CH 16: Moving on... (Mai and Kendall)

[sasqaricious]

"I personally do not care what they think. But I do like that you are concerned about me. Like I said I am in this for a dream my parents had, not mine, but I must try to fulfill that wish."

[Dome]

"Of course I'm concerned. I care about you," he says taking her hand and kissing the back of it. "So, what do you want to do?"

[sasqaricious]

"I am a performer, I will react the best I can to whatever happens."

[Dome]

Kendall's face flashes complete confusion. He raises an eyebrow and then says, "so here we go then," almost questioningly as he extends his hand to her and turns his back to the street, so he is now facing the building.

[sasqaricious]

She accepts his hand and walks towards the building!

[Dome]

When they reach the building Kendall says, "Guess we both need to see the producers, huh," and he steers her towards where they procuder's office is located.

[Renekin Skywalker]

Kendall gets directed to the technical director while Mei finds herself with the programming director.

For Kendall, it's mostly more of what he had last time. Make sure the connections work. They need a certain baud rate, etc.

For Mei, they're giving her the times to meet up with her choreographers for the next set of shows.

[sasqaricious]

Mei heads towards her choreographer and introduces herself to him when it is her time to meet. While waiting for that to happen she goes through some warm-ups while waiting for him to speak to her.

Professional Dance – [dice=100]/75%
Professional Singing – [dice=100]/75%

She goes through a nice dance routine before finding a song to suit it.[rand=610059615558797509877192778584054206445362071315591873518245505149]

[Dome]

Kendall asks for a piece of paper, and makes notes of everything they ask of him. He explains whats doable and whats not.

Once done he tries to find Mei.

[Renekin Skywalker]

Kendall makes the meeting sound so brief... But, with his marching orders set, Kendall finds out Mei's at a dancing studio and isn't to be disturbed at the moment. He was pointed to a communications room to get to work - a whole room!

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Well, she didn't have time to find a song. The choreographer clapped his hands. "People!" He says, as the GM imagines they must, given the amount of times it's done on TV. The group of performers all come quiet.

"My name is Arnold Von Trapp. No, not that Von Trapp, so let's keep that on the side. Now, I will be the lead choreographer for this venture. You will be given assignments that may or may not fit your skill. Sadly, no-one cares whether or not it's on your resuméh. They care that you hit it on the head. So, take your assignments with good humour. Especially when the camera rolls. They find you to be too aloof, they'll paint you poorly on the TV, and you don't want that if you want to win."

"OK. So, here are your first assignments. Plus, you will have a group number of my making. Good luck!" He didn't leave time for questions, as he had administrative work with a director. He was pointing and chatting.

"Mei Li!" Called a deep, booming voice. "Terrance Goodkind! This way." Similar names were being called until everyone was paired off.

[sasqaricious]

Mei almost not expecting the paired off part of this but then realizes it is probably all part of the show. As such she follows the person looking at Terrance to see how well he carries himself before rushing up to him and introducing herself. "Hello Terrance, I am Mei and I am looking forward to this."

She smiles politely at him

Charm/Impress - [dice=100]/92% (Pass)
Trust/Intimidate - [dice=100]/40% (Pass)
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[Renekin Skywalker]

"You too?" Terrance smirked. "And here I was the only one. Do you know what we've got yet?"

The guide leading them was not saying much, more like a bouncer type than any kind of choreographer. "You have Joey Jojo." their guide says at the door holding it closed for a moment. "There are cameras on the other side, so have fun on your way in. I say not to be too show-off, since it'll make the choreophraphers think they need to break you, and you don't want that. You want them to work with you. Joey Jojo is predominately Hip hop and interpretive, but he pulls mad stuff out of his hat." He moves out of their way so they can walk in. "At your leisure."

[sasqaricious]

Mei on her way in not wanting to do anything to zany moves in a dance style beckoning Terrance along. She is doing nothing to hide her pleasure of being able to continue on in the show. "Come on Terrance we can do this and show what we are capable of doing."

Dance (pro) - [dice=100]/75% (Pass)[rand=3190753336054294484919444128586456738730252130432528635834731675]

[Dome]

Kendall looks around the room, then begins to work. He uses whatever tools are there since he didn't drive his work truck there. As he works, he thinks, 'Could've sworn I had the day off, but then again, built a machine to save the world, a few connections for some TV show shouldn't be a problem.'

[dice=100]Basic Electronics 57%
[dice=100]General Repair/Maintenance 42%
[dice=100]T.V./Video 42%
[dice=100]Surveillance Systems 47%[rand=274186395580218642453797956320663089329003367994309625502616945047]

[Renekin Skywalker]

Terrance looked a little more nervous, but followed Mei in. The bouncer guy wasn't kidding about the cameras. Big as anything, in the mirrored room. In the middle was a smallish man, wearing subdued sweats. Behind him were another man and woman to help with the practice.

"Alright." Says Joey Jojo, in an impossibly deep bass. "You're gonna have to pull off mad first impressions to make it to the first round. And I'm gonna be the one to give it to you..."

And he proceeds to explain the moves.

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Turns out, it wasn't a problem for Kendall. Well, except for the table leg wobbling that he couldn't generally repair or maintain. Of course, it took more sorting than among the junk at Fixit's warehouse.