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    • Magoose said:
    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
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    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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    • Princesses, Coming and Going Turn 15 Results (August-September 1972)
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    • -[X]Cat Catastrophe: You and Cat are now living together. Perhaps you can help her get a new job as a director? DC:??? Rolled:D100 => 1

    You looked at Cat with surprise. "Cat, what are you doing?"

    She was packing her things. "Going back home, Bruce." She replied as she looked at her things. "This town isn't big enough for someone like me and you. And I can't get a job here"

    You scowled. "Don't say that crap Cat. I can-" You trailed off as you realized just what was going through her mind. "Oh."

    You saw your niece cooing away. "I can't just mooch off you Bruce, and no matter your kindness, I have to do what is good for my family." She smiled as she walked over and hugged you. "Who knows? Maybe things will go better for me back home, or back in Ireland."

    "You're going back to Ireland?" You asked.

    "There's work there. And it's safe enough in Dublin." She replied.

    "But why do you have to leave?" You asked.

    "Because it's the only way my family can be okay." She stated as she let go.

    You nodded. "Okay."

    Critical Failure: Cat and her family are leaving back to New York, and most likely, back to Ireland.
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    -[X]Workout: A Healthy Mind and a Healthy Body are Key to having a good life, and you have been slacking as of late. Time to hit the workout and discipline, and perhaps, see things differently. DC: 30 Reward: You work out and feel better. Rolled: D100 => 95

    All you could feel is your body screaming some days.

    But it was all worth it. You were truly in the greatest shape in your life, and you were going to be keeping it for as long as you could.

    Reward: Athletic trait upgrades to +30 to choreography and -30 to injury.
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    -[X]Finding a Good Match: You want to see if you are in good enough shape to actually beat a professional boxer. It seems you have to do everything yourself now, because your promoter is an idiot. DC: 50/??? Rolled: D100 => 17

    How did this entire thing go to shit? You wanted to fight, but your promoter said straight up "You are too young to fight."

    Too late, because you already signed the paperwork, and needed to have a match soon, otherwise you'd be relegated to amateur status. Or worse, be screwed out of your money if you fight because you would not be allowed to get an actual cut.

    You basically berated him that you nearly died once on a set, being in a controlled fight was going to be a cakewalk for you. After all, beating the shit out of people was fun and could make you a lot of money.

    Well, whooty do, he said no. He would find an opportunity later.

    What an idiot.

    Failure.
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    -[X]The Dating Scene: You want to meet someone, and perhaps, get a girlfriend. Maybe you can do that. DC: 15(You go on a blind date) Rolled:D100 => 99

    The redhead was looking at you with a funny look when you sat down and began to read.

    To be fair, it started in the Library, so that was to be expected, but you were really into the whole thing.

    But you looked at her as she gawked at you, and smiled. "Hi?"

    She was quiet for a moment before she waved. "Hi." It was a timid wave, one that she was not really expecting, doing out of instinct. "What are you reading?"

    "Classical stuff, Aurelius." You replied. "I always wondered just how much that things could be different if people took some of that stuff to heart." You then saw her small bundle of books. "What about you?" You asked, feeling curiosity in her gaze as you watched her twiddle around.

    "Just schoolwork." She replied as she sighed before she looked at you. "Are you a solider?"

    That surprised you, no one had ever mistaken you for a soldier before, not even on set, because of how you looked and acted.. "What makes you think that?"

    "You're tall." She replied with a small whimper as you moved. "And look really strong."

    You were not that big. But it was a good complement to have. "Thanks. But I'm not a soldier, but I have played one before."

    That made her eyes widen. "Wait really, you're an actor!?"

    "Trying to be at least, hard to get a good gig in this town with all the incompetent people that run this town." You snarked as you took a breath. "Sorry."

    "Who did you work for?" She asked.

    "CBS."

    Then her eyes widened. "Wow… Really got screwed over there didn't you." she replied without a hint of irony.

    Then there was a laugh. "My name is Carrie!" She offered her hand and held her books under her arm. "Carrie Fisher."

    "Bruce." You replied and took her hand.

    Perhaps you had undeniable chemistry, perhaps it was because she was funny.

    Or perhaps you spent the next several hours talking about books and movies.

    It was just fun. Pure and honest fun, to have someone who could match wits with you, and of course… was funny.

