interstellar5555 | ☆TRACK IV: COME TOO FAR

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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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A — Love is a Sickness

[And she had been doing so well, too.

As if the waking-up-from-crying thing hadn’t been bad enough Nariko feels as if her insides have been ripped out and then shoved back down her excuse of a throat. Emotionally, she might as well be a sad, dried up wasteland, one that does nothing but whimper in bed for nearly an hour. Granted that might be thanks to the quickly oncoming fever. Not only does she feel as if she’s lost something important again but she’s sick as fuck.

It takes effort to drag herself out of bed but Nariko pulls on clothes with careful movements, and drags herself to the kitchen. Every step is dizzying, she’s so hot and uncomfortable in her own skin, but she ends up draped over the kitchen’s counter anyway.

If anyone would like to watch the most pathetic coffee-making display in the world then she’s there for the observing.

Just know you’re a terrible person if you don’t do anything.

B — Contact is The Cure

[The feeling is slowly wearing off. It feels less like she’s missing organs and hearing strange things and more like an ever familiar sense of isolation and loneliness. On the one hand it’s nice to jump back, but on the other this is the third major recovery in less than three weeks. If the universe could maybe give her and everyone else in this building a break, that’d be awesome. In fact Nariko might kiss whoever puts that mercy into effect.

But until things pick up (again) she’s just sort of … Around (again). But instead of hiding in corners and existing in the way she’s just meandering. You might find her in CI’s penthouse or at Pink or near the elevators, whatever. Time is a relative concern and they’ve been stuck in here so long that she doesn’t really trust much of anything.

Except hugs. Those would be nice.]

C — Martyrdom the Successor

[She’s obviously stuck at home but that doesn’t mean she can’t be reached. Texts and phone calls will be answered immediately.]

[Maxxie's approaching the elevators when he sees Nariko there. They haven't spoken at all since the carnival. It's not that he's avoided interacting with her, but he's felt guilty about what she had to go through and it's been easier just not to engage. It makes him feel even more guilty to acknowledge the fact that he couldn't gather the courage to talk to her about it, tell her he was sorry at least that she had to go through all that and had to watch him be next to useless on top of it. He can't deal with that right now, so he considers leaving her alone.]

[But when he sees her there she looks like he feels - ripped open and vulnerable, the waves of loneliness immobilizing him in between periods of feeling lost and restless. So he doesn't turn around and leave her be. He walks up to her, hesitant and keeping his distance. He doesn't want to make it worse for her.]

Nariko?

[If she's been passively avoided then, well, she's got no idea! It only made sense that they might not have time to go over what happened or express anything other than pure joy at making it out alive - not that they'd ever been in any real danger to begin with. So when he calls her name and she spins around to face him it only takes a second for her to recognize him.]

Hey, Maxxie! [She's alright for the most part, if anything she's just tired and aimless.] How are you?

[It's a valid and genuine question since everyone in Pride seemed to be backhanded left and right with varying levels of bullshit.]

[He shrugs one shoulder, slipping his hands into the pockets of his jeans.]

Pretty shitty, actually.

[He's never been one for dishonesty.]

What about you?

[She laughs even though it's not funny because that honesty is appreciated, and because she understands.]

I can't say I've been doing any better. I feel like I've been cast off the island. [Which is stupid because she's not alone by any means but for some reason she feels that way, hollowed out and aimless. But it doesn't stop her from mentioning something a little cautiously.]

Hey, about before on that crazy death ride. [... He might not want to talk about it, and her tone is cautious, Maxxie doesn't have to go into details if he doesn't want to. She hopes he already knows that.] I'm sorry I was such a pain in the ass. You and Kido were doing your best even though you must have been terrified, too.You guys were a lot braver than me.

[Which doesn't really bother her, so he doesn't have to make her feel better about that part.]

[Maxxie lets out a nervous laugh and looks at the floor. He's obviously still embarrassed or ashamed, but he tries to shrug it off as best he can.]

I wouldn't say that. It was pretty fucked up what they did to you. I'd have been a hundred times worse.

Nariko Lunae | Love | Pride

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