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Limbo – Executor House

[ So with the Destroy Esme plan well underway, Rei's decided it's time for her to buckle down and get busy too. She's more or less fully recovered from Esme's last attempt to get rid of the group and knowing that makes her even more determined to actually help out, rather than just lay around being a burden. How she's actually going to do that, though...

Uh, she'll figure it out as she goes.

The fellow occupants of Executor House will find Rei's back in her usual spot in the room with All Her Idol Material and this time she's taking furious notes. She's got a couple of fashion magazines too, that she's tabbed and highlighted like a goddamn college textbook and she's muttering to herself over her notes as she goes. ]

Maybe... rainbows? No, there's not enough of us for that... but Autumn and Clocks both said colours would be good...

[ Please get her out of her head. ]

Invidia – Mall

[ Rei's second least favourite place in all of Purgatory! Yay! But she's got to at least get an outfit together if they're going to perform as idols so here she is. She's got a little list in hand of everyone's colours and what she thinks they might look good in and she's hauling a whole backpack full of random crud from Limbo to trade for it. She's fully prepared!

... Except she's also a little paralyzed for choice. She's glancing back and forth between all the billion and one shops, list clutched in an iron grip, and starting to look a little panicked. ]

Where am I even supposed to start?

Invidia – Streets

[ So. Now she's all dressed up, Rei know what she needs to do. She's made up and photocopied a bunch of fliers for the group and now she's stood anywhere that looks busy and is doing her best to hand them out. What? They do it on TV! She's seen it herself! So it's certain to work.

... is what she's like to think, but even in her very cutest idol getup, none of the Spectres are paying attention to her, even as she tries to hand them fliers. It's maybe not helped by the fact that Rei... has anxiety. ]

Um... hello? Excuse me, I was hoping you... ah... sorry... U–um! Excuse me please take one of– ... never mind then... Hello...? Excuse me...?

[ This goes on for a bit, until Rei finally reaches the end of her patience. She sucks in a breath and then, without looking, she thrusts out a flier directly into a passer-by and just... yells at them. ]

HELLO! EXCUSE ME! PLEASE TAKE ONE OF THESE AND SUPPORT OUR GROUP WE'RE WORKING VERY HARD THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[ This all comes out in a rush, like she's worried whoever she's managed to stop will just walk off before she can finish. A little out of breath, she looks up to see who it is that's finally stopped to pay attention and...

Oh. That's just one of her fellow Executors. ]

... ah...

Invidia – Park

[ After a long hard day of being social and accidentally yelling at her friends, Rei's still not done. She takes herself over to the park where it's... relatively quiet compared to the rest of the city and sets her phone up on one of the benches to play what looks like a video – some idol choreography it looks like. She watches it a few times to try and get it down and then she backs up a bit and tries to follow along. She's certainly not bad – she's got the athletics side of dancing down, but she's sort of missing some of the natural grace she usually has as an Executor. Thanks to that, she trips and stumbles a few times when going over the more tricky parts of the footwork and every time she flushes red with transparent frustration.

She has to get this right. There's no other way she can help right now, so she has to. ]