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Setting 2: REALITY TV
Our second setting is a reality TV show! Starting Monday, July 29th, at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, your characters will awaken, tucked into beds in a spacious city apartment -- the kind that could only exist for a TV show. The lock screen on their communicator will read, Obey the host. Time limit, one-hundred and forty-four hours.
Once everyone is awake, a tall, stylish supermodel will arrive, and introduce herself as, "Your host, Brenna Niven."
Welcome to season 3, episode 5 of Stylecation.
Some of you are personal stylists. Some of you are clients. Some of you are judges. And you all live together in this apartment for a week while the episode films. The city beyond this apartment is yours for the exploring... provided you're okay with being followed by cameras... and that you've followed the show's pre-determined goals for the day. You see, each team of stylists has a client, and they have to give that client a complete head-to-toe style makeover. You can't explore the city while your client is still wearing those same old frumpy clothes!
Since the supermodel explained to you the premise of the show, you're going to have to go along with it... that is, if you want to pass the task.
Characters will be assigned to teams on Monday. Players will be able to request a role (or not to have a role) for their characters in the comments: the available roles are "client, stylist, judge." Clients will be getting the makeover and will be getting the full spa and stylist treatment, and can expect massages, skin treatments, haircuts, shopping sprees, makeup consultations, etc. Each stylist is on a team of several stylists, and each team has a judge, who is there to listen in, offer unobtrustive advice, and advocate for their team during the final judging.
Part of the gimmick of the show is to combine the client's personal style with the episode's theme in some way, shape, or form: in this case, the theme is animal.
Any questions you ask of the host, the crew, or any random civilian, that breaks the fourth wall -- for example, any questions about how you got here, or attempts to point out that you've never been here before -- will be met with a smile or a nod, and ignoring. It's not that they don't hear you; it's that your words slide right off them...
Attempts to leave the city limits will result in characters falling asleep, and waking up back at the apartment. Attempts to destroy your surroundings will be ineffective, just like they were in the office building. The buildings are strangely indestructible. Attempts to call familiar phone numbers or visit familiar websites will result only in dial tones and empty pages; your character won't see anything to indicate that they exist in this world (e.g. no Stark Industries here).
The city is otherwise a fairly standard city with all the usual conveniences, attractions, and opportunities. There are taxis and subways and buses; there are fitness centers and restaurants and and shopping malls; there are museums and parks and libraries. Just about anything you want is available somewhere in this mysterious, unidentifiable city that no one will quite be able to recognize. The works!
Characters will be free to explore the city once they're done with their team's task for the day, but they will be followed by cameramen and they will occasionally be given interview-style questions, especially about the other player characters, but also about their personal dreams and their personality. But if the cameramen notice that Character X and Character Y have some sort of tension, they want to know about it (so that they can edit it into being a big obvious thing in post-production). At any time, you may feel free to broadcast on the network something that they said in response to a camera crew's questions.
Your weather forecast for this task...
The winners of the challenge will be determined by the votes of the judge characters; there is no "loser" of the challenge, although the lowest performing team may get critiqued. Winning the setting task will depend on how many characters put effort into fulfilling the expectations of the show. Either way, later on in the game, you'll get to see this episode in its final on-air form. ♥
Please ask any questions here, express role preferences here, and feel free to plot amongst yourselves in the comments! Image post will follow this weekend.
Once everyone is awake, a tall, stylish supermodel will arrive, and introduce herself as, "Your host, Brenna Niven."
Welcome to season 3, episode 5 of Stylecation.
Some of you are personal stylists. Some of you are clients. Some of you are judges. And you all live together in this apartment for a week while the episode films. The city beyond this apartment is yours for the exploring... provided you're okay with being followed by cameras... and that you've followed the show's pre-determined goals for the day. You see, each team of stylists has a client, and they have to give that client a complete head-to-toe style makeover. You can't explore the city while your client is still wearing those same old frumpy clothes!
Since the supermodel explained to you the premise of the show, you're going to have to go along with it... that is, if you want to pass the task.
Characters will be assigned to teams on Monday. Players will be able to request a role (or not to have a role) for their characters in the comments: the available roles are "client, stylist, judge." Clients will be getting the makeover and will be getting the full spa and stylist treatment, and can expect massages, skin treatments, haircuts, shopping sprees, makeup consultations, etc. Each stylist is on a team of several stylists, and each team has a judge, who is there to listen in, offer unobtrustive advice, and advocate for their team during the final judging.
Part of the gimmick of the show is to combine the client's personal style with the episode's theme in some way, shape, or form: in this case, the theme is animal.
Any questions you ask of the host, the crew, or any random civilian, that breaks the fourth wall -- for example, any questions about how you got here, or attempts to point out that you've never been here before -- will be met with a smile or a nod, and ignoring. It's not that they don't hear you; it's that your words slide right off them...
Attempts to leave the city limits will result in characters falling asleep, and waking up back at the apartment. Attempts to destroy your surroundings will be ineffective, just like they were in the office building. The buildings are strangely indestructible. Attempts to call familiar phone numbers or visit familiar websites will result only in dial tones and empty pages; your character won't see anything to indicate that they exist in this world (e.g. no Stark Industries here).
