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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar55552016-07-06 09:50 pm

☆TRACK XIII: HIT THE BOTTOM

Who: Everyone!
What: The tour moves on to Asiana, and Gold makes a move.
When: June 21st - July 8th, 2055
Where: Any of the potential tour stops, but mostly TOKYO.
Warnings: Again, probably violence.

“What's going on? Could this be my understanding?
It's not your fault, I was being too demanding.
I must admit, it's my pride that made me distant,
All because I hoped that you'd be someone different.”

☆HIT THE BOTTOM



Blanche's attempt to weaken Pride Records had mixed results. On one hand, a large number of Pride members have escaped as a result, bringing Pride down to Virgo's level. On the other, he managed to lose almost the entirety of Defying Atmosphere, one of the major headliners of his newest wave of musical acts.

While the ranks of the rescuers swell, life within the labels has hit another low. After the last mass escape, both labels have shut down most of their musicians access to the outside world, beyond the closely watched concerts and publicity events. Bands that have shrunk down to one or two members are being reformatted - are you the only one left? Congratulations, you're a solo act now. You won't have the same fame level as someone who made it there the normal way, but it's an act of necessity now.

To the labels benefit, even if they've both shed a large amount of their newest acts, they still have a solid standard of veteran acts remaining. If your managers treat you with some added disdain in coming weeks, it probably shouldn't be much of a surprise. Your entire generation of musicians seems like they have been at terrible mistake. Those in the tiers above you seem remarkably complacent, at least on the outside.

☆ASIANA TOUR
All of these cities are basically what they are like IRL except about 50 years more future-like, and you have full creative liberty to make up some developments to the local culture and worldbuild because this is the last time these places will ever be mentioned meaningfully!

THE OFFICIAL STOPS: Mumbai (June 21st - 23rd), Bangkok (June 24th - 27th), Shanghai (June 28th - 30th), Seoul (July 1st - 3rd), Tokyo (July 4th - 8th)

Tokyo is the biggest event of the Asiana Tour. In a change from the Europa Tour, the rescuers will be following the labels to each city location instead of just assembling at the last one. Security has gotten so tight, they need to take every opportunity they can to try to save another life.

► WORLD OF YOUR DREAMS: It's while Shep's spaceship is camping out in Shanghai that Gold breaks in - and the effects of their visit will extend throughout the entirety of both the rescuers and the captive musicians. Back during the Vista City festival, Agent J managed to capture a large amount of ambient musical energy via a group dance routine, and handed it over to Silver who condensed it into the physical form of a glowing disk. Gold has arrived to ask for it, to use as part of their plans against Pride Records.

Upon entering, Gold will use their magic to cast a sleep on all the present rescuers in order to give them some privacy with Silver. Silver, of course, is going to say no to handing over the disk, refusing to enable Gold's reckless plans. This conflict is going to result in Silver trying to hide the disk with magic, and then things are going to get a little weird.

Most of you are familiar with the strange dreamscape that rescuers first met the captured musicians in... well, we're going back there, again! With everyone asleep and the ambient musical magic thick, everyone previously associated with the shared dreams is getting dragged back into that same dream realm, which happens to be the same psychic location that Silver hid the disk.

Everyone interested in being the one to find the disk in the dreamscape can enter below, and a winner will be drawn via RNG (after which, they can group up with however many others they like when the actual discover happens). After that, they'll be free to do with the disk what they choose, whether that is keeping it from Gold, giving it to them, or something else entirely.

Everyone else, of course, will just get to experience sharing a dreamscape one more time before endgame, including being able to meet up with the musicians still trapped within the labels. Everyone will be in what represents their "true" forms once again, and memories still locked away with feel a bit easier to access.

Gold will end up fleeing, with or without the disk. Whether or not they end up with it will affect the events to come.

☆GOLD MAKES A MOVE
Here's what Gold has been building up to with all of their reckless nonsense - they intend to try to take on Lesedi Santiago, one on one, and they're going to do it during one of the exec's public appearances during the Tokyo festival. Gold's intent is to take her out before she can even get to the end of this ritual - how this turns out will be entirely dependent on the players.

Any rescuer or musician can be present if you wish, and they'll have full liberty to act on both Gold and Lesedi once the fight begins. Do you support Gold? Do you support Lesedi? Do you say fuck it and try to take them both out? There will be one free for all thread that will go up after the dream event winner has been sorted out. The fight will be in public, and as usual, the audience will be too brainwashed to do anything but clap and cheer. Everyone but you, of course.

Please ask any questions you might have below!

“I turned away, 'cause I thought you were the problem.
Tried to forget until I hit the bottom.
But when I faced you in my blank confusion,
I realized you weren't wrong, it was a mere illusion.”
missknight: (maheswaran (Constantly wanting to rebel but)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-07-09 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Steven?"

Even in the smallness of the room, Connie's voice manages to be smaller.

He's all she's been thinking about, ever since she tried to rescue him before. Tried to rescue him and failed, even if she managed to take out Jin in the attempt. How could she get back to him? Could she just try and be daring, take him right off of one of the stages with Lion and make a run for it before anyone could stop them? Could she sneak in pretending to be the daughter of someone important?

No answer seems good enough, and it plagues her in her sleep even, it seems. That's the only explanation she can give as she stands in the doorway, her brows furrowed as she looks to him.
tigermillionaire: (the oven's been on)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-07-13 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Steven freezes, and then looks up at her, his eyes wide and filled with a mixture of worry and surprise. His last memory of her left a pretty incredible impression, and he's still not sure how to feel about it, considering Jin being a robot was news to him.

"You came back," he says in confusion, sitting up straighter with his tenseness. "H-Hi."
missknight: (maheswaran ("Flirting" aka staring at you and)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-07-14 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
“W-Well, I said I would, didn’t I?” Even if none of this was exactly planned. It shows in the awkwardness of her smile and the tentative way she sways in the doorway. “I know you don’t remember, but… I think of you as my best friend. So I’ll never leave you. Especially not at a place like Pride.” Not after what she’s seen.

“Can I come in…?”
tigermillionaire: (doki doki artichoki)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-07-14 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
They haven't really had a chance to go over the specifics, have they? He's not sure how much he remembers of the whole thing, but a lot of little pieces have been falling into place, lately. Even if all of it feels so distant and surreal compared to the reality that's been imposed on him, here.

"Yeah-" he says, too eagerly. "I mean, I remember you, too. Sort of." He pauses, blushing with a bit of shame. "I'm sorry."

He shouldn't really be apologizing, and he knows that will be her response, but he can't help it. He sniffles a little.

"Things were a lot better before I got all messed up."
Edited 2016-07-14 07:00 (UTC)
missknight: (crystalgemsicons) (Ever wonder how different your life)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-07-15 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
“It’s not your fault!” Yep, there’s that predictable response as her strides get quicker. “It’s Pride’s fault, for what they did. But it’ll be alright.” Coming to a stop not too close but not too far either- she hopes- She clasps her hands together.

“And we can help you remember things… Bit by bit. It doesn’t have to come all at once. That you even remember me at all… That means a lot.”
tigermillionaire: (doki doki artichoki)

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-07-19 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
He smiles a little, though it's tentative. His cheeks redden.

"I remembered you before you even came here," he says. "I think. It was really weird... but I remembered us dancing on the beach, and that we kind of made one person?"
missknight: (maheswaran ("Flirting" aka staring at you and)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-07-20 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
“Oh!” Her cheeks start to redden, but she’s smiling right back. “Stevonnie… I remember. We’ve made them… a couple of times. But never for as long as the first time. It… was the first time I was able to dance with anyone else around. I was always nervous and scared about it before you helped me…”