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Virtual Stars is the newest and hottest type of rock band, but not just any band. The band members are all part of a popular virtual world on the hottest gaming system. By day the band hunts and levels up like any regular players, but by night they rock out as the most popular idol group in the virtual world. Perhaps the real world too, because the virtual world has spilled out to the real one and whats popular there, is popular outside it.

A new band is forming there's already stepping into the spotlight and are posed to be the biggest hit since the first band idols in Etaina. 1,2,3,4, play was the first band to become famous in and even outside the virtual world. Others have tried to climb to the top and stay there. Will this band be able to make it? To become a virtual star? In real life the band members don't know each other and are clueless to who their online version is. What will happen when they meet?

*warning RP encourages the use of shounen-ai, light yaoi etc. That means guys flirting maybe even kissing other guys! Oh no! Anything more than that must fade to black*

Virtual World:

Etainus

Everything abounds here. Angels, Demons, Aliens, orcs, elves, princess in distress, punk rockers, and of course lots of loot and interaction. There are different Game areas that are different genres of fantasy asnd culture, so many, we can't name them all. Towns and villages link the different areas using mirror portals at non fighting points. Some portals need passwords to get to private areas. One of these private areas is the bands practice level where all their musical needs are met along with some pretty scenery to help inspire them.

Real Life:

Set over in the deep metropolis of japan, technology has advanced a little more than our own. Fast food has gotten faster and more cardboard like, the internet is the main way for interaction these days, but there are still school, shops and homes. Trains, cars and planes are still the methods of transportation they have just gotten a little more teched out.

Characters:


Band:


Other:

Rules:

1. follow all mene's rules!
2. no god modding!
3. No playing other peoples characters! Example: "his fist swung for his face," NOT "He hit his face with his fist."
4. Silverbeam word is to be followed and obeyed! RAAArrrr
5. All OOC please try to keep it in the OOC thread
6. If you are going to be gone more than a day or two, make sure your character is "logged" of Etainus so role playing can continue and do give me a heads up!
7. No god modding, you are not invulnerable and all powerful!
8. Keep all yaoi light and such stuff!

more? if needed.....

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NOT OPEN YET! DO NOT POST TILL IT IS!

NOW IT IS!

Finally he was home. He raced to his game platform and the virtual goggles that sat there seemingly impatient. The lecture had droned on and on! All he wanted to do was to get online and warm up his voice. See if he couldn't improve on some of the bars to their newest song. He settled into his overly large bean bag chair and gently took up the goggles. Placing them all he saw only black, that was until he flipped a switch. A loading screen greeted him logging him in as Windsong, his angelic Healer and white mage, and of course super singer to the newest hit band. They were even getting some attention outside of the game. Nothing like the first band yet. that was epic.

Once the game had finished warming up there was a swirl of light and he was in the game. he had jummped into the world of Etanius. A lively yet small village square appeared before him. Tudor homes and shops stood in clean colors of creme white and yellow, while flowers splashed color from their window boxes. There was a bubbling fountain in front of the ring portal he had just appeared in front of. He could hear it's hum besides the sound of the fountain. other voices sounded in the background. Women gossiped about the newest fashion. A few warriors were showing off their latest weapons. NPC's went along trying to sell their wares.

He smiled walking among them. Maybe he would mingle a bit before going to their secret server or perhaps go and fight some creatures outside of the town.

Logan had already been logged onto the game, in fact he was rarely off of the game as his computer was attached to his hip at all times. He sat in the comfort of his home, which was far from small now that he's gained a large income with his hard work as a programmer. He sits in a state of the art chair helping him be comfortable for hours on end, and of course he had a mini fridge near by where he could not only drink beer but store food as well.

He doesn't quite notice Windsong yet, although he is in the same location. In the game he was quite opposite from his real situation, being a rogue he often pick pocketed. Right now he was doing just that in attempts to get his level up higher, so far though he hadn't been successful in stealing anything of much value.

Riding the bus home from a long day of school and work, Brandon couldnt wait to get online. He loved how he'd steal from the open outside shops around the town. That and the fact he acually had friends online who'd talk to him. Smiling to his self the bus stopped at the bus stop infront of his aparment complex. He walked out and went to his apartment, unlocking the door, then walking inside. He threw his stuff down on the ground and rushed to turn his computer on.

