> META
>
> A new month as arrived!
> You have to pay Kaiba’s salary! (-$5.000)
>
> Budget: $100.000
> Date: February 1, 2015
>
> Time ticks forever onwards.
> What’s your plan for the next two weeks?
>
> Idol Task: Kaiba Aoi
> >1 - Have Kaiba work on her SKILL_HERE using the office’s in-house accommodations
> >2 - Have Kaiba train on her SKILL_HERE using an outside trainer / consultant (Cost: $10,000, +10 modifier to the roll)
> >3 - Ask Matsui to find some work appropriate for Kaiba
> >4 - Write-in
>
> Other suggestions
> >Browse social media to check on your agency's idol performance
> >Walk around the agency building and check on the other managers
> >Implement the vlog idea
>
> 2 more months (4 decisions) until your performance review.
>
> Winner
> >2 - Have Kaiba train on her ACTING using an outside trainer / consultant (50 energy, Cost: $10,000, +10 modifier to the roll)
Budget: $100.000 (Gained $5.000, Lost $5.000)
Date: February 1, 2015
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In an effort to build Kaiba’s brand, the marketing department has suggested that Kaiba starts her own vlog – a reoccurring livestream that people can either catch live or watch back later.
The story of a girl’s first steps into a dazzling idol career.
The journey of the kind of girl you normally wouldn’t associate with anything idol-ish, but trying her hardest nevertheless.
You’re sceptical at first, wondering if you should be burdening your idol with this kind of pressure, but the marketing department ensures you that this’ll only take maybe half an hour of Kaiba’s day.
In the end the decision is up to Kaiba, so you call her and ask if she can make the trip to your office where you and a person from the marketing department named Tanabe Kenji will explains the general idea and the kind of expectations they have.
Although Kaiba spends a good fifteen minutes hiding under a table and muttering about how she has never even had a social media account before, she ultimately relents – on the condition that you, her manager, are in the room when she first starts streaming.
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Tanabe Kenji from marketing, a young man with long-hair wrapped into a topknot, visits the IT department to setup the technical end of the livestream while you and Kaiba have a long conversation about the kind of things you can and should not say on the livestream – media training.
Tanabe manages to pull some strings and barely a day later the main Matsuno Inc. Idol Agency main account announces the arrival of a live-vlog of a up-and-coming idol named Kaiba Aoi.
Much to your and Kaiba’s surprise the very first livestream has a viewer count well into the double-digits.
In the first vlog Kaiba talks about her motivations for becoming a idol, how she was a aimless shut-in that applied on a whim, and she wanted to become an idol-like person, but never once believing that she actually would get an opportunity to do so.
You can tell that the first vlog is hard on her as Kaiba is incredibly camera shy and is constantly looking away.
The viewer count slowly ramps up to low triple digits and there is an outpouring of support.
[@BrightHime48123: AAAAAAAAAA KAIBA-CHAN FIGHTING T_T]
[@DarkFlightXx: Ah~ Kaiba-chan. My shadowy angel. Enable donations, I want to support you.]
[@Yadimmmm2: bruh, look at those tits BoobaEmote]
[@Waterbottle5221: At least she seems more like a person than most idols. Good luck.]
[@LittleFlowerr9: pwq you can do it kaiba-san!!!!!!!!!]
A short while later, Kaiba’s fingers hover uncertainly over the keyboard and she ends the stream.
She visibly deflates, sags into the chair a bit, and holds up her hands – they are trembling.
“It’s done?” you ask from a short distance away.
“Y-yeh,” she stammers, her voice cracking.
“What’s wrong?” you say, “It went super well.”
“Y-yeah,” she says, her voice strained with emotion, “So many people supported me. In school nobody even wanted to talk to me.”
Kaiba places her face in her hands and sobs quietly.
You step forward and crouch down to embrace her in a hug, “You did great, Kaiba-san,” you say while Kaiba tears up and leans into your shoulder, “I know it wasn’t easy for you. Thank you for your hard work.”
You notice something on the edge of your vision, the chatroom surges with a burst of messages.
A tinge of panic sweeps through you, “Ah, Kaiba-san, I think the stream is still going,” you say.
Kaiba darts up, “Eh?” she shouts, then hastily lunges forward to smash a bunch of buttons to end the stream, “No, no, no!”
[Stream Ended]
[@DarkFlightXx: ENABLE DONATIONS AND SUPERCHATS]
[@Yadimmmm2: fake and gay? that end must’ve been a setup?]
[@BrightHime48123: T_T UWAAAA KAIBA-CHAN. WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT]
[@EmikoDesuu55: MANAGER-SAN TAKE CARE OF OUR KAIBA-CHAN x3]
[@YaBoiKyoji: i feel bad for her, fighting kaiba-chan]
Well, that was embarrassing.
You thank Kaiba again for her work and send her home.