INT. SWAGMAG MAGAZINE. DAY
''Editor Park''(enchant:?passage,(text-colour:black)+(bg:#91a7ff))
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INT. SWAGMAG. OFFICE. DAY
Editor Park: Ok Tadashi =PLAYER= this is the chance to prove yourself. It's the hardest assignment yet //so don't screw this up// I liked your presentation
this morning. think this Ishiwata guy has been a perv all along. Media mogul with only boys, jeez.
PARK: Go into Soapland and find out the secret behind the current members of the out queer rock band LickStik. Specificically what was their relationship to the media mogul Johnny Ishiwata.
PARK: Are you interested? ''''
//No, this is triggering you,
(link-goto: "ask to write about something else?", "Tadashi Declines")//
//YES. You want this. For sure, Ishiwata has to be exposed!!// (click:"YES")[
PARK: There is danger that you could be seriously hurt or even killed in finding out this secret. Especially if you find out their secret. At the every least, if we don't do this right, we could get our asses sued off and even thrown in jail.
So, Are you sure son?
//No.//
(link-goto: "Forget it", "Tadashi Declines")
Yes, you want this opportunity (click:"this opportunity")
[
PARK: Oken then:
You have to find the secret, verify the facts of it with credible sources and evidence. Then you get appoval from me to publish it. Once you publish it, then you are safe and you can be protected. And you could be up for Pulitzer type of award and become the most respected writer in East Asia. You could get hired away from this tabloid and hired onto Time Asia. The future would be yours to take in journalism.
If you mess up, you or any person you interview could be in mortal danger. You could get people killed by doing this story. And if you get others hurt, that is on you. Your reputation could be trashed. You would be toxic. No sources would tlak to you again. You could lose yourself, your sources, and even you loved ones. Proceed carefully Tadashi.
Tadashi, Zuki Suzuki has information he says. [[I need you to go to interrview him tonight|ARTY FARTY]] ]
]
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(text-style:"bold","outline")[The Arty Farty Club - Soapland District]
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The downtown bar bustles with a mix of students with multi-coloured hair and salarymen in nondescript black business suits. Most of the men are Asian but there are several tall, muscular Caucasian men mixing in with the crowd. There is the occasional lady-boy and drag queen who chat loudly with small clutches of young trendy men who hang on their every word.
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Arty Farty Image Prompt: (click:"Arty Farty")
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Japanese style gay bar with many men dancing and partying. Styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character.
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Music is pumping through the room is an EDM version of Likstik's club song World Shift.
//Listen to the club music - World Shift (Hole Mix) in the Arty Farty bar here://
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Zuki Suzuki emerges through a side entrance into the room. His muscular bare chest is framed within a shiny black vest almost as thin as paper. Zuki flows into the bar with a confident swagger, greeting each person who greets him with a smile. All the patrons part a bit as Zuki makes his way to the bar.
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Zuki Image Prompt: (click:"Zuki Image Prompt")[
(text-style:"subscript")[A thin, muscular, sensual, stylish young Japanese 20 something gay male rock singer, with long ash grey hair, Dressed in goth style, bare chested, with lots of bling jewelry, sitting at a bar in a club, at night, with a crowd of dancing men, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]]
Zuki reaches out a sinuey arm to the bartender, "My tender ass, I need a drink."
The bartender jests to him, "I think it's not so tender."
Zuki sits at the bar beside you =Tadashi PLAYER=. Zuki looks at you from toe to chin.
ZUKI: You look a lot better in person. Cute even. Thank you for coming reporter Honda.
//Tada, Tell Zuki this://
Even I couldn't believe at first that you, Zuki Suzukii, were once an idol boy trainee.
//Click on// ZUKI's response: (click: "ZUKI's response")[
ZUKI: It's no big secret about how idol master media mogul Kenny Ishiwata really favoured some of us Idol boys back then. And probably still...do you want to know more?
//Tell ZUKI that you// definately want to know more](click:"definately want to know more")
[
ZUKI: Then take my hand handsome reporter. A secret for a night with me.... alone.
So, What's it going to be hon?] (click:"What's it going to be hon?")
[
//Tell Zuki you want to// keep things professional and decline his hand (click:"keep things professional and decline his hand")
[
Zuki steadily pushes a flyer into your back pocket.
Zuki whispers conspiratorily, "The Blip Shan invite is in your pocket. We'll talk more about this after that show."
Zuki stands up straight. Heads turn as he turns and glides out of the packed night club. Patrons part the way for him as if he is royalty.
You look down and see the invitation to the [[Blip Chan concert you will now have to go to |CONCERT]]
]
OR
Tentatively and shyly take Zuki's hand (click:" take Zuki's hand")[
ZUKI: Well, what Jun said is all true. The Ishiwata Camp was one hot bed of producers and the mogul himself touching up we way too you idol trainees. Well, those of us who were cute anyway. Myself and Taro for sure. We were bunkmates there.
//Spend the night in a soapland hotel with Zuki and then. [[Go back and tell Swagmag at their next editorial meeting |WRITE ARTICLE]]//]
<a href="https://www.wattpad.com/736807072-idol-boyz-chapter-2-zuki-suzuki" target=blank>//Read the full Wattpad chapter here =external link=//</a>
]
]
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You are now in the office of the jaded Desk Editor Lisa LaFlame. She has been in East Asia forever and looks it. If it has happened, she has covered it. You pitched to her and heard her opinions about your LickStik / Idol Boyz story.
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LISA LAFLAME: Well Tada, my boy. look like you get to write about your twink band after all.
//Laugh along with her//(click:"Laugh along")[
LISA: Oh my jaded heart, kid. Glad you can laugh at an old hag like me. Anyway, here's the piece...]
//Don't laugh along with her//(click: "Don't laugh along")[
LISA: You kids these days. So serious. Not even sure y'all get laid... don't answer that; I don't wanna be cited with workplace harrassment at my age.]
LISA: You remember what we discussed this morning? I have reservations about this.
//Read about the meeting and Tadashi's Editor room Proposal here:// (click:"here")[
//External link//
<a href="https://www.wattpad.com/736873875-idol-boyz-chapter-3-swagmag" target="blank">Original Novel Chapter on Wattpad (external page)</a>]
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//Continue on...//
//Click here that your remember well enough about the story// (click: "remember well enough about the story")
[
Click here for a <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/188746860/write/736873875" target=blank>refresher of what we talked about this morning</a> (external link)
LISA: Okay so you are going to write a preview about lickstik before their concert in three days. So the turn around is like: right now.. First, get really familiar with LickStik and their music.
//Play LickStik's latest tune, ''Trick Boyz (Hard Mix)'' here://
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LISA: The Proof of the story sits in front of you.
It is basically a brief bio of the band LickStik with this basic outline in the first 30 seconds of this video
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//Video of LickStik Promo and interview//
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LISA: Here is the <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/188746860/write/1369498919"> transcript </a>. I want you to rewrite this biography material in two paragraphs tops and then flusch it out.
LISA: Good band eh. Too young for me but nice eye candy. Then choose what the initial focus for your article will be:
[[ZUKI ANGLE]]
[[Taro Angle]]
[[Queer Focus]]
]
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''EXT. CONCERT TV STUDIO. EARLY EVENING.''
There is a thrumming roar in the studio as the young audience recognizes the band. Girls start to scream. Boys hoot with amazement.
TARO: Hello Metro, We are entering your mainstream.
Taro shouts into the mic as Likstik drives into a steady heavy rock beat that vibrates the entire studio.
Tadashi =PLAYER= stares at Taro Ito as he plays, concentrating on his every move. Taro's vocal range is almost operatic and the passion in his lyrics is soul-searing and brazenly sexual:
//Watch the concert.//(click:"Watch the concert")[
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Lyrics:
//Standing by the side of the bar
Looking distant arms all folded
You see me like a drop in the rain
blow wave and blond and moulded
You know it's gonna be a hot night
as you wait in the wasted smoke again
Twenty four but I put down eighteen
a centuries-old catch for those salarymen//
Trick Boyz - Lickstik <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0AqrFrZFJlZfhL0rfN8H4G?si=2a0e4bf2ed4947d6" > (original by Charles Emery)</a>
]
Zuki punctuates Taro's lusty lyrics with thrilling metal licks on his electric guitar. Jun's bass and Shogo's drums thump through the spinal columns of the audience quickly bringing them to an undulating passionate heat.
A swath of audience member's hands find others bodies to hug, stroke, and caress fellow friends' torsos and a few strangers' bodies; regardless of gender. Young women and guys alike squeal with delight. Many people have their arms raised uncaring about who or what touches any part of the rest of their bodies.
