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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.”
trustme: The Doctor looking surprised (surprised)

[personal profile] trustme 2015-11-11 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's... Doctor. Your friend from Cambridge? [He chuckles.] You didn't forget me that quickly did you? [The way her voice shook though, she might be even more out of it than he was.]

Garnet are you all right?
trustme: (neutral or observing)

[personal profile] trustme 2015-11-11 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Susan enjoys meeting new people. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to bump into each other.

[Doctor offers Greg a hand.] Are you sure you don't want to sit down for just a moment? I can help you find a seat.
blindfoldcode: (calling out to all that i've ever known)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2015-11-11 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
I think you might've hit your head or something... [She holds onto his shoulders again, firmly.]

You shouldn't stay out like this. There's idiots around here. [People who could get him hurt people who would try to hurt him while he's weak.] We should go home.
dishevelment: (reproachful)

[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-11 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I haven't. One of my bandmates was, but no one is speaking a word of it.

[That was quite an alarming incident too, finding one of their own taken amidst the lockdown. No one said a word about it...but no one was comfortable either.]
faithfulflame: (Rei NO WAY!)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-11-11 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[She scowls at him and pulls him into her arms, tugging him towards the couch.]

Then you're not going anywhere. Couch. Now. I'll take care of you, don't worry. Not a bit.

[Rei is having none of your nonsense buster. She'll practically drag you to the couch, and drop you onto it before having a seat.]

I'm not going anywhere, and I'm not going to lose you.
faithfulflame: (Rei Jaw Set)

[personal profile] faithfulflame 2015-11-11 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rei whirled him around with surprising strength and speed, grabbing his other shoulder and pulling him further from the suit of armor. Eyes flashing, she set her jaw.]

That's no king. That's a suit of armor, and if you punch it you're going to hurt your hand.

[There's a pause, a bit of softness entering her voice.]

What Medal is missing though? If you've lost something, I'll look for it but you need to calm down first.
traumatizing: (pic#605227)

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[personal profile] traumatizing 2015-11-11 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's hungover as shit, and looking at the notifications on his phone he obviously woke up and made an idiot of himself at some point in the middle of the night, but more than that he feels scraped out. Hollow. Like something's missing but he can't put his finger on what.]

[Coffee will help. Coffee always helps. Terry drags himself to the kitchen in the state he woke up in - shirtless, belt undone and eyeliner smudged, he looks like a mess - but seeing Nariko in such a sorry state makes something in his brain fire up and he rushes over to her, carefully taking the mug away so he can take over.]
traumatizing: (pic#605219)

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[personal profile] traumatizing 2015-11-11 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Terry is on a tear through the building; something's missing and he needs to find it. Almost rushes straight past Pinkie but he can't leave her there. He stops and crouches in front of her to see what he can do to help.

"Hey--" They haven't spoken since the Funhouse and normally he'd feel a bit awkward about it, but he doesn't care about all that right now. He shifts a little closer to her and reaches to... Pull her closer? Help her up? He's not entirely sure, he just knows he has to help somehow. "Hey, shh. You're alright."

Is she? Is anyone?
traumatizing: (pic#605215)

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[personal profile] traumatizing 2015-11-11 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Terry's aimless by this point. Amped up with no way to let it out, no way to ignore the aching chasm in him except to keep looking for ways to ignore it. Block out the way the emptiness seems to echo through his mind.

Being so focused on that, he doesn't notice Luci at first and looks a bit startled by anyone speaking to him, but that settles quickly and he... Smiles? Sort of? "Yeah, uh. Sure."
traumatizing: (pic#605227)

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[personal profile] traumatizing 2015-11-11 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[The hand on his arm stops Terry and he turns to look at who it is, honestly expecting someone he knows better than Sora. But he looks so sad and small, he can't just leave him alone like this. Terry turns to face him properly and tilts his head.]

Sora, hey. What's wrong?
connivingbird: (dont talk)

[personal profile] connivingbird 2015-11-11 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wasn't seeing the same things as Rei was, his eyes having a sheen to them from the memories taking over his thoughts and feelings. Ankh jerk against the hold, but like before there was little strength to him. The makeup he was wearing was made for intense conditions but this close she couldn't help to see the marks of stress and sleeplessness that he had been under the past few days as this memory gotten stronger.

It didn't help that the pull this morning triggered this reaction really.

His tattooed hand twitched and he reached up to grab at her chin, holding his fingers in such a way that his fingerpicks wouldn't actually touch skin as if it was the most natural thing in the world.]


What do you know about them, human? [It would seem he was still locked into that dream world.]
tigermillionaire: (yikes)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2015-11-11 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...Home?

[Whaaat...okay, he has no idea whats he means. God, this is kind of scary. His trepidation shows on his face.]

I don't...think I hit myself? I just...my whole body hurts...

[His guy instincts seem to be confused about whether to just trust her or not.]
blindfoldcode: (let's break the standard)

[personal profile] blindfoldcode 2015-11-11 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kido is very worried about him now. She pauses as she thinks about her time after she was questioned.]

