Episode 2: The Dark Hero Strikes Back!

[invisiblelasers]

Crisis averted, folks!  Finally got my hands on a guitar but it's just NOT THE SAME!  Now I know you're all looking forward to an awesome concert (only 3000 HL a ticket), but I'm afraid you're just going to have to wait.  Why?  Because I haven't found a place to live  a sweet concert spot yet.  But, that gives me more than enough time to get my

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[musicpiracy]

What kind did you manage to pick up, geezer?

[invisiblelasers]

Well, if he was, more fans for you. Charity concerts mark a horrible, terrible, gain in character, trust me.

[musicpiracy]

Only if you're playing for money. What the hell do you need money for when you can just take what you want? It's all about the fame. You get famous enough, nobody cares what the hell you do.

[invisiblelasers]

What are you talking about? It's all about what you do! Charge extremely high prices at your concerts, ding-dong-ditch and prank phone call anyone who crosses your way, leave a restaurant without paying, make other people fight your battles, that kind of thing! How else are you supposed to be a role model for kids?

[musicpiracy]

It's all in the music. I show up on stage, play a few power chords, and the whole crowd starts chanting my name. They do what I want them to do one way or another.

[invisiblelasers]

Well duh you've gotta have good music, but you've got to get your name out there! And if you change what you wear or how you act, suddenly everything's gone! Image is everything!

[musicpiracy]

At first, yeah. But you get fifty million fans screaming your name, buying everything you put out, running websites devoted to you, and pretending to be you on the internet, it doesn't really matter what the hell you do. They'll follow me into Hell if I tell them I'm playing a show there.

[invisiblelasers]

And how do you get them to pretend to be you on the internet? You do totally awesome things, of course! The more movies you're in, the more stunts you pull, the more they watch!

Hahahaha... You've only played in the human world?

[musicpiracy]

How the hell do you think I got my start? I only get better at every show. New music. Better songs. Better backup bands. I've been thinking about stage shows, but Alice Cooper isn't as badass as he used to be. And I don't have the fanbase I used to have.

I played one show in the Ghost Zone and this freaking fanboy came up and started clinging to me like I was his only friend in the world. Yeah, I'll stick to the human world where the sheep are a little more willing.

[invisiblelasers]

Well if you're not doing anything new and exciting, of course you're gonna start losing your fanbase.

Ghost Zone, huh? Never played there. Ha! People in the human world are that easy, huh?

[musicpiracy]

That's not what I'm talking about. I played here and nobody knows who the hell I am. It wasn't even that long ago!

Yeah, I would have seen you there if you had. I don't even think you're dead. But soon, I guess! Ugh, seriously. Almost too easy. It only took one song to win them over. That single kept me coasting for months.

[invisiblelasers]

What?! But that doesn't make sense! What if that happens to me?! There doesn't even seem that many people to forget about things!

Of course I'm not dead! That was just some rumor set up by the studio to try and get rid of me! Oh man, this is going to be a cinch! I bet they don't even try to kill you if they don't like the show...

[musicpiracy]

Something's up with this city and I don't like it.

You know a good way to stop the studio from screwing with you? Die, then go solo. Or just don't get in a contract in the first place. Either way. Yeah, they're more likely to kill you if they love it. I've kicked more than one fan in the head to get them off the stage and I'll do it again if I have to.

[invisiblelasers]

Yeah, no kidding.

THE POINT'S NOT TO DIE! I like living!

[musicpiracy]

I've been dead for five years and I don't miss living one bit.

[invisiblelasers]

The rules for your Ghost... Zone... place are probably different! I don't wanna have to reincarnate and start all over again! That takes too long!