2210/Let's get this party started!

Let's get this party started!
Date of Scene:	11 December 2016
Location:	Plot Room #1
Synopsis:	Sakura, her brother and Yukito <3 got to a concert at Infinity. There Sakura helps Yuzuki with her speaker that is experiencing difficulties due to the Silence card.
Cast of Characters:	Yuzuki Amemori, Sakura Kinomoto

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Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
It's late in the afternoon, raining and cold outside and Yuzu doesn't seem at all bothered by any of this. She's currently sitting in a building near the school, still in her uniform. It looks like she's been crawling around setting up wiring and everything else. Finally ,she finshes or at least she's sure she has! Fingers prodding around on the control panel, she slides a few of the settings up, listening for any feedback, then scowls. Sitting at the control panel proper, she makes a few adjustents and crawls back under. "This stupid thing isn't playing anything. Did one of the wires get crimped?" She grabs the wires and starts to crawl along the floor, trailing her fingers and looking for any kinks or damage.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto was mentally squealing with delight. Toya and Yukito had agreed to help, both of them were the kind of students who would help others. And Toya had brought his little sister, who was totally thrilled to be going with her big crush, Yukito. He was just so kind. He'd even given her a lil candy which made her so happy. Granted, when they'd arrived, Sakura had been temporarily been swarmed by upper classmen who said 'she's so cute!' but they'd eventually gotten through.

"Stay out of trouble, monster." Toya said.

"I'm not a monster!" she whined as they went up to the stage to start helping them set up. Which left Sakura alone. She walked around a little, before stopping to watch Yuzuki work.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori finishes running her fingers along the whole run of wire and stands up, running her fingers through her hair. She walks back and forth along the wire, poking at it with her foot to see if anything comes loose. Eventually she makes her way towards the console again and begins checking the ports. She even fishes around in her bag and pulls out more tools!

The sound of people approaching gets her to lift her head. She waves to the three of them and says, "Hey, sound test is a bit broken, something went wrong. Sorry!" she then whacks the back of the console while saying at a normal tone, "All of the reads are right, I don't get what's happening."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Toya nodded, moving up by the machine, hunching down. "Let's see..." he mumbled. Yup, always willing to help and underclassman in need. He started checking the wires and offering suggestions. Good ones, but ones she'd likely already tried.

Sakura, on the other hand was now staring at the box. Oh dear. She could feel it. A card was here! She could feel it. How was she supposed to capture it, though, if Toya and the others were here? Answer? She couldn't! She needed to find out what card it was, first. "Can I look at it?"

"Oh? Do you know how any of this works?"

"Err... the cords are color coded?" she guessed.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori sighs and bangs her head on the back of the panel and then leans back, hands crossed behind her head. "This never happens, usually these systems are so easy to mess with." She nudges the panel with her foot before asking, "Think the speakers and the panel are on separate circuits maybe? Might explain why they're all quiet while everything else is working?"

She resists the urge to smack the panel a few more times. Looking back to Sakura, she nods, "Not really, some of them are, but a lot of it is just plain black wires." She shrugs and scoots back, "If you see scorch marks that I missed let me know though."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
They both take a good long look at it, but shake their heads. "I'm not seeing anything wrong with it. Is there a spare that we can use?" Toya got up. "Or maybe we could try hooking it up to a different system? Maybe the socked it's in is busted?" He crossed his arms and seemed clueless.

Sakura perked up. "If there's a spare, maybe you could all go grab it! I could watch the system while you're gone, if you like."

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori leans forward and looks at the wires for a moment, poking at them one more time before standing up. Gesturing towards the door, she says, "There's a trailer out there, a little pull one that has some spare wires and a few other parts. Can you grab that for me please? I'm going to pull the guts out of this thing and make sure something's not burned out inside."