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Sensual East Asian audience crowd at a rock concert wearing trendy clothes, dancing to a live Japanese all male rock band at the stage in a television studio. Angle: shot from back stage]
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Taro gestures for Kimi - who is frenetically dancing behind his keyboard- to come up beside him. Kimi sidles up to Taro and sings into their shared mic. Taro and Kimi's voices blend exquisitely. The crowd goes wild(er). As the pair on stage repeat the chorus, Zuki launches into a guitar solo. Kimi presses his thin body against Taro's.
Kimi playfully moves away from Taro towards the edge of the stage and [[lets himself fall back into the armls of the waiting crowd |Kimi Stage dives]]
OR
Kimi does NOT stage dive (click:"NOT stage dive")
[
Suddenly, Kimi struts away from Taro toward Zuki Suzuki. Zuki pushes the neck of his guitar downward so that the body is slung around his back. A large leer appears on Zuki's face. Zuki [[steps right up behind Kimi. |Zuki and Kimi Skinship]]
]
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INT. SWAGMAG OFFICE. NEXT DAY.
You hear footfalls in the foyer of the Swagmag entrance. Three young men lazily strolled into the foyer. You risk a peek down the hall from over the top of his office partition, ready to duck if they glanced his way.
The first two men wear dark suits with white shirts. You turn and ducked his head and hunkered down behind his desk partition.
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(text-style:"subscript","condense")[Two Japanese male gangsters sit at an office desk: 1. Young, 20-something, dressed in shiny synthetic leather 2. Elder, 60s, dressed in business suit. STYLE: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character.]]
INT. PARK's OFFICE. MOMENTS LATER (click:"MOMENTS LATER")
[
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SATO: Thank you Park-sama for allowing us the honour of visiting you on this busy Monday. My name is Shinji Muira.
PARK (bowing to the two men): The pleasure is all mine Sato-san. We have been anticipating your visit.
SHINJI: Well as you know, our party represents Ishiwata Productions.
PARK: "Represent" is an interesting choice of words.
SHINJI: Let's say that while I do have background with legal proceedings, I am now into PR. I am, in fact, Ishiwata's legal promotions officer."
PARK: And you are now doing the honour of hearing my response in person, I take it?
Park smiles expansively.
SHINJI: Ishiwata and I were interested in an odd thing in the printing of your, I'm sorry to say, rather defamatory article.
Shinji scratches his head in false puzzlement.
SHINJI: I noticed that on all the articles slandering Ishiwata sama, the byline is unsigned by any individual author. You don't necessarily have a particular person who is your beat writer on this story? I find that unusual.
Park's eyes give the slightest start. What the hell is all this? Park looks down at his desk then back at Sato.
PARK: Well, we consider a story this size a team effort Mr. Sato." His smile was back, but forced.
Shinji leans forward. His face is now a serious scowl.
SHINJI: Whoever wrote this article about Zuki Suzuki and the Idol Boys camp. We have the legal power to sue your magazine for this. But if you were to print a retraction about any allegations of abuse....
PARK: Mr. Muira, you have to appreciate something here. We at Swagmag are ready to risk our jobs, maybe even our assets...for this story. Because basically, this is a story about something that has been rotten across East Asia, and especially in the Japanese District, for a long time...the way we have cast our youth upon the rocks on the oceans of exploitation...
SHINJI: Okay then, Mr. Park, I will inform my superior that you have chosen to stand firm, and defended, your view of integrity. I can also appreciate that it's a necessary thing to have community, ah... support, these days. And I do hope, the way you are able to protect your integrity holds strong in this, what must be at times, an aggressive, cut-throat business. Good day Park sama. It was an honour discussing such ideas of integrity.
PARK: I will see you out.
Sato and company bowed out of the room. Shin-san turned toward the office and moved towards the inside of the building.
TADASHI's DESK. MOMENTS LATER:
Park walks up to you.
PARK: I hate these bastards. But this is now very dangerous business with these punks.
You'll put yourself in danger if you continue this story
You tell Park that [[you are not going to turn back now. |ZUKI KILLED]]
do this story.
[[You need time to think about taking this assignment with this newest risk
|Tadashi Declines]]
]
You can read the full chapter about this visit <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/736874326-idol-boyz-chapter-4-shin%27s-visit" target="blank"> here </a>
INT. REHEARSAL SPACE - EVENING
Taro and Jun-Li look closely at Taro. Jun starts to nod.
Taro takes a step forward.
TARO: So how do you feel about playing
rock songs with mostly gay
musicians.
(glancing at Shogo)
Excepting a few of us.
//Look Taro in the eye and explain//
You haven't quite figured out where I am on the Kinsey scale yet.
TARO: Haven't you figured it out by 24?
Eplain that you have been too busy with your various
ambitions to explore it.
JUN: Okay let's hear it.
//hoist up your guitar and be ready to
</a href=https://open.spotify.com/track/5F8oWA5ew7Ax1rgu8SSSWh?si=d52626c5add14e0e">
play the guitar solo in Hikikomori</a>.//
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The band members raise their bottles, including Tadashi.
TADASHI: Stick with us kid, you'll figure it all out.
The group yells kampai and they all drink
TADASHI: Come for a walk with me.
//Accept the offer to walk with Taro//(click-goto:"Accept the offer", "KNOW TARO")
//Decline the offer to walk with Taro// (click:"Decline the offer")
[
You graciously thank the band for the audition and you explain that [[you have to go back home |KIMI STALKS TADASHI]]
]
EXT. SOAPLAND. NIGHT.
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You emerge from the stairway of the Soapland subway exit. You look down at the pin point on your keitai's (mobile) map which indicate Saiko's posiiton.
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You go over a mental layout of the 40 or so blocks and hundreds of squat buildings, each with a small bar on each of the seven or eight floors of each building she was approaching. You try to find the fastest way to get to Saiko.
The names of the stacks of neon and backlit signs don't help you navigate much. The Stud, the Ram, Samurai Daddys, Samurai Sons, the Good Luck Club, Zippers, Buttons.
There she is ahead on the map. You emerge from the side street over and run up beside Saiko when you see her. (click:"un up beside Saiko when you see her")[
Saiko sees you and waves her phone.
SAIKO: Taro, Thank you so much for coming!
She looks around the empty dark streets nervously.
SAIKO: I know where Kimi was probably headed. He would probably go to JUNIORS. He has snuck in there before. Kimi doesn't have a couple of hundred thousand yen for the cab fare back to our place. He wouldn’t be able to go to any other district, or back home, until 5am when the trains ran again.
TWO GANGSTER MEN step onto their street. They start walking toward you.
//Pull SAIKO across the street and tell her to// start heading back the other way down a side street. (click:"start heading back the other way down a side street")[
You move through the side street and come out at a darker area.
You turn around and see that the two men have followed you down the side street.
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The two GANGSTER MEN slow their pace, so as not to capture undue attention, but keep shuffling toward you.
You look around and notice that you are right beside a small park with a washroom building shed. It is poorly it and every isolated. There is no other way to get out of this CulDeSac.
//Direct Saiko to follow you to the// washroom stall building shed. (click:"washroom stall building shed")[
Saiko glares at the blank screen of her slim handset and curses. The battery has died.
SAIKO: Kuso I'm so stupid!
You reach for your own keitai. Look at the bars and notice that reception is poor. You can't get a signal here. One of Tokyo's blind spots.
The buildings around you are abandoned or closed for business. Ahead of you, beside the public outdoor washroom two more figures appear.
Saiko tries to run but loses a shoe and stumbles. Soon the figures set upon you both and throw a bag over your heads.
Furiously, you trie to fight back and yell for help but there is nobody around.
You feel yourself being is whisked into a small waiting van.
Something acrid smelling is placed over your mouth. Your arms and legs go limp.
You feel and hear the van you are in start to move. [[Everything goes black.|IDOL BOYZ CAMP ALL]]
FADE to BLACK.
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]
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EXT. FUCHU POLICE STATION, METRO TOKYO. DAWN
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[
At night, outside, behind the police station. A Japanese woman, standing at a podium, is giving a press conference to a group of reporters.]
You and a couple of reporters arrive breathless at the back entrance of Fuchu Metro Police station. You see a body draped in a cloth on a stretcher being wheeled out of the back entrance toward an ambulance. One of the camera reporters yells out. "Is it him?" The small throng rushes to the ambulance doors but two uniformed officers with batons walk in front of the group and motion them back.
An older female police officer wearing a tunic decorated with medals and badges steps out of another doorway and stops in front of the throng as it grows quiet with expectation.
