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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.”
iitrebel: (pchaaair) (I know you're very busy with)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-07-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Just to be clear- can only Rescuers find the disc, or can really confused Musicians find it as well?
i_am_not_cute: ((manga) check his pulse yugi)

[personal profile] i_am_not_cute 2016-07-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
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.

What does the "something else entirely" entail? No, Pao-Lin, you're not allowed to eat it. Would the person finding the disk be able to access the energy in it for themselves?
lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (Think think think)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2016-07-07 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
I would like to enter Usagi for possibly finding the disc.
twoscompany: (Default)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-07-07 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
May as well add Garnet to the list of finding the disc!
traumatizing: (Default)

[personal profile] traumatizing 2016-07-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
slam dunks an angry young adult in the running
magic_to_do: (you gotta do x-tra ordinary things)

[personal profile] magic_to_do 2016-07-07 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Entering Trucy into this dubious little drawing.
mildwildchild: It'll tear me to shreds! (OH MY GOD! It's looking right at me!)

Re: ☆I WANT TO FIND THE DISK

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2016-07-07 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Throwing Jamie into this too.
missknight: (maheswaran) (Men: Confidence is sexy.)

[personal profile] missknight 2016-07-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Connie is going to be doing her best to find the disc!
tigermillionaire: (lost in space)

STEVEN UNIVERSE | DREAM LAND | OPEN

[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-07-07 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s like this all the time, now.

Back in the start, even if things were really scary sometimes, at least he hadn’t been so alone. Him and his band had been together, and Garnet had been there to help him, and so had the others. Now, in between performances... it’s just all silence and loneliness. When he has to pretend to be someone else on stage it’s almost a relief, even if it’s only a matter of time before he just gets shut away again.

The stress of it has been leaking into his sleep. It’s stuff that’s almost like what he’s living when he’s awake, but weirder and more exaggerated. His room is smaller and darker and plainer than the luxury suites he’s really staying in. He spends entire dreams just wanting to escape, but simple tasks feel impossible.

The only way out seems to be an open window in the greyed out hotel room, but whenever he looks out of it, it seems impossible high up. Whenever he tries to dial someone on his phone he’s so afraid of being overheard that it’s like he can’t speak at all.

Sometimes he tries to wake up, and sometimes he does – but then it turns out he’s still dreaming. He curls up on his bed, closing his eyes while simultaneously trying to open them. He doesn’t know what parts of this are real – and from the way he looks, it’s like he’s a miniature version of Tiger Universe.

The aesthetics are the same, but he seems far too young to have ever been here on his own.
twoscompany: (SUPERTRAMP'S THE LOGICAL SONG)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-07-07 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Steven?"

Then, a giant. A large shadow, bigger than any human, comes into the door frame of his bedroom. Ah, its so constrictive. Was Steven's room ever this small? Or was Garnet ever this tall? Was this a dream? Was it real?

She didn't know. But she saw Steven on the bed, and she needed to...she didn't know. What comfort could she give when she herself was beyond any hope? All of them had been practically locked away. How was she free, now?

"Steven? Its me." The giant had Garnet's voice and shape, but it was much bigger than the Garnet Steven had known in the waking life. "I'm here. Can I come in?"
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[personal profile] tigermillionaire 2016-07-07 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Steven looks up at her warily, like he's worried for a moment that she was someone else. When he sees who it is, though, a note of that apprehension stays - but mostly it's the sense that something about this is off, and that he's incapable of fully comprehending what he's experiencing right now.

"Yeah," he says haltingly, wrapping his arms around his chest. Garnet has been one of the few people he's been allowed to see, recently, even if not for super long.
twoscompany: (SUPERTRAMP'S THE LOGICAL SONG)

[personal profile] twoscompany 2016-07-07 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, than--"

Bump. Her forehead smacks into the door frame. She sighs, before ducking in.

"...Thank goodness." He looked even younger than before, as she kneels down to get a good look at him. "Are you all right? They haven't hurt you, have they?"
panspermia: (Give me all the details)

[personal profile] panspermia 2016-07-07 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The space is cramped, the air feels cold and dusty from its isolation. None of that matters to Greg; there's one point of this room, a single feature that draws all attention.

"Steven." He can't remember how he got here, but just the fact that they're here together lets him know this isn't real. Not physically, anyway. He rushes to the bed, not caring about the oppressive atmosphere or loss of his hair or unreal space.

"Kiddo. Are you okay?"
giglio_madonna: (She was a gift from karma with a)

Luce / ota

[personal profile] giglio_madonna 2016-07-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
General (Pre-Dreamland)

[Were you just doing nothing, moping around, or tearing your hair out over how to rescue the remaining musicians? Now you're not- Luce is walking in like she owns the place and clapping her hands together.]

Alright! I need your help with something, so come on.

Bangkok

[Even with the disaster of what happened with Virgo, Luce is feeling... cheery, perhaps. There's a venomous sort of satisfaction to look at Virgo and see how much it's floundering. The things they did to her, Cloud, Tsuna, everyone.... Well. This is payback.]

[It feels good.]

