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[idolpro]

Who: You! (unless you're WILD CITY!)
Where: Here!
When: Day 243, Evening

[ Wherever you are, your phone starts pinging you incessantly:

• CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!
  
  CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE!

That . . . doesn't look safe! But you can't use your phone otherwise. Hm!

Eventually—whenever you click on it—you'll find yourself redirected to the Producer's channel on Dissonance, with the following new messages: ]

• Producers: CONGRATULATIONS, IDOLS!
  Producers: With all your hard hard hard work, we've received
  Producers: ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*~~~A budget increase~~~*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ !!!!
  Producers: Isn't that fantastic? We're bigger and better than before, and it's ☆♬○♩●♪✧♩all thanks to you♩✧♪●♩○♬☆!!!
  Producers: We're showing our gratitude!
  Producers: More Lives!
  Producers: More abilities!
  Producers: More ｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ways to make money｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆!
  Producers: Just in time, too. Your season is about to renew ♪
  Producers: ⭑･ﾟﾟ･*:༅｡.｡༅:*ﾟ:*:✼✿Thanks for all your hard work✿✼:*ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑

[ Huh! That's INTERESTING. By the way, some of you might notice that your abilities are gone. That's ALSO interesting.

If you go into the points shop app on your phone though, you're met with the request to select which abilities you want to have, out of the number that you purchased before. No mass refunds here, it looks like! If you purchased all 6 abilities, you'll see that you don't need to switch them out, and your abilities themselves have just updated.

The last of everything INTERESTING happening is that, if you're currently outside of your dorm while reading all this on your phone, you'll see a herd of black cats scampering down the street with something white bouncing around on them. Headed right to you.

They stop right in front of you, drop the something white at your feet, and then scatter in every direction. It's a giftwrapped box! Open it to receive a gift!

If you're inside your dorm, you'll instead receive the box in the mail. Congratulations! ]

[ Players, please comment here with the number of previously owned abilities and which abilities you're switching out for! However, if you have all 6 abilities already, you do not need to comment here. Hiatused idols will receive the same experience when they return to the game. ]

Comments

[forgottenmercy]

It, ah, seems so. As, ah, befits our...role, it seems.

[bondsofsuffering]

It does look like we can finally go on the offensive without necessarily killing people on the spot, at least.

[That's good! He appreciates that very much!!!]

[forgottenmercy]

That is, ah, fortunate. I, ah, had planned to likely not use that ability, but at least that is there to fall back on.

[bondsofsuffering]

I'd rather not use it either, but if we're going to have an offensive ability, something less... instantly fatal is way better.

[forgottenmercy]

Agreed. Though, ah...

[bondsofsuffering]

Although...?

[forgottenmercy]

...have you, ah, considered carrying a knife?

[bondsofsuffering]

...I don't think a knife will ever be very useful to me, even if it does come to a fight.

[forgottenmercy]

...ah. You, ah, never learned...?

[bondsofsuffering]

Never.

[forgottenmercy]

It's, ah, both fortunate and unfortunate you never had to learn...

[bondsofsuffering]

It might be foolish, but... I think I'd like to keep it that way for now.

[forgottenmercy]

If that is, ah, what you want to do, then it should be that way...