He slipped his goggles on and logged in as Nash. He Appeared in outside of the city, a few people walking around with friends, taking about how they slayed that dragon. Getiing into his charater he yawned loudly. Nash decided he would strool around today and look for someone to talk to.

Aaron closed his office doors. "I'm going home for the day," He called to his secretary. She nodded and returned to her job. She was used to him skipping out like this, but that was okay. When he got home he logged into Etainus like he always did. Where he came in he could hear someone going on about how they killed a dragon. His avatar smiled, he couldn't quite help it though, he was a vampire.

He glanced around taking in who was there. The only one he recognized so far was Nash. From the band, Aaron loved it, being in a virtual band. It was much easier than face-to-face communications. Something about the internet allowed him to forget his fear of crowds and be...well totally fearless, except many interpreted his idea of "fearless" as "cruel".

Might as well talk to Nash. He was the only one right now who was really worth the time. "Hey" He said to the gypsy wondering if anyone else from the band was online right now.

He stepped up to a group that was chatting about some of their mission accomplishments. They made the boss sound huge and invincible of course, you always emphasized how hard ti was, but everyone knew that. It was then that he noticed someone. He took a few steps away from the crows to the said familiar figure. he was behind someone and was he trying to hug them or something,his fingers were at someone's belt.

Windsong shrugged his shoulders and called out to his bandmate. "Hey Damien!" He called cheerfully not realizing he was interrupting him.

Logan's character had been nearly successful at pickpocketing the man in front of him when his in game name was called out, and suddenly the man ahead of him turned back. Damien's hands flung up in the air, with a goofy grin on his face, he whistles now as he walks away towards Windsong.

He links their arms pulling him away from the man who was staring after them, "Thanks for blowing my cover..." Damien mutters under his breath as they walk out of sight, he now removes his arm from Windsong's as he glowers down at him.

He grinned walking away with him, frowning a bit as he tried to figure out what the other meant. "Your cover? were you hiding? Are we in danger? This isn't supposed to be one of the pvp areas..." he looked around wildly seeking a charging swordsman or such.

Damien rolls his eyes at his bandmate, as if he had no idea what class he actually was in this game, "I was trying to pick pocket..." his voice is slightly dry as he looks to Windsong waiting for him to get it. He wondered if he would get a lecture, but it was a game after all, so he must understand to point.

His eyes went a little wide as realization hit him. He gave himself a face palm then looked back to him.

"Dang I'm sorry! I should have realized....Do you want me to help you? Maybe I could distract him and you could try again.?" In his feeling of guilt the need to try and fix what he did arose within him. He turned to go back over to where the man Damien had tried to pick pocket earlier was.

Takumi closed the door of his room, taking off his jacket and hanging it in a small closet. Today was unusually cold, but his room was warm. As always. He wouldn't allow the cold to make his electronics run slowly. Rubbing his hands together, he booted up his computer and connected to the internet.

Fitting his small virtual reality system over his head was easy; it was designed to take up the least space possible and be unnoticeable as possible. Small buds fit into his ears but didn't make them sore, and a microphone attached to them caught nearly every sound he made. Lenses blocked out everything around him and let him see the world that was opening up around him.
He'd logged on to Etainus in the main city, on the edge of a crowd. He was now Thoreau Dempsey, better known as Thor or Dem. A lethal spy. A manager of a hot new band, growing in fame daily and hourly.

He melted back into a shadow of a building, his dark clothing allowing him to blend in and wait. He immediately picked out his band members in the crowd, watching them. It was good for them to get out into public servers and 'mingle' -- if one recognized them, soon dozens more would be talking about them and their music.

Nash looked back and saw his friend, Wyntre. " Ah!! Wyntre!!!" He screamed running over to him and hugging the life out of Wyntre. " I havent seen you in for ever!" He said laughing, and getting off of him. Even though for ever was yesterday, he'd never tell. " Well... How have you been?" Asking, he turned and started to walk where the rest of our buddy's were. Wyntre wasnt the talktive type he and he knew it but he still was a good friend to Nash.

He should've known. He'd brought this down on himself. He really was not one for physical contact so he very firmly pushed Nash off of him. Except Nash was already getting off so Wyntre ended up pushing at empty air. "Nothing changed since yesterday, I hope you know," Wyntre corrected him none-too-gently. Yes, he was undoubtedly friends with the rest of the band, but he didn't act much like it sometimes. Then again, compared to the way he treated strangers the rest of the bands were treated like Kings. Even with his harsh words he still started walking with Nash.

