Some rambling before bed about a plot I want to run around new years. I'll be hitting up the mods soonish for review of it. But the gist for most is Melody Mania and Rinku do a New Years concert that is a trap for poor Max and Rinku both. Which will be televised for Melody Mania's spell to bring song and dance to all of Ellipsa.
Melody Mania being Max's main title and was an antagonist in the game I run until Max ate him. So now he wants to eat Max back and take over his form. For others, it will be a week or so of opt in or opt out singing and dancing as Ellipsa becomes a musical. Because who doesn't like a musical.
But Melody Mania knowing Max is stronger than he is-
Has a dastardly plot in mind to use Macaque to direct all of Esme's love to Macaque, thus robbing Max of all his powers and will to fight back so he can fully devour and digest him. Since Max's drive runs on Esme's love and without it, he just doesn't have it in him to protect himself.
So a bulk of the more personal plot will happen around Esme or inside Max as people get to enter his mind to explore memories and try to keep Max out of Melody Mania's clutches.
Notes: Those who attend the concert in person will be hit full force with the hypno wave, since a XROSS∞BEAT doesn't work on a recording. (We don't really get an answer as to whether a live broadcast counts, but the story arc was done to promote a concert tour, so /shrug.) So that could be used to get people to either opt in or out of the musical episode.
On Rinku's side of things, once the XROSS∞BEAT goes off and Melody Mania takes over, the surge of energy will do what it did when Pumina messed with Neo and Kyouko, and Rinku falls into a coma!
Canon-wise this would make her soul stuck in the collective unconscious, so she can easily end up in Max's mind by the end and/or in other people's dreams before that point so I don't lose my only PC for a week. But again, we'll see what the other mods say when we do review.
Yes and yes. I wouldn't want you out of a character for a week. So her moving around the collective unconscious is awesome and can def come into play for the for resolving the plot. Pending mod approval.
I figure the spell that casts over everyone is part XCROSS∞BEAT and Melody Mania's own power given if he can get songs stuck in people's heads.
And broadcasting the big concert and the big finale when he takes over is meant to get the performances and thus the songs stuck in people's heads across Ellipsa. So people don't have to have their characters attend to opt into singing and dancing.
To fix Esme's love, someone who truly loves Esme has to pull the charm out of his chest. So getting Esme to Max or someone falling in love with Esme before new years.
QUESTION will melody mania's power work anything close to a madness effect/eldritch thing... because if so, louis will be immune to it, BUT. he'll also act as an antenna for it, spreading it as long as he's nearby a source of it. like a fucked up wifi extender :' )
lmhlkjfgh TBH... seeing lycaon singing and dancing would make him wonder if he might honestly just be dreaming and hasn't actually woken up yet???? only to be immediately disproven by pinching himself. the world's gone insane, finally--
Thinking about it now and dream hopping might not work because dreamwalking's already a power for a different season. I'm gonna need to think on what to do with her for a week.
It does! Though I'm still leaning toward the first (affected by a spell that lets her dreamwalk while she's already stuck in Everyone's Minds) because "stuck in the collective unconscious so she can't go around trying to fix things until the plot's run its course" is the most convenient option plot-wise. Hm.
Maybe someone wanted to do a spell for New Year's dreams but it got derailed by the hypnotic wave and screwed up, so dream energy hit Rinku as her soul got pulled out.
But Melody Mania knowing Max is stronger than he is-
so I don't lose my only PC for a week. But again, we'll see what the other mods say when we do review.I figure the spell that casts over everyone is part XCROSS∞BEAT and Melody Mania's own power given if he can get songs stuck in people's heads.
Later: /seeing Lycaon sing and dance/ I'm not tripping, the world is!
Esme: Okay, if that's what you want to do. /almost literal heart eyes for Macaque