    Reward: You have Met Carrie Fisher. She likes you because you are smart, good-looking, and well… thinks that CBS is stupid.

    You might like her because she is funny, quick-witted, and just… well she's like a princess from an old fairy tale or story.

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    -[X]The Apartment Situation: You need to look at the people who are trying to rent the apartment. You will see how to do that. DC: 30 Rolled:D100 => 31

    So… as it turns out, the Apartment is just okay…

    Like that is all. It isn't bad, or good, and it's not falling apart.

    It's just… Okay.

    That isn't good. You think.

    Maybe you can figure out what the rest of the owners are doing. As you are living in it, and have not seen them in a bit.

    Reward: The Apartment building is doing okay.

    That worries you. New Action available.


    AN: enjoy.
     
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    Movie Pitch: Three days in Autumn
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    • TITLE: Three days in Autumn
    GENRE: Kung-Fu/Drama
    SUBGENRE: Religious Melodrama
    FORMAT: Five-Part Mini-Series
    BASIC PROMPT: Father Jacobs is a Catholic priest who finds himself having to deal with sudden news dropped on him in a confessional, where a man reveals that a group of men are planning on transporting a group of young children across the ocean in three days time to be sold as child labor and less savory things. The transfer will happen in three days time unless something can be done. When Jacobs goes to confront the man he finds he's already disappeared. All of Jacobs attempts to resolve the matter peacefully end in failure until he's forced to rely on the Kung-Fu training he picked up overseas to save the children.

    Plot:
    Father Jacobs is the local priest of a Catholic church in some New Jersey town, and while getting the church ready one morning he hears confession from a Mysterious Individual. The Mysterious Individual reveals that in three days time a group of recently kidnapped children are going to be shipped across the ocean and sold via child-trafficking. The Mysterious Individual leaves behind a piece of paper with names and addresses on it, exiting before Father Jacobs can confront him.

    Having given up a life of violence long ago, although we get hints of the kind of life Jacobs used to live by his actions and brief glimpses of tattoos, Jacobs goes to the police to report the whole thing. However the police aren't willing to investigate as one of the names belongs to a local business man by the name of George Stanford. Stanford runs the dockyard and fishing industry, and has not so subtly paid off the cops to avoid any investigations into his dealings.

    Returning from the police station Father Jacobs is accosted by a group of men, and while attempting to run away and then solely defend himself without striking back, Jacobs eventually must use the martial arts he learned over seas during the Korean War(specifically Hapkido) to defeat the men. It's at this point, after standing over a group of bruised and battered men, that a local reporter by the name of Melissa Roberts reveals that she saw the whole thing, and is also investigating the missing children and child trafficking incidents.

    The two team up and begin searching for more clues as to the location of the missing children, before once again being attacked by a group of men. The odds seem less in Jacobs favor this time, before the timely intervention of a young man who happens to be the older brother of one of the missing children. His name is Billy O'Connor, and reveals that his sister was kidnapped after receiving a letter promising the help with their families rent if she were to meet an individual at a certain location.

    While investigating the location Jacobs comes face to face with George Stanford, who keeps at gunpoint to stop the priest from reacting. Stanford offers Jacobs fifty-grand if he tells him who in his group snitched about the people behind the child trafficking. When Jacobs reveals he doesn't know George gets angry and tries to shoot him, only for Melissa and Billy to show up in a car at the last minute to run George and his men off.

    It's the third day and Jacobs realizes that they still have no clue as to where at the docks the children will be put on a boat at. Jacobs prays that night for a sign from the lord, before a knock at the church doors alerts him. He heads outside and finds no one there, but does find a piece of paper pinpointing a specific dock location.

    Jacobs, Melissa, and Billy head down to the docks, Melissa heading to the rooftops and recording everything via a camera while Jacobs and Billy fight off Stanford's men. Billy is stabbed in the ensuing fight, forcing him to fall back and leave Jacobs to deal with the remaining men on his own. Beaten and bloody, Jacobs meets Stanford once more, but Stanford already has the drop on him. "Can your kung-fu stop bullets father?" Stanford shoots Jacobs, seemingly knocking him to the floor dead. Stanford approaches with a smug look, only for Jacobs to sit up, disarm him, and then break his arm. "How?! I shot you dead clean!" Jacobs reaches into his cassock and pulls out his crucifix, with the bullet that Stanford shot him with lodged dead center in it.

