Turn 92 Results (October-November 1981)
-[X]On multiple cameras: You can try to do what you did in Star Wars and make things really fluid.
-[X]Yes
Well, you've done a fine shooting before in one month on Moonlight Dinner, so maybe you can get things done here as well.
Reward: You will do your damnedest to get everything done in a month.
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-[X]And The Star is coming on: Debbie has had a long hiatus and you think it might be best to ease her in… and she told you to go to hell, and let her work. DC: 40 Rolled:
D100 => 16
She looked at the script and was scrawling through the stuff, adding to her lines and otherwise doing great things to the script. But instead, you looked at things that were interesting. "Debbie, I think that there were-"
"Bruce I don't want to hear it." She said with a smile. "As much as I believe that you are one hundred percent on board, and want to coach me through some of the scenes, I have already done that with Carrie and others." She said as she quietly continued on.
"But that's not the point. I want to make sure I know what you are doing." You then looked over the shoulder to see the script.
You liked what you saw. "Can you do that?" You asked. "Because it's been awhile-"
"Of course." She said with a smile. "You and Carrie showed me that the words I told them were not needed. Now let me show you what I can do with them."
Reward: +20 to SP and Chemistry to Debbie.
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-[X]John's Got Some Bullshit: You want to know what happened to have Carrie have him by the balls like this. Have you ever seen him like this? No you have not DC: 30 Rolled:
D100 => 14
You looked at him and frowned. "How the hell did Carrie-"
"I owed her a favor, you know Blowout?"
"Yeah, I do, but you earned that?"
"No, I didn't. Carrie had to help me."
You frowned. "But- why?"
"Brian didn't want to use me because he thought I was too expensive, and he was right." John flashed a smile. You frowned at that. "What, I have to eat?"
"You know I can make you a really good deal?"
"Yeah, but you weren't there." He said.
"But what about this?" You said.
"Carrie writes a good script." He replied. "And I'm more inclined to follow it, seeing that she almost won an Oscar."
You nodded. "Very Well. Just help me out here."
"I will."
Reward: +20 to SP and Chemistry to John.
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-[X]Vincents Idea: So Vincent has never been the best idea guy, but he wanted to make things a little more… realistic for Hollywood and said that he had a story he wanted to use. DC: 20 Rolled:
D100 => 40
He smiled as he looked at it. "Well, I can say that…I want to be more of a bastard than that. We need to add a scene where he trys to intimidate her."
A moment later you frowned. "Um, in what way?"
"You'll see." He said. "I remembered some story of a Hollywood hack who wanted some no name to take a role or something."
Reward:+20 to SP and Chemistry to Vincent. The quality of the film increased.
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-[X]Frank: So Sinatra was rather… well he was not happy to be here, but hey, maybe you can make him feel better. DC: 40 Rolled:
D100 => 52
"Hn, you know kid, you never really struck me as the kid who upended Hollywood."
"And what do I strike you as?" You asked.
"You know, someone who gives a damn about everyone." He said. "Most people don't and that is why they fail in this town."
You smiled. "Yeah, well I succeeded because I had my friends and I don't give a shit about upending the status quo, because people want change in the status quo, they want good stories they can be entertained by, and not some schlock that won't. Or talks down to them… or exploits them."
"Well then, I'm glad Carrie chose me, it might actually be fun."
Reward:+20 to SP and Chemistry to Frank. +20 to the audience and Critic rolls when released.
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-[X]Evelyn Greer and the Bad Luck: She thinks she's bad luck and honestly, you don't like that kind of energy on set. You had enough with Conan. DC: 40 Rolled:
D100 => 12
When Evelyn came back, she wondered to you. "Why was there a gift basket in my trailer?"
"You didn't like it?" You said. "I can get you something you do like, but you need to tell me-"
"What the hell is this you are playing at Bruce? Favoritism? You trying to do something-"
"I want you to feel welcomed." You said.
"What?"
"You are working for me, and I've heard you did not feel welcomed on your previous shoots, so I'm trying to welcome you."
"Why?"
"Because I believe you are one helluva actress who just keeps getting passed over. So… Welcome, and stop thinking about bad luck, there is an Irishman on this set, we have only good luck here."
Reward:+20 to SP and Chemistry to Evelyn
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-[X]The City of Angles: So you want to just drive around with a Camera on your car for the mood of driving for transitions. Hopefully nothing goes wrong. DC: 30 Rolled:
D100 => 99
You just saw the town on all hours of the day, and night.
And well… the city obliged with some of the most stunning stuff ever, and it would be prefect.
Reward: The quality of the film increased by +20.
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-[X]Midnight Dinner: Well you have finally going to see your first step into the Horror Genre. If only Steve's film didn't destroy the chances at the box office. DC: 20 Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 110
-[X]Dark Forest: Honestly, you forgot that this film was produced, and given that you were in all sorts of work, that might make it really nice. DC: 30 Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 110
Sweet Jesus… So seems you have a knack for horror.
But dammit, You need to find out what steve did to destroy the movies.
(Continued in Midnight Dinner, and Dark Forest)
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-[X]The Aftermath: Mike needs you to fly to Japan. He wants to rub it into the face of his enemies personally. DC: 30 Rolled:
D100 => 19
You sat among the sony people and with a smile on your face, you looked at Mike as he stared at them. "You can't win in court, you know that, but you also can't allow your pride to be beaten by an American company that beat you to the golden goose."
"Furthermore, your suit will be thrown out and will only cost you money, because we damn well know that legal fees will be rewarded to you, instead of us, because we were defending our rightful intellectual property."
"So, that leads me to here. We are not going to counter-sue in a Japanese court for everything you bastards own, because right now, I have bigger things to worry about than idiots in the tech industry who can't come up with original ideas worth a damn."
