Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hi Magoose here one of the guys helping Duke.

So we have some bad news.

The quest has been canceled as duke does not want to write it anymore.

I'm going to ask if I can take over for it, because I like this quest, and it would be a shame to kill it
TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands. :)

To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.

I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.

I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.

I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all. :D

I'll see you all around.

With so many regards, Duke William Of.
 
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It's official, Mike deserves to be the highest paid member of Lucasfilms and monopolize the Employee of the Month award for the rest of his tenure at Lucasfilm. When I chose the action, I was just hoping to have Mike do a successful Snowblood distribution, I had no idea that he was going to get the rights to all non-released Godzilla films and three of Japan's greatest classics. Fucking wild, and that was just after Monkey Sun. Looks like we're set for distribution until Star Wars, and Akira Kurasawa is going to join the Lucasfilms family, bet George and Steve are super hyped and greatful to Bruce. Hope this serves as an excellent entry of Japanese culture into mainstream America 40 years early.
Well, the thing is, Mike has been rather... Well not adament in how to handle any situation, but he's one of those people who have always focused on one thing.

Building a legacy, and making lots of money in the process. Now sure he may be a scum, and he may be a control freak who can potentially cause problems.

But damn, can you say that he isn't effective at the buissness side of things.
Yay, happy that Carrie is committed and her and Bruce are going into their marriage and faith life strongly. Looks like I didn't need to pick the autopass if we got an 85, but I guess the option helps to make the entire journey smooth? If Carrie's converting this strongly then I guess that means that Todd is locked to become a Catholic instead of being Born Again.
Well... Kinda.

See, Todd is his own person, so he'll be on his own path.

Meanwhile for Carire, I think she is doing it for two reasons.

One: She honestly thinks that it will make her closer to Bruce.

Two: She's afraid that Bruce would think less of her if she didn't, which is silly, but that is only from her persepctive.

Really, there is a bit of a strangeness going on between Carrie and Bruce when it comes to Religion.

Bruce is following his faith with all his heart.

Whereas Carrie is following this path because she loves Bruce with all her heart.

though I shall say this: Both are not doing this for selfish reasons.

But both are following their heats.
Does this mean that Carrie will wear the ring in public and has she officially moved in with Bruce?
Yep.

And oh boy the Gossip mongers are having a field day.
Huh, pretty decent show to make a guest spot on and a very welcome change of pace and casting for Bruce to go for simple comedy instead of tough action guys. Wonder if we're going to do something with Carrie since the show was her first role and maybe they liked her enough to make her a minor character.
Bruce is a comedian... just not a very good one.

Perhaps this may change things.
LMAO! That moment when you are so good that half of Hollywood starts rioting on the streets because you were snubbed for an Emmy. Guess we're making quite an impact, even on those we haven't met yet, and Lucy continues to give a lot of reasons to love her, maybe we should give Desi Jr. the role of the Cuban runner in Marathon Misadventures. When Leo starts getting Snubbed for Oscars, we need to take a picture with him and send it to the Academy to get him all of those Best Actor awards he deserved.
It's less that Hollywood thinks we're good, its the simple fact that Lucille decided to start doing some digging agianst some of the fuckery going on.

And found that the usual suspects are playing to win awards that they should not have won.

And she leaked it...

and Hollywood does not like a scandal that threatens the bubble that they have built up for the public, and they reacted fast.

Also, something really fun to say: A certain producer that shall not be named was arrested for bribery, and other bad things.
Forget the incredible Youtube docs, just imagine the Crazy ass Biopic around us that'll probably sweep the Oscars and be the first billion dollar Biopic. When you look at it, Bruce is like Forrest Gump if he just stuck to acting, just taking a fraction of his life would make for a hell of a story. Hell, they'd probably have to make it a multi-part spanning series just to sufficiently cover the crazy.
Bruce hasn't reached that level just yet.

Just you wait, just you wait.
@Magoose can we give Mike a promotion? And a raise is a must
He's already the third most powerful man at Lucasfilms, behind ourselves and George. He's going to be plenty powerful unless you want to give him an ownership stake in it (something I would not recommend unless you trust Mike to do good things).

Also, he makes a million dollars a year, he's making plenty of money right now.
 
What is everyone's opinion on becoming the world record holder for speaking the most languages? The highest that most people agree on is 42
 
Fuck it. Not totally happy with how the text came out, but here's pages 0 and 1.

Um... Holy shit man, that's amazing!

[]The Media Are Against You, So Own Your Mistakes (Bruce and members of Mash Get nominated for their rightful emmys.)
[]So, I'm Tabloid Fever now? (It seems Bruce is now being hunted by the Gossip mongers For stories)
[]This is weird (Unknown Effect)
 
Um... Holy shit man, that's amazing!

