Loving the attention that we were getting, it was time to watch their offers for advertisements come rolling in. The girls got to get in front of some cameras and feature on television. It served 2 purposes for us. They got to get a lot more exposure and acclimation to humans being there. Others got to see them in the public eye on television doing their thing. Humans might not be able to tell the difference since the AEP units were so new. The PEP units and the androids could though. That got a lot of eyes on Dwan Town. We were an independent clan ran by humans with a whole hoard of PEP units. There was only one AEP unit for each region with a transmission hub. All of them were spread out and helping their sires establish new major clans as part of the next stage. Now they knew what we were up to. It was only supposed to be one addition to the plan of 13. Now that there were 26 of them walking around, things were going to change. Even if they had negative opinions of us, they would think twice before taking an overtly hostile action against us. The government forces... not so much.
When we got some news, I was really surprised. It was time the Jukies again. Time in FOG was dilated so that it was not in real time. 1 second in the real time was a full minute in FOG. That meant that a year passed every 61 days. We really had been playing for over 2 months. That was pretty cool. We were up for a few awards again. It was great. The award ceremony was going to be held in Neo-Rutten City again. I had not been back there since we started in this world. Apparently, we were going to be nominated for even more awards than last time. We were now established in the big industry. Getting nominated was good. We were up for 8 awards. They were Album of the Year("Living Large", 6 C's), Best Pop Vocal Album("Under the Weather", 6 C's), Best Contemporary Instrumental Album("Pure Qualia", Robot Strings), Best Rock Album("Toddlerz", Wild Child; "In our Place", Quadrilaterals), Best Rock Song("Evergreen", Thumpers), Best Recording Package(Paul) and Best Engineered Album-Non-classical("Mechanical Noises", Brianne, Quinn, Maria, Daniel and Cindy") We were happy.
From last time to now, we had gained an additional 2 nominations. I knew people would be really expecting something big. We were asked if there was a performance that we wanted to do. Last time's showing was really well received. I thought that this would be the perfect time to give our Jazzy Gals and the Boy Band their television debut. We were visited by the government. They wanted to do another sweep of the building and interview people. I told them they would not be allowed to do anything without a warrant. The lead investigator smirked and produced one. I stepped aside and let them pass by. They wanted to look at everything from to to bottom. While the agents in black were scouring the place, people that worked for us were being pulled aside for questioning. I knew that this might happen to us so we had searched the building for anything incriminating. We either got rid of it or stored it in the clan building below. As for the PEP units, we wrapped their charge ports with sticky gauze. The thick bandaging made it so it could not be seen. It was easy to come up with a fake injury.