She looks to Sakura and smiles, "It's fine, it's fine! Shouldn't take too much longer."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
The two nod and Sakura gives a nervous grin. "Maybe... you should help them? So, errr, they grab the right one? Possibly?" she offered. "I can watch your equipment, really." If/when she pulled out the guys, she'd find... a picture of a strange, purple woman drawn on the inside? She had a finger over hmer mouth in the 'hush' sign.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori shakes her head and laughs, smacking her hand on the side paneling before glaring at it. "This thing always gives me problems, I think I need to tear all the wires out one of these days and just start over." She hesitates, still staring a hole into it. "I mean I would if I didn't think I'd somehow light it on fire doing that. Full rewires are a pain."

Crouching down, she pulls on the panel and starts to check through the wires to make sure nothing is burned out, gnawed on or otherwise damaged. Then she looks over at the panel at the painted image. Poking it with a finger, she calls over to Sakura, "You didn't see anyone hanging around or trying to get away before we got here did you?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto shakes her head. "W-what? no! I didn't, I just--"

And then silence. Sakura's mouth was moving, but no sound came out. Her eyes widened and she looked around, trying to find the source of the silence. If yuzuki looked down, she'd see that the hand on the stereo had moved slightly.

And it was complete silence. She couldn't even hear her heartbeat, or the sounds of others working, the creak of the wood under foot. Nothing.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori looks confused and calls over her shoulder, "Kinomoto?" before turning her head to see her seeming confused and you know, not making any noise. She pauses and looks around. Slamming the case shut, she stands up and tries to find out what's causing the problem! It's only when she turns back on seeing nothing that she notices that the painted image has moved even a little.

There's a moment where she decides whether or not it's that kind of attack. Then she gets what she figures is a better idea. Licking her thumb, she draws it across the painting, trying to smear it out. Classy.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
It works! The drawing is gone... and instead on her. Her hand now holds it, on the back of her hand. The woman stands, her hand in the constant sign of silence.

Sakura stands there, trying to speak, her mouth moving, but no words coming out. She looks pretty frantic though, shaking her head and her mouth moving rapidly as she tries to figure out what to do.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori tilts her head from one side, to the other and says to no one in particular whether she's heard or not, "I bet I could stress test this thing." There's a moment's hesitation when her head snaps around, like she's looking for someone. Then she pinches herself. She doesn't offer an explanation for those things either. Instead she tries to grip the thing in her other hand, wondering if it's malleable or if it's something more ethereal.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto stared at her, then gave her an apologetic look. She then ran forward, grabbing Yuzuki's hand, trying to haul her away. Yuzuki might notice that Sakura's brother and friend are making their way back, with the trailer. But then they were silent, so nothing was coming from it.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori shakes her hand a few times trying to shake the silence off, because she doesn't want to change into an armored samurai in front of two upper classmen and a younger classmate. Shake...shakeshake. Then she's being tugged away by Sakura and she follows for now, a curious look on her features and maybe one of an idea formulating in her head. For being a smart girl, sometimes she's slow on the pickup. She'll blame magic breaking too many of the rules she learns.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto ran off with the girl, outside, looking around before dragging her to an alleyway. She then... let the girl go and ran away? Once she was far away enough, she began her chant. Why? Because she could talk and hear outside of the range. Even if Yuzuki couldn't.

A magic circle formed under her and her wand appeared in her hand a moment later. She then drew a card and... Yuzuki could hear her voice again! But nothing else. Despite their being a crowd outside, the wind, the birds, she could hear none of it. Just... a voice. And it wasn't even her voice. Sakura made her way back. "I'm so, so, so sorry!"

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori looks confused and shakes her hand a few more times. It gives her the sensation that she's doing something even if she's really not. "What is this?" She asks, trying to ignore the oddity of hearing another voice as herself. That's not the weirdest voice she's had in her memories after all! Not that she particularly comments on that.

Looking to the crowd around the entrance, she keeps her voice down either way and asks, "Do you know what's doing this then?" Leaving it to the younger girl to fill her in since she does seem in on it. "If not, I may have an idea. Probably won't work, but hey."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto gulped and nodded. "Y-yes. It's a clow card. I'm not sure which one, but... ummmm... I'm really sorry! O-oh? You do? What do you have in mind?" she asked, staring at the girl.

