lapis, Gold's attention moves briefly in Silver's direction.
"Yeah, let's be clear, I'll trust no one."
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She's back, a voice breathes in her mind, sneering and eager and leaping for what it believes it recognizes -- for who Lesedi's spell says is there. She's come back for you~.
Yes. Lapis can see her there, standing at the edge of the roof and staring down at her, fragmented like the twist of the faceted glass of a kaleidoscope. The world is swirling, but: That smile.
She's sure she can see that smile.
For the first time since this fight began, she reacts, air rasping through her lungs like suddenly it's a commodity she can't find enough of. She wrenches against the spell -- pulls as hard as she can, her voice escaping in a wordless shriek.
The waterspouts go briefly wild, tearing off a chunk of warehouse roof like peeling back a sardine can, the other spinning wild across the street and catching up power lines in their wake, snapping them from their poles until its spinning, electrified, the ends waving outward like sparking whips.
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"You did not break me.
I'm still fighting for peace."
The water still on the ground begins to swell under Gold's power now, instead of Lapis's, rising like geysers around her.
"Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade, it might be too sharp."
Gold moves their arms in flowing motions, and gradually the water Lapis is directly manipulating begins to fall under their control as well, straining against her hold.
"I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard-"
And suddenly the water will break free, rushing out of Lapis's grasp, it's wild destruction finally being dragged to a pause.
"Yeah, I may snap and I move fast-"
With that snap, the water lashes back at Lapis, moving to smack her down to the ground. It's in that moment that Silver finally turns to leave.
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She shrills a second wild note that arcs madly, inconsistent even in note as she fights to push herself upward, pours more power into trying to retake control of her water. And when that fails: She pulls harder, deeper, at what they haven't yet taken from her, wrenching with all her strength.
The water under Gold's building tears through the ground like long fingers closing into a fist, veritably shattering the earth out from underneath the part of the building they're standing on. That part of the building sways without the structure to support it, and with a roar and the squealing of metal, begins to collapse.
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"But you won't see me fall apart,
'Cause I've got an elastic heart."
As the support behinds to give way beneath them, they leap off of the roofing in a gravity defying stunt, going straight for Lapis with their bare hands. Cutting through the chaos of her attack, Gold goes straight for her core - as the music reaches a conclusion, Gold plunges their fingers straight through Lapis's chest.
"I've got an elastic heart."
Their hand clasps Lapis's gem on the other side of her body, and then pulls it through he chest and out through the front. Their voice softens as the music fades, water showering down around them.
"Yeah, I've got an elastic heart."