Reality itself is mutable and shaped by belief. The beliefs of the awakened become magic, but the beliefs of a thousand sleepers will shape the world to their expectations. What a powerful responsibility the children of Adam have - creation itself. There are those that are jealous of this, from the first born Angels and the never-born Outsiders to the discarded spirits of obsidian spear tips. The great avatar storm has opened doors as well as opened doors long sealed. Someone long lost has returned - an emperor, a leader, a rebel god and more. He remembers Atlantis not of myth, but of indisputable fact. This great one will not settle for a mythic Atlantis - who wants to be the imaginary god of an imaginary land? But with enough magic, anything is possible including changing history itself.
Revise: Villian is the Archtype of "The Dictator" - an amalgamation of Stalin, Hitler, and tyrannical studio heads from the golden age of Hollywood.
The player characters are in Los Angeles, Hollywood to be exact, sitting in the Hollyhock room at the Paragon Delicatessen. Outside, it is night but you can hardly tell from the street lamps, head lights, and neon signs. It might as well be day. Inside it is so perfectly cool that your teeth hurt and your drinks don't even sweat one bead of moisture. Glowing fish dart in a huge aquarium while a profusion of plants on invisible wires hand overhead. The walls and ceiling are glass and chrome but the tables and chairs are straight out of Sherlock Holmes. It is as if sound itself is too polite to disturb those sitting.
Dialogue of XX
Player Q and A.
Los Angeles Times
LA Daily News
The Los Angeles Independent
Los Angeles' premiere weekly newspaper covering Hollywood, West Hollywood,
the Westside.
UCLA Library
The Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections houses and provides access to the UCLA Library’s central collection of rare books and manuscripts in the humanities and social sciences, as well as transcripts of interviews conducted by the UCLA Oral History Program. The
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Libraries
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
The studios are a vast complex with over 1200 acres of sound stages, warehouses, living quarters, transmitters, office buildings. It is an city within a city. To the north it is bounded by a flood control channel - a huge dry culvert made famous by Terminator 2 and other movies. To the east, a disused railroad yard separates the studio complex from the gang ridden warrens of central Los Angeles. To the South, the shimmering mirror towers of the Financial District can be seen. To the west are the entrances to the studio complex situated at iregular intervals on Lakershim Boulevard.
There are five entrances onto the Century Studios complex. They are:
Rocky Horror: Dr. Frankinfurter
Humphrey Bogart from Key Largo
Inspector Clouseau.
Will Sonnet, the third best gun in the west (Walter Brennan)
Doris Day
Jim Rockford (James Garner)
Scene 1 – Dick Justice
A violent seventies style cop-show.
Objective: get to the boss in a shoot-out in a crime and graffiti ridden slum.
Music: something from 100% Funk.
Scene 2 – Address Unknown
A psychological horror show like Twin Peaks. Catch phrase: "Mirrors are more fun than television"
Objective: escape an insane asylaim with your file. However, the other inmates have killed the staff. All items are unavailable.
Scene 3 – Lords and Ladies
An overly melodramatic costume drama set in the 1750's France.
Objective: Conduct oneself according to the strict rules of ettiquette, less the Daupine be bored.
Scene 4 – Rocket Grind Radio
A futuristic cyber punk style show featuring teen taggers with powered inline skates.
Objective: Beat the robot skaters of the MegaCorp in a game of taggers tag.
Scene 5 – Teen Canyon
Message of the week Junior High soap opera.
Objective: Make the couple. Nerdy girl must be noticed (or blossem) and get a date with artistic handsome guy. Nerdy girl likes jerk football team captain while handsome artistic guy is moody and cold. Players are freshman in high school, exept for vampires are the staff or teachers teaching the troubled students.
High School Dance.
Scene 6 – Palm Harbor
Music: Dance of the Dream Man, Twin Peaks Soundtrack. Pulp detective B&W movie, Raymond Chandler style.
Objective: Get the negatives that are being used to blackmail you. Must meet the various stereotypes: Jazz Singing Girl (distract the boss), Black Jazz Pianist (access back stage, past the guards), Tough Bartender (key to office), Pool Shark (negitives in the safe), Nazi Spy (starts the characters, betrays them for microfilm), Mexican Dwarf Jewel Theif (combination to safe).
Art Deco Nightclub.
Scene 7 – Space Treck
Duty now for the Future! Space, the Last Frontier!
Music: Warp 11,
Objective: reroute the power to shoot the tachyion beam from the deflector grid to defeat the cyborg ship, while battleing the cyborgs that have infiltrated the ship. Scient and Tech skill, plus firefighting.
Scene 8 – That's My Cheese!
Office hijinks at a Madison Avenue public relations firm. This episode: trying to sell the idea of fast breeder reactors to a wary american public.
Objective: Find their way out of their maze of cubicals on Friday before the boss finds them and "asks" them to work the weekend. Security at door: "Did you remember to turn off your PC?"
Music:
Scene 9 – The Digital Dentist
"Drilling his way through the plaque of misinformation to the root of wisdom." A self-conciously Generation-Z show.
Objective:
Music: Digital Dentist, from Ruby XX, by ZBS
Scene 10 – The Gun, the Bullets, and the War
Spaghetti Western
Music: Pistolero by Juno Reactor, on Odyssey
Objective: Shootout on main street. Characters must walk (not run) from one end of town (the church refuge) to the other (the railroad station). If they run, rifleman are created on the roof that shoot them down.
Scene 11 – Napalm Sunrise
GI's are being overrun by Chinese.
Objective: Each player must kill 20 NVC soldiers and survive untill sunrise.
Scene 12 – Cartoon
Objective:
Scene 1 –
Commercial 1 – Acne Blast
"Before Acne Blast, my life was a montage of humiliation and shame."
Commercial 2 – McMeaties
"Home of the Pork Milkshake"
Commercial 3 – Cat's Meow Cat Food
M is for Meat. E is for Energy, O is for Owls - thinly sliced, and W is for Wolves - finely ground.
Commercial 4 – Doctor Laser
A very weird plastic surgeon.
Commercial 5 – Exterminator
General George Merlin, bug exterminator
Max Payne quotes
"I'm not a violent man by nature, but it pisses me off more than anything when they do that. It's an insult, that's what it is! We're trying to clean the place, they should have more sense than to bleed on the floor."
"You are making me look incompetent by refusing to die."
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."
"It was colder than the devil's heart, raining ice pitchforks as if the heavens were ready to fall."