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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

[unbr8kable]

That's always worked well enough for me.

[except when it absolutely did not, but shh. stretches, tone off-hand]

Amaranth'd prolly be stoked to show you some tricks, though I 'unno if that'd be my first choice. And you're clever enough; could figure out enough to get by on your own, anyways.

[purrrnicious]

[Regarding her for a moment, before she scoffs lightly, her own tone casual:]

Wouldn't be the first time. Probably a bigger priority to check out the competition, anyway. If they gave us an upgrade, then everyone else probably got one too.

[unbr8kable]

Yeah... Like they weren't all bad enough already.

Guess some recon'll be easy, though might have to go secondhand for some teams. ...Maybe we can catch 'em showing off before they think better of it, at least.

[purrrnicious]

Ooooor can't we just read about it?

[unbr8kable]

The only team with names that even make any sense is us, and I know what ours are.

[purrrnicious]

Yeah, well. The ones to worry about are Zrael and SensitIV, probably.

[unbr8kable]

[nods]

Taisho, too. They could use that do-over power before to walk you off a cliff or something. The goody-goodies ain't a threat, furries ain't really a threat you can do nothing about 'cept for hope you don't get caught, and who the hell knows what punk team does...

[purrrnicious]

Ehn, Taisho are kind of too dumb to figure out how to use their powers in a fight.

[unbr8kable]

They used to have members that weren't morons. So it's possible they could get another one someday.

[purrrnicious]

Still not that great a power set. So what's with the Taisho hangup?

[unbr8kable]

They've had it out for us from the beginning. Tried to kill us--personally, I mean--strongarmed Griff into some blood pact--bet away all our clothes-- The list goes on and on, honestly.

[purrrnicious]

. . .Why? Or is this just, like, a Taisho thing? Because they definitely had it out for BARiTONES, too.

[unbr8kable]

Ugh, don't ask me, I dunno what their function is. They've just always been stuck-up pretentious assholes for no reason.

[pauses]

...Kaguya's almost okay. The blood pact was prolly mostly 'cause Griff's a dumbass. But that don't make her any more trustworthy.

[purrrnicious]

. . .So Taisho is still gonna try to kill me, huh. At least something is familiar.

[unbr8kable]

I mean. They prolly ain't gonna jump you in a dark alley. But-- 'Least it's one easy choice in games.

[purrrnicious]

[Rolling her eyes.]

Almost no one jumps you out of games. They can't play at the whole oooooh, it was nothing peeeeersonal that I targeted you specifically because I think you deserve it and I don't liiiiiiike you, I just had to for the game, and you can't be mad about it! Thing.

[unbr8kable]

Fair.

...Do you want somebody to jump you outside of a game? Which I think is a fair question, given this group.

[purrrnicious]

Don't lump me in with those idiots.

[unbr8kable]

It's literally everyone who is and has ever been on this team, 'cept maybe Gold. Didn't know if it was a prereq or nothing.

[purrrnicious]

[the only person she personally knows is Adora, and


that tracks]

. . .What, including you?

[unbr8kable]

...If somebody's got a problem with me, they can say it to my face. Going after the whole team for that's a real dick move.

[purrrnicious]

Uh, yeah, they're obviously not going to do that.

[unbr8kable]

...Don't mean that they shouldn't.

Anyways, don't matter. Generally people don't care enough about us to go after us in games... We usually get picked 'cause there ain't nobody else. I dunno if that's any better, though...

[purrrnicious]

. . .

Not everyone picked Avante.

[unbr8kable]

...Yeah, I know.

[Looks at her, and looks away]

Pretty sure we didn't have a binding contract, y'know.