She looked a tad nervous. Not surprising, considering she had just revealed the fact she was magic to her brother's friend. "A-ah! and please don't tell my big brother! H-he'll get worried if he knows!"

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori stops and asks, "This is a card?" pointing to where she last saw the thing. There's a beat and she asks, "What do you normally do with them? My method involves fire and I'm hesitant to try and angle a flintlock on my own arm-" beat, "And I don't think you'd want to try and heft it." Then there's the question about where she's going to get a flintlock. She's silent for a few moments and says, "You didn't hear that. I won't say anything though. I already know one other normal guy who thinks he should get into fights with these kind of things and-" she stops, "ANYWAY! Yeah, ideas?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto blinked and shook her head. "No no no! Don't shoot yourself! I used the voice card to give us speech! It's feeding off my own magic to allow us to talk! I, ummmm..." She held up her wand. "Just... hold still. Please." She lifted the wand into the air. "It won't hurt! I swear!"

She took a deep breath and... "Return to your true form! Clow card!"

The sounds of the wind picked up, the first time she'd heard them since it got on her. The magic of the card then flowed up and out, forming into a magical card and then solidifying, gently falling to Sakura's hands. She gave a sigh of relief, before urking. "So... ummmm... won't... say a word?" Did she leave the stereo on? If so, it was so blaring now.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori looks confused and says, "Shoot myself? What no, it's just a big heavy chunk of wood so it would be hard to hold right." Beat, "Sure sure, I can stand still. That's easy." She holds both hands up, shifting from foot to foot. When there's a blatant display of magic, she says, "Huh neat, you don't even have to do magical steps and wear a lot of armor for that. Wonder if Se--saying something to a colleague would let me do some of the neat earth stuff without changing."

It's probably not hard to guess that she's new to the magic thing.

The stereo system is on, but since it's a sound check, there's just the sound of speakers turned up loud without input. Pointing ot the door she says, "Come on, let's go before someone blows a speaker out now!"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto blinked a few times. "W-wait, you can do magic, too?" she asked softly, then leto ut a sigh of relief. "O-oh. OH! that's great!" That meant her secret was safe! Yes!

She was a little too trusting.

Then she looked back and... "Ah! Right!" She ran after the girl, to get back inside. Toya and Yukito were working on the machine, or rather, turning it down. "Oh, there you two are. I'm not sure what we did, but it seems to work now," her brother said. "I hope the little monster didn't cause you any problems."

Sakura blinked, then... "I'm not a monsteR!"

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori shrugs and twirls her finger, "It's magic, I can do it, but I have to go through this whole couple of steps to do it and then I'm stuck with a legacy of my past self who had a strange sense of humor." She huffs and mutters, "Still need to see if I can get a smaller sword." Beat, "You didn't hear that."

The two others working on her kit are given a wave, "A breaker was flipped, I just had to check over them." That's disregarding that it was clearly turned on and would be on the same circuit AND that she doesn't have the keys more than likely. Thanks though!" stepping over to the stand, she makes a few dial adjustments, turning it down properly first and pointing over to a mic, "So! Could one of you go over to the mic and uh... sing or talk or whatever into it please?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto stared at her. A smaller sword? Wow. She was one of those magical girls! So cool! She grinned wide and then glanced up to the stage. Yukito took the stage and Sakura gasped.

Her eyes went wide, hearts for eyes. She clasped her hands together as he coughed. "Testing. Testing. One two three."

"Oh Yukito-kun, that was so perfect," she said softly, her heart thumping.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori holds her hand up and makes a few adjustments with the other, then says into a small mic at the stand, "One more time please" which pipes the sound to a small speaker set up on stage just for this. She then fiddles with a few more settings on a whim.