WOMAN POLICE OFFICER: We have confirmation that rock group member Zuki Suzuki has died in the night. His family and band members have just been contacted and notified."
You look over beside the body in the stretch. Just past it on the ground lies a small little plushy toy in the shape of an orca.
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EXT. PRESS CONFERENCE. TWO MONTHS LATER:(click:"TWO MONTHS LATER")[
TARO: We miss our comrade Zuki dearly. But as a band we have decided that the show must go on. So, auditions will be held for new guitarist in LickstiK
//(text-colour:#e1b7e1)[HEY!, you are a great guitarist Tadashi, you should [[audition for LickStik|JOIN LICKSTIK]]. That way you can go undercover for Swagmag, get to know Taro, and get his story. That story is likely to provide clues to Zuki's mysterious death]//
]
OR
INT. SWAGMAG NEWSROOM: ONE MONTH LATER:(click:"ONE MONTH LATER")[
Lisa swings by Taro's desk. She leans on the edge of it with one hand.
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LISA: Looks like your boys and our story are quite done. LickStik [[have broken up|Tadashi Declines]]
]
//Enter the rehearsal studio quietly//
Saiko and Kimi sit in chairs off to the side.Kimi sits up with delight when he sees you. Saiko nods to you and puts a finger up to her lips, shushing you both.
//Only nod to them//
Further inside. You see that Taro and Zuki are facing off each other.
Jun is there trying to keep the peace.
see video of this - external link - <a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=432" target=blank>HERE</a>
TARO (to Zuki): What are you trying to pull.
ZUKI: I'm just trying to lift the moment!
TARO: Trick boyz is about guys using guys in the scene. The mood is harsh and jaded and serious!!
ZUKI: Serious! Right! Of course your interpretation.
TARO: Slutting it up on cam isn't going to help us win over more fan base.
JUN: Come on Taro we're the only out queer group in the Empire. We could camp it up.
TARO: Yeah but not hit the masses over the head with it.
JUN: well let's just stick to playing Soapland then.
Taro turns to Zuki in anger.
TARO: Okay Zuki, you are fired. Get your stuff an go.
ZUKI: I quit anyway. Sayonara!
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Zuki starts to walk out of the studio. He passes you and says.
(click:"passes you and says")[
ZUKI: Call me later and
ZUKI storms out of the studio. You can hear SFX: SOUNDS OF MOTORBIKE REVVING UP OUTSIDE (click:"MOTORBIKE")
[
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//Leave before Tadashi Notices you. Go back to your office and make plans with Lisa// to [[revisit the Zuki Angle |ZUKI ANGLE]]
]
Tadashi notices you. //Instead of leaving decide to// respond. (Click:"respond")
[
TADASHI: Who are you?
//Profer him your card//
SAIKO: I wanted this reporter to do some cover story about us. Maybe give an explanation that will soften (looks pointedly at Kimi) what went down here.
TARO: The damage is done sister. And Kimi....
SAIKO: He's grounded-
SAIKO: And on haitus from Lickstik! I taught you what is appropriate, so are you shaming me. What would your, dear departed mother think!
KIMI: Shaming you! I'm old enough to sex who I want!
TARO: Actually you are not! The age of consent is eighteen now."
KIMI: Kuso uncle, I was just having fun!
TARO: Did you know in America that, even for a teenage boy to walk up and kiss an older person without asking, is sexual assault. You know, that's so kinda like fucking rape." Kimi blinks at this statement.
Kimi glances at the floor, tears well up in his eyes.
KIMI: I wasn't trying to do raping stuff with anyone.
Taro turns on you (TADASHI =PLAYER=)
TARO: I don't want the press in here man. Forget what you saw here. There is no story and I will sue anyone who talks about this.
//Extend your press ID card quitely. [[Tell Saiko to call you if she wants|SAIKO Request]]//
If she doesn't want you to pursue any further story, about LikStik [[you won't do it.|Tadashi Declines]] for privacy reasons.]
EXT. OUTSIDE TADASHI’S APARTMENT - LATE NIGHT
Tadashi (YOU =PLAYER) quickly cross the street and draw closer to the staircase leading up to the second floor of the two story low rise.
YOU hear a SHUFFLE under the stairs. You stop and look around for the source of the noise.
//Ask// who is there? (click: "who is there?")
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KIMI is dressed in all black trendy clothes.
//You tell Kmi that you are too tired for visitors tonight// but KIMI steps up the stairs toward you and lightly takes your arm..
KIMI: You are now Yuki’s replacement guitarist, I hear, Tada-kun!
Kimi looks briefly at the ground then back up to look you in the eye.
KIMI: Can I be your groupie!
You shake your head.
//Tell Kimi to go home.//
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INT. TADASHI'S APARTMENT - LATE NIGHT
Kimi dutifully takes off his shoes at the entrance and walks down to the hallway.
//You sit at his desk with the comsole beside him.You tell him to call his sister SAIKO.//
KIMI: But I've run away!
//Explain to Kimi that you are not about to be arrested for child abduction by the MIP. Extend your phone to KIMI with SIAKO's number dialed in. //
KIMI throws you a petulant look. He rectantly give's you Saiko's kaitai number.
He then runs for the door and out into the night.
//You stand up abruptly.. You punch in Saiko's number on your card. //
//Explain to Saiko that you both met at that concert. Apologize and tell her that your brother was There in your apartment, [[unannounced, but has now run off |SAIKO Request]] .//
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SAIKO: Hey reporter Tadashi. Thank you for calling me. I really need your help here. My nephew Kimi has run away! We had a big argument after the skinship thing, and now with Zuki...
She stifles a sob.
Can you help me find him please!? I think he has now gone to Soapland. [[Can you meet me there soon? |SOAPLAND CHASE]]
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EXT. ROADWAY TO THE STATION - LATE NIGHT
Tadashi and Taro walk along the sidewalk.
TARO: It's amazing how quiet it still is this time of night.
//You ask him about the lyrics to his song Move On.// Is it biographical?
(click:"biographical")
[
TARO: You assume it's autobiographical? Ah, you are still always the reporter.
TARO chuckles and walks across the small street from Tadashi. He stops at the part of the overbridge to look at the stream below. Tadashi slowly walks over to stand beside him.
TARO: Yeah, it's true. I was a bit of a loner as a kid. My mom and dad split. I was raised by my grandmother. Kind of.
Taro takes your face in his hands. His eyes seem to make a decision. (click:"seem to make a decision")
[
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TARO: You are a sweet guy. I want to get to know you better. But right now I have things to do. You should go home. (pointing) The station is over there...
Taro turns in his heel and walks away from you.
//You are a bit fustrated. [[You decide to follow Taro|TARO BATHHOUSE]]//
]
]
TARO: Oh damn, I'm sorry to hear it.
Taro pushes himself off the bridge railing to the sidewalk. He continues to walk. Tadashi steps in beside him.
TARO: Did you have a hand in writing some of those Swagmag pieces about us?
Tadashi walks a bit in silence. Taro smiles widely.
TARO: Reporter is not used to being questioned?
You tell him that you have to admit, You've been a fan for a while. You did some of the research.
Taro takes a side glance at Tadashi.
TARO: Hmm. You’re really not sure of your sexuality yet?
You remain silent for a moment. Then you meets Taro’s gaze.
You ask him: When did you figure it out? Must have been early judging by your brash lyrics.
TARO Oh that's for sure. Zuki and I-
Taro says no more. He walks on for a couple of steps and smiles.
TARO: -Well that is too much information years later...
You approach the station.
Ask Taro: You and Zuki were always close?
Taro looks closely at your face.
TARO: Ah, reporter-intern. You do know how persist at a question...
This is your station.
Taro bows slightly to you, cutting off their conversation.
Taro puts his arm around yours. Taro heaves a deep sigh. Taro looks steadily at youi. His eyes are red.
Taro takes your face in his hands. Does so cautiously and compassionately. You hesitantly begin to kiss long and tenderly. It is more a healing moment of bonding than anything sexual.
When YOU start to get more passionate - releasing some sort of repressed energy and longing he didn't know was in him, Taro gently pull away.
TARO: I don't think I have ever been kissed with that kind of compassion. Let's not fuck this up with sex yet.
Taro stands up and puts on his jacket. Tadashi watches him quietly. Taro looks at the wall as he speaks.
TARO: We have to remember you are only here to play for the band. What happened to Zuki is not why you are here. Tadashi looks at Taro but says nothing.
TARO: I'll walk home alone. Last train is in fifteen minutes.
(chuckling)
Nice to have a virgin in the band Tadashi-san. Have a good night.
Before Tadashi can formulate a come back, Taro turns on his heel and walks back down the road.
