#and when they'll tour the us i'll be in france...

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NOVA MISSION 006 (PART 1 OF 2)

SCHEDULE TYPE: TRIMESTER SCHEDULE RESTRICTIONS: cannot be paired with another trimester schedule, unless stated otherwise. for reference as to whether your muse is eligible for this event, please click over HERE.

early morning, on JULY 8, the members of NOVA are met by their manager, GEUM SHINHYE, straight in their practice room. she's accompanied by a new female assistant who's tasked to give each girl a care package full of vitamins gummy and various drinks supposed to stimulate health and energy. "first, meet, JI NAEUN", she's a university student part timing with us this summer and has been appointed as my assistant for the time being." shinhye begins. "your anniversary, first concert and tour are just around the corner, so i'll just go over the planning with all of you yet again. first, on JULY 10, there will be a casual livestream with the 6 of you to celebrate the group's debut anniversary. we will reveal the fandom names to the fans and you on this day" (ooc note: the post is already up, but as noted on it, it was supposed to be published on july 10) "your anniversary concert will be on JULY 13, during which your characters and place in project origin world will be revealed. that will then be followed by your first tour."

FIRST ANNIVERSARY FANCON INFO

here are the dates and locations of the tour, all relevant information will be added to the official tour document HERE.

JULY 13 - Seoul, South Korea at Jamsil Indoor Stadium

JULY 19 - Yokohama, Japan at K-Arena Yokohama

JULY 21 - Taoyuan, Taiwan at NTSU Arena

JULY 26 - Pak Kret, Thailand at Impact Arena

JULY 30 - Inglewood, USA at Kia Forum

AUGUST 1 - Oakland, USA at Oakland Arena

AUGUST 4 - Newark, USA at Prudential Center

AUGUST 14 - London, UK at Wembley Arena

AUGUST 16 - Paris, France at Zenith Paris

AUGUST 18 - Madrid, Spain at Palacio Vistalegre

the group will generally arrive the day before a concert and leave the following day. if the dates are too close, the group will leave late after the concert. in terms of rooming, the girls will be split in pairs who'll share a hotel room with 2 queen beds.

these pairs will change for each segment of the tour (asia, america and europe) and be used to film content for  SUPER✰NOVA in each country!

not counting seoul, the group will visit 3 cities per continent. in each city, they'll be filming content for SUPER✰NOVA; one pair will visit one or two well known tourist spots, another pair will be tasting local food/drink/snack and the last pair will rest (no filming). here are the pairs and the content they will film

ASIA PAIRS

KIM NAYOUNG & KWON SENA: eat in taoyuan / visit in pak kret

SEO MINSEO & SON NABI: visit in yokohama / eat in park kret

WATANABE MIYU & YU MILAN: eat in yokohama / visit in taoyuan

AMERICA PAIRS

KIM NAYOUNG & SEO MINSEO: visit in inglewood / eat in oakland

KWON SENA & WATANABE MIYU: eat in inglewood / visit in newark

SON NABI & YU MILAN: visit in oakland / eat in newark

EUROPE PAIRS

KIM NAYOUNG - SON NABI: visit in london / eat in paris

KWON SENA - YU MILAN: eat in london / visit in madrid

SEO MINSEO - WATANABE MIYU: visit in paris / eat in madrid

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

"your first concert and tour are a big milestone, but still just another step on your road to success. which means that the company has not only confirmed your NEXT COMEBACK but also given two new songs to LGC GIRLS FN for the 2024 LGC FAMCON. additionally, several projects are in the works for your addition to the project origin verse, including a pre-webtoon ANIMATION that'll take place on NOVA's homeplanet. Yep, you heard me well; NOVA members are not from the same planet as the project origin knights! anyway, you'll receive additional information on this in MID-AUGUST when voice recording for the animated series will begin, until then your free time outside the tour will be split between learning your new songs and taking voice acting lessons!"

GVRL GVNG (lgc girls fn)

INNER DANCE (nova)

LIKE THAT (lgc girls fn)

SUPERWOMAN (nova, animated series' theme song)

line distribution can be found HERE for nova and HERE for LGC GIRLS FN

NABI'S BIRTHDAY LIVESTREAM

"without our nabi celebrating her birthday in AUGUST our spring/summer birthday season will be coming to a close. just like the other girls before you, you'll get to do a TWO HOURS SOLO BIRTHDAY LIVESTREAM. the livestream will be filmed in a room at the company. do not worry, we plan on going all out on the decoration, you'll be blown away! you may choose to do either a TALK, EATING and/or CRAFTING livestream this time around."

