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☆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.”

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☆COMMON AREAS
Tiger had gotten a surprisingly early start that day, springing awake with a shadow of alarm he’d woken with a day previous – his first day back after...being gone. He didn’t have any words to put to it, and he didn’t really want to. Any thought in the direction of the place he’d been filled him with a deep sense of dread.

He felt weird. Like his head had been shuffled all around. He barely remembers why it happened in the first place.

He wanted to get out of the penthouse soon after waking. They weren’t allowed to leave, he knew that much, and he couldn’t even muster the strength to be resentful of that fact now. That’s fine, he said to himself. It was out of his hands.

It’s due to some strange feeling of restlessness that he’s out and about the common Pride areas, maybe planning on trying to find food somewhere that he can eat alone. Instead, it just means he is out in public when he gets hit by the spiritual whammy.

He falls down, his head swimming and his chest aching. Suddenly...he can’t remember where he is. Or why. In fact, he can remember very little about who he is at all.

He just realizes one thing, very strongly: that he wants to find his dad.

☆THE PENTHOUSE
Kido gets him back to the penthouse at some point, and despite not even recognizing her, he trusts her somehow. Way more than he ever has with his full memories. It’s kind of weird, how different he acts like this – so much younger and less aggressive.

All he wants to do is attain some level of comfort , his heart still aching terribly from whatever attacked them. It has his head swimming with heat, and for the moment he’s just going to curl up in whatever defensive fort monstrosity we’ve got going on here.

☆CELL PHONE
You can call or text him, too, that’s a thing.

[Man she is just a freaking roller coaster of things going on this week. Kido's a mess and now she's more of a mess because something is gone and that hollow in her chest just isn't going away. And her band--her band is really all she has at this point and she knows she needs to find them and...

Tiger's not here. Damnit, kid.

She scrubs her hair and she's after him, knowing they can't leave, that he has to be somewhere in the building... and she's worried. And really, when she comes upon him, it's clear she had every reason to be.]

Tiger?! [Shit kid. She moves to make sure he's okay, crouching next to him, worry clear in her expression.] What happened?

[He's sitting on the floor in the way someone does when they feel sick - like he's waiting for a moment when he feels a bit better before he tries going anywhere. Except, the moment isn't coming. He feels all pulled apart, and more importantly, his context for this is...totally gone. When he looks up at her, his confusion is clear.]

Tiger?

[He blinks, his voice quiet and strained. That isn't his name, right? That's not what anyone called him.]

I...I feel sick...

[Also...he doesn't know where he is? But how do you just straight up tell someone that.]

If you're not feeling well, you should get back upstairs. [She puts a hand on his shoulder, trying to steady him maybe? She doesn't get why he's confused, but she gets that he's not well. And no matter what that's not something she approves of.]

Can you get back up? [Should she call somebody for help?]

[His programming doesn't really know how to deal with the lack of backstory. He blinks at his surroundings, trying to clear up his vision a little, before looking back up to her.]

Uh...Sorry, but...where is this?

[... Oh crap. Did he fall and hit his head? He just said sorry.]

You're downstairs in the Pride building. Just... sit tight. I'll call somebody or something.

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[Pride building? What does that mean? The more he thinks the more he finds missing. And suddenly, one of the worse memories strikes him cold.]

Whuh - Wait, where's my dad? Is he here?

[He's already tearing up.]

Your dad? [Oh no don't cry. Kido doesn't know how to handle this. She doesn't know how to deal with family or explaining that he's not around or just. Emotions. She doesn't know how to feel feelings...]

Tiger, what's going on? What do you remember? [Is this amnesia? He really must have hit his head...]

I...I don't know.

[He hunches forward, his heart aching and his head swimming. He rubs at his eyes.]

I just...feel REALLY bad. I don't know what to...why can't I remember more stuff...?

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.

...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.]

[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?

[He swallows uncomfortably, because she isn't going to like the answer. He curls his arms around his torso.]

I...I don't...

[His faces flushed even more red than it has been from the feverish feeling in his head. He looks down at the floor, ashamed.]

I'm sorry.

"Tiger" Universe | Hope | Pride HQ + Phone Business

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