I need to be clear on this but I'm trying to make it all fit with your design intention as well. Perhaps we're saying that Muzak controls the *speaker systems* in the theaters because they are connected to the main maul system (in case of emergency…
Ok. Please remember that the Circus is a free-standing unit, capable of travel. We have a massive collection of CDs and music players as well as earplugs and musical instruments, which we use when traveling between towns. The Circus - maul or no …
Last thing to think about: When the Muzak goes out, does the power go out too? Meaning, does the music in the theaters go out? because I'm thinking it doesn't. Unless the power goes out.
Tonight's my regular AW session, so I'll be offline from about 6 til at least midnight (pacific). Right now it's 3:17 here. I may or may not get on again before dawn, depends how trashed I am. :-)
Ok since Mari can't be found (Where the fuck is Mari?) I'm gonna lean on Julia, the most flexible of the dancers in Bob's gang. She'll have to choreo both gangs.
"Jules, remember the sixteen-bar fight scene we made up in sketch rehearsals? We're …
The show generates hella customers, especially when there's a new one. And because Franc's music collection provides a non-nauseating alternative to the Muzak itself, we also get people just hanging out during the day.
The AMC complex has 10 theat…
Nice. Paul, you would probably know this from before if your head isn't too fuzzy: Boiardi is all about lights and sound, electrical stuff. But if you need props or construction, Rache and Jackbird are the main hammer-wielders.
That's good enough for me. "Brilliant!" I say, showing twinkly fingers. "I knew I came to the right person!" Wink at Hot. Turn to Boio and indicate Hot with my eyes and a slight lowering of my head. That means she's the boss on this project, d…
I'm brb in maybe 30 mins but fyi... Jet has to do a little "downtime" to get this show staged tonight. He's gonna break away from Hot as soon as he feels she's got enough info to take a flying leap at the machine. He'll spend the rest of the day …
I'm thinking Playboy's parting utterance requires some sort of comment as I'm walking Hot toward Boiardi's room in the back of the theater, but I can't for the life of me think of what to say about it. Playboy used to give me the creeps, but ever s…
- Contextual Filtering of Content Views
Meaning: At the top level, I should be able to select a View of:
- All Chapters of All Stories (Vanilla does this now)
- All Chapters of Story X (Vanilla does this now)
- Chapter X of Story Y (Vanilla does th…
This phrase popped into my head:
Retcon Tools.
Now I'm trying to figure out what those would be. I think we want some.
Ok, for one thing: the ability to do a global OR sectional search-and-replace on a word, like a character name.
The next few hours will be a blur of activity for me. The only thing that's gonna let me pull this show off so quickly is the fact that we're re-using bits of other pieces we've been working on for the last few weeks, repurposing them to fit my new…
Sure, just wanted to get the timing right. Because in a few minutes Jet and Hot will be walking into the back area where that conversation is now going on.
So the conversation with Cache, Rache and Mari is just a few minutes ahead of me, right? In other words, if Cache waits five or ten minutes in the lobby she'll see me walk in with Playboy carrying Hot. is my timing right?
Rich, it being after noon, I expect most of the Circus cast is getting up about now. Do you want to drive them? I have Rache, Francois and Jackbird busy already, they can be telling others what's going on.
Up til now I've just been parroting sentences with the word "muzak" in them, but putting this weird conversation together with Hot's words from when she was sitting in the fountain, it's starting to dawn on me that the muzak and Hot's accident are r…
I get the feeling I'm not connecting. I defer to Hot, gesturing in her direction with my thumb. "Playboy, she said she needed to think about Muzak for a little while. She said please? So don't talk to the seepew, don't do anything to the muzak. …
There might be Play Mode, Read Mode and Follow Mode, in which you choose a character to follow (as a reader) and you're only shown scenes that character is in.
I call out after Playboy. She's going to speak to Big Mac herself, so I decide to appoint her emissary. I jog up to her hulking form. "Listen, sugar, if it's all the same to you... How's about if you just tell Mac everything's copathetic with th…
I give that look to Playboy again. Can't parse this one. Back to Hottopic.
"Umm, well, you would need to talk with Boiardi about those lights, right? Because's he's..." I don't want her to leave, but I do have a lot of other things to take care…
"How could they be the same thing? They're opposite things." I look quizzically at Playboy.
Then it hits me. I snap my fingers. "Oh I see what you mean... very clever! They're opposite things to the characters inside the show, right? But to…
"I'm feeling inspired, Hot! I'm feeling like this Bob guy means something. To people. I feel like... Every buddy needs a hero." I'm explaining this badly. Her question has thrown me off. I flip my hair back and look her in the eyes. She dese…
Ok yeah, I think a few popular systems could and maybe should be supported from the get-go as options per game. An AW-style 2d6 three-outcome system is definitely the first on that list, but others too. Maybe I'm picturing a form where the GM sets…
Yes bluesky but integrated rules are exactly why I don't want to use Storium.
Ruleset importation in a standardized format or API, but the hard work is left to the GM or a third party application developer?