Alpha Betta and Teammates Meet on Stream, Play R.E.P.O. Until AmaLee’s Internet Drops

V-DERE — Alpha Betta, MaeFae, Kanra Deity and Rio Fukai met on stream as teammates for the first time, playing R.E.P.O. with their team leader, AmaLee, in the first group stream of their team in the Wildcard Club, a new VTuber music project. The session ended when AmaLee’s internet connection failed and she could not get it back.

The call opened with introductions, taken in alphabetical order. Alpha Betta described a fish from the moon who eats potatoes and sings, and said the project’s theme of epic, big songs was the reason to audition. MaeFae, who plays Tekken almost constantly and also loves rock and metal, said the stream was the first time she had met the others as a group; she had spent the half hour before the call fighting a crackling microphone and a Twitch audio dropout on her own channel. Rio Fukai, who introduced as a lionfish singer and the “orange one” among a group of blue and purple models, said English is not a first language and that Cantonese comes first, with Japanese still being learned. Kanra Deity, who streams mostly in Japanese, said she was born and raised in France, called the team like meeting an idol, and said she once copied AmaLee’s thumbnail style when her covers were struggling. A running joke followed: nobody on the team is good at math, and no math is needed for R.E.P.O.

“I love epic songs. I love big songs. I just knew I had to audition.” — Alpha Betta, introducing to the team

After a round of setting up the game’s mods, a private lobby and voice levels, the group played a version of R.E.P.O. updated with a Halloween event and a new monster. Alpha Betta was the first to die and joked that being first was fate for someone named Alpha, then was revived by teammates. The team bought upgrades whose health boosts are shared among everyone, found a secret room selling duct tape grenades, and hauled out items as heavy as a giant Christmas ornament, with the janitor’s laser kicks and a clown among the threats. Later, they piled into the cart and had one member push it along, and one of them declared that the team could do math after all when they added up what to buy.

A network error dropped the lobby about two hours into the broadcast, and Discord trouble kept some of them muted or out of the call. While AmaLee worked on reconnecting, the others filled the time with favorite foods, school stories about failing at math despite trying hard, and an idea for an “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” stream. When AmaLee returned, she said her router was cycling endlessly and ended the session, promising to reschedule and pick the save back up. The remaining teammates said goodbye and kept talking for roughly twenty more minutes about the nerves of meeting, how the team felt comfortable together, and the pre-save for the team leader song due on the 20th. Several said they had covers coming at the end of this month or next.

Alpha Betta closed the stream by thanking new followers and saying the evening suggested more collabs ahead, beyond the music the team is making. Alpha Betta said the next stream would be karaoke the following day in Japan time, with Legend of Zelda possible that night, and noted that streams on the channel are usually translated between English and Japanese as they go, though this one was mostly in English.