Tadashi turns and walks to the ticket vending machines. Tadashi briefly looks at his face in the station security mirror. He shakes his head and lets out a deep breath.
Tadashi cautiously inserts the ticket into the VENDING MACHNE. The machine snatches it from him.
//You need to// [[follow Taro |TARO BATHHOUSE]]
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EXT. STREET - SOAPLAND - LATE NIGHT
Tadashi walks down the narrow street. A couple of blocks ahead of him Taro walks quickly down the same street, unaware that Tadashi is trailing him.
Taro walks into the entrance of a low neon lit building called THE TOPLOVE MIX HOTEL.
Taro enters the building. (click:"Taro enters the building")[
INT. TOPLOVE MIX HOTEL - SOAPLAND - LATE NIGHT
The building’s exterior to see a number of blacked out windows. There is a LOW THRUM of music emanating from inside.
//Play the club music//
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//go up the// elevator// to the top floor// (click:"elevator")[
The door of the elevator slides open to reveal a world of rot and mould.
Inside, the walls are stained under the purple neon lights in the entrance hall.
You //ring the desk bell//
A hand reaches out for his money under the slot of a cracked mirror. It passes you locker keys, a pair of sandals, and a cotton Japanese summer housecoat.
//Remove you shoes, locks them in an outer locker, and// pass through a bunch of hanging beads. (click:"pass through a bunch of hanging beads")[
There is a small group of tired looking Japanese men stretched out in the
lobby room in front of the many TVs which lie against the rusty window frames.
The cheap looking plastic glitter ball is slowly rotating on the floor. A few of the men lounging on the beat up couches in front of the TV glance up at you with slight interest, and then look away quickly.
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The clientele is a mix of fresh looking suburban college guys, working class guys who look fresh off the cranes, and uniform looking thirty-something middle class salary men. On a few of the cots lie slender, twenty somethings with pierced tits and with dyed, coloured hair.
There is a door to the interior sleeping rooms at the back of the cicular, outer, hallway.
//Go through it and// see if you can find Taro. (click:"see if you can find Taro")[
INT. BACK ROOM
The room is large and full of bunk beds. The only lights are from BLACK FLORESCENT LIGHTS placed around the room, giving it a dark cavernous look with a purple glow. There is no way that Taro could easily recognize you in this dump.
Various MALE COUPLES are stretched out on the bunks. Some of them are naked and others are making out with their yukatas still on.
In a couple of bunks SINGLE MEN lie in wait. One of them smokes with just the glow of his cigarette outlining his muscular, half-naked frame. LOW MOANING emits from the bunks along with WOOD CREAKING.
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A couple of men WHISPER to you. You walk on. The carpet is threadbare and mouldy in places. You step gingerly.
You hear a LOW GROAN from the bunk directly ahead of you a short way down the aisle framed by the bunks on either side of you.
Oblivious to you Taro is strretched out on the bed. Someone’s long black flowing hair across Taro's chest. Taro is oblivious to everything. A thin, yet muscular figure, resembling SHINJI, with his arms covered in a dark pattern of tattoos, lies under Taro. Taro lies with his back on top of the figure while the man underneath, also on his back, encircles Taro's torso with his arms.
SHINJI Turns to look up at you. He smiles with shark like teeth.
Suddenly, from behind, a pair of hands grab both your arms and a cloth is placed over your mouth.
Your [[VISION FLADES TO BLACK|IDOL BOYZ CAMP TARO and TADA]]]]
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//You face Editor Park. He is looking sternly at you from his desk.//
PARK: What's up with you?
//Choose a reply that fits what just happened!//
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* You don't want to accept the risk.(click:"don't want to accept")[
PARK: Sorry Taro but your choice just shows me that you don't have the guts for this assignment. So I have given it to Lisa.
//Ask to have a second chance, beg for your job.//
Beg and get it so you can [[WRITE ARTICLE]]
Otherwise. [[Give it up |GAME OVER]]
]
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You are too triggered to do a story like this in the first place. You want to write about something else. (click: "You want to write about something else")
[
PARK: Sorry Taro but your choice just shows me that you don't have the guts for this working at Swagmag. So I will give it to Lisa.
//Ask Park to think it over and then, change your mind.
Beg and get it so you can [[WRITE ARTICLE]] //
OR [[Give it up |GAME OVER]]
]
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* You only want to write about the music. (click: "only want to write about the music")[
PARK: Sorry Taro but your choice just shows me that you don't have the guts for this assignment. So I have given it to Lisa.
//Ask to have a second chance, beg for your job.//
Beg and get it so you can [[WRITE ARTICLE]]
Otherwise. [[Give it up |GAME OVER]].]
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* You only gave Park the Queer Influence angle and excluded the scandal history completely. (click: "excluded the scandal history completely")[
PARK: Sorry Taro. We need more than just work fluff about the Queer Soapland scence which we have done to death. So you need to do this again. Go back and work in either the Zuki or Taro angles that Lisa went over with you [[REVISE w LISA]]
Otherwise is goes to her if you [[Give it up! |GAME OVER]] .]
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* You feel these is no story here. The band is a family and asks for privacy. (click: "You feel these is no story here")[
PARK: Screw privacy reporter Kondo! We are a tabloid here and we both smell a story! Go back and work in either the Zuki or Taro angles that Lisa went over with you and [[REVISE w LISA]]
Otherwise this story goes to her as writer. [[We can't work with you. |GAME OVER]]
]
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* LickStik has broken up over their loss of Zuki Suzuki (click: "LickStik has broken up")[
PARK: Looks like LickStik is finished. The only way you had to get close to Taro Ito was to join that band son.
//Pull out Saiko's calling card. Tell Park tha you [[maybe have one more lead |SAIKO Request]]//
. [[Don't pull out Saiko's card and GIVE IT UP. |GAME OVER]]
]
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INT. IDOL BOYZ CAMP LODGE. NIGHT
Lights go DARK for a moment.
When the lights come up a moment later, the group of OLDER MEN is surrounded by a DOZEN YOUNG MEN with Tazers trained on them. Some of the younger men give each other knowing looks. Others sit and stare at the spectacle.
One of the OLDER MEN starts to curse.
OLDER MAN: What the fuck! Get those tasers off me. I will kill you for this. Asshole.
More of the other OLDER MEN start to curse and protest.
Shinji nods to one of his HENCHMEN with the taser. The henchmen promptly walks over to the bound older man taser whips the older man. Everyone falls silent.
KENNY ISHIWATA: Mastubara Shinji, stop now! What the hell is this becoming?
SHINJI: Well, Ishiwata, Kenny, my dear guardian of the last 15 years. Since you asked....I have prepared a very special reunion treat for all of us here present.
Six more YOUNG henchmen step up to the vats. The large cylinders are set in front of the older men's chairs with a heavy THUD. Several of the younger men look puzzled but still amused. The men with the tasers and those handling the barrels are stone faced serious. They raise all six vats above their heads.
The LIGHTS DIM to very dark. (click:"LIGHTS DIM to very dark")[
POURING and SPLASHING SOUND, SCREAMS of agony.
Macabre red and purple tinges on the faces of almost the rest of the SCREAMING OLD GANGSTERS. Several of the younger men jump up and shout excitedly. Several older men bolt against their chairs trying to get away from the older men beside them. FIVE OLDER MEN SCREAM as their skin turns red, smokes, and peels away. They collapse and fall silent. GROANS from the old gangsters collapsed and quivering on the ground.
LIGHTS COME UP (click:"LIGHTS COME UP")[
Only Kenny and a couple of the old gangsters beside him are untouched. They sit frozen in their chairs.
Shinji's wild bright eyes sweep over the gaping younger men, many standing up.
SHINJI: This is what I am talking about lads. You are now the leaders of the Tokyo mob in Soapland. Kampai!
Several of the younger gangster's faces suddenly brighten and they raise their glasses in a toast. Some others still in shock by the violence of the spectacle go along with the toast uncertainly.
The doused men writhe and moan semi-consciously on the floor. A couple are already still. The cheers subside.
The stage lights go UP to LIGHT Taro, KIMI, Shinji, and SAIKO. (click:" stage lights go UP")[
SHINJI: (shouting to Ishiwata): Yes Ishiwata san! Look what you made! Hundreds of idol boy singers used and disgarded every year like fodder! Those that aren't have to lives as your sex and wave slaves for years.
The CROWD focusses on Shinji with rapt attention and some jitters. Shinji looks at them with bemusement.
SHINJI: Look at the damage that Ishiwata's ilk rendered here!
SHINJI (looking over to Shinji and Siako) A single mother out of her mind when a predator is stalking her exploring son.
