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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-05-31 07:11 pm

☆TRACK XII: LOVE AND TRUST

Who: Everyone!
What: The tour hits Europa, and Edward Blanche plans a trap.
When: May 25th - June 17th, 2055
Where: Any of the potential tour stops, but mostly MOSCOW.
Warnings: Probably violence.

“Oh, will you break my fall
When I climb too high?
I always lose my nerve,
It happens every time.”

☆LOVE AND TRUST



After the disaster that was the beginning of the World Tour, things from there have proceeded innocently enough in comparison. Virgo ended up being able to pull its act into some semblance of order before the festival finished, and so the magic on their side was not entirely lost. Things are tense, however, for anybody who has an idea of the stuff going on upstairs. Whatever is going on, Pride is in the lead by a landslide, and the desperation is present in the managers and the execs alike.

Lesedi, however, couldn’t be happier. In fact, she is getting cockier by the day. Her plans with Lapis went wonderfully, and wherever the gem is now is irrelevant. Barring any major disasters, she is increasingly certain of her defeat of Virgo, and is encouraging her elite members of take potshots at them any chance they get. (This includes her beginner music mages.)

The beginning of the month is spent with both labels visiting a lot of very familiar locations across Americana - most of which are places they will have visited in the past. The routes are very similar to the ones the first bands took during their opening tours last summer.

As for the rescuers, now is the time to regroup. It’s not practical to follow the musicians to ever stop they make, but Shep has apparently enabled his spaceship with a cloaking device, and will be taking all the rescuers and free musicians to the major tour centers of each continental tour - the headline festivals, each lasting for days, and each carrying an important role in the ongoing ritual.

That’s what Silver thinks, at least. As some of the rescuers may now know, Gold has apparently gone solo.

☆EUROPA TOUR
As the Americana portion of the tour comes to a close around the 25th of May, both labels will be finishing up in Britain and heading on into the conglomerate of Europa. All of these cities are basically what they are like IRL except about 50 years more future-like, and you have full creative liberty to make up some developments to the local culture and worldbuild because this is the last time these places will ever be mentioned meaningfully!

THE OFFICIAL STOPS: Paris (May 30th - 31st), Berlin (June 1st - 2nd), Madrid (June 3rd - 6th), Istanbul (June 7th - 8th), Rome (June 9th - 10th), Vienna (June 11th - 12th)
THE HEADLINER: Moscow (June 12th - 17th)

The festival in Moscow is much like the festival in Vista City - a musical blowout to end all blow outs. The two labels festival grounds are practically blending together at this point, almost as if fighting for physical territory along with fighting for the attention of the crowds. The thick energy of magic follows the tour like a comet’s tail.

► RESCUER PROMPT: Instead of cutting through all of the earlier stops, Shep loads all the rescuers up into the now-cloaked spaceship and will bring them to Moscow, the last step in the Europa tour path and the place they’ll be stopping the longest. Silver has been saying that the lot of them should start working on freeing captives at all costs, especially now that the labels are on the road and increasingly disorganized. Shep has gotten together a bunch of new material for disguises as well as more holo projectors - a lot of them have been spotted at this point, but if they can get close to the musicians and catch the labels off guard it could be their best hope of bunging up the rituals for both of them.

Meanwhile, Gold is obviously absent from the team, and some may have seen their former leader essentially announce their intent to leave during their fight with Lapis. Silver and Shep seem to have been avoiding talking about it, but occasionally it will be referenced in public places and the conversation will turn rapidly tense.

► MUSICIAN PROMPT: Everything is more or less business as normal, except for the pressure of the tour seems to be causing all the authority figures to lose their minds, especially in Virgo. Beyond that, though, it’s all deceptively the same. Both labels stop in the various cities and put on their best show, only stopping briefly to enjoy the local culture. Everyone is under very careful watch, however, no matter where they are. No one leaves the performance areas without an escort - it’s clear that both labels are desperate to hang on to musicians at this point. The gravity of the situation is increasingly obvious.

Both labels have been booked into the same hotel this time, which is essentially a castle in Moscow. It’s every bit as lavish as you would expect, and it’s easy to get distracted from the stress with the luxuries that are offered at every turn. The consistent sense of desperation that Virgo has running through it at the moment is totally absent in Pride - Lesedi seems like she’s in an absolutely fantastic mood.

► FESTIVAL PROMPT: The festivals crowds are bigger than anything you’ve ever seen. Rescuers will easily be lost in a crowd, and musicians will be followed by a detour of body guards that honestly feel needed for reasons besides imprisonment. The stages are colourful and elaborate in set up. The musical event goes on for three full days, and most of everyone’s time will be spent backstage or in their hotels. Rescuers will have to do their best to keep up.

