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[very_goodman]

[Video - BBS - August 7th]

Heheh! Looks like the heavens decided to apologize for gettin' me all wound up about Mamori a little while ago. I woke up to check my e-mail alerts for new MGDP merch, and there was a program I've never seen installed on my laptop. Somethin' called Singaloid TiKi. I don't remember buyin' it, but it's pretty awesome - one of those vocal editing software packages. And there was even a video already installed! Check this out!

[Barry's already loaded the video onto his phone, so he just switches the feed over to it. Denizens of the Far Shore are treated to a video of what is ostensibly a virtual idol programmed by the software, but the quality of both the video and the sound are so good that it's hard to tell she's not a real person. The actual video he posts doesn't feature the cutaways or the other characters - just Tiki herself, singing the song on a dazzling virtual stage.]

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Pretty amazin', huh! I'm gonna play around with it some more and see if I can come up with some more songs for Sparkle Motion. Remember to come see us at Obon - our show is really gonna blow you away!

[Action - Sparkle Motion - later that day]

Okay, everyone! We've only got a little bit of time left before the big show! Let's give it our best at practice today, and bring this thing home! And if anybody wants to try and write some new songs or come up with some new choreography...

[He turns his laptop around to show them the Singaloid software he'd recorded earlier that day.]

...Tiki here'll be happy to help!

Comments

[very_goodman]

Maybe 'cause I asked permission before puttin' on a big show.

[Hey, give him this one, it's not often Barry gets to needle Hibiki.]

[priforprince]

SHE'S IMPECCABLE!

[ This is not fair. ]

[very_goodman]

Yep, and she's part of the Sparkle Motion family now!

[priforprince]

I refuse to accept this!

[ Hibiki throws an arm out to one side. ]

The goddess cannot descend on the side of the commoners!! That flies in the face of the course of history, in which the weak are vanquished by the strong! For a bonus piece to be added to your board on this stage of the game -

[ Pause for breath. Pause to gather thoughts. Thoughts not coming. Mouth keeps moving. ]

I WILL CRUSH YOUR REVOLUTION.

[ Yeah, she has lost the ability to can. She's just saying stuff that sounds good now to make herself feel better.

That happens, sometimes. ]

[very_goodman]

Uh...

[Wow. This reaction is definitely more than Barry expected. He was just trying to have a little bit of fun, but Hibiki's gone completely around the bend on this.]

...Well, you do you, I guess.

[priforprince]

[ The reason for the depths of Hibiki's distress may become slightly more obvious as she moves to cut the feed: all her paintings are hung crooked. So are her curtains.

In fact, this entire place is looking a little bit Off. Even Hibiki's tie is tied backwards, and Barry will get a nice look at that as she moves in. Power button - power button - ]

Ngh!

[ It won't switch off. The feed won't switch off.

Barry got a Vocal Doll (sort of) and Hibiki got ghosts. ]

[very_goodman]

You, uh...

[He pauses, taking all of that in.]

...you doin' all right? Everything looks a little... wrong. Over there.

[priforprince]

Everything is under control.

[ Everything is out of control.

YOU TOO HAVE BETRAYED HER, POWER BUTTON ]

[very_goodman]

...Was there somethin' else ya wanted to talk about?

[priforprince]

That was all.

[ Except her grand exit was ruined by this stupid - power - button -

Hibiki looks distracted by something off to the corner of her screen. ]

[very_goodman]

...

...

...'kay.

[This is so confusing.]

That your shinki back there or somethin'?

[priforprince]

Hurry up and terminate the call.

[ It's hard to ragequit when your phone won't let you, you know, quit. ]

[very_goodman]

...'kay. 'Later, then.

[click]

[that was weird.]