(Dress Rehearsal) Weekly Log

[miraclelivemod]

It's early November at Harugaizumi International School. Last week, the whole school put on a cultural festival, with the School Idol Club having a performance in the gym. You got a pretty decent turnout, but that's no reason to rest on your laurels; practice and school both continue this week! Have fun, check out the setting, and keep your ears open. You never know what opportunities will pop up for you!



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SUNDAY

[miraclelivemod]

[No class today, but you’ve got practice at the school! Feel free to thread around with each other -- you'll get a visitor later.]

[anchornyan]

[Ayaka's there bright and early at practice, sitting in the club room and tapping her pencil.]

So how do you think we did at the Cultural Festival? A great turnout, right? My article's already written for this month's paper!

[And when they move outside for exercise, she's there stretching with everyone, looking up at the sky.]

At least it looks warm today! It'll be impawssible when it gets cold.

outside

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is in mid-stretch when Ayaka says "impawssible" and immediately breaks down giggling. She loses her balance, and falls over. She's still giggling.]

[anchornyan]

[Ayaka gives a thumbs up.] Hey, don't pull something, senpai!

[eternalfuture]

[Usagi is not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but she's actually up and about without someone calling her to wake her up this morning.]

I think it went really well, Ayaka-chan! We had a lot of people come to see us, and I think we sounded better than we did in the last rehearsal.

[anchornyan]

I know, right? Oh, hey, you're on time today, too! That's a good sign!

outside

[glhf]

[ Miko smirks. ]

No kitten. We'll totally have to relocate.

[anchornyan]

[She lights up and claps.] I knew you'd understand, Miko-nyan. Wonder if we could book the gym that often?

Re: SUNDAY

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

[A few hours before practice, a certain someone is already in the club building. Rita Mordio's personal laptop is connected to multiple light displays she's hooked up over the last several weeks, and she is intently glaring at the information on them. There's also a video of the performance.]

Come on, come on, the glitch has to be somewhere around here...

[Did one of the light displays screw up during the show? Certainly, Rita seems to think so. Everything probably looks fine to most observers, though.]

[anchornyan]

[Ayaka yawns, shuffling in from the library printer The Newspaper Clubroom That Totally Exists with a pile of papers, and stops to blink.]

What are you doing in this early, Rita-nyan?

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Oh. Just noticed one of our light display props didn't run right during the Cultural Festival live.

[... Did she notice WHILE SHE WAS PERFORMING?]

If I'm going to be rigging up light columns and shaped LED displays, I want them working like they're supposed to, so...

[daughterofthemark]

[...

Arianna tries to creep up behind her silently.]

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

All the code looks right, but then why would it not have...

[Programming for the light rigs. It seems pretty complicated, but nothing Arianna couldn't eventually figure out. If she knew the right programming language.]

[nmc0204]

[ Ryoko arrives at practice at a very carefully calculated Just Barely On Time in an attempt to not come off as overly eager. The fact that she's already in her practice clothes with her hair scraped back into a pin-neat ponytail rather ruins the too-cool-for-this image she's going for, though. ]

The Cultural Festival went well enough, but we can't afford to get lazy now. I think we really need to double down on practice and tighten things up.

[ Not that she cares, though. Don't get it twisted. ]

[anchornyan]

That's our Ryoko-nyan! [Ayaka gives a thumbs up from -- did she bring a stack of her own newspapers into the club room, of course she did.] But it was fun, right? You can admit it!

[nmc0204]

[ Ryoko-nyan... at this point she's given up arguing against it. ]

It went better than I was expecting it to. We certainly got a bigger crowd than I imagined we might.

[saltedcarmel]

Did you have suggestions? 'cause I was thinking that you know the bit [Carmel hums part of the song.] our dance moves are a little lackluster so we should maybe change it up. It felt different doing it on the stage, in front of all those people.

[She was in the middle of stretching her legs when Ryoko came in, but she's now leaning forward, propped up in her elbows in an obscene show of how flexible she is. Look, sometimes you've got (1) asset as a school idol and you're gonna keep milking it for all it's worth.]

[nmc0204]

I definitely think it's worth considering. Even if we have them polished to perfection, if our performances aren't interesting to watch then it's all just wasted time and effort. I think we need to start making our choreography more complex if we're going to make any headway at all.

[ She makes it sound so easy...... ]

[eternalfuture]

I know I messed up that one part that went [she hums part of the song] but I don't think too many people noticed? I didn't fall when we did the jump bit, at least!

[nmc0204]

You messed up?

[ It doesn't sound accusatory at least, just concerned. ]

What did you do?

[daughterofthemark]

[The act isn't working on Arianna at all, but that's less because she sees through it than because she hasn't really noticed it in the first place.]

Yes! We shall improve our performance to perfection!

[nmc0204]

[ Even Ryoko already knows that's very... Arianna of her. ]

Let's just focus on improving it enough to get people paying attention to us and not KiSeKi.

YOU HAVE A VISITOR

[miraclelivemod]

[After the club has been practising for a while, you'll hear clacking footsteps and then a knock on the club room door. Before anyone can react, it opens.

The person on the other side is a third-year with glasses and a high bun, holding a clipboard and a small stack of folders. Most, if not all, of you know her -- after all, small school aside, you had to get her permission to even start up the club again. It's the Student Council President, Igarashi Wakaba.]

Oh, you are in today. Good, I won't have to track you all down later. Am I interrupting something, School Idol Club?

[saltedcarmel]

Erm... not really! What's up, Igarashi-kun?

[Haha. Ha. Oh god why's she here did Carmel miss paperwork again.]

[miraclelivemod]

[Wakaba raises her eyebrows, but walks in and opens one of the folders.]

I only wanted to congratulate you on your work at the Cultural Festival. We’ve finished tallying the numbers, and your concert attracted the largest crowd at one time compared to the work of any other class or club this year.

[She takes a paper out of the folder and passes it around to the group. The stats line up as she says, with the biggest crowd at one time going to the School Idol Club’s concert, the largest all-day patron total going to the baseball team’s batting cages, and the highest enrollment form turnout -- that is, recruiting the most prospective students to apply to this school next year -- going to Class 2-A’s play, an impassioned retelling of the story of Uriko-hime that gets derailed by the princess rescuing herself and crashing her own wedding to chase the impostor around with a gigantic paper-mâché sword. The lowest numbers for all three, by the way, went to the Manga Club’s tsundere cafe. Apparently nobody got the joke.]

I'd like to tally any comments you all might have. As the student council, we're interested in how well our clubs and activities are performing.