SHINJI (to Taro): A drug addicted rock start trying to blot out his past. A crazy sex crazed rocker who barely gave a shit about what people thought of him. Hundreds of broken lives and a crazed psychopath who you used for years. Yeah, look what you created Ishiwata san.
Some LAUGHING and JEERING from the audience. Shinji looks around the room with his jaw set. He SEES small tattoos on even some of the younger men, former idol boys.
SHINJI: And yet look what happens when nobody talks about all this. History just repeats itself, or is made to.
Shinji steps up to you.
And where were you Mr. Honda? Letting some bitch take your story before the whole truth was brought into this light. Where the fuck were you!
A FEW of the YOUNG MEN raise glasses of beer to Shinji.
SHINJI (hissing) Oh but, we are not done yet. (click:"we are not done yet")
[
Shinji bruskly gestures at Ishiwata's chair. Two henchmen hoist Kenny Ishiwata in his chair toward the stage. Ishiwata struggles against his bonds.
Shinji purposely strides past Taro and grabs another barrel on the stage with both hands. He hoists it up and carries it quickly down the thrust stage.
The two men place Kenny Ishiwata, stuggling in his bound chair, onto the stage. Shinji brings the barrel to him and knocks the lid off the barrel to the side. VAPOUR steams from the top of the barrel Several of the audience rise and move back from the end of the thrust stage.
TARO: Shinji, no!
SHINJI: This is foy you Taro-san.
Shinji raises the vat over his head. Ishiwata SCREAMS through his gag.
Shinji pours the molten wax into Ishiwata's lap area. Ishiwata HOWLS.
SEVERAL SHOUTS from the audience. Shinji laughs crazily as the vapour rises around his face. Ishiwata goes limp in his chair.
After he pours about a third of the barrel onto Ishiwata. Shinji quickly raises the barrel over his head. He turns 180 degrees to face TAROi.
The henchmen behind Taro run toward Shinji.
SHINJI: To the truth!
Shinji tips the barrel and acid pours down all over his face and shoulders. The henchmen on all sides of him stop up short. Shinji goes down screaming in vapour and molten waxy liquid. He collapses unconscious on the floor. The henchman stand around him gaping.
The LIGHTS GO DARK. [[ALL POWER GOES OUT|LICKStik REBORN]]
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EXT. SUBURBAN PARK - DUSK - ONE MONTH LATER
There is a massive CROWD in the park.
SHOGO, RENYA, LICKSTIK'S NEW GUITARIST, and JUN walk on stage.
The CROWD roar rises to a crescendo. SHOGO sits behind his drum kit.
Jun-Li plugs his bass into an amp. YOU plugs into the other amp as the new guitarist.
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Taro Ito, looking healthy, tanned, and vibrant, strides onto stage with a large grin.
He walks up to KIMI and embraces him warmly. He briefly shakes the hands of the other Four Seeds. Taro faces the crowd.
TARO: Thanks everyone. It sure is good to get out of Soapland to the suburbs.
Shogo strikes up a SLOW BALLAD BEAT. Tadashi and Jun-Li strike up a rhythm section.
Taro and the Four Seeds gather in a semi-circle around three directional mics in front of them. They take turns singing the lyrics.
TARO (singing): SUMMER SUNRISE / SHINES INSIDE YOUR EYES
KIMI: (singing)
YOU SEE RIGHT THROUGH ME/ CAPSIZED
WHERE I STAND
KIMI AND TARO:
(singing harmony)
I CAN'T SEE THE WORDS WHILE YOU
SMILE / CAN'T SEE WORDS WHILE YOU
SMILE
KIMI: (singing) SEE ME AS A CHILDISH LIAR
SAIKO raises a fist pump salute from the VIP section in the audience.
Taro turns to you in the audience and gives YOU a thumb heart.
TARO: Congratulations to Reporter Tadashi Kendo on his Tabloid of the Year Story Award
[[MUSIC and LYRICS Continue|ISHWATAs FATE]]
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''MAIN CHARACTERS''
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''Tadashi Kondo'' [PLAYER ie. //You//] (clicK: "Tadashi Kondo")[
– Swagmag reporter, Likstick replacement guitarist; questioning his sexual orientation
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A bookish, intellectual young Japanese 20 something male reporter, dressed in preppy style, playing electric guitar (details to hands) on the balcony of his Tokyo apartment, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]]
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''Taro Ito'' –'''' Lead singer of LickStick; gay, age 24'''' (click:"Taro Ito")
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Image Prompt for Taro Ref: (click:"Taro Ref:")[
''A young Japanese 20 something gay male rock singer,
Dressed in goth style, playing keyboards (details to hands) singing into a microphone on an outdoor stage in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character.'']
]
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''Zuki Suzuki'''' – ''Lead guitarist of LickStik; gay, age 24'''' (click:"Zuki Suzuki")
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Image Prompt for Zuki Ref: (click:"Zuki Ref:")
[A thin, muscular, sensual, stylish young Japanese 20 something gay male rock singer, with long ash grey hair,
Dressed in goth style, bare chested, with lots of bling jewelry, playing lead electric guitar (details to hands) on an outdoor stage in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character.]
]
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''Kimi Ito'' – 18 year old coming out as gay, back up singer (click:"Kimi")
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Image Prompt for Kimi Ref: (click:"Kimi Ref:") [A serious, stern Japanese 30 something music manager at the back of an outdoor stage in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
]
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''Jun Park'' – Bass player of LickStik; transgender male, age 23 (click:"Jun Park")[
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Image Prompt for Jun Ref: (click:"Jun Ref:")[
An innocent, fresh faced Korean male rock guitarist wearing pastel suit colours, playing electric bass guitar (attention to hand detail) at an outdoor night concert in a hyper modern city; styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
]
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''Saiko Ito'' – manager of Lickstik and Kimi's aunt; straight; age 26 (click:"Saiko")
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Image Prompt for Saiko Ref: (click:"Saiko Ref:")
[A modern 30-something serious manager Japanese, female; at the side of a music stage, in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character.]
]
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''Editor Park'' - chief editor – Swagmag tabloid magazine; age 60, str8 divorced (click:"Editor Park")[
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Image Prompt for Park Ref. (click:"Park Ref")
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A stern silver haired elder Korean news editor dressed in a frumpy tattered suit, sitting at his desk in an office in a newsroom, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
]
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''Shinji Minami ''– Yakuza gangster; contracted by Kenny Ishiwata – age 24, gay, fetishist (click:"Shinji Minami")[
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Click for Image Prompt for Shinji Ref. (click:"Shinji Ref")[
A sinister, ominous, young Japanese male yakuza gangster, dressed in shiny synthetic leather, smoking at the side of a music stage, in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
]
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''Lisa Laflame'' - senior editor, Swagmag (click:"Lisa Laflame")
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Image Prompt for Lisa Ref: (click:"Lisa Ref:")[
A cynical jaded 40 year old caucasian woman journalist smirking at the camera in a newsroom. style" film noir]]
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''Kenny Ishiwata'' – media mogul – age 60, alleged homosexual hebophile (pederast) (click:"Kenny Ishiwata")[
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Click for Image Prompt for Ishiwata Ref. (click:"Ishiwata Ref")[
A silver haired elder Japanese music media mogul executive, dressed in expensive business attire, sitting in a theatre chair, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
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''Shogo Chen'' – drummer of LickStik; bisexual, age 25 (click:"Shogo")[
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Image Prompt for Shogo Ref: (click:"Shogo Ref:")
[A pudgy, round faced, Japanese 20 something rock drummer,
Dressed in sweats and hoodie, playing a drum kit (details to hands) scream on an outdoor stage in a hyper modern city, styles: film noir, cyberpunk high contrast, neon lighting, 3D game character]
]
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[[Go back to Entrance |PARKS OFFER]]
INT. WAREHOUSE. TWO DAYS LATER.
You sit at a decrepid desk with a modern computer console.
{insert image}
Shinji strides up to you out of the shadows of the warehouse. He hands you a file in a manila envelope.
SHINJI: My faithful writer. I want you to write up this flier for me.
You take a look at the flyer mock up (click:"look at the flyer")[
''You must write up a flyer with the following information:''
Title: IDOL BOYZ CAMP RECRUITING NEW TALENT
Details:
boys from ages 13-16
boys with talent and stage present
handsome, healthy, and stylish (submit a video introduction)
willing to commit to two months audition at Ishiwata training camp
willing to commit to two year Idol training contract if successful in audition camp
willing to commit to seven year performance contract if successful after idol training
Parents willing to give legal custodianship to Ishiwata Enterpises upon training camp
Ishiwata Enterprises exempt from all legal complaints and proceedings should trainees occur accidental injury, occupational disease, or emotional damage at audition, as trainees, and thereafter.
