BACKLOT

[mazu]

Will chuckles in return, his smile gracing his features as he did. "Actually I could do that, if you'd let me." the male police smiled sheepishly, before blinking at them, then glancing down at Goldie. Gesturing with his chin, he pointed it towards the two Grus. "Go on, Gold, how do you say hi?" he grins at the dog, and the dog looked at the two men before raising a paw.



After that, she proceeded to approach the two Grus to allow petting. Will meanwhile glanced at the two Grus, who were obviously having their moods lifted slightly by the sight of dogs. "So.. do you mind telling me about the concert. What are the highlights of the event?" while putting on his best enthusiastic face.

juhai Quingee

[juhai]

Phil stood from the inside of the premises, glancing over at Will then to Ducan, then to the two winged gru's near the storage crates. There really wasn't much to do at the moment so he let the dog sniff around as he leaned on one of the crates. Thankfully the gru's didn't mind the dogs too much, nor their presence.

When he thinks no one was paying attention to him, he makes he takes a look at the side of one of the crates hoping to see some sign, a name, anything familiar at all. He tries to kick it once before running his hands on the edges of it trying to figure out an opening, or any means to peek at what's inside. He wasn't usually a snoop but... his curiosity got the better of him.

mazu  Quingee

[krispini]

"Uh huh, yeah, sounds super interesting," Vivian grunts offhandedly, listening only minutely as she briefly moves off the top of the dumpster to open it up and... strangely, does not gag at the smell. It's gross, in the normal human trash way, but there's also a weird alien smell that neutralizes the stank. At least most of the garbage is compartmentalized in bags. She gets to work.

"Sooo. Where else have they done concerts? Anything super special happening for this one? I love the venue." Viv is focused on investigating the trash (god, how did she get stuck with this) and doesn't really pay attention to what she says.

[ Quingee ]

[yume]

Shock! Horror! She was spotted, who could have foresaw! And that was an awful lot of questions!

Since it came as a surprise that she wasn’t immediately detained, it took Violet a few moments to formulate a reply, enthusiastically nodding along with the Gru’s assumptions.

“Y … yes! I am- fragile goods, that is. Us humans are very squishy. But anyway, there must be a mistake because you most certainly did order one! And it’s very exciting to be here, a big honor!” Once she started talking, the rest of the words flowed out in a rush, but the lies were still heavy on her tongue; deceit was hardly ever her way, coupled with the uncertainty of what answer would be the most appeasing made for a chattery mess of an attempt at deception.

Nonetheless, she took the absence of a hostile response as a positive sign, pushing forward in hopes of starting a conversation and/or get some answers from this beautiful winged creature. “You don’t seem very sure about this cargo. Rough day on the job?”

[ Quingee ]

[beta]

It was imperative that Anastasia investigated the area of the concert hall, for the sake of brigning information back to her employer. However, given that she didn't have a concert ticket of her own, there was only one place she could investigate without raising suspicions: The large and hard to navigate back lot.

Then, she was met with a large fence... Now she had to... climb? Her coat was going to get dirty, and she was doing this on heels? Oh, she should have thought all of this better. In the mean time, she had to remove her heels and put them away on her bag, same thing with her coat. She couldn't risk to get it dirty. Fortunately, Anastasia was thin and tall enough to make something out of 'trying' to make it to the other side, although tumbling as she landed.

Lo and behold, the first place she would even take a look at was... some sort of storage area. Quingee

Anastasia put on her hells again, and walked seemingly aimlessly, texting a couple people.

"Let me know when you're inside." shoujoubrave

"Taking a look at their storage area. There are two aliens with bumblebee wings." @cheri

[redrobyns]

Hideyoshi Nakamura absolutely did not forget to go to one of his cru meetings. He did not.

Which is why he is NOT out here in the back of the newly established concert hall on the country roads. It was also he was not hiding behind a pair of bushes examining the guards stationed in front of the gates, writing down their every move in a small yellow notepad. These guys were huge... if he tried to fight them off they could crush him like grape. That is a possibility. Looking down at his notes the man clicked on his pen repeatedly in thought.

"Hmm... maybe if I could cause a distraction. Or put them out of commission...So maybe.." He paused in thought when he saw a familiar figure. Is that... Raul.

With the sudden realization of the figure Hide slaps his forehead. "Shit! I forgot the meeting..." What a knucklehead he was. The young man poked his head a bit from the bush making sure he wasn't too detectable. He looked down at the ground and found a small rock before picking it up and chucking it at Raul.

"CAW CAWWWWW" He screeched out before hiding back into the bushes trying to subtly get his attention.