NOVASCOPE 

"season 3 began in MAY with your comeback, i'll continue to diligently film the behind the scenes of your various schedules an activities with the assitance of JI NAEUN."

EPISODE 1 (MAY 13): third mini-album recording

EPISODE 2 (MAY 20): allure korea magazine spread behind the scenes [ NAYOUNG ]

EPISODE 3 (MAY 27): first week of promotions behind the scenes

EPISODE 4 (JUNE 3): third mini-album dance rehearsals

EPISODE 5 (JUNE 10):  'GIRLS' CAPITALISM' filming behind the scenes

EPISODE 6 (JUNE 17):  'ETA' filming behind the scenes

EPISODE 7 (JUNE 24): lilybyred cf recording [ NABI ]

EPISODE 8 (JULY 1): cosmopolitan korea magazine spread [ MITZI ]

EPISODE 9 (JULY 8): countdown to first anniversary concert/tour

OTHER Q3 SCHEDULE

JULY 8: passion5 (gift) cf release [ MITZI ]

JULY 9: lee mujin service [ MINSEO ]

JULY 12: passion5 (bread) cf release [ NAYOUNG ]

JULY 17: passion5 (cake) cf release [ MILAN ]

JULY 23: 'somebody' mv release [ MILAN ]

AUGUST 19: 'fall in love' cover [ SKYE ]

AUGUST 22: my favorite teacher [ MILAN ]

AUGUST 28: 'monster' original choreo [ MITZI ]

AUGUST 31: 'solo" cover [ NAYOUNG ]

SEPTEMBER 9: romand brand event [ NAYOUNG ]

SEPTEMBER 12: jaejoong and friends [ MINSEO & MILAN ]

SEPTEMBER 19: lador korea cf release [ MITZI ]

SEPTEMBER 30: 'come back to me' mv release [ NAYOUNG ]

REQUIREMENTS

SUPER✰NOVA:  write a 4 replies (minimum 8 lines) thread about filming content for the show for +6 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE and + 6 NOTORIETY !

FREE THREAD: either continue any thread started in Q2 or start a new thread with 4 replies (minimum 8 lines) written during this trimester for +8 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE and +3 NOTORIETY !

PERSONALIZED SET : for their tour, each girl have been tasked to design a personalized MICROPHONE and IN-EAR MONITOR. the microphone base colors are the girl's individual colors, everything else can be costumized to their liking.  write a 250+ word solo or headcanon on how your muse has costumized their microphone and in-ear monitor about the livestream for +5 NOTORIETY !

NABI'S BIRTHDAY: write a 250+ word solo about the livestream for +5 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE and +3 NOTORIETY ! ** for NABI **

make sure to use the hashtag lgc:novamission for the tasks. you have until SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 at 11:59PM EST to complete the requirements and validate your points. please submit the following form ONCE on the points blog.

MUSE NAME ∙ NOVA MISSION 006 - SUPER✰NOVA: +6 SKILL POINTS DISTRIBUTION + 6 notoriety [ LINK ] - FREE THREAD: +8 SKILL POINTS DISTRIBUTION + 3 notoriety [ LINK ] - PERSONALIZED SET: + 5 notoriety [ LINK ] - NABI'S BIRTHDAY: +5 SKILL POINTS DISTRIBUTION + 3 notoriety [ LINK ] ** for NABI **

[xtruss]

Restrictions Leave US Travelers ‘High and Dry’

— Stacey Lastoe, CNN • Updated 27th June 2020

(CNN) — In downtown Buffalo, New York, crossing the border into Ontario, Canada, used to be as easy as driving one mile across the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River. But that's now a forbidden route.

In the coronavirus era, New York residents and out-of-state road trippers aren't allowed to cross the border for leisure travel.

US citizens have been shut out of their neighboring country to the north and a slew of nations around the world. The latest travel news affecting Americans: The European Union is considering blocking travelers from areas with severe Covid-19 outbreaks after it opens it borders on July 1.

Since the United States has more confirmed coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world, with numbers increasing in some states each day, US travelers are unlikely to be allowed in any time soon.

"The US's chances are close to zero," an EU diplomat told CNN. "With their infection rates ... not even they can believe in that possibility."

As long as the US-Canada border remains closed, visiting Niagara Falls in Ontario won't be possible for US citizens. (LARS HAGBERG/AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

Although potential travel bubbles are being discussed all over the world -- Fiji is the latest in talks to join one with Australia and New Zealand -- the United States has yet to form or join a bubble.

Where does this new world order leave US citizens with a penchant for travel?

