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lostcarnival2018-01-26 01:02 pm
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2018-01-26 01:02 pm
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⇨ THE FANTASIA FESTIVAL
Who: Everyone who decides to come!
When: Day 12
Where: Wismuth's Fantasia Festival
What: CY-Ren's performance in Wismuth's biggest music festival finally arrives, and those willing to help Noa the Star Guardian show up to intervene.
Warnings: It doesn't go super well.
When: Day 12
Where: Wismuth's Fantasia Festival
What: CY-Ren's performance in Wismuth's biggest music festival finally arrives, and those willing to help Noa the Star Guardian show up to intervene.
Warnings: It doesn't go super well.
SONG OF THE CY-REN↴ CY-Ren's arena is the biggest stage in the festival by far, but it isn't the only one. Several big acts have assembled in the surrounding area, all with a lovely view of the ocean and with Wismuth's skyline in the background. Though she isn't explicitly the main attraction at the festival, everyone knows she's the real reason so many people have showed up. The amount of star power she has is overwhelming, and there are plenty of fans that would get violent on her behalf. ► GROUP UP: Noa will ask everyone to meet her in a park area near the festival stage, so that you can discuss plans briefly before putting them into action. The key is to try to stop the concert before CY-Ren's plans can come to fruition - whatever they may specifically be. How you go about this is up to you, but with how many people are present, it's bound to be a challenge. ► INFILTRATE: After speaking with Noa and determining what everyone will be doing, it will be time for everyone to break into the performance arena. No one has tickets for this, unless they've forged them, as they sold out a while ago. Any means of getting inside is fine, whether that be teleporting, passing through walls, or jumping in by wing. Once you've gotten into the crowd, it's up to you to get close enough to the stage to disrupt the proceedings. ► UNDER HER SPELL: It only takes her first song for things to start going wrong. The impact of the music will strike each individual differently - for most it will only feel strange, but for some it will be completely transfixing, like something that reaches deep into their soul. Those people, the ones slated to become Harbingers, will react to the the song strongly - upon hearing it, they will gradually completely lose their sense of agency, sluggishly moving towards the stage by whatever means available to them. If someone tries to stop them, they will go as far as physically, or even violently, resisting. Clapping your hands, stomping your feet You didn't know that you fell Now you've fallen under my spell" Obviously, if you want to participate in the Harbinger plot, you'll have to arrange it so that they manage to follow through with their hypnotized objectives. They will feel somehow empty during this time, as like they need to follow the music in order to achieve any chance at fulfillment. If you are not becoming a Harbinger, you can still have your character be affected by this to a lesser degree and then stopped by another carnival member, or as a feat of self control. ► BATTLE: By the time she switches to the next song, things will have started to get real. Any blatant, long distance attacks made early on will be mysteriously blocked by some kind of magical force field surrounding the stage, which will take some time to penetrate - at least until Noa gets involved. Body guards will storm anyone who tries to get onto the stage, and ostensibly said guards are not at all human. Instead, they appear to be horrible looking shadow amalgamation in suits, and while their attacks are mostly just physical, they can move with unnatural quickness, can't be pinned, and strike very hard. They can be NPC'd by anyone, and only have vaguely humanoid thought processes. Why don't we see who is better? We don't have to be one and the same thing Oh, what's so wrong with a little competition? Are you afraid of failing the audition?" By the end of the second song, the hypnotized carnival members will have been snatched up by CY-Ren's void agents and disappeared. This can manifest as them being grabbed and escorted off, or possibly disappearing into shadows alongside one of the bodyguards. The guards will be trying to work stealthily, ideally sneaking away anyone being affected by the song without anyone around them noticing, but they won't let secrecy get in the way of their objectives, either. The audience will be able to realistically notice if things start exploding in their faces, but the song will distract them from anything less obvious. |
backstage
It's just really too bad 9S never got to see Rita set Strange on fire. But he does hold up his hands in defense when Rita whirls on him.
"Want me to try?" He holds out a hand, light encircling his wrist. "I need someone to keep watch while I'm hacking." Normally not an issue back home, where his hacks tend to be fast. But hacking anything that's infrastructure tends to take longer, and with the old technology here... "Noa did mention there might be a backup power source if the mains go out."
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"I suspected as much," she says. It's only common sense to use a backup for an event as big as this, and doubly so if it serves some sinister purpose as well. "I've been trying to reroute the power to overload some of the equipment. A backup won't help anything damaged from a power surge."
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That's human made property they're talking about! It's bad form to wreck it!
But it does make sense... if the equipment is damaged, then it doesn't matter where the power is coming from.
"Isn't there another way?"
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"Maybe, but do you really think we've got time to think of something else? If what that girl on the radio said was true, these people should be thanking us if a bit of broken equipment can spare them from whatever the Void has planned."
And with what's already started... after seeing what happened with Childermass, Rita knows they can't afford to wait and see how it can get worse.
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If humans get hurt because of his inaction, then isn't that worse than damaging the very things androids are supposed to preserve? 9S lets out a growl of frustration.
"Damn it!" A well of irritation bubbles over and he thrusts out his arm, the ring of light around his wrist glowing and expanding. "If someone's coming, tell me. I'm hacking in."
And with that, he fires a ball of what looks like energy from his hand, the streak of light making it appear more like an energy beam.
In the background, CY-Ren's music blasts out from the speakers. The hacking space is strange, different from what he's used to. While there are no defenses to speak of, the space itself is more difficult for him to move through. He feels sluggish trying to parse through the information being presented to him, the paths before him winding and tangled as he tries to manoeuvre through them.
Damn it, this is taking too long! Even though Rita made a good argument for busting the equipment, he was still reluctant to. But with how hard it is to try doing anything with finesse in this muddied hacking space, 9S just opts to...
All the lights on stage blow up, one after another, fragments of glass falling from the shattered bulbs. Not long after, the speakers also explode, falling over from the force.
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What it does show is the glorious moment when those lights shatter. There's a heavy rumble in the ceiling above them as the speakers follow suit.
Rita turns back to face 9S with a triumphant smile, practically giddy from the sight of all that destruction. "It worked! Nice going, 9S!"
Take that, jerks. Backup power won't fix this.
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"W... wait, what the hell!?" Realizing something's off, Rita's gaze shoots back to the monitor. The stage is still fully visible, and CY-Ren's voice continues to echo from above, clearly amplified by something.
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Does Rita do fist bumps? He'd totally fist bump her if he knew. If Pod 153 were here, he'd fist bump it right now.
Except, that euphoric feeling quickly drains when he realises the song is just as loud as ever.
"Wait... is she using magic?" That's cheating!
[ooc: Transition into the Show's Over log or stick to this thread?]
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