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The EyeSight Festival Tour (Coming To A Town Near You!... Maybe) (Band SoL RP)

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The EyeSight 2020 Festival Tour (Band SoL RP)

I'll put acts here when there are actually acts to put here.

The EyeSight 2020 Festival Tour (Band SoL RP)

As you make your way up to the rooftop bar that adorns the outside of the Ace Hotel, it's hard to imagine staying in a place like this. Two months ago, you were toiling away. Maybe a local legend, maybe someone just starting out, but you had your dreams and you were going to chase them. Or maybe you just wanted one big payday or one last gasp of recognition before your faded out and moved into the corporate world to appease the family. Maybe you wanted a family. In any case, you got the call. The one that has a chance to change your life and make you a star.

The promoter and brains behind the festival, Marc Barzagli, awaits you with a martini in hand. He looks like the kind of guy who should know all the ins and outs of the music business by now, someone baked in the Los Angeles scene. Marc greets you with a sly grin on his face and an arm that is wrapped around you a little too tightly.

"Hey! Glad you could make it out here! Fantastic to see you in person! How do you like LA, hah? Freaking best city in the world isn't it?

Course this is gonna be the stage for the grand finale! We're actually going to start up the coast in San Francisco. Make this a true cross-country experience that everyone will have a chance to get in on! I'm talking Chicago, Miami, New York! All the big cities! You're going to be playing them all, so I hope you're ready for this! The eyes of the nation will be on you, and they are gonna see everything crystal clear, baby! So get a good night's sleep! You'll hit the buses and head out to the Bay Area tomorrow morning! Now if you'll excuse me, I have some

Having waved the last hint of cologne of your shoulder, you now can make the choice. Do whatever you will with this chance. As a famous philosopher once said, "Opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, so you better lose yourself in the music." Will you give every performance your all? Will you find a reason to settle down? Who knows? Anything goes on the road.

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Yeah, I still don't know how to make fancy banners. Anyway, welcome to the EyeSight 2020 Tour! If you're here, you're ready to rock! Or country, or heavy metal, or whatever you have planned. I'm intending this RP to be relatively quick, with a definite itinerary planned for this 10-stop tour, so hopefully we move along at a pace that everyone is OK with. The story of the backstage is all up to y'all. It will be told on the buses, in the bars, on stage, wherever you want to go with it.

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- This is intended to be a High-Casual RP, so there will be an expected minimum of two paragraphs per post. I mean, that's six sentences, y'all can handle that, right? However, don't feel you have to go overboard describing a roadie's tattoos or something. Keep it simple.
- I want this to be a relatively fast paced RP. I will try and give enough warning before we move the tour on the road, so please get any and all interactions in before we move things along. This is intended to be a relatively shorter RP, so I'm expecting maybe three weeks to a month IRL time in a current stop. I can extend it if people ask, but time is money, people.
- If you aren't going to be able to post for a bit, or just want off this ride, please tell me. I won't be angry. I just want to know so that I can plan ahead of time, and that we don't get stuck waiting for you. So be polite.
- If you want to do something major with the plot that will effect multiple PCs, give a heads up and check in so people don't get railroaded.
- The brooding loner scribbling song lyrics in the corner is cool and all, but it doesn't make for a lot of interactions, so let's try and avoid that trope. Besides, if you're here, I assume you're here to be able to converse with other people and such, right?
- Don't spam the place with posts. If you forgot something, make an edit. If you want to carry on a conversation, consider a collab so it's all in on spot. No one cares about your post count.
- Romance is definitely allowed, and is probably going to be a main driver in this RP. That is the rocker way of life, even if they don't get names. That being said, if you are getting the VIP treatment, take it to PMs so the mods don't have to pay a visit.
- If something comes up, like a disagreement with another writer, let me know so we can see about a resolution.
- To prove that you actually read all these rules, and dang it you better, since I didn't type them up for nothing, in the Misc. section of your sheet, type in the last act you saw in concert.

