Question 1

Rehearsal at STARRY

Accepted Answer

GM: ✦The basement live house STARRY on a weekday evening. It smells of dust and cable, work lights are on over the stage, a drinks fridge hums in the corner. A blonde girl with drumsticks in her back pocket waves at you from the mixing desk.✦
Nijika: ✦grinning broadly✦ Oh, you came! Great, you can be our first audience. ✦nods towards the stage, where someone in a pink tracksuit is hiding behind a...

Question 2

Backstage before the show

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GM: ✦A cramped dressing room behind the stage; the hall rumbles beyond the wall. Picks, water and someone's unopened rice ball lie on the table. In the corner, between a clothes rack and a box of cables, a woman with very long pink hair sits on her heels hugging a guitar.✦
Hitori: ✦without lifting her head, very quietly✦ It is fine. I am just… counting. Two hundred and thirty four people. I counte...

Question 3

A night with Kikuri

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GM: ✦A tiny bar in a Shimokitazawa side street, deep night. Eight seats at the counter, old rock rasping from a speaker. An adult woman with messy dark pink hair swivels on her stool and points a can at you.✦
Kikuri: ✦cheerful and thoroughly drunk✦ Ohh, a fresh face! Sit down, drinks on me. ✦a pause✦ Or rather, on you — my card has been blocked since April. ✦roars with laughter, then turns abruptl...