Hour

[Pai]

mazu juhai
The two guards were immediately entranced by the utterly adorable trick of the dog, both of them blobbing down smaller to reach out part of their glob-like forms to pet it softly on the head, cooing at it in an unusual (but calm, fond-sounding) noise. "The main event is Yrk, there; they'll be doing the concert--quite a show, y'know; half the quadrant would kill to see it. It'll be a big spectacle, you sit and watch and you experience, y'know. S'not like any sound I bet you earthling've heard before!" The one laughed, while the other seemed too starry-eyed by the dog to speak up.

Phil would spot a few storage crates with labels that read:

A worker with a hardhat was busy stacking them on top of each other, attempting not to notice the human. One of them was sitting open, and it seemed to be filled to the brim with packing peanuts--except, they were glowing.


krispini
"OhOHO, this one's going to be super special, I've heard; a real image-fest, if you catch my dri--WHOOPS."

The small, sluggish Gru quickly detached itself from the side of the dumpster, before curling up in a ball and making it a point to roll underneath; another Gru had just strolled up, having exited from the unmarked building in the back corner of the lot. They were tall and skinny, and carrying a clipboard, and had what appeared to be a bionic eye.

"Excuse me. ATTENTION. Citizen? Hello. You seem to be. Fishing? Through the... dumpster? Do Earthlings have a permit to do such? I was instructed not to let anygru back here. Are you permitted? Did they mean anygru as in only applying to Gru? I do not know what to do. Help. Help. I am confused?"


yume
"Ah! Well, alright, I guess my memo's just outdated, I'd better pick up a new one, later... ehh... what's your designation? Did they give you a number? I hate when they forget to do that. This whole thing's been such a mess to get organized, it's like it's all for the spectacle and nothing for the practicality, y'know? Like are we even investing any time into this planet? Never used to be like this."

They sighed.

"Maybe it's been a rough day. You wanna come with me? I'll get you some designation."


beta
The storage area was full of unusual-shaped crates; they were all smaller in size, and in different block-like shapes, which would almost make one think of pieces from the earth game Tetris. They were stacked precariously together in a way that left no gaps, and a worker Gru seemed to have been put to the task of doing just that on the other side of the wall of crates Anastasia was behind.


Hour redrobyns
The guards stationed were noticeably distracted, and there weren't eyes on many other areas of the backlot by any official-looking means; all other areas of the fence were left right out in the open. While one of the guards glanced up to look at the unusual CAW that had come from the bushes nearby, they didn't seem terribly interested. They'd heard weirder.

[krispini]

For a brief moment, Vivian froze as she was addressed by a Gru that suddenly came out of nowhere, but quickly regained her composure, turning and sticking her head out the top of the dumpster with a disarming smile.

"Oh, dude, I guess you didn't get the memo?" She climbed onto the top of a garbage bag and tried not to die inside when something wet started seeping into her shoe. "I'm the trash screener- corporate shoulda told you I was coming about an hour ago," Vivian said casually, smile still plastered on her face as she gestured with her arms and hands. This was totally coming straight out of her ass.

"Really wish they'd give me better equipment, but budget cuts, y'know? I still have to do my job. Gotta sort out all the valuable things before the company sends all this to the processing plant at the landfill; they don't have the best sorting facilities around here. Really wish they'd adopt some of your tech- it'd make my job a whole lot easier!" She didn't spit her words out at rapid-fire speed, but even if the Gru wanted to get a word in edgewise, there was no way they could. Viv laughed heartily, though not too loud to attract any more attention, and flashed another smile.

"Don't worry about me, I'll just take a little while more before finish up here and get on to my next assignment. You look stressed! Have you taken a break yet?" Fuck. What did Gru like? Soft power? Information dominance? Dogs?? "I heard they got dogs over there, somewhere, for employee entertainment." Her hand gestured vaguely to the rest of the backlot beyond the dumpsters. "You should go! Clear your head! Confusion isn't good for anything, bro." Where the hell was that puffball Gru? Vivian was going to kill them for leaving her high and dry.


[ Quingee ]

[Hour]

Raul was just sighing a little, cause maybe waiting out here was out of his intuition, but after having a rock fall into his peripheral vision, and was was possibly not the best bird impression out there, he looked up to the sky and just thought That's definitely Hide.

He turned to where the rock came from, a pile of bushes as he walked over and crouched nearby it, taking a gander of the guards who seemed to notice but also not care about his effort. "Hey, Hide. If you're going to camp there, maybe don't forget to let me know which bush you're hiding in on chat." He sighed a little. "Are you gonna check out the backside of the building, cause at this point, I'm going keep watch on you."

[ redrobyns ]

[redrobyns]

Hide slowly emerged his head from his bush to give his attention. "What's this? Captain came to pay me a visit? I'm honored! Did ya come out here for lil ol' me?~" Hide's eyes shifted to the guards behind them.