    Two days later Jacobs is at the church, sweeping and cleaning as a narration by Melissa reveals that Stanford and his cronies were locked up by the government after video proof of their criminal activities. The narration switches to Billy and reveals that the children were rescued before they could be shipped off, although the scars will likely last. Finally the narration switches to Jacobs, who states that he never did find out who the Mysterious Individual was who started this whole thing, but if he were honest it doesn't really matter in the end. Jacobs looks up to a stain glass window of Jesus in Mary's arms, before the film fades to black.

    Main Cast:

    Father Jacobs:     A man in his late-forties to early-fifties. He's a hard looking man but generally puts off a soft and caring energy. He's soft spoken but has a strong feel to him at the same time. He's in excellent shape for a man his age, and always appears clean shaven and well kept.

    Melissa Roberts: A woman in her late-twenties to early-thirties. Has a high paying job but you can tell she grew up in a less than stellar neighborhood. Walks with a deserved sense of duty and is very strong-willed. Is hell bent on saving the children more so than getting a good story.

    Billy O'Connor: A young man in his late-teens. Down on his luck kid who just wants to look out for his little sister. Head strong and quick to anger, finds himself getting into more trouble than he can handle sometimes.

    George Stanford: A man in his late-thirties to early-forties. Well dressed and smug as a snake. He carries himself with an air of importance as a man who knows that money can buy most anything. Doesn't seem to even care that he's hurting kids so long as there's money to be made at the end of the day.
     
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    • Damn. Our sister got utterly fucked and is heading back to Ireland and our boxing career is becoming over before it's even begun, but on the other hand we're now a super badass and went on a library date with Princess Leia. I've heard of the infamous Magoose dice, but with this it's the first time I've really seen it in action. Is it always this bipolar in criticals?

    Were it not for Cat leaving I'd call this a great turn as I'm not really too passionate about the boxing, absolutely sucks but if she is still down for some sort of career, we need to get her a job at Lucasfilm. At the very least we are gonna be the Cool Uncle and bankroll her kids throughout all of college, not a single cent of student loans here.

    I was a bit worried at first about meeting Carrie so early with the age difference, but it turns out we turn 18 next turn and Carrie turns 16 in October, that's a pretty good difference and not too different from a Sophmore dating a Senior. If the second date goes really well and we have a couple spread throughout August and September, then we might be invited to Carrie's birthday party, and while the obvious focus should be Carrie, giving a really great impression for Debbie Reynolds and Ed Fisher is a good plus. It'd be hillarious if George doesn't find out about the relationship until the casting calls for Star Wars.

    "I think I hit the jackpot Bruce. I found this really great young woman for Leia. She's elegant, charismatic, fiesty, charming, an experienced actress, and her parents are both big established stars, that's gonna help really well with the promotions."
    "That's great. Wait a minute, you hired Carrie?!"
    "You know her?"
    "Yeah she's my girlfriend. We've been dating for the past two years."
    "Congratulations Bruce, you can knock Nepotistic Casting off of your Hollywood bucket list. Welp, looks like Mark's gonna be her long lost twin brother."

    Whenyouseeyou said:
    Ok yep we need omakes just to survive
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    Welp, looks like I'm gonna have to write 10 Omakes a day to help the OTP survive Magoose Dice. Were it not for the Omake spam in the Hogwarts Teacher quest then half the Harry Potter cast would be dead and Malcolm would be a suicidal drunk.
     
    I have no idea where I am going with this and would appreciate ideas. I have no real connection to the original concept beyond it being a coming of age story. One idea I had is that the affinities are a sham and it is just something adults tell their children to make growing up seem less frightening and it is only once you say that you have figured it out have you "stopped holding onto childish things, such as the fear of being childish."
    TITLE: (A)Drift
    GENRE: Coming of Age
    SUBGENRE: Anthology
    FORMAT: Mini-Series
    BASIC PROMPT: We view a world wherein a person is born with an affinity to 'something'. This 'something' can be anything, ranging from cooking to swordplay, writing to ditchdigging. It is never obvious what that 'something' is until you have actually done the action itself. The story focuses on various young/mid 20s adults who have yet to find what their niche is, and explores how things act around them not having fully "become adults" in their community.