Zero was a little late getting home then usual, he had to stay after class to ask the Professor about the project that everyone's suppose to be working on. But almost as soon as he got home, he was on that computer, on the game. But first, he went and made him a sandwich and got some chips. Which he ate before he put on the necessary equipment. He lift his fingers then, one by one let them fall a couple of times while he waited for the loading screen.

Not before long he was greeted by scenery of the main square. The way everything looked, still made him feel like he just logged into Etainus for the first time. The guise he was was under, went by name of Kei. He didn't choose a last name. Kei raised his arms above his head and stretched while he looked around. The place was just as busy everyday. Perhaps even more so today. Was there something going? Ears twitched in the direction of the group close to him. They were talking about getting a raid together for something. And then his attention switched to someone he recognized walking in front of him.

"Hey Nash!" he said excitedly, careful to speak just loud enough so his words wouldn't come out as mumble with his face mask (cover lower half of face). But not too loud to call attention to the kid who practically wanted to yell the others' name. He didn't even have any sugar today either. Kei went over to Nash, and that's when he noticed practically non-sociable bandmate Wyntre. "Hey!"

Walking with Wyntre we started to whistle a tune, until he heard kei's voice. He sung around on his heel, almost falling down. He gasped and jumped on his friend. " I missed you!" He yelled to the other in his ear. He jumped off and scratched his face. " Anyway... After all of that... Wheres everyone else?!" He asked with a smile on his face. He loved how everyone was friendly in their little group even if some people were a bit anisocial.

Thoreau watched the band start to gather, as they always did.
"Hmm." He mumbled to himself, wondering if he should wait for the two groups to merge or to seek one out.
He liked Nash because he was 'assertive' but friendly, and Kei because he was cute, so he targeted them.

He was staring, but he didn't notice. It felt natural to him to sit silently and observe for long amounts of time, both in game and in real life. He was lucky, for no one noticed him watching from the shadows.
Nash was currently being his spastic self, assaulting Wyntre and Kei with overzealous greetings.

He stepped out as the small group was passing him, falling in step behind them. He draped an arm each around Kei and Nash without saying a word, nodding a hello to Wyntre and offering up one of his devious smiles.

As they walked and talked with each other he felt an arm on his shoulder. Noticing nothing he looked to see who it was. " AH!!! i-i-its Thoreau!" Turing around he huged his manager smiling stupidly. Letting go once again from a band member he grabbed his anti-scoials friend arm. Making it so he was part of this little reuoin. " So how are you! Seen the other guys?" He asked excited as usaul.

Wyntre would've been happy if he was not involved with that...well whatever it was. He only nodded slightly to Kei. When Thor dropped in he glanced over acknowledging the manager's presence. But Nash of course wouldn't have it any other way than close so he grabbed Wyntre's arm and pulled him in to the group making him stumble a bit. He grunted unhappily. "Nash. Let. Go." Wyntre said trying to extricate himself from this little "reunion".

Damien shakes his head at Windsong, "There isn't much point now... I'm sure finds me suspicious..." Although there was a good offer on the table for him right now, and he was more than willing to take advantage of it. "There may be someone else we can try this on though."

Damien searches the busy market to find a purchasing some produce, he eyes him directing Windsong his way, "How about him?" he raises an eyebrow, having a distraction may turn out to be a large pay off, especially when this man appeared to be wealthy.

"uhh, sure I guess." while he wanted to help his friend, thieving still seemed to be a bad thing. Lucky for his band mate friends were definitely first in his mind. He nodded then strode over toward the man Damien had indicated. He strolled up beside him, striking up a conversation.

"Any good sales today?" He asked with only a hint of his nervousness.

Damien grins when Windsong parts ways from him, he is proud of himself having convinced someone like him to do such a deed. He watches from a distance as he strikes up a conversation with the older man. He walks by pretending to be another shopper moving closer and closer to his target.

The wealthy man is inspecting a piece of fruit before him, that is meant to be exotic when he's taken aback by a young man's voice, he does feel the need to chuckle at his question, "Sales? I highly doubt it, feels more like I'm being robbed!" not only was he wealthy but he was stingy too.