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//Start writing on a Word or text document file and limit the content to three paragraphs max.//
Create and submit your article to SHINJI, with the file name and title indicating your REAL player name with the title IDOL BOYZ CAMP RECRUITING NEW TALENT.
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/oio4zl745s2shdtnxx8bs/h?rlkey=0tfaq3hycipocpr4e3i7fwb18&dl=0" target=blank>in the drop box provided</a>//
Note: contact [email protected] to get access to these directory area.//
After you [[write it up.|TADASHI FIRED]] you must meet Park and formally resign your intership with Swagmag.
SHINJI: Oh and I almost forgot. Ishiwata wants you to make sure that Kimi fills out an audiition application. So, make sure he does [[or we do another show at the Camp|IDOL BOYZ CAMP ALL]]
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YOUR EYES OPEN
INT. LODGE HALL - IDOL BOYS CAMP - PRESENT DAY - NIGHT
You look to the harsh white spots on a stage. You are tied up on a chair on the stage. You can barely discern as small audience crowd MUMURING in shadowy seats beyond the bright lights.
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You can make out that some of the young men are dressed in full suits. But they have coloured or black longish hair. Though it is dark they are wearing sunglasses.
In the seats around them are about three dozen older men in various colour suits. They looked weathered, and haggard.
You realize you are in a room full of gangesters.
There is a mumbling beside you. You //look and see// to your left (click:"to your left")[
...that TARO ITO sits slumped a his chair behind a partial curtain screen. His hands are bound. A blindfold is draped around his neck.
Taro nods at you groggily. His face is pasty and his eyes are glazed.
SHINJI WALKS on stage dressed in a black full length frock with frills. His face is painted with garish, goth make-up.
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SHINJI: Mr. Kenny Ishiwata and honoured guests! Lets hear it for his second initiation tonight.
Enthusiastic applauses ripples through a large dining hall.
A SPOTLIGHT reveals.... (click:"A SPOTLIGHT reveals")[
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SAIKO and KIMI. They are bound in a chair with gags on their mouths. Saiiko's eyes are panic stricken. Kimi's eyes reflect harsh anger.
Taro tries to stand up. He shouts.
TARO: What the fuck is this!?
A henchman clamps his hand over Taro's face.
SHINJI (into his mic): And now it seems, ladies and gentlemen. We have the whole family finally gathered for our final act.
FIVE MEN emerge from the shadows with big cylinders of clear fluid. One of the cylinders has whisps of smoke coming from it.
Taro starts in his chair.
TARO: Matsubara! No! Oh god!
SHINJI (smiling with mock patience): Oh how some of us suddenly remember.
You see that Taro's pale face is completely lucid and alert with wide eyed fear.
TARO: Shinji, Why are you doing this!?
You see Kenny Ishiwata lean forward, in the audience. His face becoms puzzled and stern.
ISHIWATA: Okay Shinji-kun. Tell us all what the hell is going on...
Bowing to Ishiwata, Shinji takes off the rest of his dress to reveal... (click:"takes off the rest of his dress to reveal")[
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Shinji's bare chest. On the one side it is covered in tattoos. The other side is covered in burn scars. He pulls off his long satin gloves. Shinji exposes a black leather glove on the hand that is on the burned side.
SHINJI (shrugs): It's a reunion. I couldn't think of anything else. Now now, don't be upset. Two vats are just water to cool you off. Two more of them might, well, might scald a bit.
Shinji gestures to the vats.
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SHINJI: I mean, I have already made my choice 10 years ago. At this very camp.
Ishwata shifts uncomfortably in his seat but waves to Shinji to get on with it.
Shinji steps over to SAIKO and looks at her feaful eyes.
SHINJI: Our guest Saiko. Would you like to choose?
Saiko closes her eyes shut and shakes her head.
BOOS from the Young gangster men.
SHINJI: She's still getting used to the game. How about you Swagmag reporter? Can you choose correctly which vat gets poured over our precious Taro Ito? Water, scalding wax, or scalding pig grease?
He gestures to the container with a wiff of vapour coming out of it. The Young men erupt in CHEERS.
Two HENCHMEN take the large vat closer to Taro.
Taro starts to sob. Tears flow down Saiko's still bound face. Kimi stares in shock at Tadashi his lips pale and trembling. You stare hard at Shinji.
Silence descends across the room as all eyes turn to Shinji whose laughter starts to rise a notch higher in pitch. Shinji gently, lovingly strokes the scarred skin on the left side of his now exposed chest and neck.
SHINJI: (laughing madly) Oh they didn't warn me... all those years ago... either. Some fucker... (bends down to slap his knee) forgot to dilute...(shouting)
...the fucking hot wax acid before they used it for the damn game!
ISHIWATA: Matsubara-kun! Stop this now! That was a fucking accident! Stop this madness now!
Shinji's face works and twitches in the glare of the spot light.
SHINJI (calmly): But Kenny, this here, this is no accident...this is a regime change.
Shinji lifts up a scarred hand and [[snaps his fingers|ISHWATA TRICKED]]
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YOUR EYES OPEN.
INT. LODGE HALL - IDOL BOYS CAMP - PRESENT DAY - NIGHT
You look to the harsh white spots on a stage. You are tied up on a chair on the stage. You can barely discern as small audience crowd MUMURING in shadowy seats beyond the bright lights.
There is a mumbling beside you. You //look and see// to your left that TARO ITO sits slumped a his chair behind a partial curtain screen. His hands are bound. A blindfold is draped around his neck. (click:"TARO ITO sits slumped a his chair behind a partial curtain screen")[
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Taro nods at you groggily. His face is pasty and his eyes are glazed.
SHINJI WALKS on stage dressed in a black full length frock with frills. His face is painted with garish, goth make-up.
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SHINJI: Mr. Kenny Ishiwata and honoured guests! Lets hear it for his second initiation tonight.
Enthusiastic applauses ripples through a large dining hall.
SHINJI: Welcome to Taro Ito and our Swagmag reporter friend, and Zuki replacement guitarist, Tadashi Kendo.
Sporadic APPLAUSE is mixed with guffaws of derision.
You can make out that some of the young men are dressed in full suits. But they have coloured or black longish hair. Though it is dark they are wearing sunglasses.
In the seats around them are about three dozen older men in various colour suites. They looked weathered, and haggard.
You realize you are in a room full of gangesters.
SHINJI: Welcome to Ishiwata Productions Idol Boys training camp!
RENEWED APPLAUSE. (click:"RENEWED APPLAUSE")[
You see Kenny Ishiwata lean forward, his face becoming puzzled and stern.
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ISHIWATA: Okay Shinji-kun. Tell us all what the hell is going on
Ignoring him, Shinji takes off the rest of his dress to reveal his bare chest. On the one side it is covered in tattoos. The other side is covered in burn scars. He pulls off his long satin gloves. Shinji exposes a black leather glove on the hand that is on the burned side.
SHINJI: Well, Ishiwata, Kenny, my dear guardian of the last 15 years. Since you asked....I have prepared a very special reunion treat for all of us here present.
Two young henchmen roll out two, black arge cylinders barrels. They are set in front of Taro and your chairs with a heavy THUD. You try to lean forward to where Taro is sitting. But his eyes are fixed in horror on Shinji's scars.
SHINJI: Yes you did this to me remember?
TARO: It was a damn accident!
SHINJI: It was fate. I have dealt with it. But, what goes around does come around.
The HENCHMEN untie Taro's bonds and stand him up. Taro breaths heavily as he stares at Shinji.
SHINJI: Our next contest. Taro Ito here will decide which vat he will use. One has water and one has boiing wax.
TARO: No way. I won't!
SHINJI: Come on just like old times. Except it was me sitting in that chair where Reporter Kendo now sits. You have a couple of choices. Choose the vat to pour on yourself and the one to get poured on Kendo.
TARO: Stop this!
SHINJI: One vat has ice cold water; the other, scalding hot wax. If you choose the wax, then y'all go free, with you Taro carrying all the scars that I had to in my life. If you get the water, then Kendo is my recruited press corps reporter for the rest of his career; and you are my performance concert bitch for the rest of your life.
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TARO: I won't choose either, asshole.
SHINJI: Then [[Kimi and your entire band are brought here to do more games|IDOL BOYZ CAMP ALL]].
CHEERING from crowd.
SHINJI: Try again? (click:"Try again")[
Taro looks at you. Then down at the floor. He shakes his head. Seems to zone out.
//YOU Tell Shinji// you will choose the water vat on Taro's behalf.