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- I hate Mary Sues, so don't come in here with some Rock God or Goddess who is perfect in every way and just means to show everybody up. Give me some flaws. It makes for a better character.
- While you can have as many people as you want in your band, only a max of three will be allowed to have sheets. Not everyone gets to be the star. Some people need to play the triangle. Thus, the others are NPCs.
- Do whatever you want to the sheet template, as long as all the basic info that is requested of you is there.
- We're only accepting real-life face claims in this RP. So no anime pics.
- Once your sheet is done, post it here in the OOC thread. Once it is accepted, then it can be moved over to the Characters tab.

Character Sheet Template

This template has been lovingly borrowed from @spooner because I am kinda clueless about code on here.

Character Name or Act Name

Band/Act Text Header Here

[color=]Act Name[/color]

Put Name Here

[color=]Based Out Of[/color]

Put Location Here

[color=]Genre of Music[/color]

Put Music Here

[color=]Members of the Band (if Act is a Band)[/color]

List Members Here (If NPCs, Post Name and FC in a linkable URL under the IRL person's name)

Picture of Your Character Here

[color=]Character Name[/color]

First Middle Last

[color=]Nicknames[/color]

As many as you want or none at all!

[color=]Age[/color]

Count the candles

[color=]Gender[/color]

Self-explanatory

[color=]Sexuality[/color]

Self-explanatory

[color=]Relationship Status[/color]

Self-explanatory

[color=]How Your Joined You Earned Your Invite[/color]

Essentially how much have you done in music up to this point. Local legend? Youtube star?

[color=]Appearance Details[/color]
Can be paragraphs or bullets following this guideline:

• Hair: Color | Type | How it's usually styled or worn
• Eyes: Color
• Height: In feet and inches
• Body Type: Figure, build, etc.
• Clothing Style: Type of Fashion | Examples of clothing items they wear frequently or that can be found in their closet
• Makeup Wise: If applicable. If not feel free to delete.
• Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: Same as Makeup

[color=]Personality Traits[/color]

Positive and negative, as many as you want

[color=]Upbringing Synopsis[/color]

1 or 2 paragraphs about your character and how they got to where they’re at today.

[color=]Misc.[/color]

Face Claim | Color Code
Any extra things you want to say about your character that haven't been covered in the previous sections. Like family or interests

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All right, I think that's it. I'll have my band up at some point. There are spots available if people don't want to come up with their own and want to join. And talk to other people if you want to have duos or something! It's a good way to interact! All right, let's see what y'all got that will make this festival make Bonnaroo look like a church recital!

The EyeSight Festival Tour (Coming To A Town Near You!... Maybe) (Band SoL RP)

@TootsiePop Damn straight Nat is coming back for this.

Shuffle your music player and post the first 10 songs

_{We've Had Enough — Alkaline Trio
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You — Black Kids
Where We Are — Ryos (f. KARRA)
Crazy — Gnarls Barkley
Miracle — Oceanlab
Not the Sun — Brand New
Counterpoint — Delphic
Ievan Polkka — Loituma
Boston — Augustana
A Whisper and A Clamor — Anberlin}

The EyeSight Festival Tour (Coming To A Town Near You!... Maybe) (Band SoL RP)

All right, four acts is enough for a decent tour lol. I'm going to get started on an OP, and it's gonna look like crud compared to the others but dang it, there will be something there!

The EyeSight Festival Tour (Coming To A Town Near You!... Maybe) (Band SoL RP)

No worries, hun. If this turns into Lilith Fair 2: Electric Boogaloo, I'm still good with that. Gender ratios will not be enforced, although they will be encouraged to make sure everyone who wants to pair up can do so.

The EyeSight Festival Tour (Coming To A Town Near You!... Maybe) (Band SoL RP)

So you did it. You got your tape in at the right time to the right producer and now you have your shot. A spot in the lineup of one of the most ambitious festival tours in decades. 10 stops, 10 weekends, 10 unforgettable shows. EyeSight is 2020, and anyone who misses a stop will be forever blind to the sheer awesome display of genre-bending music that emerges from those temporary stages. Also, the festival is hiring a writer to come up with more ocular puns.