    Plot: The first story we follow is that of Ariette's attempts to court. The second is of Zachary and him hiding his lack of affinity as his friends saying they figured theirs out. The third story is of Martha and her frustrations of being unable to stand out in her sea of siblings as an individual. The fourth is that of Peter and him traveling to a new city to leave his gossip and history behind.
     
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    -[X]The Dating Scene: You want to meet someone, and perhaps, get a girlfriend. Maybe you can do that. DC: 15(You go on a blind date) Rolled:D100 => 99

    The redhead was looking at you with a funny look when you sat down and began to read.

    To be fair, it started in the Library, so that was to be expected, but you were really into the whole thing.

    But you looked at her as she gawked at you, and smiled. "Hi?"

    She was quiet for a moment before she waved. "Hi." It was a timid wave, one that she was not really expecting, doing out of instinct. "What are you reading?"

    "Classical stuff, Aurelius." You replied. "I always wondered just how much that things could be different if people took some of that stuff to heart." You then saw her small bundle of books. "What about you?" You asked, feeling curiosity in her gaze as you watched her twiddle around.

    "Just schoolwork." She replied as she sighed before she looked at you. "Are you a solider?"

    That surprised you, no one had ever mistaken you for a soldier before, not even on set, because of how you looked and acted.. "What makes you think that?"

    "You're tall." She replied with a small whimper as you moved. "And look really strong."

    You were not that big. But it was a good complement to have. "Thanks. But I'm not a soldier, but I have played one before."

    That made her eyes widen. "Wait really, you're an actor!?"

    "Trying to be at least, hard to get a good gig in this town with all the incompetent people that run this town." You snarked as you took a breath. "Sorry."

    "Who did you work for?" She asked.

    "CBS."

    Then her eyes widened. "Wow… Really got screwed over there didn't you." she replied without a hint of irony.

    Then there was a laugh. "My name is Carrie!" She offered her hand and held her books under her arm. "Carrie Fisher."

    "Bruce." You replied and took her hand.

    Perhaps you had undeniable chemistry, perhaps it was because she was funny.

    Or perhaps you spent the next several hours talking about books and movies.

    It was just fun. Pure and honest fun, to have someone who could match wits with you, and of course… was funny.

    Reward: You have Met Carrie Fisher. She likes you because you are smart, good-looking, and well… thinks that CBS is stupid.

    You might like her because she is funny, quick-witted, and just… well she's like a princess from an old fairy tale or story.

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    BAHAHAGAHAGH!!! OH, THIS IS PRECIOUS!

    I remember when you all first picked/Mags and I first created the Dating choice and I half-jokingly told Mags that if you all got a crit on that roll, you'd get Carrie Fisher as a date. :lol: Second time's the charm, it seems.
     
    Moon said:
    Three days in Autumn
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    @Moon

    Here are the Rewards:
    []Well, This will be Good. (+5 to SP next roll)
    []Choosing My Religion (The Goose is going to start going back to Mass)
    []I'll Show them! (Cat, Her husband and a Friend will write the story)
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Damn. Our sister got utterly fucked and is heading back to Ireland and our boxing career is becoming over before it's even begun, but on the other hand we're now a super badass and went on a library date with Princess Leia. I've heard of the infamous Magoose dice, but with this it's the first time I've really seen it in action. Is it always this bipolar in criticals?
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    Yes.

    Actually, its bipolar for entire turns. I've seen turns where it doesn't go above 5.

    And I've seen a turn with literally 3 nat 100's.

    It's awesome.
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Were it not for Cat leaving I'd call this a great turn as I'm not really too passionate about the boxing, absolutely sucks but if she is still down for some sort of career, we need to get her a job at Lucasfilm. At the very least we are gonna be the Cool Uncle and bankroll her kids throughout all of college, not a single cent of student loans here.
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    Well the problem is, Cat might be working in the Irish Film industry, meaning that we may see her come up again in TV or small films there.
    Kaiser Chris said:
    I was a bit worried at first about meeting Carrie so early with the age difference, but it turns out we turn 18 next turn and Carrie turns 16 in October, that's a pretty good difference and not too different from a Sophmore dating a Senior. If the second date goes really well and we have a couple spread throughout August and September, then we might be invited to Carrie's birthday party, and while the obvious focus should be Carrie, giving a really great impression for Debbie Reynolds and Ed Fisher is a good plus. It'd be hillarious if George doesn't find out about the relationship until the casting calls for Star Wars.
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    Um, aren't Ed Fisher and Debbie at this point in time divorced?

