Lewis’s mother went into labor while visiting Okeanos Pier for the Summer Solstice Festival. Her best friend and the paramedics wanted to take her to hospital, to give birth there, but she refused. She’d come to the pier to watch the rice paper lanterns float up into the night sky from Boulder Island, where people went to celebrate the Winter Solstice Festival, since the planet’s equator was between the island and the mainland. She gave birth to Lewis right there, on the pier, as the lanterns floated from the island. The mother’s friend recorded the event and later showed the holographic recording to Lewis, who did not necessarily want to see that part of his mother.
Lewis Carter’s Timeline
Another one of the members of Crushed Velvet.
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2921 SE
21 /6 20:00
Birth of Lewis Carter
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2936 SE
21 /6 20:002936 SE
22 /6 06:00
Lewis Carter’s Age of Consent Ritual
Life, MilestoneLewis wanted to go out to Boulder Island with his friends who had already turned fifteen, but it was the last tram to go out there for the day, and they only let boys who had a Forearm tattoo to board the tram to the island. Lewis’s tattoo wouldn’t appear for several hours, so he had to watch from Poseidon Beach on the mainland.
As he stood there, waiting for the singing and the lantern release, his forearm felt as if it was on fire and there the tattoo appeared. A ginger Private First Class Marine with a Tantalusian dialect saw the tattoo, brought Lewis to the Catamites’ section of the beach, west of the pier, where the marine made sure that Lewis got a Scanner Medallion, put their clothes in lockers as clothing is not allowed on that part of the beach, and then the marine rode Lewis for hours.
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Poseidon Beach -
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 City -
2938 SE
30 /3 12:00
Five boys form the boyband Crushed Velvet
Life, CareerExecutives at Euterpe Recording Company talked five boys into forming a boy band, which they named Crushed Velvet. Worley Harper was the first one to be discovered by one executive, Humphrey Boswell. Harley – which was Worley’s original name – introduced Humphrey to Eric Morton and showed the two of them performed well together. Humphrey arranged auditions, through which they found Charlie Nash, Lewis Carter and Elliot Waters and together with Harley and Eric they became Crushed Velvet.
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Aeolus City -
2938 SE
2 /4 07:002938 SE
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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Aeolus City -
2938 SE
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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Boulder Island -
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
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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Hotel Silenus -
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