Shinji nods: Well then everyone, [[please welcome our two newest employees for life! |TADASHI SLAVE WRITER]]
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INT. EXCECUTIVE OFFIVE - SKYSCRAPER - DUSK
BAND MUSIC CONTINUES (O.S.)
Kenny Ishiwata sits at a glass desk in front of a full length window with a view of the city beyond. A walking cane is by his side. His AUTOCOM pings.
TARO (O.S.) (singing): SEPTEMBER SUNRISE, I WALK THE BEACH
ALONE...
AUTOCOM VOICE: You have visitors. Mr. Ishiwata.
Ishiwata starts and grimaces in pain when he tries to stand up too quickly. He has fresh burn scars all along the left side of his face.
Editor Park casually saunters through the heavy oak doors wearing a grey three piece suit. Ishiwata's face tightens.
EDITOR PARK: Well old friend, I guess you are more accessible now that you have less, um, security.
KENNY ISHIWATA: Get the fuck out of my office!
KIMI (O.S.) (singing)
I REACH OUT / AND I POUR MYSELF ON
YOUR FLOOR
Park stops short of Kenny's desk. He stares hard at Ishiwata.
PARK: Thanks to you, I have decided to go into an early retirement.
KENNY ISHIWATA: Ah, yeah, no more trash from you. Don't think I still won't sue you.
TARO AND KIMI (O.S.): I POUR MYSELF ON THE FLOOR...
Park stares at Kenny impassively.
PARK: But Intern Kendo, as you will soon know, took time out to interview Shinji Shibahara as he recovered in the medical ward of Fuchu prison. This whole story is still going to come out Ishiwata kun.
Kenny's face goes pale.
KENNY ISHIWATA: Kuso! Shibahara!
TARO (O.S.): AS YOU BUTTRESS UP YOUR WALLS FOR
THE COMING STORM...
Ishiwata looks up in shock as Park gestures to the door. (click:"Park gestures to the door. ")[
A Korean security guard leads a limping leather clad figure wearing handcuffs over his black gloves into the office.
PARK: There just was not enough evidence to hold Mr. Shibahara more than one month in detention.
The light in the room reveals that SHINJI's face is wrapped in black silk covering thick bandages underneath.
Kenny Ishiwata backs away from his chair in horror.
KENNY ISHIWATA: Take him out!
THE BAND (O.S.): SEE THE WAVES RISE....
SECURITY GUARD: By his own request. Shinji Shibahara is officially released to your custody Mr. Ishiwata.
ISHIWATA: No! What the hell! Get him out of here!
Park silently stands, turns without a word, and walks out the door.
THE BAND (O.S.) (singing): SEE THE WAVES RISE....
The security guard walks out of the room leaving the bandaged figure standing straight and steady in the middle of the office.
TARO (O.S.)
(singing)
COME CRASHING DOWN ON YOUR DESOLATE
SHORE
Shinji's gloved hand pulls a small plush stuffed orca out of his pocket. Half of a madly gleaming smile is visible on Shinji's mangled face.
SHINJI: (rasping) Daddy, I bought you a present.
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Shinji holds out the orca in his gloved hand and [[steps forward to Ishiwata. |GAME OVER]]
]
Unexpectedly, Kimi rolls off the stage into the waiting arms of the crowd who then suspend the lad and carry him aloft, ripping almost all of Kimi's remaining shirt from his body. Kimi is hoisted toward the stage and is basically thrust right onto Tadashi =YOU PLAYER= in the reporters area.
You hoist Kimi up. Security guards on the floor push toward you.
Kimi smiles up at you and says: (click:"and says") ["you can do me big bro'".]
A security team moves into to apprehend Kimi.
Saiko, a woman in her mid-twenties with black hair and red highlights bursts through an outer door into the corridor and Kimi by the arm, "you are all over the screens in Shibuya!"
KIMI: That is so hot sister!
Saiko: You are so grounded little brother!
Saiko turns to you and says: (click:"turns to you and says")[
Thank you so much for catching him. I'm SO sorry.
]
KIMI says to you (click:"says to you")
[
"You are so hawt, reporter kun."
SAIKO: Enough of that Kimi!
You notice that security guards on the way, pushing close through the crowd. You tell Saiko. (click:"You tell Saiko") [
to get moving.
SAIKO: Here, reporter, take my card. I'll be at the [[rehearsal studio at this address. |Rehearsal Studio Firing]]
]
]
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[[Rehearsal Studio Firing]]
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Kimi lets himself be pulled into the older man's ripped chest and abs. Zuki bends forward and licks Kimi's neck. Simultaneously, Zuki steps forward and edges both of their bodies toward the lip of the stage. Kimi then throws his head back in mock ecstasy over Zuki's shoulder, his lips parted.
Watch this early Gackt Camui video of Vanilla live to get the idea:
<a href ="https://youtu.be/xr1iujcd3-A?t=97" target=blank>Vanilla Live - Gackt</a>
Taro moves over to the guitarist, pushes Zuki back with one hand, crouches down to face Kimi. He saves the entire scenario by singing the next verse into Kimi's adoring face making the entire incident seem staged to have relative innocence win the day after all.
Taro strides over to Zuki and shouts at him.
TARO: There is going to be [[hell to pay for this! |Rehearsal Studio Firing]]
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(text-style:"bold","outline")[The Taro Angle]
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//Read this beat page//
These are the main points of the Zuki angle (focus):
-Taro is one of the most prolific lyricists in all of East Asia.
- Taro's songs are original, poetic, with both an indie an commercial appear
- Taro can be reserved and his political views are moderate.
- Taro graduated with top marks in high school and arts college.
- Taro wrote the lyrics to LickStik's tune Trick Boyz and has stated that it was about his frustration with finding a partner in the Queer Soapland scene
- He is the Lickstick band leader
- His sister Saiko is the band manager and his 16 year old nephew Kimi sometimes sings with the band.
Include this clip from our recent promo interview video.
<a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=224" target=blank">Taro Comment 2</a>
View the transcript. (click:"transcript")
[
TARO ITO (Interview): Well you know the difference between a band like lipstick and an idol boy band right is; an idol boy band is a corporate creation. They relentlessly recruit these kids and they rehearse them, and audition them, and build them, and sort of slice it away slice away any piece of individuality, so they become these perfectly packaged little boxes. And then they go send them out on mass to make their millions. Then when they made back the money they get tossed out and make room for the rest.
]
''AND this bit must be included.
-Taro was a member of the idol boys camp with Kenny Ishiwata. He is very closed about his time at the Idol Boyz camp and refuses to discuss much of his past there with anyone.
- Taro also reportedly had a relationship as a youth with his bandmate Zuki
<hr>
//Start writing on a Word or text document file and limit the content to four or five paragraphs max.//
Create and submit your article to LISA, with the file name and title indicating your REAL player name with the ''title Lickstik Preview: Taro Angle''.
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/oio4zl745s2shdtnxx8bs/h?rlkey=0tfaq3hycipocpr4e3i7fwb18&dl=0" target=blank>in the drop box provided</a>//
Note: contact [email protected] to get access to these directory area.//
LISA (O.S.) Are you finished yet? (click:"finished")
[
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/836291e10a173fd6ceb2878ec1fb0fe552f67f59/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f727a377247516b443439576475513d3d2d313336373535353633362e313737376635643338356430613764643932383736343132353932312e6a7067?s=fit&w=500&h=500">
LISA: Make sure the quality is good. Do your proofs.
LISA: Okay if you are fine with this added focus then go get it mocked up and see who gets back to you first: Taro (link-goto: "Taro", "TARO CUT OFF") or Zuki: (link-goto: "Zuki", "ARTY FARTY")
Maybe this will [[draw out some sort of reaction|SHINJI VISIT]] - and more comments- from these Lickstick lads.
LISA: OR, You can always go safer, less lawsuit risk, with the [[Queer Focus]] but frankly, that had better be great because... yawn, that flag is getting old for me.]
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//Read this beat page//
These are the main points of the Zuki angle (focus):
-Zuki is one of the most famboyantly gay rock performers in all of East Asia.
- He is a beloved yaoi sex god who drives most of his fans crazy.
- Zuki is brash, defiant, outspoken, and has radical political views.
- Zuki was kicked out of senior school with oppositional defiant order.
- Zuki wrote the lyrics to LickStik's tune Hikikomori and has stated that the last verse is probably about how he lives his life.
- He is an advid motocross racer.
''AND this bit must be included.
-Zuki was a member of the idol boys camp with Kenny Ishiwata. He had a different last name than Suzuki and he has changed it. This change means that something may have gone down at the Idol Boyz camp (try to get verification about this in a later article.)''''