    They divorced back in 1959. So there is that.

    Well, we have our birthday down in the next turn as well. So there is that.

    Also, that would be funny if George dosen't know.
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    "I think I hit the jackpot Bruce. I found this really great young woman for Leia. She's elegant, charismatic, fiesty, charming, an experienced actress, and her parents are both big established stars, that's gonna help really well with the promotions."
    "That's great. Wait a minute, you hired Carrie?!"
    "You know her?"
    "Yeah she's my girlfriend. We've been dating for the past two years."
    "Congratulations Bruce, you can knock Nepotistic Casting off of your Hollywood bucket list. Welp, looks like Mark's gonna be her long lost twin brother."
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    Gain Trait: Nepotistic hiring Practicinar: You are known for hiring friends and family for your roles and crew.
    Kaiser Chris said:
    Welp, looks like I'm gonna have to write 10 Omakes a day to help the OTP survive Magoose Dice. Were it not for the Omake spam in the Hogwarts Teacher quest then half the Harry Potter cast would be dead and Malcolm would be a suicidal drunk.
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    True.
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    How many more workout crits will it take to become the gigachad meme? Asking for a friend
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    You are at Max Level at the moment.
    Duke William of said:
    BAHAHAGAHAGH!!! OH, THIS IS PRECIOUS!

    I remember when you all first picked/Mags and I first created the Dating choice and I half-jokingly told Mags that if you all got a crit on that roll, you'd get Carrie Fisher as a date. :lol: Second time's the charm, it seems.
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    I remembered.

    I remembered alot.
     
    Magoose said:
    Um, aren't Ed Fisher and Debbie at this point in time divorced?

    They divorced back in 1959. So there is that.
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    Yeah, they divorced when she was 2

    BTW, here are some interesting facts about young Carrie Fisher that could be expanded upon in Omakes:

    1. Her best friend at this time was Joan Hackett, 22 years older than her, and one of her parents' alcoholic next-door neighbours.
    2. She started smoking marijuana at 13, stopping only when the drug turned nasty six years later, on the set of Star Wars. "It ultimately turned out to be Harrison's pot that did me in," she wrote – though of course that was only the end of the first act in her long entanglement with drugs. - source
    3. That quote about her family (mostly her mom as her dad kinda abandoned her) while growing up "My family was who I was looking at, and I was trying to protect myself if I could. There should be a term for what celebrity children go through, which is narcissistic deprivation. The family is organised around the parents or parent and not around the children. The children are what's swept aside by the paparazzi, literally. I could never really be with my mother in public because she belongs to the public, and as a kid I resented it."
    4. She got a drug problem... in 16 only marijuana is confirmed but I suspect that she 'expirenented' with some harder stuff...
    'Experiment with drugs' is hilarious," she said. "I ran out of the lab with beakers."
    When she started doing LSD, Debbie Reynolds called a friend who had tried LSD under a doctor's supervision. The man was Hollywood icon Cary Grant, who dutifully called Fisher.


    "What did he say?" Lauer asked.


    "Don't eat acid," Fisher said dryly.


    When her father, Eddie Fisher later learned about his daughter's drug use, he, too, called Grant, who called her a second time with the same advice.


    In another interview, Fisher revealed that she used cocaine during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. "Slowly, I realized I was doing a bit more drugs than other people and losing my choice in the matter",
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    5. She has Bipolar disorder, "My illness took hold when I was 14 or 15 years old—my father had it too," Fisher told People in 2013. "Having had this illness my entire life, I accommodated it by developing a very big personality. . .Over the years, writing about [having bipolar disorder] did help me to be able to talk about my illness in the abstract, to make light of it. That's my way of surviving, to abstract it into something that's funny and not dangerous."​
    6. Just this fuckin quote:​
    When I was born, my mother was given an anesthetic because they didn't have epidurals in those days. Consequently, she was unconscious.