Anyway, you don't have to worry about that because you're in the band! Or performing by yourself! Whatever you do, you got here on your own merits because your music is exactly what EyeSight is about! So now you have to do is get on stage and let your voice be heard by the masses! Oh, and you'll probably have to deal with the travel conditions going across the country and back in 2 1/2 months. Oh, and you're going to have to get along with the other acts. You know, don't go totally rock n' roll on them and smash guitars or pianos or whatever they need to perform. And definitely don't get into all the alcohol and drugs! At least not to the point where you're trotting out on the stage like Elton John or something. But don't worry! This totally won't be another Fyre Festival! So get out there and enjoy your star-making turn! The crowds are waiting!

So hey, been a while since I actually GM'd an RP, so I'm trying to wade back into the swing of things with this concept. We basically are filling the lineup card of the fictional EyeSight Festival, a tour that will hit 10 stops in 10 weeks during the summer and fall of 2020 and offers the chance for each one of its participants to become the next big thing in music. It's a Slice of Life RP, so the focus is not going to be on the actual performances themselves, unless they specifically are a part of the plot that you come up with, but more the interactions behind the scenes. The typical drama that happens with life on the road, especially being crammed in a bunch of tour buses criss-crossing the country. I'm expecting things to get real in a hurry.

But yeah, this is just to see if anyone would be interested in this concept. I've seen a lot of SoL RPs on here and I don't think I've seen anything quite like this one. I'm hoping to get a lot of people, and hey, if you talk to someone on here and want to be in the same band, definitely go for it! I think that would be great! You can also play entire bands if you want, although I'm not accepting like 19-member K-Pop bands. That's just insane.

Anyway, if there are any questions or anything, or you just want to tell me how awesome this idea is, and what a freaking queen I am for coming up with this, let me know here. Once there are enough people interested, I'll start working on the OP. Heck you can start claiming font colors and FCs if you want. But I have 8B2B8E on lock down for my Jordan Miller FC, so they are taken.

Y'all probably don't know who Jordan Miller is, so I'm not worried about that. But let me hear it, folks!

Olympus Academy // A School for Demigods and Demigoddesses

_{Location: Mystic Forest
Interactions:
Kazuma @Onarax
Mentions:
Dustyn @MissCapnCrunch}

THUNK!

THUD!

That was not the sound an arrow usually made. Not unless the power on Kelsey's shots had gotten so good it was knocking bears out of nearby trees. It happened once. Although Sykes had made pretty sure that bear was already paying the price for being on his property.

No, this was no bear. It took a second to realize just what the heck came crashing in on her angry archery session, but once it started moving the hair was unmistakable. That Sonic the Hedgehog spike thing. The style that managed to stay perfectly intact even after tumbling what had to be a solid 50 feet from the upper part of that pine tree. Seriously, how much gel and hairspray had to combine to make that possible? At least it protected his head from that fall.

Which was good, because Kelsey was pretty sure there didn't need to be another child of Dionysus in the infirmary on her behalf at the moment. No, she was indeed familiar with Kaz, mostly through interactions with his sister Dustyn. They didn't talk much, mostly because Kaz's English wasn't exactly dub-level. He got bits and pieces, but it was still a work in progress. Much like trying to get him to actually say her name correctly. Kelsey never quite clicked on his tongue. Kari was close enough at least.

Kaz seemed fine anyway, at least for himself. The fact that he came up with her arrow drawn as a makeshift weapon confirmed the fact that the fall didn't suddenly alter his personality. Kelsey dropped her bow and with that, the Japanese man's guard seemed to go down as well. At least enough for a greeting and an astute observation.

"Angry?"

"You kin say that," Kelsey confirmed as she reclaimed her arrow from Kaz. "Just workin' through a whole lotta bullshit from this mornin' 'n last night 'n just..." She let out a heavy sigh. "I dunno, Kaz. Jus' kinda gettin' sick of things 'n wonderin' if I should just go ahead 'n get myself booted outta this place. Might be better for me. Even if I would miss D a helluva lot."