[But Virgo isn't the sole opponent in this battle, and that's why Luce is glancing at the entrance for tonight's shows, peering over the rim of her glasses.]


Now I wonder how we can get a free way inside...

[She doubts they'll be able to rescue anyone while a show is going on... But with the security she's seen on the hotels, this is probably the safer shot.]

Dreamland

[This isn't Shanghai.]

[It's not even Vista City.]

[The land is a lovey mansion in the Italian countryside, sun shining sweetly and a breeze sighing through open windows. Luce is dressed in a white dress with flowing orange scarf hanging loosely from her shoulders. She's walking serenely through a hall with large painted portraits hang. All of them share a similarity- women with dark straight hair and a certain orange mark beneath one eye. All different in their own ways, but all obviously related.]

[This is nice. It feels like going back to her roots.]
iitrebel: (pchaaair) (I know you're very busy with)

Artolo Apemis / ota

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-07-09 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
General (Pride only)

[Generally speaking, Artolo seems to act like he always has. During the day, he does his best to work past any disdain of other veterans- something that seems moderately successful considering both his station and jester attitude. He keeps his social media accounts busy, because it's one of his more well known things...]

[And then in the small bits of time inbetween, whenever one of the other Pride musicians finds themselves away from paparazzi or fans or too much security, Artolo is there and looking somber. The glasses he's been wearing since Spring are still firmly in place.]


Hey. Doin' alright?

Dreamland

[It's funny how when he's dreaming is when things seem more real.]

[The sky is right- an expanse of night where a pair of pink-and-green moons hang in the sky. His body is right, kind of. Half right. He's weaker, skin and bones like he hasn't been fed in centuries (he hasn't), and there are scars along his face where the psionic-leeching goggles were...]

[But his skin is gray, and a pair of cumbersome fangs curl over his lip. Out of his messy black hair are two different sets of horns. He blinks, opaque glowing eyes on perfect display, and gives a weary grin.]

[To hell with it.]

[Anyone wandering into this particular dreamscape will find a brilliant trail of light in the sky, flickering rapidly between brilliant blue and seering red. At the head of it is someone who, if you squinted, could look a little like the human known as Artolo Apemis.]

[But right now he's living up to an old name he'd forgotten for a while.]
avidita: (pixiv 1810447) (Which one of you assholes put my)

Mammon / Dreamland / ota

[personal profile] avidita 2016-07-09 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Were you enjoying yourself, wandering around in yours or other people's memories? Were you really confused, or scared?]

HEY!

[Well too goddamn bad, Mammon doesn't have time for any of that nonsense.]

[With a frog on their head giving annoyed croaks, Mammon storms up to whoever is sharing this particular batch of dream with them wherever that might be. They know there were no more plans to get anymore rescuers, not with the time limit they were on. So they only have one question.]


Do you have any idea what's going on!?
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.
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Terry || OTA

[personal profile] traumatizing 2016-07-09 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
ON THE SHIP || PRE-DREAMS
[He feels like he's losing his damn mind. He wasn't planning on being here just yet and he keeps getting those dumb, reckless ideas he knows would get him killed. Or, well. Almost certainly worse.]

[But it's hard to ignore how bad he wants to. How easy he thinks it'd be to slip out and sidle up to Garnet at a signing, or slip into a booth at a bar next to Yuffie. As if somehow security wouldn't notice and drag him back to Lesedi for life as a human battery.]

[Terry occupies himself by practising his magic, trying to do something at least a little productive. He's wedged himself in little spaces around the ship, the same way he used to hide from his manager, humming and trying to maintain his control of the lighting around him. So if you're nearby, it might suddenly go pitch black or the lights might suddenly change colours or whatever. Who knows?]


DREAMLAND
[No piercings, no tattoos and his eyebrows fully grown in-- it's weird how this doesn't actually feel like him even though it is. Terry looks down at himself and sees his Initiative training gear; the boots, the camo pants. The T-shirt.]

[He sighs.]

[But there's someone else nearby. A faint whisper on the air of somebody's fears, and he walks in that direction to try and find them.]


Hey-- Hello? [please don't be from the label] Do you know where we are?
mildwildchild: art by Mint-Drop ([contemplative pause])

general

[personal profile] mildwildchild 2016-07-09 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jamie doesn't so much look at Artolo as look in his general direction, downcast eyes never quite meeting his. It's not out of any sort of dislike, he's just. Feeling really shitty.]

Sure, fine. Why wouldn't I be?

[...not that he's going to let on to Artolo or anybody else. He tries to force some sass into his tone, but it's smothered by utter hopelessness.]
iitrebel: (sassybird) (Troll Jesus was obviously not given)

[personal profile] iitrebel 2016-07-10 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Because you look like rotted over year old corn. C’mon, wanna come to my room and get wasted or something?

[This is not the most well thought out plan, but it’s not like they have a lot of other options with how much people are watching over all of them like goddamn predatory featherbeasts.]

[personal profile] candothismuch 2016-07-10 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[And that is a question Eiji does not have an answer for. He's just as lost as you, Mammon.]

I'm sorry, I don't know.

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