[]The Media Are Against You, So Own Your Mistakes (Bruce and members of Mash Get nominated for their rightful emmys.)
[]So, I'm Tabloid Fever now? (It seems Bruce is now being hunted by the Gossip mongers For stories)
[]This is weird (Unknown Effect)
If it's alright with you chap could I make it an open vote? Only I'm not too sure myself if people would want the option of receiving an emmy after all of that. Seems like a pretty major event too.

In any case my vote would be on
[X]The Media Are Against You, So Own Your Mistakes (Bruce and members of Mash Get nominated for their rightful emmys.)
Because that sounds hilarious
 
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Fools Fly In: by Dave Alistair
Fools Fly In: by Dave Alistair ( Romance / Satire )

Like many sad stories, this one begins in a bar. An older man (late 40s) sits at the bar alone, looking very much the bitter old soul that washed up from the sea. He nurses a shot of something, likely the first of many he's had this night, even as behind him his crew are merry for being at port for the High Holidays. As their joy reaches a fevered pitch, he slams it down and as it slams back down unto the table, the audience sees a vision of his past.

Many a years ago, a simple farmer lad, he stumbled by hook and crook unto the the most beautiful lass of the town. He yearned and pleaded for her loving hand, and won it by giving her everything he had. They wed on a Sunday, the last of the Summertime, and loved and cherished each other for the longest time.

Back in the bar, the man gets another shot and nurses it again, before slamming it back again.

It isn't the easiest thing to relive, the worst of oneself and the pull of one's one faults. He remembers the night where they have their first, big fight, the beginning of the end, everything that came out in a drunken slip of an admission.

He slams back another shot.

He recalls the complete death of their relationship, how her wish of never having known him comes to truth as she finds comfort in the arms of others, and all he becomes ie someone she used to know.

He nurses this one for a moment longer and slams it back.

Here he joins a US Marine Battalion for the Mexican-American War, drinking and killing his blue heart black and pleading with the Lord to bring her back.

Now, years after the war, the captain of his own ship, he's about to slams back another drink when a young woman, by the name Anne-Marie, comes to him asking him for aid. Here he slowly puts down the drink, and welcomes her to be a part of his crew after seeing the same pain in her eyes.




Dave wrote this on a bad day, when he was craving the sweet release of the opioids and locked himself into his office at the studio to help lessen the cravings...and when he eventually unfocused from his manic, hyperfocused state he found that he had written what was essentially an apology letter to everyone he'd hurt while struggling, that was basically A Christmas Carol where each of the Ghosts that Scrooge encountered are instead here represented by the Spirits he's been drinking.

He sighed, as it was a terrible draft, but it held enough...promise for him to put it aside in his acceptable folder, and then called up his sister, hoping against hope that she would answer this time.

When all he got was silence from her end, the call having connected but her unwilling to answer, he said:

"I'm sorry that I pushed you to this, that I failed you. Feliz cumpleaños, hermanita...te...te extraño. If you ever need anything, please call me back." trans. Happy Birthday Little Sister, I miss you.

When more silence answered him back, heavier than ever, he sighed heavily as tears threatened flow.

"I...Lo entiendo," and with that, he ended the call. trans. I understand.



Songs I was listening to when I wrote this: "Star of the County Down" by the High Kings, "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen, "Somebody I Used To Know" by Gotye, "Lover's Wreck" by Gaelic Storm, and "William Taylor" by Sean Dagher.

And it's a Satire in that it rejects the basic premise of the majority of the Romance genre, in that it's supposed to be bittersweet, and so it ends up as fundamentally closer to being Casablanca and Princess Bride than anything else.
 
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If it's alright with you chap could I make it an open vote? Only I'm not too sure myself if people would want the option of receiving an emmy after all of that. Seems like a pretty major event too.

I mean, after the Turn Results, most of the active Questers were clamoring for Bruce to fight to receive his rightful Emmy, and I specifically got a number of request to make an Emmys Omake to get them to correct the injustice or give Bruce weight at the Oscars. So I think that the overwhelmingly popular sentiment is for Bruce to receive an Emmy and most people would be happy if that came through the Omake reward.

Personally I would prefer the Unknown Effect over Tabloid Fever because I really don't want the start of Bruce's marriage to see him and Carrie being harassed by tabloid shits who will play hell on their personal lives when Bruce already has a trait that protects him and Carrie from paparazzi and media harassment. Tabloids are the lowest of scum and I would choose literally any other option that doesn't involve them.
 
-[X]Action Directing: It seems the town has been talking about how much of a beast you are at just being a stunt person. In fact, they knew you were a student of Bruce Lee. And they think you know how to stage and block a fight? Maybe you can DC? ??? Rolled:D100 => 61

I just realized that since this was a TV job, we should have gotten a +10 the roll thanks to our "Emmy Award wining Director" trait.
 
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