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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552015-11-09 12:45 am

☆TRACK IV: COME TOO FAR

Who: Everyone!
What: Something explodes in the distance. In a figurative sense.
When: November 6th.
Where: Anywhere you are.
Warnings: ???

“Like the legend of the Phoenix,
All ends with beginnings,
What keeps the planets spinning,
The force from the beginning.”

☆COME TOO FAR
On November 6th, the sudden lockdown of Pride Records and Virgo Entertainment finally ends. But not before some unseen actions have their consequences.



Due to the nature of the conflict, none of you can be there to see it, but that doesn't mean it can't be felt. In the morning of the 6th, something cries out to you spiritually - like the voice of a guardian angel, or a haunting ghost. Something, somewhere, is calling on you for aid. Pleading for you to lend it your power.

Whether or not you consciously agree, you'll feel a connection stronger than anything you've felt up till this point, like whatever this creature is is somehow in the room with you, or maybe like you're with it. What happens next depends on your alignment.

► LOVE & HOPE: All at once, characters with these alignments will feel as if they have taken a deep, spiritual blow - much like having someone clasp their hand around your "soul" and attempt to snuff it out. The attack itself will be brutal but brief. It's the after effects that linger, which may be any of the following:

1) Lingering spiritual pain that triggers symptoms akin to a fever in the body. It may also trigger effects such as nosebleeds and other signs of intense stress.

2) Forgetting everything except the memories you've regained.

3) A feeling of being desperately alone. How your character reacts to this feeling can vary, but the most common response will be seeking comfort from anyone nearby, even if you are not usually the sort of person to do that.

These effects will last from anywhere as short at 15 minutes to as long as 5 hours. You can pick more than one of these effects for a character, but try to balance the potency of each if you take more than one, so you aren't completely kicking the shit out of them. Vestiges of these effects can linger throughout the rest of the day, but in a significantly reduced capacity.

► DUTY & PASSION: All at once, characters with these alignments will feel an intense sense of fear and grief, as if they have lost something extremely precious to them. Generally speaking, this will manifest as a sort of panic or desperation to save whatever that thing is - but not being entirely clear on where they have to go or what they have to do to accomplish it. This can very well trigger some brash and irrational actions as they sort out this abrupt feeling of urgency.

1) Soon after the feeling begins, affected characters will feel empathically drawn to the characters suffering from the effects listed for Hope & Love, even if they are not normally the sort to be so concerned for others. This can go as far as having them be aggressively protective to the point that they will conflict with each other over it.

2) Along with that feeling of being drawn to protect them, all characters will feel an intensified kinship with all the other player characters - from both labels. This feeling of kinship won't cause them to know anything more about each other than they did before, but it will cause them to feel like much closer friends than they actually are.

These effects will last from anywhere as short at 15 minutes to as long as 5 hours. After that period has ended, all these empathetic effects will fade off on their own.

Any network posts made in the chaos will be deleted by the execs after the 5 hours period has closed, if not sooner. By the end of the day, Lesedi Santiago and Edward Blanche will announce their return, and bans from leaving HQ will be lifted.

They will not acknowledge the events of the morning unless someone goes to ask them about it.

“We've come too far
to give up who we are.
So, let's raise the bar
and our cups to the stars.”
dishevelment: (war counsel)

[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-18 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighed.]

....I'm not doubting you, Garnet. But you need to explain a little better. This is the first time I've heard anything like this.

What choice did you make? Why can't you undo it?
giglio_madonna: (snappleicons) (Now all you can do is wait.)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, something has been wrong for a while, you know.

[Still, she gets up to gently feel around his head. A head injury isn't too hard to imagine, with how he's himself, but still. Can't hurt to look.]

Well, the company lockdown happened, but of course you know that.
giglio_madonna: (snappleicons) (Bisexual girls are great)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-18 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You're in the museum.

[Luce keeps the same, calm tone she's always used when comforting any of the teenagers in her band. Getting worked up in these sort of situations never helps.]

