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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Of course not. That's impossible. [Nariko doesn't really want to sound insane either! ... But she also can't help her own doubt.] ... I'm sure it's just exhaustion or something. People aren't meant to be locked up this long.

[Pride people especially.]

[Well Rei isn't going to press this. She's not. But she doesn't believe you.]

No they aren't. But...you know? It gives us a chance to get to know one another better at least. Tell me about you, Nariko.

[About her? Huh. Shouldn't she be more excited about the idea of talking about herself?]

We can do that, but how about for every one thing I tell you, you also tell me about yourself.

[Just so it's all fair, and because she wants to know just as much about Rei.]

Oh that's fine. You can start. But anything I share will be equivalent to anything you share.

[Equivalent Exchange!]

[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!]

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.]

Want me to punch him?

[Because it really sounds like a father who doesn't appreciate their child, and someone like Rei, needs to be punched. Maybe kicked a little, too.] Because I will find him and punch him and get away with it, believe me.

No, it's alright. He'll get his in the end.

[Bad men always do.]

Anyway, what's next? I...don't want to linger on him too long.

[... She still wants to exact physical violence. Oh well.]

Yeah, I get it. [And thankfully she's never one to have trouble coming up with a new topic!] I don't trust people who don't like girls that wear dark lipstick.

[Mood whiplash.]

[Whiplash indeed. But Rei replies quickly.] And I don't wear lipstick, if I can avoid it.

That is your choice, as a woman that's already incredibly beautiful and probably instills fear and arousal in people just by looking at them. The rest of us need a little extra help.

[She doesn't judge personal choices.] Have you ever had a serious boyfriend?

[WOW, she's not Haruka, WOW!]

I...thank...you?

[Quickly, she answers.] No, Yosuke was my first date. Have you?

[Hmmm??? She's so easily flustered!]

Hah, I wish! [There's a pause, Rei can probably catch her huffing in the background.] I mean, kind of? Not that I kind of had a boyfriend, I kind of wish I did and I'm also glad that I never have.

[Life is hard.]

[Rei is not a master of social grace, and she knows you genuinely mean it without wanting in her pants.]

Oh. Well that's fair, I suppose. I'm giving this a try, though really I rarely find boys all that interesting, so I can sort of relate?

I get it. And even aside from that how is anyone supposed to maintain a relationship with hour busy we are? The fans always end up coming first, and the music itself even before them.

[That was the excuse she'd always given herself. Too busy, and it was impossible to make time. Completely out of the question.

And yet.] Kind of makes it difficult to get into all those romantic movies.

Well, something I've been trying to do more is put my own interests a little ahead of the fans. Music is the most important, but...I've had so much trouble getting overwhelmed by crowds.

[She's making the time, basically, though there's definitely a down note in her voice.]

Overwhelmed? [As in she just gets wrapped up in signing and pictures and stuff, or she actually becomes unable to deal with people? Somehow the latter option feels valid since it's Rei.]

That's good, though! We don't often get free off time so we just have to make it or else we're just being used like robots.

[Irony.]

I...don't like people.

[If you didn't already know.]

And yes, that's exactly the case. I'm trying to get better about that, and slip away where I can for myself. Mental health and all.

[It's not entirely surprising, Rei did seem like an introvert, though one that could be charming when she wanted.]

I can make you card that say 'My Mental Health Takes Precedence in This Situation' and you can hand them out to people and walk away when you need to.

[She's not even making fun of the issue, this is her genuine solution! An extrovert can help an introvert by being considerate and watching out for their friend's health! That's the idea, anyway.]

I...think that might be a little too on the nose.

[But cute idea though. Points for effort. Rei does laugh at least!]

[And the laughter does feel like a little victory on its own, even if she does think it's a perfectly decent idea to put into practice!]

Probably, but some people don't know when to take a hint and have to be dealt with appropriately.

It might also come off as horrifically pretentious and piss off fans. And Ms. Ramsey.

[And she does not want that.]

We blink the wrong way and it might piss off fans. [She does love them!! But they could still be particularly capricious, that was all. But she assumes that name belongs to a Virgo manager.]

... That's more serious, though. What's she like?

She's...pretty somber. [Understatement.] She hates things that really rock the boat, which is probably why she's our manager. We don't really fight.

Sounds a lot better than Mr. Kim. [She feels bad as soon as she says that, of course.] I mean, he's not terrible but it'd be nice if he didn't always hop around about 'ART!!!!' and 'intensity!!!!' I'm pretty sure he's why we're called an indie band even though we're definitely not indie in any real way.

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