(Dress Rehearsal) Live Show

[miraclelivemod]

Today's the day. The club meets up and takes a quick train ride down to Hikarizaka, where the Southwest Mall is ready for the festival. Banners with fall trees and leaves are hung, store clerks welcome you and gesture to the deep discounts in their stores, and people in special mall uniforms are giving out everything from maps to tissue packs to promotional eyeshadow swatches. A few stalls around the hallways are set up selling promo goods, if for some reason you need a fall festival shirt, and seasonal snacks like grilled yams and taiyaki.

And then there's the stage. Audio equipment is standing ready and the stage is cordoned off from the crowd, and the light fixtures you've brought in are there to be set up. You've got a little time before your set while the audience is being entertained by the act before you, a group of poorly-dancing kindergarteners who are too cute to boo off the stage. How are you going to spend it?

Comments

[anchornyan]

[Backstage, Ayaka is trying to do vocal drills, but she's got a pen and paper in her hand and keeps being distracted to scribble.]

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah -- oh, how many people do you think are out there? Should I just say "a good-sized crowd?" Or maybe bypass it entirely and go with "a lively crowd?"

[daughterofthemark]

Dame Ayaka. Is there not something else that should have your focus?

[Actually, Arianna should be warming up too instead of bothering people, but eh.]

[anchornyan]

Busted. But I can't help it! A live like this is a great scoop, isn't it? People are gonna be picking up my paper in no time!

[daughterofthemark]

I'm sure it'll be an even better scoop once there has actually been a performance.

[anchornyan]

I feel a little called out.

[daughterofthemark]

[Innocent smile.]

Now, let us warm up our voices.

[anchornyan]

[She slumps a little, stands up straight, and goes back into the vocal warmups. After a bit more of that:]

You're really into this today, aren't you?