Nostalgic for the pre-Covid days when a US passport promised access to much of the world? Anxious of how they'll be perceived -- and received -- by foreign countries when restrictions are eventually loosened?

The future of travel for Americans, and whether they'll be welcome again as tourists, is not clear; in many ways, it's a moot point for as long as travel to certain regions is prohibited.

Uninvited

As many Americans eschew air travel and instead take to the road, they won't be taking the road into Canada. Indeed, travel restrictions for US passport holders at this time far outnumbers the travel possibilities.

And for many people, that's just how it should be.

A trip through Canada is unlikely to be a summer vacation option for Americans while the Covid-19 outbreak in the US continues to swell. )Courtesy Via Rail Canada)

Colleen Friesen, who lives in a small resort town in British Columbia, hopes the US-Canadian border stays closed.

"The majority of Canadians are strongly against allowing Americans into the country due to the US's rampant infection rate. Although some states seem to be managing the pandemic, when we see news of Oklahoma allowing an indoor rally, we just shake our collective heads," Friesen tells CNN Travel via email.

Stacey McKenna, who is based in Colorado, isn't ready to think about international travel of any kind right now, though she stipulates that it's partially because the places on her radar "are extremely vulnerable economically and geographically," and she wouldn't be willing to risk exposing anyone.

"I think if I reach a place where I feel international (or even air) travel would be appropriate, then I'll start asking myself if I think I'd be welcome."

For New York-based travel writer Juliet Izon, who canceled a summer vacation in Italy months ago when there was still a glimmer of hope that things might resume, seeing where the United States is compared with other countries is disheartening and depressing.

Izon believes she'll take the trip to Italy one day but says, "I wouldn't be surprised if in certain countries if they don't allow Americans in for a while or a really strict quarantine for years to come," adding that the United States' handling of Covid-19 was likely to be "another black mark against us."

The other? The state of US politics.

Friesen, who says she appreciates her country's politicians taking a backseat to the scientific and medical community, is scared of the way the virus in the United States "has become politicized."

France is moving through stages of reopening, but US citizens are not yet on the list of countries who can visit. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

But one EU diplomat ,who spoke to CNN earlier in the week on condition of anonymity, calls the US-EU travel decision a very sensitive issue and insists "it is only ever about health."

"For sure, you can see not being on the list as something political, when one country is allowed in and another is not, but this is a misrepresentation of what we are doing. We are looking to open our borders, this is a positive step."

In spite of this statement and the EU diplomat's insistence that "we want people to come," the much-changed travel landscape has some people concerned.

"Rather than thinking about the near future of travel, I've been pondering how all of this will affect xenophobia more generally," says McKenna.

A Holistic Experience

Dennis Geronimus, New York University art history associate professor and chair, has historically combined business and leisure travel, often to Italy. He is not personally concerned about how he'll be received when he travels internationally again -- and he's someone who'll likely be able to travel on certain foreign soils well before other Americans.

This is in large part because of the nature of his travel. Geronimus is typically hosted by international colleagues and admits that it is "different than going on vacation somewhere not knowing anyone and then just diving into the culture and going to see the sites and seeing other foreigners at the sites as well."

At this time, American travelers can't go to Italy and cities such as Rome (above), at least not for pure leisure travel. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

There are steps Geronimus could take now to potentially be granted access forbidden to US leisure travelers, though he'd still be subject to the quarantine.

In any event, though he'd like to see the Raphael exhibition in Rome and collaborate with colleagues in Italy, he's not planning a trip to the region anytime soon.

It might be deemed essential, but Geronimus doesn't see it as essential enough. Instead, the professor would prefer to focus on the measures needed to resume on-site classes at NYU this fall.

Likewise, McKenna, whose background is in medical anthropology and public health, is thinking about other, bigger things: "I'll be honest. I haven't even gotten to the question of whether I think I would feel welcome as an American" since international travel is just not appropriate right now.

Says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, "We've been working with countries all across the world, including our friends in Europe and the EU proper to determine how it is we can best safely reopen international travel. It's important for the United States to get Europeans the capacity to travel back to the United States."

Safety First

It's not about Americans, per se, says New Zealander Elen Turner, though it's hard to ignore the restrictions impacting them along with the number of confirmed Covid deaths and cases.

"I think once the borders reopen properly, New Zealanders will be as welcoming of Americans as they will be with any other travelers," Turner says.

But Friesen, who is troubled by the United States' handling of the pandemic, says, "Given the push back on the pandemic protocols we've seen in the US, we just don't believe that Americans will do the right thing."