It's just me and you, right now. There's no one else here.
giglio_madonna: (snappleicons) (Bisexual girls are great)

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2015-11-18 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, fortunately, I know a lot of people." Luce takes out her phone, just in case she really will have to use it right that moment. "What does your son look like? What's his name?"
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan looking a bit glum (折紙 Um... my BFF almost killed me today)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2015-11-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
She did. What happened in the basement the other day wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to help what's being going on.

[ And things didn't turn out as planned, obviously. The possession was unplanned, and there were probably a lot more that went wrong. ]

Miss Juno didn't give me a lot of details, but they're looking into it.
faithfulflame: (Rei Noticing)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-11-18 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You were speaking in German. And you grabbed my face.

[She...says that in German, at that. Standing up, she offers her hand.]

Let's get up, c'mon.
sponsorigami: icon of Ivan looking a bit glum (折紙 Um... my BFF almost killed me today)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2015-11-18 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He freezes for a moment. Juno had told him not to worry his band too much about that and what they talked about. Then he quickly resumes making a cup of tea for the Doctor. ]

She didn't really tell me much, but me acting like I did then wasn't supposed to happen.
gunslingerqueen: (Adventure Club)

[personal profile] gunslingerqueen 2015-11-19 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[She sounds like a mournful child, which is only rightful since for all that hardheadedness she'd shown earlier, now she might as well have been an over obedient kitten.

She untangles from him to head for the couch, stumbling almost the entire way.]
gunslingerqueen: (Sure why the hell not)

[personal profile] gunslingerqueen 2015-11-19 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs, raises both hands in a sort of 'ahh, well' gesture.]

To be fair we're always complete weirdoes. It's sort of our thing.

[And they're all quite proud of it, but she does know what he's really talking about.] But, yeah, Koumei's not sleeping, Garnet's trying to keep everyone together when she feels out of it herself. I haven't seen Richard enough, and Terry's just a lot more emotional than usual.

[And Nariko, of course, has felt possessed by some weird barrage of memories.]
gunslingerqueen: (There's a place downtown)

[personal profile] gunslingerqueen 2015-11-19 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a joke about a show to be made, there ...]

Okay, so ... [Something about her:] I have a brother, but I realized that I probably don't talk to him enough. He's younger but he's into his music career, too, so we're both incredibly busy. I feel like I'm supposed to miss him more than I do.

[It's kind of weird.] So, yeah, it's me and mom and my brother, mostly. I think my dad wandered off again.

[She's just sort of rambling at the other girl at this point. Sorry, Rei!]
variaboss: (Default)

[personal profile] variaboss 2015-11-19 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
He nods and stands back to his full rediculous height. "Then we're getting you the fuck out of here, kid." He cracks his knuckles as he heads towards the front doors. He'll probably be dragged back to the office for this. This is so stupid. He knows better, but he just...he needs to help this kid out.
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[personal profile] traumatizing 2015-11-19 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He comes out a few minutes later, a coffee in one hand and a tea in the other, and he sits himself carefully next to Nariko before he offers her the mug.]
faithfulflame: (Rei Skeptical)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-11-19 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Fair enough.

[Equivalent exchange then. Rei takes a breath.]

I have no siblings. I never have. I lived with my grandfather in a small shrine in Japan before I got into music. He wanted me to be a priest but I didn't really...feel it? My mother died when I was seven, and my father is a piece of shit politician who basically gave me money so I'd leave him alone.

[She doesn't like him, and the heat in her words makes that even clearer.]
sponsorigami: icon of a pleading Ivan (漫画 The truth is... I wanted to be loved)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2015-11-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ If there are long-term effects, then Ivan will be in major trouble... ]

Let's try to keep them calm and still. They're going to hurt themselves more like this
mildwildchild: treasure this moment it will not last (:D)

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2015-11-19 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Jamie trots alongside him, eager and excited for reasons he's not sure of. Maybe once he gets to the beach, he'll be able to get his bearings a little more and figure out what he's supposed to be doing and how he got in this building to begin with.

"I really appreciate this," he says as they make their way toward the exit. "Maybe after we get there and I get my head screwed on a little straighter I can make it up to you somehow. Um - what's your name, again?"