☆BLANCHE MAKES A MOVE
In the wake of Virgo falling behind, Edward Blanche has come up with a magical scheme of his own. Using the soul crystal of pure love from Greg Universe and pure duty from Meril, he has been devising a ritual - and with any luck, it take out two birds with one stone.

Greg and Meril, having mostly lost their real personalities after having parts of their souls torn out and crystalized, will be set up in a central location in the hotel, after the performances on the last night in Moscow. They’ll be set up to play music, and while that music is playing it will be reaching out to all of the rescuers, whether they can hear it or not. This music is going to trigger the love and duty within their own souls, and direct it to a particular cause - a sudden and desperate need to save their friends, family, or other sympathetic souls from the labels. And the need to do it tonight. This will hit them particularly hard if they are naturally of a love or duty alignment, but it will have an effect regardless. How much it gets them exactly is up to you.

Virgo’s musicians will be protected very heavily during the ritual, as Blanche is expecting the attack. His hope is to lure rescuers in and kill or capture them, having the advantage of foresight. He’s also hoping that the rescuers will go after the less protected musicians of Pride and steal them away from Lesedi, who isn’t aware that this is happening. If things go well for Blanche, both the rescuers and Pride will take a major hit, all in one go. Why not let your enemies destroy each other?

Player participation in this can go two ways: one is that your character can simply go after any of the musicians you choose, and you can work out between the players and the mod how well it goes. Alternatively, you can have your character go to the heart of the matter and try to take on Greg and Meril. The tricky part? Blanche is going to be overseeing the ritual as well. However, without the focuses of Greg and Meril’s soul crystals, the ritual will fail. Also, there will absolutely be a few opportunistic ghosts looking for the opportunity to give everyone a hand.

Communication with the mod is key for this event! Please run by plans to have any musicians successfully escape by me before going through with it, and also do let me know if you’d like the ghosts to help out! This can absolutely be combined with other player plots, such as the Pride break out initiative that’s been floating around.

The night of the ritual is June 17th, so take some time to plan things out, and then get threading. Let me know if you need help setting any scenes!

“Oh will you bring me home
When I'm barely alive?
It's the state of love and trust,
And this is for you,
And this is for us.”
scalpedsociety: (surprise)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-06-21 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I wanted you to show me around. Xanxus has nothing to do with that.

Edited 2016-06-22 07:12 (UTC)
sharktrash: (frown // ugh gross)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-06-22 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't he? That sure wasn't the case LAST MONTH.
scalpedsociety: (in thought)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-06-22 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He offered, but I told him I wanted to be with you.

[Although he did ask (rather he demanded) that she come to dinner with him later tonight, she kind of wants to stand him up right now.]
sharktrash: (blank // this hangover is killing me)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-06-28 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
A bit late for that, don't you think?


[ Look this shit hurts but he is SO not going to go all ~feelings~ on her. He thought he could trust her and this is how she repayed him. ]
scalpedsociety: (well pity)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-06-30 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
I know but...

[She can't say much of anything because it's true. It hurts but she knows forgiveness won't come easy... if at all. All just for pleasure, Aramat is disgusted in herself.]
sharktrash: (shouting // yelling)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-06-30 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
You know? Did you also know it when you were making me into a laughing stock? That doesn't magically make it okay.
scalpedsociety: (sympathetic)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-07-01 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
How were you made into a laughing stock?
sharktrash: (anger // voooooi!)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-07-01 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I don't fucking know, probably being naive and blind enough not to notice my mother fucking my boyfriend right behind my back? You don't do this shit. You just don't.
scalpedsociety: (*pouts*)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-07-07 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not your mother, that should obvious by now.

...I am sorry though.


[She quits texting. She knows he'll never accept this.]
sharktrash: (neutral // back)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-07-07 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
No, you're not.

But you were then.
scalpedsociety: (well pity)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-07-08 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's trying to hold it together on the outside of the screen, but she bursts into tears. All this pain for just a couple hours of pleasure. What have I done?]

I know.
sharktrash: (frown // ugh gross)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-07-08 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ GOOD FUCKING QUESTION. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? And he's not done, either. ]


I thought you were better than my mother. But turns out all women are the same, huh?


[ The venom practically leaks into the text. ]
scalpedsociety: (well pity)

[personal profile] scalpedsociety 2016-07-09 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[She wasn't, tbh. Xanxus was circling her, and she was lustful and greedy. (It also could be also that she's a hedonistic crazy bitch and that is slowly rising to the surface.) She was also has foolish enough to think that can she have a bit of fun with Xanxus and end it without Squalo knowing.

Never underestimate Xanxus' assholery.

At this point, Aramat doesn't even try to answer. He's right. She's no better than his mother, granted she didn't abandon him or get paid for what she did. But the carelessness is there.]


sharktrash: (serious // annoyed)

[personal profile] sharktrash 2016-07-10 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
At least she was self-aware enough to get paid for it.