    Now, my mother is a beautiful woman—she's beautiful today in her 70s, so at 24 she looked like a Christmas morning. All the doctors [in the delivery room] were buzzing round her pretty head, saying: 'Oh, look at Debbie Reynolds asleep—how pretty.'


    And my father, upon seeing me start to arrive, fainted. So all the nurses ran over saying: 'Oh look, there's Eddie Fisher, the crooner, on the ground. Let's go look at him.'


    So when I arrived I was virtually unattended. And I have been trying to make up for that fact ever since.
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    7. She saw her father "more on TV than on the planet"​
    ​
    Current living situation:

    Live with her mother and her little brother, spends time either reading in the library or talking with her neighbor, doesnt really have much friends (due to the all, "wait are you the daughther of xxx??!!" situations) she is currently enrolled in "Beverly Hills High School" until OTL age 16 (really soon, like less than two months soon), when she appeared as a debutante and singer in a Broadway show, starring her mother. Her time on Broadway would interfere with her education, resulting in Fisher's dropping out of high school.

    Later wanting "to separate her personality from her mom's" she kinda runaway, but not really... She just ran away to London and enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama, a year of relative normality, without the shadows of her parents. Her mother apparently " never got over it, that I had rejected her. When actually it's a very standard thing, if you're going to become your own person."

    Star-Wars was her first appearance, ever. (Without including the Broadway stuff, and appearing in a comedy movie thanks to her mom in 74 back when she was 17 before the London stuff).
     
    So basically, she's really trying her best to make the most out of the poor situation she is in.

    Well hopefully another friend her age will help her with that… interesting situation.
     
    Sorry for the double post but do you all have any questions about what is coming?
     
    Guitar Songs and Drunken Sailors
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    • You blinked while your head was red as a tomato-tomaato with cherries and strawberries all mixed together in a pink-reddish milkshake. You didn't know why you bought it, but it was an impulsive decision after hearing This Song in the bar you go to make jokes at with the audience singing along. The moment inspired you to quickly head towards the music store and buy a steel stringed guitar, a chord book, picks, capo, a John Denver Songbook, and a..

    (Rolling a 1d2, 1. Beatles Songbook, 2. Beach Boys Songbook

    Rolled: 1)

    ..Beatles songbook. The entire set up wasn't cheap, but yet again it was an impulsive buy out and now you're stuck with a musician's gear in your own home.

    Sighing, deciding to learn the song you heard in the bar, you flipped to the table of contents and immediately flipped again to the page number that had the page titled "Country Roads" and looked at the staff sheet that was accompanied by the chords on top of it. You blinked as you tried to comprehend what the music staff was saying before rolling your eyes to the chords on top of it.

    You then opened the chord book to see the common fingering positions of the chords on the guitar. You then grabbed the string-based instrument, then felt your hands stretched as your fingers took position on the neck of the instrument. Feeling this new sensation, you then take a thin pick that you bought earlier, and attempt to strum before accidentally dropping the grip on it to the floor.

    You groaned before taking it out and began more strummings while you get used to performing the G chord, take some time to then switch to the Em Chord, D Chord, C Chord, then back to G. Just from a single move set without a strumming pattern in particular makes you feel the soreness of your hands, surprising you as you have exercised many times over the month, current and past.

    Taking a break to have the soreness lessen, you read through the John Denver guitar songbook before switching to The Beatles one out of mere curiosity. You have heard of the band and even lived through the days of Beatlemania, even attended a concert in 1965 at Shea Stadium with the entire family since your sister was part of the fangirl movement.

    You still shiver at the memory of having you going nearly deaf at the amount of screaming happening, and since Cat was screaming with them, you found solace at trying to hear the songs being played by the band on stage.

    'Good thing I'm not getting into the music business, I would've been mobbed by fans.' You chuckled to yourself before once again playing songs in both books that have the four chords you are learning.


    Ever since the beginning week of August, you have spent time daily to learn how to play through the chords out of interest and coping through the guilt at not being able to provide your sister a job for her branch of the family. Although, meeting Carrie earlier made you feel relaxed as you were able to talk to someone close to your age just about the shows, movies and books. You don't know why, but something about her just livens up your day.

    You look at the steel stringed guitar on top of your bed before sighing with a smile as you take it into your hands and remove the pick that was kept there by the strings at the head of the instrument, and begin strumming it while going through the guitar chords once again before a spark appeared in your head.

