☆TRACK V: I WILL TWIST THE KNIFE (WRAP UP)

[interdimanagers]

☆PLOT WRAP UP

With Pt 2 of I Will Twist the Knife posted, this plot has essentially ended - though please do backtag as long as you desire! NPC tags will be continuing for the next while as frequently as possible, so while the rest of the game moves on, we can still continue solidifying the specifics of the night of December 7th. Thanks for helping to make this event a success! It was a pretty major piece in the overall arch of Interstellar, and as you might have guessed, things will be continuing to shift and change as a result of the events that have taken place.

This plot post is here to give some more details about the specifics of how things will wrap up in the days immediately following the event, since not all of it can be guaranteed to be threaded out in a timely manner, as if the way of things. Below is a description of what to expect for each of the major groups.

☆THE OPT OUTS

At the same moment that Lesedi leaves Naomi's mansion with the rest of the Pride members, Gold and Silver will seem to become aware that Lesedi is on the move through some kind of technological notification. They will hurriedly explain that they have to leave, and that each group can expect to be picked up by their respective labels in the next little while. They will leave on the motorbike a short while later, and about a half hour after that Virgo members will find themselves abruptly teleported back to their penthouses in Virgo HQ, without explanation. Another fifteen minutes later, and all the Pride members still stranded will find themselves relocated in a similar manner.

No one attending the party will join them until about two hours later. Until then, they are more or less left to their own devices, wandering the HQ, though the security team will start keeping a close eye on them almost immediately. Before the night is over, everyone who was derailed by Gold and Silver will be interrogated by their respective security teams about what they experienced. Provided people are basically honest (without revealing too much, of course) no one will end up being individually punished because of what went down, though they will be trying to gather as much information about Gold and Silver as possible.

Let us know below if your character is doing anything funny in regards to their interview, or in the period immediately after returning to base. Everyone is pretty on edge.

☆VIRGO ENTERTAINMENT

Members of Virgo will be shipped back to HQ by shuttle about an hour after Lesedi takes her leave. After being dropped off, they will essentially be left to their own devices, though Blanche has made his opinion of the whole thing clear with his reactions to Naomi's death. He doesn't consider any of them to be a threat, and his main concern seems to be in keeping them from being annoying more than anything else. Leaving the label will be impossible both due to remaining programming, and due to the fact the Blanche has made it clear that attempting to leave will just result in either him or Lesedi killing you. Fear tactics are being unabashedly employed, and everyone is being pushed to just keep doing their jobs if they want to survive this.

Rebellious actions are going to be dealt with strictly, so if your character is going to make a fuss, be prepared for harsh IC consequences. Let us know if they are doing anything other than just keeping their heads down and following orders.

☆PRIDE RECORDS

After teleporting everyone to the laboratories, Lesedi will be leaving the main group to be tended to by a few resident doctors, while taking a small group of volunteers into the next room where the critically injured members from the party are laid up on weird sci-fi hospital beds. She will make it known that she is aware that these musicians are as good as dead from their injuries - and that if she wasn't actively stopping them from passing away with her abilities, they would be dead already. After a significant amount of kvetching and maddened ranting, she will be finally persuaded (perhaps with player character assistance) into tapping into her resources to revive all of them. What exactly she does isn't clear, but after doing some kind of spell (???) the fatal wounds from everyone will be removed. (Though minor injuries and lingering wounds from other stuff will remain.)

About another hour later, everyone with these fatal injuries will suddenly appear in the room with the other Pride members on the spare beds, and will wake up shortly after with no real clue what happened. Another hour will pass with the doctors checking everyone over, before everyone will get abruptly teleported back to their penthouses. Much like over at Virgo, it's been made pretty clear that any fucking around as a result of this won't be tolerated - Lesedi has apparently lost all patience for pretending that she won't murder every single one of you for not doing what she says. People who refuse to continue to do their job as ordered will be met with serious IC consequences.

Please let us know if you character is going to mess around or lash out as a result, but do know it will result in the loss of privileges if not worse.

☆THE HOLIDAYS

The one rare mercy of all of this is that the schedule for the season is very light. There are no major events for the rest of December, and characters will be given plenty of time to rest and get their heads together in between fairly sparse musical duties - mostly just a few solstice events towards New Years. There will be no label wide New Years parties, and so everyone is allowed to make their own plans, though no one is going to be allowed to leave the HQ for a while without active supervision.

Talking to people from the other label is not against the rules and the execs will not be trying to prevent anyone from doing so. It has simply been made clear that members of the opposite label are as good as dead within the other CEO's territory. Inter-label hostility is at an all time high.

Comments

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "why are you so adverse to this"

[interdimanagers]

Anansi: "u think this is something new and noteworthy but its not"

Anansi: "good people dont end up here"

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "including the children?"

Luce: "doesn't matter"

Luce: "I talked with Naomi before she died"

[interdimanagers]

Anansi: "i dont care"

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "cared enough about her to look into her death didnt you?"

[interdimanagers]

Anansi: "i meant that good people dont survive this long"

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "so the only option is to go bad?"

[interdimanagers]

Anansi: "no"

Anansi: "u can die too obviously"

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "was assuming on the success end of things not the death end"

Luce: "that was demonstrated already"

Luce: "doesnt seem like theres a good choice one way or another tbh"

[interdimanagers]

Anansi: "naomi was the closest thing to nice u can get"

Anansi: "and look at her now"

[giglio_madonna]

Luce: "why accept doing this then??

[interdimanagers]

There won't be any more replies from Anansi, at least not on that same day.