"Mike, can you take it from here, I promised myself I would get some sushi from this place in downtown Tokyo, and I'm starving."
"You're good Bruce, and while my translator is well enough, I think it will be good enough."
You left, and then the Sony board room exploded into arguments while Mike laughed the entire time.
Reward: Sony has been humiliated, and with the threat that they would lose a court battle in America and Japan, they give up, and are forced to do something else.
Sony has lost a significant chunk of future revenue, and they are scrambling to save themselves from losing their space as the market leader.
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-[X]And George Prepares for… Something: So George, what are you planning on doing this time… why are the Steves Here? There were the three big Steves. Wozniacki, Jobs, and Spielberg. DC: 40 Rolled:
D100 => 100
You looked at the Steves' and George as you looked at the computer. "What the hell is this?"
"Computer," Wozniacki said as he sat down spinning in his chair. "Powerful enough to be useful for personal use and portable enough for games and this." He turned it on.
Then after five minutes, it booted up. That made you frown. "And?"
"The Average computer booting up and getting ready to be useful, on our calculations from our competitors, is around ten minutes. This took five and with much cheaper components and well, has better everything?"
"What do you call it?" You asked.
"Apple computer." Jobs said. While you didn't like him, you did know what it could do.
"Why is Steve here?" You asked. Then you looked to your Steve. "Uh… you know, my steve."
"..." Steve, your Steve then pulled out a floppy disk and put it onto the thing below it.
Then it started playing a slightly blurry Star Wars. "Holy shit. You can play movies on it?"
"They found a way to compress movies, into a floppy disk." Your Steve said. "And we think, at this time, they can create a better data storage, and we want to do that."
Oh. "can it be done?" You asked.
"We just need to find the right format, and uh, processing power." Jobs said. "Soon we'll be able to watch movies anywhere, with a format that will be indistinguishable from what we have now, maybe even without needing a physical disk."
"How many do you think you can sell?"
"If this computer thing can work, and play movies on it? Who knows." Wozniacki
Reward: The Apple computer, in addition to being far more powerful than OTL, is capable of using floppy disks to play movies that are of low picture quality, but that has been done. Something that everyone at Apple is still unsure how Gavin made possible, given the limited space available on his equipment.
Never get in the way of an O'Brian and his wish to watch movies.
Unknown Effect.
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-[X]Investing in the Future: You want to Spend some of that money you made into the company and make the whole thing better DC: ??? (Linetail what you want to invest in, and how much money you want to invest in it
--[X] Contact Philip K. Dick and offer $80 Million for the adaptational rights of all of his works. Rolled:
D100 => 88
He sold them and was happy.
You don't know why, but it frightened you to see that he looked frail.
Reward: You own the bibliography/film rights of Philip K. Dick
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-[X]Best Friends: So Mary has lots of friends, and she wants them to come over. You need to prepare for that. Carrie, get the cookies. Rolled:
D100 => 31
There were over twenty children playing around in your house and the pool as you and the parents began to try and control the chaos.
But the chaos was caused when Mary began playing DND, and everyone began to act out the storyline with her friend, and it was incredible. She was able to direct them based on the story and roleplay as GM and everyone was enthralled by the detail all the kids were giving, almost as if they had been reading it from a sourcebook.
Yet what was equally surprising, was that one of the kids brought their chemistry set and tried to actually use it to make "Potions."
Most of them were safe compounds and just juice mixed in with water and boiled, and it was all good time, and you thought nothing of it.
Then that same kid started making god damn stink bombs and throwing it at his friends to be used as grenades.
And while no one was hurt, they were extremely smelly by the time they left your home, having eaten your sweet and kids-friendly supply of food bare.
Mary for her part, loved every moment of being "The Queen of Beverly hills" With an army of loyal minions and having a real DND adventure at her home.
Oh lordy.
Reward: Mary has made friends with every single kid in her class and they all love having her as a friend, and they all play DND, Cyberpunk, and Star Wars prototype table top that should have stayed in your home, when they should be studying.
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-[X]The Return of the Queen: Freddie and the Gang are back in town, having a problem. They got screwed over, again, by their record company. And they want to vent DC: 45 Rolled:
D100 => 29
"Guys I feel like every time you return on tour, you are angry about something, what can I do for you?" You asked.
"Well, we're getting fucked out of our paycheck," John said as they sat down. As he sat on a toy. "What the hell-"
"Mary had friends over, so we're still cleaning up." You said. "Freddie?"
"Well we have a problem, see the contract we are on is rather… something else. But this time, we don't get more than ten percent of… our touring money. And we've made-"
Brian spoke. "According to our resident accountant. We have made 400 million pounds."
Oh, and not even ten percent of it. "I see, I'll get my-"
"No, we already quit, Do you think Carrie can help us?"
Goddammit.
Reward: Queen quits their record company and now works for Carrie. It was quite something.
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-[X]A Charitable Heart: You want to invest your newfound wealth. Maybe even save some lives while you are at it. (Linetail what you wish to invest in below this action, and the amount of money you want to donate in)
--[X] Medical Research. $400 Million. There's some sort of strange virus spreading around that is causing the failure of people's immune's systems. Many don't give a damn since most of the victims are gay people, but they deserve just as much respect and care as anyone else, nevermind that there's straight people and even kids getting infected. Perhaps you're worrying over nothing, but you have a gut feeling that action must be taken now before too many people suffer, so why not do something useful with your fortune and help the doctors who can make a difference now before it's too late? Rolled:
D100 => 95
You hope it did help people. But you don't know how it will.
Reward: you will learn about the ramifications of this investment in… 1985. but it is a positive effect, I will tell you.
AN: Enjoy.
