randomly_modding: setting change post (modding setting changes)
Mods of Randomizing: An RP ([personal profile] randomly_modding) wrote in [community profile] randomly_ooc2013-07-26 09:01 pm
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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...
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.
cleanedslate: suit (ready fire aim)

[personal profile] cleanedslate 2013-07-27 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
I think both Buffy and Tony are fine as anything.

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 client
sublimating: snarky / think (tell me another one)

[personal profile] sublimating 2013-07-27 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Sif: Anything
Allen: Anything
Bruce: Anything
cleanedslate: (headache coming on)

[personal profile] cleanedslate 2013-07-27 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure make me look all verbose. That was one of my SHORTER comments.
sublimating: smile / think / awkward / comfy / sad (don't every time get what i want)

[personal profile] sublimating 2013-07-27 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
It was! You have all my applause for it!
onehotpepper: (Default)

Re: Preferences? State them here!

[personal profile] onehotpepper 2013-07-27 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Effie wants stylist! Naturally. Pepper doesn't care but would probably HATE being client.
Edited (phone what the hell) 2013-07-27 11:19 (UTC)
cleanedslate: (headache coming on)

[personal profile] cleanedslate 2013-07-27 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
hahahaha come on Pepper let them design a whole new you~. What's the worst that could happen?
onehotpepper: (oh really)

[personal profile] onehotpepper 2013-07-27 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony, NO.
neverforgets: (dork // banzai!)

[personal profile] neverforgets 2013-07-28 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Chuck, Lavi, and Hawke are alright with anything. :D Hawke is the only one who has any experience with fashion, much as she doesn't care about it.

[personal profile] sunflowering 2013-07-28 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm okay with Yuuki being anything!