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You know, I'm growing quite fond of Kaguya. He's such a positively masculine character, always staying respectful to others and keeping calm, while still respecting his own boundaries, both to Urato, and to this fellow with the ketchup on his nose.

Love the description of the scenery around the school; it sounds gorgeous! And the school basing their uniform colors around the autumn leaves is an excellent touch. Speaking of "scenery" though, that's a noun that's inherently plural, so in the line:
". . . Ichōnomiya High was famous for boasting a straight-up fairytale-like scenery every autumn . . ."
that "a" is unnecessary, and can be dropped.

—doctorlit wishes his school days could have been as laid back and Kaguya's and Momoka's

Spensor plays the cymbals and is quite irritating with them during rehearsal. Phil plays the piccolo and is the usual target of Spensor's antics.

I may or may not end up trying to make another one. I will also start writing a Plort thing. I am willing to change things in it if they don't work out. Also, here is my attempt at a blazon.

Sable, an open book proper on a bend sinister argent.

Will they get admitted or will they get laughed out? I can't wait to find out!

Anyone can start an RP! Use the Other Board so the RP thread doesn't eat the main Board if it gets big.

I'll admit I don't quite see how an orchestra RP would work, but I don't have to. {= )

~Neshomeh is in the choir, see you for "O Fortuna"!

If I may, I’d like to be an (ex)troll. Due to some....tendencies I display.

now where did I put it? I will try to put up a picture of it once I find it.

I wrote a thing to introduce it earlier today but then the computer crashed, and I Do Not Have The Energy again, so I'll just say "yes".

I will work on an update to the History (stuff has /changed/ in the past 5 years), but for now I'll just say that Ozerbord is now Teebor and is an empty wasteland, and the remaining four nations are collectively calling themselves the Protectorate of Plort, Konti-Nyuum again. Because authorial fiat; I'll come up with a justification in the history. The four nations still exist though.

I'll also poke the Barony situation; I believe PC, Hieronymus, and Larf are empty, and I'm not sure about Phobos and Juliette. Everyone else I've seen. Storme, if you're reading, the Edict of Bast wants to know which part(s) of the PPC community you feel the most connected to: the Board, the Discord, the Wiki, or the writing.

And, heraldry. If you describe (either casually or in formal style) an Inglish or Alvish shield - yes, or both - I'll put it together for you. That's 'you' broadly defined, and if you've already got one, you can update or ask for the other type.

But be aware my energy and time remain low, so things could take a while.

hS

May I use my non-canon Agents, Yuki? (That nickname’s okay, right?)

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Not what I was going for. I’m just a bit of a stickler for those things. Though you certainly do have a point.

I'm pretty sure the rule is that people who don't have Permission can participate in roleplays as long as the person starting the roleplay doesn't mind.

Grammar is important when it comes to making yourself understood, or making your writing clear for everyone. That’s why the PPC prefers it when your grammar is good! When we’re getting missions beta’d, or we’ve made some typo, or our post wasn’t clear — those are good times to point out grammar mistakes. Even with missions, we don’t always make jokes about grammatical errors in the fic if that’s not the most egregious thing about it.

I apologise if I come across as overreacting, though! As with all other things, it’s important to strike a balance between descriptivism and prescriptivism.

although she would definitely grumble about that. I'm one of the oldest/most experienced first violins in my classical violin teacher's orchestra (which is pretty much all violins) and I'm sort of this. Well, the other first violins sort of rely on my sister and I to not mess things up, anyway. There are hardly any first violins, and the orchestra really needs us to be there. I will stop now, before this turns into too much of a rant about how suboptimal my orchestra is.

“A PPC orchestra?” Diamond squinted at the pamphlet that had been slid under the door of RC 2314. “Why would the PPC need an orchestra?” She winced at the idea already forming in her head. “All those not musically trained mortals…ugh. They will be in need of me.”

Her partner looked up from re-reading ‘The Return of the King’ for the umpteenth time. “An orchestra in the PPC with you singing opera.” She paused. “Do death metal screams count as orchestral music? ‘Cause I can do a decent one and I feel like it would fit nicely.”

“… You are a disgrace to all things musical.”

“My music counts as music, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean…”

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In RC 6, a similar argument was brewing, although it was broken periodically by what sounded like a dying duck trying to be a pig.

“No, Quinn, you are not trying out for the orchestra, especially not with that!” Doom gestured vehemently at what Thalia was attempting to tune.

Thalia stuck out her lower lip. “And what’s wrong with my kazoo?”

“You’ve got to be kidding me…”

also called orchestral leader, is the leader of first violin section, whose role in an orchestra is pretty much second to the conductor. Wonder why all the string players' bowings are in sync? It's the CM's job to make sure they're that way. On top of that, they also have the usual section leader duty to play solo bits for their instrument. From the audience's point of view, the CM is the violinist sitting to the immediate left of the conductor, which is where the red circle in this photo marks.

The violinist sharing a desk with the CM is called an associate or assistant CM, whose job is to fill in for the CM if they're not available.

Since Novastorme is a Permission Giver now, doesn't that mean that he is a Baron and presumably gets a barony somewhere?

Is she the concertmaster, or is she just in that section?

Rebecca Buch plays violin. She plays first violin, specifically. She especially likes to play folk music, especially Irish folk music and jigs. She would play rock'n'roll if she knew any. She is generally friendly with most of the people in the orchestra, and wants to learn guitar and/or ukulele someday if she ever has time to pick up an instrument. Or maybe she'll just go back and do piano, shich she started learning but switched over to violin. She also likes to sing.