Do you know who I am, at least?
panspermia: (★ Let's count that a success)

[personal profile] panspermia 2015-11-11 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hopefully they're looking out for each other.

[He takes Doctor's hand, giving him a weary smile.]

Thanks. I just need a breather. My name's Greg.
yuruse: (bring it)

[personal profile] yuruse 2015-11-11 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Weasel's frown only deepens. He moves away, eyes scanning over a nearby counter top before finally coming to rest on what he'd been looking for - a CD case for their debut album. Picking it up, he returns to Greg's side and silently holds it out to him.

Their pictures should be on the back cover, and that has to mean something.
dishevelment: (discourse)

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[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-11 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Koumei was running with the eerie zen that comes upon a person after multiple days of restless sleep by this point in time-- and seeing everyone in Pride HQ deal with one problem or another was striking a chord within him that he couldn't just silence.

He had to help. Somehow.

It was why he found himself kneeling in front of the young man curled up on the floor like a small child and offering a hand:]


Let's get you some place more comfortable, hm?
dishevelment: (headtilt)

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[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-11 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wha--?

[He hadn't expected anyone to grab his hand so suddenly, not when he was traversing HQ with a pile of blankets and pillows he had gathered from God knew where to distribute among those who seemed to be suffering. It was a strange, almost brotherly instinct for him...and he couldn't quite place where it came from.]

....It's Sora, isn't it? [he asked after a moment, recalling the young man's face from various meetings in HQ. Never had he seen the teen in such an emotional state before...] What's wrong? What can I do for you?
mildwildchild: art by Mint-Drop ([contemplative pause])

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2015-11-11 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jamie looks up blearily at the rumpled-looking man in front of him and wonders, just for a moment, how the man got there. Or for that matter, how he got there. He'd just stopped to get his balance for a moment and...somehow wound up sitting on the floor, back propped against the wall. He's really not in top form today.]

Uhhhh... [It takes him a moment to think of a response.] Sure. I guess. [He takes the proffered hand, and with the other pushes off the wall, trying to lever himself upright.]

gunslingerqueen: (Vim and vigor)

[personal profile] gunslingerqueen 2015-11-12 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[So the last person to send her a text award goes to ... Rei. Definitely Rei. And it's not as if Nariko had forgotten about her - it was impossibly to forget about someone that beautiful and composed - but it was just kind of amazing, maybe. Not that she's complaining. Being sick and temporarily confined to her bed hasn't been grand.

It takes her twenty minutes to answer.]


I'm sort of okay. I'm kind of sick, though, I just feel terrible all over.

[The word she really wants to put there is 'lonely', but that feels like too much.]
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yellowcopycat: (shame)

[personal profile] yellowcopycat 2015-11-12 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryouta has no idea what Ankh is going on about, but he holds him close anyways. He makes comforting sounds and rocks the man gently.]

Okay. We'll figure it out.

[He doesn't know what he's saying. What's important is that he keeps Ankh calm. Everything in Ryouta is telling him to hold on to him, protect him.]
gunslingerqueen: (Aptly described as hell no)

[personal profile] gunslingerqueen 2015-11-12 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[The farhter along she goes in the process the worse it all seems to get. By now it's really beginning to seem like she has an actual fever, but pride is a sin and definitely her biggest one. Even when she registers Terry, Nariko doesn't do the smart thing and let him handle it.]

I can do it!

[She tries to reach for the mug but fails by a good half inch.] I'm okay! I'm okay, I'm okay!

[So he doesn't have to worry about her! Just let her finish the stupid coffee!]
dishevelment: (loose -- state of affairs)

[personal profile] dishevelment 2015-11-12 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[And, very carefully, Koumei guides him into an upright position.]

Careful, [he murmured, as he saw the young man sway on his feet.]

Let's get you to the lounge. There's some nice chairs in there to rest on.

[It was also where he had stashed a pile of pillows and blankets, in case of situations like this. Let no one say that Koumei was ill-prepared.]
stylistic_disloyalty: (065)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2015-11-12 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Xanxus got into a fistfight with the giant window in our suite. Still really can't tell who won, broken glass everywhere but he didn't get far. No idea where Alec or Wakana have gotten to, Yuffie's somewhere..." She goes ahead and slings a friendly arm around Jamie's shoulders. "Mellow sounds real nice, not going to lie."

Congratulations Jamie, Luci definitely wants to tell someone it's going to be okay-- because she sure as hell can't tell herself that right now.

"But this is probably everything coming to a head, yeah? Five days on lockdown, we're all bound to have crazy feelings that need an outlet."
mildwildchild: with *WHO* (say wha)

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2015-11-12 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, okay. That sounds nice. [Anything that isn't the floor sounds nice, honestly. He lets Koumei lead, managing to stay mostly vertical as he totters alongside.]

Sure been a weird day. Wish I knew why I felt so crappy.
stylistic_disloyalty: (030)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2015-11-12 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Fab," she intones, putting her hands into her pockets and falling into step alongside Terry. "We're not going to the bar again, right? I'm pretty sure we've established many times in the past five days that it hasn't done anything we'd consider 'progress'."

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