☆TRACK IV: COME TOO FAR

[interdimanagers]

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.”

Comments

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"Hey Jamie," Luci's all smiles. She knows she's only seen Jamie a handful of times, talked to him once, but for some reason seeing him is great. "Oh, you heading out? I was just going to get some proof of life in the Flashstep suite-- this lockdown is bound to drive somebody to start a battle royale, right?

"You hungry? I could use a sandwich."

[mildwildchild]

Jamie looks perplexed for a moment or two but tries to hide it, slipping out into the hall and answering her with a shrug. "Sure, food sounds good, I guess." Which to some would be warning enough that he isn't running at 100%, since food never merely sounds "good" to Jamie - he's young and has a ridiculously high metabolism and, consequently, is usually ready to eat anything that isn't still moving. Luci might be forgiven for not cottoning on to this, however.

He leads off down the hall, waiting for her to fall into step alongside before commenting further. "Actually, everything kinda settled down with us this morning. Everyone's just really - " emotional and snuggly and I spent the last two hours wanting someone to hold me and tell me everything would be all right " - mellow. Y'know, chill."

And really, it's mostly true. Technically.

"What about you guys? Break up any fistfights yet today?"

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"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]

The arm throws him a little off balance, literally and figuratively; he ends up sort of pinned to Luci's side, which he's not sure whether to classify as alarming or comforting. It's both, he guesses. The contact feels nice, even if the person offering it is still kind of intimidating.

He manages an uncertain smile at her last comment. "Crazy feelings. Yeah, that'd explain a lot."

He lapses into silence until they reach the elevator and then offers, "No offense, but...I never thought you guys would ever actually prefer mellow. I thought you liked things sort of, y'know. Chaotic."

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"Balance in all things," she says, hitting the button for the elevator. "I'd eat, breathe, and sleep chaos and raw energy if I could, but it gets old. If I can have that seventy-percent of the time, tempered by the other thirty when I'm quiet, I'm happy.

"...it's been one hundred percent silence for the past five days. I can't even get half and half, I'm drowning."

The elevator arrives and she steers them into it jauntily. "But now a sandwich is exciting."

i love that they just got off the elevator in the other thread & in this one they're hopping back on

[mildwildchild]

Just as he had earlier in the week, Jamie lets himself be steered, and he hums thoughtfully. "Well, yeah, that makes sense, I guess. Kinda like it's great being on stage and performing, but it's tiring. Nice to have some down time. Just not this much of it," he adds, making a face.

Once they're inside the elevator and headed down, he remains drawn up to her side, if she keeps her arm where it is, and juts out his lower lip to blow the hair off his forehead. "Think they'll let us out soon? Y'know, before we really do all go crazy and, I dunno, burn the building down?"

ELEVATOR CR 8D

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"I like downtime when I feel like I've earned it. This... this is just bullshit vacation time from doing nothing."

Luci does keep her arm around Jamie-- kind of nice to be close to somebody right now-- and sighs. "They'd better. Xanxus is getting to that point. He came home mad enough to stay sober, and now he's busting the windows in our suite. Fire's next, trust me."

clearly it is the best CR

[mildwildchild]

Jamie kind of grimaces, thinking about the mess Xanxus is making of the Carnie abode, and manages a kind of weak grin in Luci's direction. "Yeah, well, give the rest of us a heads up when he starts dousing the place with gasoline, huh?"

A little more seriously he continues, "I know the bosses put up with a lot from us, but you'd think they'd be getting a little pissed about people trashing the penthouses. I'm starting to think they didn't consider this whole 'lock up our musicians for no reason' idea very carefully."

It has the most ups.... and downs....... 8D *shot*

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"I'll send a mass text," she says blithely, eventually smirking down at him. The elevator stops and she ushers Jamie out.

Luci is quiet for a moment as she thinks. "No, they really didn't think about it carefully at all. Fans are pissed, talent is pissed, you have to wonder what's so terrible to risk backlash from both sides."

/rimshot.wav

[mildwildchild]

Jamie looks up in time to catch her smirk. It's oddly reassuring, just like the arm around his shoulders, and he offers a somewhat more uncertain grin in return as they exit the elevator together.

"Well...I can sorta see why they wouldn't care too much about pissing us off, I mean, we don't have a whole lotta choice when it comes to performing." If this idea bothers him, he doesn't let it show much outwardly. "I think I'm gonna be real glad to get back on stage anyway, assuming we don't all eat each other alive before they let us see daylight again. And maybe they just figure the fans are devoted enough to stick with us through this." He shrugs under her arm, tucking his hands into his pockets as he paces alongside her.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"They probably think all of those things, it's true," Luci admits, sighing and leaving thoughts of conspiracy or strange happenings behind her. Their fans are devoted, and in the end they all longed to perform.

"Well, I'm just saying, now there's a giant gaping hole in the side of the building-- if we have to rappel down to escape, party at the Carnie suite."

[mildwildchild]

That gets a chuckle. "We're gonna need a lot of bedsheets to get down to the ground from the penthouses," he observes.

"What do you think they'd try to do if we hopped out a window on the ground floor?"

He's totally just raising that as a hypothetical. Totally.

[stylistic_disloyalty]

"Probably deploy the most sinister-looking music-label-SWAT team they could find to round us up and carry us back kicking and screaming."

Ding. Ground floor. "I think I need some coffee with my sandwich."

[mildwildchild]

Jamie snorts a little at that mental image. "With nets and stun guns and everything? Somehow I wouldn't put it past 'em. Though it'd probably take a lot of them to take Xanxus down."

He hums thoughtfully at the mention of coffee, which sounds nicer to him than food right now, actually. He's starting to feel just a little chilly. "Did you have anywhere particular in mind to go? There's a couple places down here that have pretty good coffee."