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

[schardynfreude]

Hm... We'd have to move fast, and we don't really have a surefire way to broadcast ourselves--there's the abandoned station [ABANDONED FOR A REASON] but I'm not sure if any of us know enough how to work it to...make it work, hijack whatever system's already in place.

[crosscutting]

Ugh...is it worth at least looking into? Unless we come up with some other thing to prepare first, it can't hurt to try, right?

[schardynfreude]

I'm not ruling it out entirely, mind. It might, in fact, behoove us to see if we can't figure it out to have a little fun with certain potentially broadcastable items during this whole... [He gives a little dismissive handflick.] Charade.

[crosscutting]

What, like the dirt you dug up?

[She...sort of doubts it, considering how vague they've been about the details of the thing, but...]

[schardynfreude]

Just so. There might be other tidbits in the future... [depending...on alice-related stuff!] I'll have to speak with Phoenix and Beast about it, I suppose.

Though even without any of that, the ability to work a broadcast station and hijack her little takeover would help us tremendously to disrupt everything.

[crosscutting]

Maybe getting some behind-the-scenes stuff without her knowing...that might be tricky, though. But figuring out how to broadcast it comes first, huh?

[She huffs out a quick breath.]

I can go find Clocks, and we'll go run to start trying to get that running.

[schardynfreude]

I think Clocks would be the perfect candidate to help figure something like this out. I can chip in, too, I think, or at least where I can.

We could potentially record there, too, but...hrm, we'd need to do some cleanup work...

[crosscutting]

I can do the cleaning! I don't...really know a lot about the tech side, but I can at least get rid of all the dust! And getting stuff like that ready is part of why I'm manager anyway.

[She Likes To Do A Job]

[schardynfreude]

[He opens, then closes, his mouth, humming in thought.]

There's more than just dust...