Dawnbreak Boulevard plot role info

[powersthatbe]

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Producer (Nabiki)

[powersthatbe]

The studio is going under due to your mismanagement and embezzlement. Author’s film is the last great hurrah. If a blockbuster is found in the next few months, the studio will stay afloat. You have to find a way to save the studio, and especially your own ass before things start falling down around you. Losing any of your lead actors or your writer will doom your lifestyle. Author’s film is good, but it’s not blockbuster material, you think. Perhaps if you make a few changes, it will work.

Skill: Let’s Do Lunch - You know how to work a room. Throw you at a group of random people, and you’ve got an uncanny knack for sniffing out the most important, the one with the most connections, the one with the most cash--the person you need to rub elbows with in order to get what you want done. You’ve got a finely honed sense of superficial charm that lets you dazzle your target for at least a few minutes before they’ve had a chance to really think about your approach, and if you keep at it, they may never get that chance.

Studio Assistant (Armin)

[powersthatbe]

You know the studio is going under, but you are at a loss as to what to do or how or why. You have been working on a screenplay of your own (of any genre) for months, but you are too intimidated by Producer to actually pitch it. There is absolutely a blockbuster in what you have written, possibly what can save the studio, but you do not know how to get Producer to listen. They never do.

Skill: Every Movie’s a Circus - Every production needs someone to keep track of the nuts and bolts, the finances, the appointments, the schedules. That person is you, and this skill allows you to do that without any of the fancy modern-day conveniences we take for granted. You can juggle multiple complicated schedules with ease and handle the sorts of finances one might expect to see on a movie production.

Lead Actor 1 (Phillip)

[powersthatbe]

What no one, not even your fiancée, knows is that you are actually in love with the Girl Next Door. You have known her since you were children, and you would do anything for her. The engagement is just a publicity stunt that Producer pushed you into, and you’re not really certain if you want to go through with it. You have been seeing Girl Next Door at every point you can, and trying to find a way through this mess.

Skill: [name TBD] - Even the most hackneyed, ridiculous screenplay becomes Oscar-winning gold in your talented hands.

Lead Actor 2 (Bismuth)

[powersthatbe]

You’re tired of this. You want to go home and have an actual life, but the glitz and glamor of Vineland still compels you. Even though you have a huge heart for everyone, and do quite a lot of charity work, you like being in the spotlight. However, you have a sneaking suspicion that your fiancé (who you might or might not adore) is not as faithful as the public would believe.

Skill: [name TBD] - You’re a skilled actor. Really skilled. And if you want the audience to cry, then by golly, they’re gonna cry. You can throw out a moving performance that’s going to bring your audience to tears under just about any circumstances.

Girl Next Door (Rose Quartz)

[powersthatbe]

You’ve been friends with Lead Actor 1 for as long as you can remember. Whether it is a platonic friendship or a true romance, you do not want to lose him from your life. You’re certain that Lead Actor 2 isn’t right for them, for whatever reason of your own, and you would much rather see both of them actually follow their hearts than sell their souls to the Vineland glitz.

Skill: You Can Always Count on Me - Give you a couple of toothpicks, a wad of chewing gum, and a few yards of vinyl sheeting, and somehow you can work that into a super believable cityscape.

Director (Naoya)

[powersthatbe]

You’re between a rock and a hard place here. The Producer is pushing you to make more changes to the Author’s work than you think are really feasible, you’re not sure whether your stars are fighting, and to top it all off you’re pretty sure something’s up at the top of the food chain. But do you have time to dig into that while trying to keep this project afloat, especially when you’re keenly aware that everyone’s livelihood is at stake if no movie is produced?

Skill: [name TBD] - You can take a disparate group of highly variable individuals and tell who needs to go where and do what. More importantly, you can get them to listen, at least temporarily. Once per Jaunt, you can coax a group into cooperating on a given task.

Former Star (Jean)

[powersthatbe]

You left the movie business years ago, pushed out by talking films and newer, younger actors. Lately, you’ve been a bit bored, and would like to get back into the scene. You know for a fact that Producer is embezzling from Transcendent; in fact, you have the evidence to back it up in your possession. Perhaps you can use this to get back in front of the cameras.

Skill: With One Look - Acting for the silver screen--and only the screen, none of this new-fangled talkie business--is its own set of skills. The emoting is different, the dialogue is different, even the makeup is different. You know all of the subtleties and differences like the back of your own hand, and you can apply them extremely well.

Author (Wash)

[powersthatbe]

You are an extremely popular pulp detective fiction author, and your character (you and Lead Actor 1 brainstorm a name) beloved by people all over the country and world. You have come to Vineland as a script consultant to have The Phantom Thief made into Vineland’s next blockbuster. However, the longer you are in contact with Producer, the more you are worrying that she is trying to make Phantom Thief something it was never intended to be in the first place.

Skill: Knack for the Spectacular - You can churn fiction out like a machine. A talented, talented machine. You’ve got a natural knack for plot, character, and dialogue, and, if left alone, can crank out a significant amount of prose.

[rustyhonesty]

Checking in! Jean's name will be Jack Mustang.

How old would you say he needs to be?

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Checking in!

also can I just say I'm fucking loving that Bismuth is in a bullshit love triangle with Rose Quartz

Re: Author (Wash)

[dino_zarf]

I feel like that plot skill will amuse Rose in the future.

Re: Producer (Nabiki)

[okanetendo]

Beautiful. They should have sent a poet.

Christina Waverly reporting in as the Producer!

[whatsina_name]

This is the best plot skill and I love it.

Re: Girl Next Door (Rose Quartz)

[diasterism]

HELLO YES I AM HERE FOR THIS.

Also how ironic is it that Rose gets a skill about building while Bismuth gets one about crying????

[tookashirototheknee]

At least 40, I'd say. This part's based on Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard, if you happen to know the story/film/musical.

[rustyhonesty]

So it looks like Jack here has some dirt on you, miss Waverly.

[okanetendo]

Lies, damn lies, and

...what will it cost her for him to shut his trap?

[rustyhonesty]

Sadly I have not, but I did some investigation and neat. I guess I can make him a selfish and annoying diva like I wanted to... hehehe >3

I will hash out some more background story a bit later.

[tookashirototheknee]

Awesome.

Absolutely make him a selfish and annoying diva. He used to be big, but now... he's forgotten, but he's still a star, damnit. Something like that.

[crouching_sin]

I am here for this and it will be hilarious.

(Though please note that I will be away from my computer from November 21 - 25 due to American Thanksgiving, but I will try to tag a bit from my phone.)

[crouching_sin]

I'm sorry about the incoming tension between these two, but it will be hilarious once it's done and Naoya will offer to babysit for Rose as repayment.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Omfg i didn't even realise at first, THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT

[diasterism]

IT'S SO GREAT.

[rustyhonesty]

As a quote I saw while investigating, "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." Same can probably be said about the audiences' sorry memory, harrumph.

[rustyhonesty]

A good role in the upcoming film would do :)