    "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?" You strummed quickly as you played Em.

    "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?" You experimented with G..before becoming unsatisfied and played a C, which didn't work.

    "No, that doesn't work." You muttered to yourself before humming while experimenting the Em chord with D..

    "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?" You sang out loud as you strummed Em.

    "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?" You smiled as you played the D chord, with the progression sounding nice and repetitive, just like what song is.

    "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?" You flipped back to Em.

    "Earl-lie" You started with Em, then took some time to flip to D. "In the Mornin'!" You went back to Em.

    "Way hay and up she rises!" Em.

    "Way hay and up she rises!" D.

    "Way hay and up she rises!" Em.

    "Earl-lie" Em to D. "In the Mornin'!" back to Em.

    You blinked as you kept strumming the two chords on repeat, but you smiled at the fact you actually managed to recreate an Irish tune into guitar just from improvisation and experimentation.

    Noticing this, you decided to play out the entire song, your mind dropping the guilt you still felt into happiness as you play a childhood song applied to a new instrument.
    N/A: And yes, the intent of this omake was to have Bruce learn to play Drunken Sailor on Guitar while singing. Additionally tackling the guilt he'd feel about not being able to provide Cat a job.
     
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    • @RealOtto

    Here are the rewards for you
    []I do have some Talent (Hobby rolls gain a +10 if chosen next turn)
    []A Darn Shame (will not suffer a poor relationship on the next role you have.)
    []Im not sad. I'm good.(Are going to be much stronger when the times get tough)
     
    Magoose said:
    []A Darn Shame (will not suffer a poor relationship on the next role you have.)
    []Im not sad. I'm good.(Are going to be much stronger when the times get tough)
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    [X] Im not sad. I'm good

    While A Darn Shame would be beneficial to keep relationships strong..what is the point of we cannot even function ourselves that in the end that flaw would be more detrimental?
     
    "Marathon Misadventures
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    • 1904 Olympic Marathon, absolute bonkers. It's ridiculous. Appropriate for the first time America hosted the Olympics...
    Anyway
    TITLE: "Marathon Misadventures"
    GENRE: Comedy
    SUBGENRE: Sports Comedy
    FORMAT: Film
    BASIC PROMPT: The 1904 Olympic Marathon was full of unexpected and hilarious twists and turns. The film follows a cast of quirky characters as they compete in the grueling 24.85-mile race through the sweltering heat of St. Louis, facing obstacles such as wild dogs, rotten apples, and performance-enhancing strychnine. Join Félix Carbajal, the former mailman turned marathon runner, as he travels from Cuba to the States and faces off against a cast of oddballs and experienced runners, each with their own unique approach to the race.

    PLOT:
    With 32 entrants, over half of them do not make it to the finish line. The first "winner" of the marathon cheats by hitching a ride in a car and is pictured with the President's daughter, only for the truth to come out.

    The second "winner" is doped with rat poison and only makes it to the finish line with the help of his friends.

    Several runners, including past Boston Marathon winners, suffer lung injuries from the dust kicked up by race officials' cars.

    The fourth-place finisher gets sick from eating rotten apples he stole from an orchard and the ninth-place finisher is chased off course by wild dogs.

    The organizer, who believes "purposeful dehydration" is the key to success, deliberately limits the water sources available to the runners.

    The real highlight of the race is the fourth-place finisher, a 5-foot tall Cuban man who walks the entire length of his country to raise the funds to get to the race, blows all his money gambling, hitchhikes to St. Louis, and runs the marathon in dress shoes and formal pants that he cut off at the knee just before the start.

    Main Characters:
    • Félix Carbajal - The Cuben.
    • James Sullivan - the chief organizer of the games
    • William Garcia - the first (almost) fatality of an Olympic marathon
    • Len Tau - Evader of wild dogs
    • Fred Lorz - Marathoning in a automobile, winning and taking pics with the daughter of the president
    • Hicks - Rat poison connoisseur
     
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    • Magoose said:
    Um, aren't Ed Fisher and Debbie at this point in time divorced?

    They divorced back in 1959. So there is that.