"Dude I've been here for like an hour just watching them to see what their rotations were and they haven't moved since I got here! They suck, the Hulk Hogan lookin' guy picks his nose like... every ten minutes. Well... at least I think that's his nose..." Hide squints at him as processes his findings. He shakes his head to focuse

"So yeah they don't move which is good. I mean, the original plan was to have them battle to the death as I cruise by." Hide laughs before letting out a sigh

"Or y'know... climb over the wall on the other side."

Hour

[Yukari]

Valter had heard about the concert.

Actually that was an understatement - advertisements for the concerts were everywhere that there was absolutely no way no living being for miles wouldn't have heard about it; and no matter how many times he's removed the posters on top of his car, a new one always reappears the next day. It occurred enough times that he had finally decided he was just going to leave the posters there until the concert was over. He had heard about others talking excitedly about it, and wondering how alien music sounded (To think that the aliens even have a concept of music was...interesting), but other than some mild curiosity, Valter was content to just sit the concert out and enjoy a quiet time at home.

It was the day before the concert, and he had been cooking himself dinner at home when he had received the text.

He stared.

        To: Violet Ridley
             This is a rather odd question, Violet.
             Hypothetically speaking or not, trespassing on private property shouldn't be done, regardless of the reason.

He leaned back against the counter, frowning at the message, as he tried to figure out what exactly went through Violet's mind when she typed this. A regular patron to the Phlox Library, he had always known the girl as one with immense curiosity and passion, with a kind of childish wonder that lit up at the mention of how everything around the world works, no matter the topic. Though he had tried to shed off everything that had reminded him of his past, it was difficult not to help her out with her studies, with her strong desire to learn about everything there was in science. She had - at least to him - always seemed to be a girl with good morals, understood her humble place in the world, and sought mostly to understand how everything works.

He received yet another message.

        To: Violet Ridley
             In what circumstances are you speaking of that would require you to do something that would anger another species?
             Hypothetically or not?

Surely she was not--

Wait a second.

Another species?
Festivities?

...Oh bloody hell.

        To: Violet Ridley
            You are not at the concert venue are you.

Shutting off the gas burner and shoving the rest of the ingredients back into the fridge, Valter grabbed his jacket and bicycle'd all the way to the concert venue. To think he would actually set foot in this place was definitely not one of the things that he thought he would be doing tonight, but here he was. He was just about to ask one of the Gru at the entrance - but then stopped. Mentioning Violet would probably be a one-way ticket for her to get caught and shoved off to goodness-knows-where. He wouldn't have that on his conscience.

        To: Violet Ridley
             Where are you?

He couldn't enter the front side, considering his lack of a ticket, but he really had no idea where in the world would the silver-haired girl be. Heading to the back, he started towards the FENCE GATE - but stopped promptly at the sight of the burly-looking Gru, hiding in the shadows of the trailer that had cast over through the fences. Goddammit. Where in the world was Violet? Should he attempt to distract the Gru or something? With what anyway?



[Quingee ] [Text - yume ]

[Hour]

He shook his head at Hide for a second before looking back at the guards. "Oh, so they're like standing guards. I guess if we climbed over, they still wouldn't move, right? Oh- I would've actually wanted to watch that, but we're not the only ones who want to get in there. Are you good at climbing fences cause when I was in university, we'd goof and do that maybe.. Like thrice, ever."

He stood up and beckoned Hide to do the same. "Come on, if anything, I could probably help hoist you up."

[ redrobyns ]

[redrobyns]

Hide gasps shooting his top half out of the bush entirely. "Wait really? Hell yeah! This'll be great!"
Hide hopes out of his bush completely before grabbing Raul's are excitedly and pulling him to the other side of the gate out of sight.

"Sooo... you've climbed fences before? I can't believe you lived a life a crime in your youth. Never would of expected it!" He says as he gets a grip on the fence as well as tucking his foot under it.

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[Hour]

Raul ended up following Hide all the way to the other side of the gate, where there was more outstretch of fence and chainlink surrounding it. He stretched his arms a little anyway, and he'd hope his soccer girls never hear of this story ever. He wants to be a good example to them still. Looking over to Hide who was already climbing, he crossed his arms.

"You haven't?" He smiled a little with a chuckle."Well, when you're surrounded by people who were likely frats, I feel like it's just bound to happen. If I was on my own, I wouldn't dare try. Including right now, but you'd probably not want that."

[ redrobyns ]

[redrobyns]

"I meeeean if you wanna talk to the guards like a total lameo then be my guest but here is where the real party is!"
He says with a laugh as he climbs up the fence even further putting his other leg into the mix.

"I mean I have! But it is already know I'm not an upstanding citizen so honestly? Is anyone surprised?" He turns over to him briefly with a smug expression "Hohoho Raul were you possibly a frat boy? Did you do hella keg stands and hazing in your youth?"

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