Out of the corner of his eye he notices a couple of burly men in suits watching the two of them as they approach the doors, but this doesn't strike him as odd. Honestly, everything is so weird today that one more weird thing is pretty normal.
sailorlaughter: (I...what?)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-11-19 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Pinkie blinks in confusion for a second. "That...sounds good?" It kinda doesn't answer any of her questions, but it DOES sound good.
sailorlaughter: (think)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-11-19 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Iiiii dunno, she's got like - [Pinkie gestures around her face, with her fingers curled tight against her palms.] - purple hair? And a little pink or...magenta? Maybe magenta.

[...of course, this describes precisely no one in her band. Or really anywhere.]
sailorlaughter: (Think)

[personal profile] sailorlaughter 2015-11-19 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm like

how old am I
nibelungvalesti: (sadness)

[personal profile] nibelungvalesti 2015-11-19 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with you but that is easier said than done. Especially if they do not even know me.
sponsorigami: manga icon of Ivan dressed like Kotetsu (and maybe Sanji) (漫画 Of imitation and flattery)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2015-11-19 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's okay. He's forgotten a lot because of his lack of presence. This is... just some kind of extreme case of it, right? ]

Do you want help bringing that inside?

[ Ivan motions to the large box covered in blue marker. ]

This is where you stay. Maybe something will help jog your memory.
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (laugh.)

shhhh, we call it "hurt/comfort"

[personal profile] consocius 2015-11-19 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
The panicked texts had definitely given him away on that already, but it was still kind of nice to hear that he was missed. Even if Sora doesn't really enjoy making people worry about him. He also hadn't had any control over that.

He blinks at Jamie as he pulls away, keeping in contact with him by resting his hands on his arms. And he can't help it, but he ends up bursting out laughing at Jamie's words, for some reason finding it far more amusing than he should. But he just can't picture his band filing a missing persons report with the police, he can't really picture anyone sending dogs and a search party out after him. Maybe it's not dignified, but it makes everything feel a little more light-hearted all of the sudden, at least for Sora. So he's thankful for that little reprieve. "Nah, I'm sure someone here at Pride knew where I was."

A more serious expression settles over his features though as he gives some thought over just how long it felt like. He's not sure he has a real solid answer, though. "Longer, I think?" Like a lifetime. But also not. His head was just still so... fuzzy about it all. Not that he'd ever been super great with his inner time clock anyway. "I can't really pin it down. Just... longer than that, I guess."
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! ([down]; lower)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-11-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Koumei. [He repeats the name slowly, not that it's exceptionally difficult. But concentrating on this conversation is good for right now. He gives a nod back in confirmation.]

Yeah, you are! Yosuke's my friend and one of my bandmates.

Oh. She did... Didn't she tell you? [It didn't seem like it was supposed to be a secret or anything.] It was good she did though, I didn't even realize everyone was gone before she started texting me... I was just sleeping.

[He looks kind of guilty about this, the small smile he'd been keeping finally dropping, as he stares down at the blankets in his arms.]
yuruse: (grateful)

[personal profile] yuruse 2015-11-19 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"You can play." Weasel is sure of this. Greg puts so much heart into what he does. "Once you have your instrument in your hands, it will all come naturally." He hopes so, anyway.

He isn't going to argue with the comment about their boss, though. She might not physically kill him, but things would not be fun if she found out he was having trouble. They've just got to make sure this doesn't happen.
sponsorigami: Ivan on the floor after being tripped (痛い Don't let the sun go down on anger)

[personal profile] sponsorigami 2015-11-19 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
We have to try something. And if it doesn't work, we try something else. We can't let this continue
consocius: Any icons that are by me are safe to take, except for this one please! (ponder.)

[personal profile] consocius 2015-11-19 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... For a while now too, I guess... [Considering Sora doesn't even know for certain where he's been the last few days, so.

He gives Terry an actual smile, though it's small. Hopeful.
] Sure! Company... would be nice. Or food. Or... both? [He looks a little uncertain, but this is because he's trying to remember now if he's eaten anything yet or not, and can't.]

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