    Well, we have our birthday down in the next turn as well. So there is that.
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    I saw on Wikipedia that Debbie Reynolds said that even though she hated Ed for cheating on her with Elizabeth Taylor who she considered a close friend, that she was at least friendly and civil with him around the kids because she wanted them to have their father in their lives and did her best to be a co-parent, though I guess Thinker's post makes it clear that Ed was a deadbeat.

    So any special actions for the birthday or is it just gonna be noticed in passing in the Turn?

    Thinker90 said:
    Yeah, they divorced when she was 2

    BTW, here are some interesting facts about young Carrie Fisher that could be expanded upon in Omakes:

    1. Her best friend at this time was Joan Hackett, 22 years older than her, and one of her parents' alcoholic next-door neighbours.
    2. She started smoking marijuana at 13, stopping only when the drug turned nasty six years later, on the set of Star Wars. "It ultimately turned out to be Harrison's pot that did me in," she wrote – though of course that was only the end of the first act in her long entanglement with drugs. - source
    3. That quote about her family (mostly her mom as her dad kinda abandoned her) while growing up "My family was who I was looking at, and I was trying to protect myself if I could. There should be a term for what celebrity children go through, which is narcissistic deprivation. The family is organised around the parents or parent and not around the children. The children are what's swept aside by the paparazzi, literally. I could never really be with my mother in public because she belongs to the public, and as a kid I resented it."
    4. She got a drug problem... in 16 only marijuana is confirmed but I suspect that she 'expirenented' with some harder stuff...
    5. She has Bipolar disorder, "My illness took hold when I was 14 or 15 years old—my father had it too," Fisher told People in 2013. "Having had this illness my entire life, I accommodated it by developing a very big personality. . .Over the years, writing about [having bipolar disorder] did help me to be able to talk about my illness in the abstract, to make light of it. That's my way of surviving, to abstract it into something that's funny and not dangerous."
    6. Just this fuckin quote:​

    7. She saw her father "more on TV than on the planet"
    ​
    Current living situation:

    Live with her mother and her little brother, spends time either reading in the library or talking with her neighbor, doesnt really have much friends (due to the all, "wait are you the daughther of xxx??!!" situations) she is currently enrolled in "Beverly Hills High School" until OTL age 16 (really soon, like less than two months soon), when she appeared as a debutante and singer in a Broadway show, starring her mother. Her time on Broadway would interfere with her education, resulting in Fisher's dropping out of high school.

    Later wanting "to separate her personality from her mom's" she kinda runaway, but not really... She just ran away to London and enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama, a year of relative normality, without the shadows of her parents. Her mother apparently " never got over it, that I had rejected her. When actually it's a very standard thing, if you're going to become your own person."

    Star-Wars was her first appearance, ever. (Without including the Broadway stuff, and appearing in a comedy movie thanks to her mom in 74 back when she was 17 before the London stuff).
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    Poor Carrie, I just want to give her a hug. No one deserves to go through that kind of shit, especially when her road downhill all started long before she wanted to be an actress and she just suffered from who her parents were, even in motherfucking BIRTH where the doctors and nurses paid more attention to her parents than her. That's some Doofenshmirtz level shit right there.

    Kind of hillarious that Ford's weed killed her weed habit considering that in the Bantam era of the EU, Star Wars writers were trying to make Han more noble and heroic by having him transport food spices instead of Spice being a drug, thinking it would be too much and Han would be evil if he was a drug smuggler, only for George to put his foot down and make it clear that Spice is a narcotic, not a food additive. Marijuana is far from the worst drug for Carrie at this point, and as long as Bruce doesn't judge her like a Evangelical Karen and gives her a friend to turn to instead of hard drugs then hopefully she can wean off at her own pace. Bi-polar disorder should also be managable so long as she has a strong support system and isn't treated like a freak when it starts developing.

    Moon said:
    [X]I'll Show them! (Cat, Her husband and a Friend will write the story)

    Any moment to keep giving our sister a chance.
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    You have no idea how much my inner Catholic cried when you didn't choose Choosing My Religion. Welp, time to make a 2 hour drama pitch about the Vatican II.


    Also I'd like to know if anyone else is currently working on Omakes with Carrie and Bruce? Cause I'm working on a big FAT one where it focuses on Carrie's point of view when she meets Bruce and I don't want to be cut by someone else's work.
     
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