"Well you know, there's no second chances." I pour a couple fingers of whiskey into a brown glass pillbottle, hand it to zir.
"Besides, I saw you watching." Tip my empty glass, offering a silent salut. "As you know I aim to be an artist's artist…
Cache enters my peripheral vision. I'm still feeling buzzed and elated from the successful show, but the whiskey and fatigue have settled me down considerably. My eyes, looking exaggeratedly white framed by my darkened skin, drift to take zir in.
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There are little ragged pieces of the story of Jeez and the Trouble T.
Mamma told those stories to Jet. Not sure if it qualifies as religion though. More like hero myth.
@Rich - "Trade for today's work?" - Attagirl, Rache. Jet would be proud if he was there.
This office scene is gonna be demanding of Niko, I think, but we all know it's gotta happen some time, right? I'll hold while Niko prepares.
We need to see …
Sorry about that Paul! It's like our NPCs are under crosshairs or something! :->
I had already written that Cache had vacated zir seat and time had passed, but now ze is coming toward me, so I felt a tactical need to create distance. I am ass…
Everyone on stage and within the theater seems engaged and involved, which is the whole idea, so I feel I can finally relax. There's a lot to do, and it has nothing to do with fun. I need to count the jingle from the show, distribute it into cuts,…
Is this a new house rule, Rich? I seen "reveal a secret" used on levelups but never "You must answer a question".
And my question about learning something on Cache was because of the Circus move.
"Well Jules, you're gonna have to tell me." I wait a beat while her eyes grow narrower. "I mean, I'm just a brown #12 skinned man with a giant rubber dick. YOU, on the other hand... Are the new lead dancer of the AngelMetalCircus. Think you can…
Jet's the genius. He's hit on what we in the bizniz call a "formula".
I'm taking +1 Forward and +1 Hx with Cache, as you can probably tell. And Cache goes to +4 Hx with Jet, rolls over to +1, and takes one XP. Right?
Oh yes, did I "learn a litt…
...and ends without a single misstep, as Fall delivers the coup de grace just like we rehearsed and I take a backdive to a padded section of the stage just beside the machine. My right hand, hidden from the audience's view, signals Jackbird to acti…
five, six, seven, ate
I notice Cache out there and a knot of tension - unnoticed until this moment - loosens in my shoulders. I really hope ze likes it. Take a deep breath...
Here we go! I strut out onto the stage with my big Osama grin, swingi…
Also, in case any PCs (or NPCs, I'm not judgemental) wish to take advantage of this: I imagine that on show days after a breezestorm clears, there's such an influx of new people that the small theaters are turned into 1-day mini-marketplaces as peop…
Rich, you asked about security & door. I don't know how to answer that without talking with Alan & Ben, because my thought was Jet probably hires one of their gangs to do that for a night.
Based on the playbooks, I reckon it costs me 1/7…
Tense shift. That's my way of letting the reader know how the show's story ends, without literally taking the narrative all the way there. All three passages in Chapter J1.5 are Jet thinking to himself while preparing to enter the stage for the fi…
I'm trying to learn and adhere to yours as well. Was I wrong in my understanding that you were telling me not to end the show yet? Read my final post closely and you see that per your request, the show has not ended yet. It's just before the clim…
@Rich, You know I am a fan. But right now if we were f2f I'd be looking you in the eye across the table, having just nodded once, turn my head ever so slightly while retaining eye contact, move my palms a little further apart, mouth slightly open i…
Last 60 seconds of this video includes some footage of the JetBlackCircus as we departed from our previous engagement at the A D ROCK club in (what's left of) downtown Springfield. See the guy carrying the Trouble T? That's me. (It's dramatic. M…
I found this in a thread at barfforth and thought something like this might be applicable here...?
When you do your circus thing, choose one other PC, then describe your act in detail (pulling a rad stunt for the Daredevil, making an introduction f…
Good to know. It will affect your play :->
I celebrate the Miracle of the Selective Death of Egyptian Gentiles and subsequent Miracle of the Temporarily Gravity-Resisting Sea followed by the Miracle of Forty Years of Finding Magic Food in the D…
More possibly controversial Blue Sky I'd like to hear opinions on:
- Object-Oriented World: lift from MUDs for world design and UI functions
"Object-Oriented World" basically means that underneath the narrative level we have a set of Objects with …
Ok that's it for me tonight, got some code to write. Thank you for coming to the AngelMetalCircus, put your jingle right here, give me your hand please, thank you. Tonight's receet is a fuscia stroke on the back of your hand. Theater 9 is the evi…