Coming soon to Invidia TV...

[cancrymods]

Thanks to the Idol-ON girls doing their darnedest to overtake Esme in popularity and the Dad Squad doing their best to just flat out cancel her, things have been going well for the Executors. There's been no overnight explosion of popularity but thanks to Autumn and Clocks' guidance on this whole celebrity social media thing, things are ticking along quite nicely.

Which is why it's so out of the blue when, one day, the Idol-ON Caw just kind of... explodes. Notifications pour in from people saying they "heard the news" and they're so excited and they can't wait to see how it all goes and blah blah blah. Which is a little confusing because none of you have announced anything. But there's some talk of a announcement on TV... so what could it be?

Things unfortunately become clear once you tune into any of the screens in Invidia. Sure enough, it's not long before a flashy advertisement pops up declaring the start of a little show called Invidia Idol-Off! which will be a light hearted competition between everyone's beloved Esme (introduced with a string of lovingly filmed shots of Esme basically just sitting around and looking pretty) and the cute newcomers Idol-ON (who are introduced with a few supercut shots from a few of their videos, introducing each off the girls in turn). The winner will get to take her place at the top of Invidia and the losers... Well, they'll get to stay on the bottom. That's how a competition works after all.

The advertisement continues hyping this up for a bit before ending on a decisive "More information coming soon!" and the usual stream of Esme content continuing like normal.

This is all well and good but... well, I don't need to tell you that no one signed up to or agreed to this. So just what could be going on?

Comments

[discutio]

I was thinking more to the tune of breaking her power at its base. Set her up to fail, or better yet make her lash out and show her true face to those who idolize her.

Serves the purpose of winning at her own game, and more importantly it makes her possible to defeat.

[crypddyd]

Sabatoge her performace perhaps?

[discutio]

That was indeed my first thought. Perhaps sneak backstage and switch around a few wires, manipulate the sound or lighting, something like that. Something to frustrate her and throw her off, that either her performance suffers or she snaps.

This is, of course, all not yet taking into consideration whatever she might have planned for us in turn.

[crypddyd]

Having her fumble on stage would mean she can not hide it... even if she lost the contest directly if it was done 'off-screen' it may not matter as much as we would like.

I see. Yes, that would be better. If she did plan for this though all the more reason to have countermeasures. If she has secondary equipment we destroy it. If she has doubles we capture or distract them. We know her goals and we have the numbers- so we can defeat her, I'm sure of it.

[discutio]

I don't want to sink to her level by any means; no collateral damage that can't be repaired and no injuries so long as we can help it. This definitely requires a touch of more subtle defamation to show those who adore her the truth of their idol.