Also <a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=577" target=blank> this bit from our video interview </a> with Jun.
<hr>
//Start writing on a Word or text document file and limit the content to four or five paragraphs max.//
Create and submit your article to LISA, with the file name and title indicating your REAL player name with the ''title Lickstik Preview: Zuki Angle''.
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/oio4zl745s2shdtnxx8bs/h?rlkey=0tfaq3hycipocpr4e3i7fwb18&dl=0" target=blank>in the drop box provided</a>//
Note: contact [email protected] to get access to these directory area.//
LISA (O.S.) Are you finished yet? (click:"finished")
[
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/836291e10a173fd6ceb2878ec1fb0fe552f67f59/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f727a377247516b443439576475513d3d2d313336373535353633362e313737376635643338356430613764643932383736343132353932312e6a7067?s=fit&w=500&h=500">
LISA: Make sure the quality is good. Do your proofs.
LISA: Okay if you are fine with this focus then go get it mocked up and (link-goto: "see what the the reaction of the story is", "SHINJI VISIT"). Maybe this will draw out some sort of reaction - and more comments- from these Lickstil lads.
LISA: Otherwise add one these perspectives as well:
Focus a on the allegedly sketchy background of [[Taro Ito |Taro Angle]]
OR if that doesn't interest you.
LISA: You can always go safer, less lawsuit risk, with the [[Queer Focus]] but frankly, that had better be great because... yawn, that flag is getting old for me.]
INT. SWAGMAG OFFICE. LATE AFTERNOON.
Taro confronts you.
TARO:
You know the media have been on my ass about this Ishiwata thing. And as I said before, 'no comment'. And yet here you Swagmag guys are reporting on it! You can go to hell Tadashi!
Tara gets up and strides out of the Swagmag office.
//You have to go [[tell the outcome of this meeting to Park |TADASHI FIRED]]//
_____________________________
OPTION SIDETRACK for BACKGROUND
Watch the video interview of a REPORTER from the Free Republic confronting TARO about his past at the Kenny Ishiwata idol boys camp. (external link)
<a href = "https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=358" target=_blank>HERE</a>
See the transcript of the video promo and interview
<a href="https://www.wattpad.com/1369498919-idol-boyz-short-film-lickstik-interviews" target=_blank>here</a>
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(text-style:"bold","outline")[Idol Boyz Game Story]
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/cover/188746860-512-k769075.jpg" width=400 height =600>
//Welcome PLAYER. For this game you are the// ''Swagmag'' //tabloid music and news reporter//'' Tadashi Kondo.''
//You are intelligent, compassionate, and savvy. Your sexual orientation is Queer (you can pick your gender) but in the story docs, Tadashi is Cis-male gay. Just so you know.//
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/3afb5d7f89402bf7f2da2c0f1f065a75b7a0f18d/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f524e6d656145544d5566786a42513d3d2d313336373535353633362e313737363437666235333930383531313739333838373733333537352e6a7067?s=fit&w=400&h=400"
''Navigation ''
//The directions from the narrator are here in italics.
The'' links ''to go to the other places in the game are ''in bold.''
Make sure you are honset will all of your choices.
If you see (external link)
that means you will be brought out of this story into the BIG world out there so see some media in a different page on your browser. Enjoy this media. It gives informative background, BUT, Be sure to navigate back when you are done. //
//The action is in // regular text.
//The person speaking to you will be in full caps//: ex. PARK: Hey there Tadashi!
//It's THAT easy. Get over it, Hon//
//Read TRIGGER WARNING Before you start BELOW.//
(click: "TRIGGER WARNING")
[TRIGGER ALERT: The Idol Boyz game story contains mature themes about sexual orientation/ gender identity characters ( alterantive SOGI characters) and some of the struggle that they face in real life. There will also be graphic and explicit depictions of violence and abuse - not sex so much in the game (sorry!) If you can't handle this then [[exit here |GAME OVER]]
]
_____________________________________
//Do you want to(text-colour:#e5aebf)[ meet the [[Main Characters]]?]
OR
Just
(text-colour:#e5aebf)[[Get right to work? |PARKS OFFER]] and meet the characters along the way.
Either way, we don't really care.
Good luck Kondo-kun//
<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/236900987&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/codytunes" title="CodyTunes" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">CodyTunes</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/codytunes/hikikomori_rev" title="Hikikomori RevMix" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Hikikomori RevMix</a></div>
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<hr>
* Taro won't cooperate and [[you don't have a story |GAME OVER]]
<hr>
* Ishiwata has won. He will sue us [[unless you // join his organization// |GAME OVER]]
<hr>
* Zuki is dead, there is no point in going on. (click:"no point in going on.")[
PARK: Hey son. Looks like you messed up. You got people hurt. [[You destroyed the band. |GAME OVER]]
]
PARK: So Tadashi. Looks like you have gone to the dark side for Ishiwata. I hear you are [[going to be his PR slave |GAME OVER]].
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(text-style:"bold","outline")[Idol Boyz Game Story]
Either you just weren't cut out for this...
[[START OVER |WELCOME]]
Or Ishiwata got what was coming and Lickstik is now world famous.
GAME OVER! (click:"GAME OVER!")[
Thank you for playing. Be sure to check out the <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/story/188746860-idol-boyz">
(text-colour:#e59fe5)[''Idol Boyz Novella on Wattpad by Charles Emery''].</a>
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/cover/188746860-512-k769075.jpg" width=400 height =600>
c BTGWTV Productions](enchant:?page,(text-colour:#427411)+(bg:#a6e7e7))Your Text Here
(text-style:"bold","outline")[The Safe Queer Focus]
//Read this beat page//
These are the main points of the Queer angle (focus):
Check over what is said in this video from Jun, Taro, and Zuki and summarize it with accurate quotes and paraphrase.:
<a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=60" target=blank> Taro video clip </a>
View the Taro transcript: (click: "Taro transcript")
[
TARO ITO (V.O.):
It's not really important who has what sexual orientation in the band per se between us we are a mix and flamboyant doesn't necessarily mean gay. Uh what is more important is the message of the music in that though from a queer perspective, it is the universal struggle of relationships we all feel of someone. ]
<a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=128" target=blank>Zuki video clip </a>
View the Zuki transcript (click:"Zuki transcript")
[
ZUKI SUZUKI (V.O.) Let me tell you first of all a person's sexual orientation is everything of course who you love or even just fucking is an expression of how you spread love and affection to the world. Why keep that submerged under your rice paddy man. I'm freaking proud of being queer.]
<a href="https://youtu.be/M8_h7WLETck?t=91" target=blank>Jun video clip </a>
View the Jun trancript (click: "Jun")
[
JUN PARK (V.O.)
What we do is try to create original and compelling tunes that people can both Groove to and get a message from. Hopefully this empowers lgbtq people across the Empire.]
- Include an analysis on how each of their view contrast and compare.
- Include a commentary of which views you think are most consistent or defiant of the East Asian State moral viewpoints. Cautiously comment on how you think this band may influence these conservative view points.
''DO NOT INCLUDE ANY MENTION OF LickStik's Association with the idol boy camp''.
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Create and submit your article to LISA, with the file name and title indicating your REAL player name with the ''title Lickstik Preview: Taro Angle''.
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LISA (O.S.) Are you finished yet? (click:"finished")
[
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/836291e10a173fd6ceb2878ec1fb0fe552f67f59/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f727a377247516b443439576475513d3d2d313336373535353633362e313737376635643338356430613764643932383736343132353932312e6a7067?s=fit&w=500&h=500">
LISA: Make sure the quality is good. Do your proofs and [[then I will get it to Park |Tadashi Declines]]
]
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INT. Lisa LaFlame's office at Swagmag. Late afternoon
<img src="https://img.wattpad.com/836291e10a173fd6ceb2878ec1fb0fe552f67f59/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f727a377247516b443439576475513d3d2d313336373535353633362e313737376635643338356430613764643932383736343132353932312e6a7067?s=fit&w=500&h=500">
<hr>
LISA LAFLAME: Well Tada, looks like Park really wants to get us sued....Or even killed.
Okay, your choice. But make it juicy this time hon. I'll //try// 'to cover you tender ass.
//Laugh along with her//(click:"Laugh along")[
LISA: Oh my jaded heart, kid. Glad you you don't think I am some kind predatory cougar]
//Don't laugh along with her//(click: "Don't laugh along")[
LISA: You kids these days. Anyway, I was just joking about your tender butt, okay; I don't wanna be cited with workplace harrassment at my age.]
//Make your choice tabloid writer//
[[ZUKI ANGLE]]
[[Taro Angle]]