Harley’s trick for the night, Humphrey Boswell, works for Euterpe Recording Company. He takes Harley to a hotel. After they have sex Harley showers and improvise lyrics for his next duet with Eric Morton. Humphrey hears him and suggests that he should come up to the studio some day. Harley drags the Humphrey back down to his spot and finds Eric there. They perform together and Humphrey gets the idea to create a boy band.
Humphrey Boswell’s timeline
The infamous manager for Crushed Velvet.
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2938 SE
6 /3 21:002938 SE
6 /3 23:00
An executive at Euterpe hears Harley sing
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2938 SE
8 /3 08:002938 SE
22 /3 16:00
Euterpe Holds Auditions for Catamites to join their Boy Band
Cultural eventThe Executive, Humphrey Boswell, who watched Worley Harper, (or Harley as his name was then,) and Eric Morton perform, went to the CEO of Euterpe Recording Company and pitched putting together a boy band to him. All they needed to do was to find two, or three, more boys.
Within two days they held auditions, for which thousands of boys came to the first round, and then narrowed down the selection. Word of the auditions spread fast, thanks to holographic ads, and also ads in the Dream Program. Many people found it annoying when a random dream character appeared in their shared lucid dream and interrupted their dreamed sex act by telling them about an audition, but almost 90 percent who turned up did so because they saw the dream ad, not the holographic one.
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Aeolus CityAdditional timelines
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2938 SE
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18 /6 23:00
Crushed Velvet record their first album
Artistic creationThey went into the studio just a few days after the public announcement that the group existed. The main reason it took so long to record was the constant power struggle between the band members, lead by Harley, and their manager, Humphrey Boswell. Harley, Eric and Elliot wanted to record the songs that Harley wrote while Humphrey wanted to record the ones by a freelance songwriter that he’d hired, and Charlie pretended to side with his uncle, Humphrey. Lewis tried to stay out of the drama, but almost every day there would be a moment when Charlie and Lewis disappeared, and fifteen minutes later the bathroom would light up with holographic fireworks and then they would come out and the band would record one of Harley’s songs.
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Aeolus City -
2938 SE
22 /6 9:00
Release of “Titanomachy,” the first album of Crushed Velvet
Cultural eventAfter a short period of mixing the album, Euterpe Recording Company released First Album of Crushed Velvet: Titanomachy at the Summer Solstice Festival that year.
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22 /6 19:002938 SE
22 /6 20:00
Crushed Velvet have their first live performance
Cultural eventOn the same day as the release of the album they crossed the equator to Boulder Island for the annual Winter Solstice Festival concert at the Plaza in the center of the island. Humphrey tried to limit it to the band mouthing along with the recording of the three songs that he bought from an outside songwriter. They got a chilly reception from the audience. Then Harley pulled one of his stunts, revealing an orchestra that played a handful of his songs, which they sung live, and the crowd loved it.
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2938 SE
24 /6 08:002938 SE
30 /11 23:00
The Titanomachy Tour
Cultural eventTo promote their first album, Titanomachy, Crushed Velvet went on tour throughout The Trident Coalition plus a few sovereign Hellenistic worlds. They performed songs from the album, stayed at hotels, partied and had lots of sex, both with each other and with groupies. Sex between band members often occurred on stage during concerts, especially during one of Harley’s songs, which had sexually explicit lyrics.
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2938 SE
9 /9 16:00
Demeter makes a bet with Humphrey
Life, Achievement/ WinHumphrey didn’t follow Crushed Velvet on their tour. He turned up for a few of the larger events, but he spent most of the time at his house on Pelops where he would whine to anyone who would listen about how Harley had too much control over the band and that the songwriter that Humphrey hired was so mediocre compared to Harley. One who suffered through Humphrey’s complaining was the nine year old son of his next door neighbor on Pelops. The boy, Demeter Jones, was a bit unusual in that he didn’t try to make any excuse to try to get out of the conversation, but instead bet Humphrey a million Drax that he could make everyone in the Coalition into brilliant songwriters. Then Demeter went to his room and created the Ear Worm Virus.
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Pelops -
2938 SE
11 /9 9:002938 SE
11 /9 23:00
Humphrey joins Crushed Velvet on Dionysos
Cultural eventThe band’s manager, Humphrey Boswell, joined Crushed Velvet on Dionysos for their concert on the stage outside Hotel Silenus. Humphrey claimed it was because the gig there was “such an important part of the tour.” The real reason was so that he could trash the hotel suite and blame it on Harley. He wasn’t very smart about it, since he did it while the band was on stage, so they all had alibis.
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2939 SE
28 /2 9:00
Demeter plays a demo at Euterpe
Plague / EpidemicDemeter Jones created the Ear Worm Virus in the months following his bet with Humphrey Boswell and infected himself with it. Under the influence of the virus he composed a catchy tune, which would therefore contain the virus. He cured himself, which meant he was then immune to it, and then went to the Euterpe Recording Company and played the tune there. Humphrey didn’t think that the song measured up and declared that Demeter lost the bet. Smiling Demeter gave Humphrey a check and left. While the check bounced, Humphrey found himself unable to get a song out of his head at the bank, and everyone at the Euterpe office kept humming a different tune. The people at the bank, who heard Humphrey, soon began humming their own songs, and so on. Demeter didn’t mind letting Humphrey think he’d won the bet, for the time being, as the visit was all about infecting the first group of people with the virus.
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2940 SE
28 /2 02:00
Eric, Charlie, Lewis and Elliot dies during an orgy
Life, DeathThe wrap party for the third album of Crushed Velvet soon turned into an orgy between the band members, while consuming alcohol and sniffing poppers. Their manager, Humphrey Boswell, was guilty of putting the Ear Worm Virus on the second and third albums of the band. Hoping to cover his tracks, Humphrey murdered four out of five band members. Worley Harper was supposed to have died too, but survived and was briefly suspected of the murder.
Location
Semele City