As stories of Americans refusing to wear masks -- not even on an airplane in at least one case -- and not practicing social distancing surface, Friesen's skepticism may be justifiable.

While New Zealand may form a travel bubble with Australia, it's unlikely Americans will be allowed in any time soon. (Courtesy Shutterstock)

However, for so many people CNN Travel spoke with, the health and safety of others -- and doing what's right -- is paramount.

Chicago-based photographer and writer Joshua Mellin says: "I think to travel internationally for leisure right now demonstrates a total lack of care, you deserve whatever stares you get."

Mellin adds: "I'm personally of the mind we're all global citizens, but there's still a reality you're not entitled access to a foreign country, you're granted entry."

When it comes to granting foreigners entry, Turner would be comfortable taking cues from the New Zealand government. Right now, returning New Zealand citizens must quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, and no one else is allowed in.

If, down the line, the quarantine was applied to all visitors to New Zealand, what then?

"So if that was to be extended to all arrivals then I think New Zealanders would be fine with that because generally, our government has handled the pandemic well and there's a high degree of trust in them," Turner says.

She adds, however, that she doesn't see this happening, does not envision a New Zealand opening itself up to foreigners until quarantine is no longer necessary.

The idea of a pre-holiday quarantine is the subject of scrutiny anyway.

Last month, when the concept was gaining steam, Alison Hickey, president of Kensington Tours, told CNN Travel "we would not recommend traveling to a destination that has implemented a 14-day self-quarantine requirement."

'We're Reopening'

While enforced quarantines will deter many a traveler, other regions with no quarantines in effect might entice them.

From Mexico and the Caribbean to Turkey, tourist spots around the world are opening back up and encouraging visitors to boot.

US travelers can fly to Mexico, but for many, the risks aren't worth it. Pictured: Parroquia de San Miguell Arcángel in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. (Shutterstock)

Whether hotel promotions or upgrades or relaxed policies on cancellation, the sweet chorus of "we are opening" could potentially jump start what has been a very dark period in the tourism sector.

But just because The Maldives, a luxury destination, is ready to welcome back all visitors with no restrictions (there are also no visa requirements or additional fees), how many US citizens are ready to go?

For many of the US travelers that CNN Travel spoke to for this story, being welcomed or feeling welcome in another country is beside the point.

The danger of exposure and of being exposed looms. And then there's the fear of being stuck somewhere far away.

Elizabeth Lavis, who is originally from upstate New York, found herself scrambling to get out of Vietnam in March amid the outbreak and sudden stringent travel restrictions. That ordeal and what's transpired with the coronavirus since have made Lavis reluctant to go far away from home for the foreseeable future.

California-based writer Melanie Haikan would like to go to Costa Rica at some point and is only eyeing places that are eager for visitors. (Nell Lewis)

California resident Melanie Haiken expresses a desire to help struggling economies as a tourist and is already thinking about her future travels, which include places not so close to home: "As to international travel, I would be ready to travel again in August, but would want to go places that are eager for visitors. I have my eye on Guatemala and Costa Rica, Turkey and Jordan, Scotland, Estonia, and a few other places that seem likely candidates based both on safety and how much their economies depend on tourism."

Turkey, it would seem, is a likely candidate. On June 19, Turkish Airlines relaunched two North American routes to Istanbul with two others (Miami and Los Angeles) following on June 22 and 24 respectively. By late July, three additional US hubs will be operating flights to Turkey.

Any EU travel ban could change things, but as of June 23, when CNN spoke to Connecticut-based Caryn B. Davis about her upcoming trip to the Azores in Portugal, the travel journalist said she is still planning on going, hopefully in the next six weeks.

Pompeo expressed the importance of the economy in travel between the US and the EU, saying "It's important for the United States to get Europeans the capacity to travel back to the United States. It's important, very important for the Europeans to fully reconnect with the American economy as well."

But until safety concerns can be adequately addressed, Mellin doesn't think anyone, US citizen or not, should be going anywhere.

"There's a responsibility of showing respect for other people and places as a traveler that starts at home and is inherently broken by visiting another country during a global pandemic."

But in fact, international travel may resume sooner rather than later in some currently off-limits places. "I'm confident in the coming weeks we'll figure that out as between not only the United States and the EU, but the United States and other parts of the world, too," Pompeo said.

As to what it'll be like?

"I think if anything, when we do travel, it's certainly my hope that we bring that sense of, I guess, empathy to wherever we're going ... ," Geronimus says.

— CNN's James Frater, Michael Conte and Luke McGee contributed reporting to this story.