She sounded melancholic, a rare state. As if the anger she felt during her shooting session gave way to the sadness she felt of her best friend now being stuck in the infirmary because of her. A fact she was reminded of by the blood standing in front of her. It was almost like shame. The teachers sure as hell couldn't make her feel that, but Dusty's silence could.

Kelsey did her best to maintain her resolve. "Think I'm done shootin' for a bit, though." She tossed her arrows with ease back in her quiver and slung the leather over her back. "Gonna go grab some grub. Ya in on food?"

Olympus Academy // A School for Demigods and Demigoddesses

_{Location: Niaides Lakeshore
Interactions:
No one in particular. The Gods if they hear her cursing.
Mentions:
Avem @Rockette
Dustyn @MissCapnCrunch}

THUNK!

The arrow embedded itself right next to several others in a landmark of the Mystic Forest that was referred to by one of the local residents as the "Shootin' Tree". It was a lodgepole pine that stood about 60 feet tall with a thick trunk that had almost every square inch of the bark from 20 feet up to the roots riddled with pock marks in the bark caused by every single incident that cause Kelsey Marston to retreat for some angry archery. Some of the notches had grown up with the tree, making it look like Kelsey had a higher range than she did. Either way, it was getting another set of arrow holes following last night's display of bullshit.

THUNK!

They fucking had it. They had that oversized edgelord in a jumpsuit right where they wanted it. They were going to finish it. But noooOOOooo. Fucking staffers had to come in on their fucking high horses and show off by banishing the thing to the land of wind and ghosts or wherever the hell they sent things. Then they had to give the party the fucking stinkeye like they summoned the fucking thing themselves. Fucking Lucy, that damn bitch with her snide "Why am I not shocked you're here?" as she rounded Kelsey up with the rest like a gods-damned preschoolers. And then the bullshit lecture they got, about responsibility and knowing when to run and just ignoring what they managed to do with a threat to the campus. And that they were gonna be punished for that. Kelsey wanted the expulsion. Get her out of this place, let her start her WNBA career finally. But nooooooo. Just punishment and monitoring and just more. Fucking. Bullshit.

THUNK!

And what was worse was what happened to Dustyn. Apparently, she was her usual graceful self in getting to the water with the others, and got raked by a couple of the shadows in the process. So now she was on the injured list. A quick text this morning told Kelsey that she was fine and would definitely heal from this and would be back slinging pong balls and other balls before Kelsey knew it. It was nice to see her sense of humor endured. Still, the fact that D took all that punishment last night and had things end like that. It wasn't right. Some freaking gods. There's your shock. That none of them dared to show up and rectify any of this. The Peak of Bullshit Mountain.

THUNK!

At least her shooting was still on point. Kelsey wasn't feeling any kind of hangover. Hadn't since she was 13. No surprise. She left while Avem was still in his room, unsure if he was asleep or not. Didn't matter. Kelsey had things to do. Like get out all of this anger from the universal amount of bullshit that she was feeling was just piled on for no reason.

"Fuckin' bullshit!" she shouted as she channeled her frustration into the last arrow of her current batch.

THUNK!

It threaded the needle in between all the other ones, almost like one solid clump had found the same spot on the Shootin' Tree. Kelsey breathed a sigh and lowered her bow. She was going to trudge over to start digging her arrows out of the trunk, but she stopped. She needed something to go right after the absolute shitshow that was last night.

Might as well give 'er a go.

She stood and started concentrating on the bundle of arrows. Almost trying to will it out of the tree and back to her hand. The arrows started to shake one by one, vibrating in the tree, like an earthquake was happening until the mass of them popped out and floated in the air outside of the trunk before returning slowly to the quiver at its owner's request.

Kelsey smiled and nodded, a rare action for her. "Guess that gravity shit's fine'ly startin' ta come along if I got tha whole bunch in one. Wish I coulda used it on that damn cooler last night. Be flyin' like a dang moon demon yet. Lucy kin suck on that."

She grabbed the top arrow and began the process over again.