Watching Sakura from the corner of her eyes, she asks in an undertone, hand over the mic, "Aiming high?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto stared up with hearts for eyes, swooning. Then she said that. Her cheeks turned scarlet and she shook her head. "W-what? No! I-I wasn't, I mean, I never, I-I just thought that, wlel, he's, really a, I mean, he does the, there's just, errr... y-yes..." she squeaked, her cheeks almost burning.

Fortunately, her brother was stil lchecking the wiring and missing all this.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori snrks as she works, making a few more adjustments to the audio. "Well I guess he's cute if that's your thing. Good luck?" She offers, crouching down under the booth to get to work. "I knew another girl like you, big into snakes. She was following me around instead though." There's a moment of silence as she makes a few adjustments before she continues, "I'm not as dense as I act." beat, "Mostly." beat again, "I haven't seen her in some time though, I think tests are eating her free time."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded, blushing. Nevermind the fact she was crushing on someone seven years her senior. She gave a rapid nod, smiling. "T-thank you! Ummmm, snakes? I, errr, know a person like that. They scare me, though," she said sheepishly. "But... but if she likes them, that's good, right?" she said with a weak smile. "Heh heh..." She then turned back to yukito to resume her pining.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori gently reaches out and patpats the girl's head before ducking her head back into the wiring. "I like snakes personally, neat animals. Kind of mean sometimes too though. At least they usually have the decency to warn you." She pulls a piece of wire loos and leans back to hold it up in the light while adding, "I like mice and rats too unless they're chewing on my wires. Why do they even do that." She sighs and uses a wire stripper to trim and clean the wire up before replacing it. "The snake girl always acted just as nervous, it was cute." She laughs and says teasingly, "Think he's noticed?" while looking to her.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded. "Wow. There are so many cool people... huh? Ummm... no. I-I don't think he has. B-but I'll tell him one day," she said fervently. Staring up at him with love struck eyes. "And he's the kindest, sweetest, nicest guy ever..." Of course he was. He and Toya were helping out of the kindness of their hearts after all.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori pulls her head free of the stand, closes it up and pulls her hoodie off to shake it a few times, kicking all of that dust loose. She pulls it back on before leaning over the stand and saying to the mic, "All set." before she brushes an errant bit of dust free before tracing the wires. "Yeah? I'm afraid I've only seen them in passing before now really. We're all the busy busy kinds right?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded, grinning up at her. "Uh huh. Really, really busy. But it's okay, I guess..." She only had about 30 cards to go. She was sure once she had them all, and was finishd, she could confess. Then it'd be oh so simple...

Yeah, like young love was EVER simple. But hope springs eternal.

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori gives the cable a gentle tug a few times, making sure nothing is being yanked around. When she gets to a certain point she gives it a hard yank to test the disconnect. Plugging it back together, she pulls a yen coin and flicks it towards the stage, listening for the coin's ping. Then she smiles to Sakura, "Good luck, hope it goes well." Beat, "Would you three like a drink? The show's not for a while and I'm just a roadie for this one."

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Toya nods. "Yeah. Now that we've got everything settled, we can relax," he said before walking towards her with Yukito. He then glanced to Sakura. "I hope she hasn't been causing you too much trouble."

"I'm not causing her any trouble! I-I told you I'd be on my best behavior!"

Yukito chuckled. "Oh you two. Sakura's a good kid, she'd never cause any trouble."

"Oh yukito..."

Yuzuki Amemori has posed:
Yuzuki Amemori rolls her shoulders and swings her arms out, back and forth. Hands back in her pockets after, she says "She was fine. Just your typical problems when trying to set up a show. Everything's out to mess with you, right?" Looking back towards the room, she asks, "She was fine though, really." Patting herself down, she makes sure she has her stuff, hurries over to grab her satchel and then hurries back over to the group. "So! Where to?"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Toya nodded. "Well, we shouldn't go too far or we'll miss the show. We can get some drinks from the vending machine." He and Yukito took the lead, Sakura and yuzu behind them. Sakura smiled up at the girl.

"Thank you for not saying anything. Toya and Yukito-kun don't know and I'd really rather they never did..."