The city is otherwise a fairly standard city with all the usual conveniences, attractions, and opportunities. There are taxis and subways and buses; there are fitness centers and restaurants and and shopping malls; there are museums and parks and libraries. Just about anything you want is available somewhere in this mysterious, unidentifiable city that no one will quite be able to recognize. The works!
Characters will be free to explore the city once they're done with their team's task for the day, but they will be followed by cameramen and they will occasionally be given interview-style questions, especially about the other player characters, but also about their personal dreams and their personality. But if the cameramen notice that Character X and Character Y have some sort of tension, they want to know about it (so that they can edit it into being a big obvious thing in post-production). At any time, you may feel free to broadcast on the network something that they said in response to a camera crew's questions.
Your weather forecast for this task...
Day 1, beginning July 29th: Clear and crisp, a nice temperate day. This day stylists are required to interview their client about their personal style preferences, and plan how to make that work with the theme.
Day 2, beginning August 5th: Clear and warm. This day stylists are expected to take their client shopping for a new wardrobe. They have a budget, but it's a fairly sizable budget, so as long as you don't buy any $35,000 artfully distressed designer jeans, you should be fine.
Day 3, beginning August 12th: Overcast, with occasional drizzling. This day stylists are expected to take their client to get their hair did, and purchase a full regimen of haircare products. Everyone's okay with a dramatic new haircut, right?
Day 4, beginning August 19th: Clear and crisp, windy. This day stylists are expected to get their clients a full regimen of beauty products, including skincare, and makeup where applicable.
Day 5, beginning August 26th: Bright and sunshiney, warm. Accessorizing. This is the day when you finish up the look -- accessorizing, and assembling a whole finished look. The stylists are responsible for taking photographs that tell the "story" of their client's new style attitude.
Day 6, beginning September 2nd: The judging day. Clients go before the judges and present their looks. Interviews are expected to be conducted. Each judge is expected to talk about their team to the other judges, but each judge submits a point value based on their opinion of the finished look, story, and how well it met both the criteria of the challenge and the client's desires.
The winners of the challenge will be determined by the votes of the judge characters; there is no "loser" of the challenge, although the lowest performing team may get critiqued. Winning the setting task will depend on how many characters put effort into fulfilling the expectations of the show. Either way, later on in the game, you'll get to see this episode in its final on-air form. ♥
Please ask any questions here, express role preferences here, and feel free to plot amongst yourselves in the comments! Image post will follow this weekend.
Questions? Ask them here!
Preferences? State them here!
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When I claim Deadpool, though, I totally want him to be in the ring for client. Or stylist. Or judge actually. God he could do anything. Anything he does will be amazing. 8D
Thor would be a great clientno subject
Allen: Anything
Bruce: Anything
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Allen is hilariously out of place in any modern context, and only moreso if he's also expected to be a fashion consultant. If Allen is on your team, you can expect him to lean conservative. But he is surprisingly, perhaps oddly capable when it comes to women's clothing and makeup, so... He'll probably cooperate, and spend some time timidly exploring the modern jungle.
Bruce has rarely in his life worn anything that required more consideration than "pants, shirt, maybe a blazer". If you were married to Bruce, you should not ever expect him to notice what you're wearing or if you changed your haircut, unless you put on a ballgown and shaved your head. He is going to have absolutely zero productive input, although he will helpfully make jokes.
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If he's a client, he's going to be a demanding prima donna. If he's a designer, he's going to be full of vision. (Probably more vision and noise than talent.) And if he's a judge, he's going to be brutal. 8D
Might as well have some fun while you're at the mercy of an amoral force, right?
Also, no Stark Industries?!Buffy is going to be surprisingly out of place. She's twelve years out of date now but she doesn't know that. :D WHEE. Buffy has lots of opinions about fashion and would also be comfortable in all three roles, but I think she'd try to be nice between her judging snarkdom.
Also zero sewing skills. :|a ZERO.
Buffy would really enjoy the makeover, though.
annnnd
Deadpool... :|a
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fucking weirddecent sense of style. She'll be of most use on the skin/hair care and make-up days. She will be Very Upset if her client doesn't win, but then again, she's used to losing. :/Pepper will be great at budgeting. However, despite being used to doing interviews and having cameras pop up in her life now and again, I don't know that she'll really enjoy the task or want to actively contribute. Also, the lack of privacy will suck. At least in her normal life, she can go hide behind closed doors.
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Lavi will be all about exploring this new place, its people and any books he can find. It'll be worse than usual because he's not feeling sick anymore. He will be a pain to work with as a stylist because he will need to be reminded to do his job. Style wise, think Asian (Chinese specifically) and bright colors. Clashing does not seem to matter to him. Funnily enough, he would be better with make-up, because he'll be able to copy any picture he sees, though improvisation might be harder.
Hawke is going to be very unhappy with this arrangement. XD Being followed around will cause her to try and ditch her camera crew whenever she can. That being said, she has the most fashion experience, though mostly as a client and accompanying Isabela, Merrill and her mother on shopping trips. She has an eye for well-tailored clothes that are simple and tasteful. But her default mode is to troll, so her client might wind up in tears.