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  Someone who wants to make the PwoR into a reality show people watch from earth
    "The Place without Recourse is just like a sitcom."

  * Wants to make plays as interesting/unexpected as possible, instigate drama,
    encourage use of modifiers
  * Could be more of a Puck-style trickster
  * Wants a two-way view: people want what they can't have.  Earth wants their
    mistakes not to matter, PwoR wants to be able to accomplish something.
  * Might need to work with the new ruler and/or do some sort of tech plot
    or find a thing.  Magic mirror or wormhole sort of thing.
  * Wants to make the PwoR exists but remains cut off, mess with the Ragged
    Things to make no one enter or leave.  The viewers get the thrill of 
    watching someone escape, but they'll still be back next season.
  * Still deciding which side he wants to be on.
  * Question: "Is it better to be free from consequences or for your decisions
               to always carry meaning?" 
              "Is it better to be meaningless or to have to live with your
               mistakes?"
  ** Talk to people from both sides
  ** Better question: "How can you avoid the consequences of your mistakes?"
  *** Answer1: "Without consequences, actions would be devoid of meaning."
  *** Answer2: "With enough control, mistakes would not exist."
  }}}
name: Robin
player: Susan Shepherd
gender: m
stuff: |
  [[Actors]],
  [[Trivia]], [[Clever]],
  [[Truth4]],
  [[MirrorKey]]
contacts: |
  \MrsSchiff{More or less runs the theatre company, not that you tend to
    listen to \them.}
  \TribblesDude{Used to watch the picture box with you sometimes.  Was
    obsessed with this show "Star Trek".}
  \DrugLord{Makes you uncomfortable sometimes.  Tried to offer you some
    powder once, but you've seen enough after-school specials
    that you knew it was a bad idea.  But \they is also really into \their
    craft, and quite creative.  You want to learn more from \them.  It might give
    you ideas for your tv show.}
body: |-
  \cenquote{There will be romance, bromance, chemistry, physical attraction, bro-ing out, wrestle fights, fist fights, word fights, cross dressing, fire-side chats, intrigue, surprise exits, surprise returns, impressions, communication, hurt feelings, insecurities, convertibles, tears, testosterone surges, bus throwing under-ing and feelings as the most romantic web series that will ever be continues.}{Burning Love homepage, http://screen.yahoo.com/burning-love/}

  The world.  Every day the sun rises into the sky and the people hunch 
  over and hurry down the streets and say nice things to someone's face 
  and mean things to their back.  People hurt each other and then regret 
  their mistakes; people hurt themselves and then regret their mistakes.  
  Life.  It isn't beautiful.

  "Make me a god," you are saying to mother, over twenty years before.  
  "Make me the kind of god that can guide people, and break free
  of any webs of deceit, and never go hungry or go thirsty, and be by all 
  others loved; to tell lies such that everyone believes, and have 
  security against change, and to become the cleverest creature in all 
  the world and save people from their mistakes.  Can you make me that?"

  Mother doesn't listen; she rarely listens.  "I can't," she is saying, 
  twenty years ago.  "I can't, \cRealityShowDude{}, not that, never that, 
  I can't."

  You watch picture shows in the giant box taller than you are.  Every 
  day, things are the same.  It doesn't matter if Hannah gets engaged 
  or Joey gets a job or Jamie and Chris have a fight.  The next day, 
  things reset with the exact same happy music as every other day.  
  Hannah is mourning being single and Joey is unemployed and strapped for 
  money and Jamie and Chris are besties again.  It is beautiful.  Any 
  changes are forgotten.  Mistakes don't have consequences; no one stays 
  hurt.

  You look away from the picture box back outside to the gray dreary 
  hunching people and there is a gunshot.  No happy music plays the next 
  day to let the world reset.

  The world needs a reset button.

  When things reset every day, more interesting scenarios can transpire.  
  Side-splitting pants-wetting soul-wrenching drama exists without 
  causing hurt.  It would be perfect.

  This draws you to theater ten years later.  Every day, the play 
  starts anew, from the beginning.  Deaths and marriages and attacks and 
  pain always go away.  You join the \bActors{} full-time once school 
  ends.

  The theater is home.  You reinterpret plays for the acting troupe, 
  trying settings in Victorian Europe or during the Cold War or where 
  one character is secretly a zombie.  These unexpected elements add much 
  entertainment to the plays.  There is no repercussion.  That world 
  always goes away after you take your bow.

  You are in the theater, rehearsing, creating afresh the same world as 
  every day.  It is a few weeks ago.  It is so beautiful.  You are being 
  drawn out of the theater into nospace, stretching into another reality.

  You look up in the sky.  The opalescent sunrise gleams with a beauty 
  that pains you.  You look down, expecting the gray hunching figures.  
  They are not there.  You see only a large man named Ii Ma standing 
  silently behind you.  He does not hunch over and never hurries.

  He speaks; his voice booms until the rising sun trembles, echoing his 
  voice back across the undulant sand dunes.

  "**How can you avoid the consequences of your mistakes?**"

  It is morning.  The sun rises and the world blazes with its light.  How 
  beautiful it is!  Week after week, morning comes and the sun rises 
  ablaze and this Place erases everything of the past day!

  You understand this Place.  This is the place you are searching for with the 
  colors and the happy music and the acting and the experiments.  It is 
  the same.  Every day, this place starts afresh; the previous day is wiped 
  clean.  Plays and shows in the box are paltry imitations of this place, 
  where every morning you wake up and see how beautiful is the sunrise.  It 
  is a place to live inside the ultimate entertainment.

  If only you could share this with the people outside.  You'd try to
  bring cameras, but how do you broadcast across realities?  And you
  want it to be natural; you can stage something anywhere.  No, you
  need something better than a hidden camera, some sort of magic
  mirror that could watch anywhere, at any time.  And then send
  it to the world.

  If you ever have trouble with the creative side of things, you only need
  turn to \DrugLord.  Sure, \DrugLord{\they} is a little weird and creepy 
  sometimes, but \DrugLord{\they} is also overflowing with creativity!  You
  can use some of that as ideas for your show.

  It would be the most precious form of entertainment imaginable.  You could
  instigate any sort of drama, manipulate and connive and prompt people to 
  say ridiculous things in front of the mirror, invent crazy scenarios that 
  they must deal with!  And yet, here there are no consequences, so no one must
  pay for any of that craziness.

  This place is sacred.  Everyone should know of it, should watch it 
  through their picture boxes out in the other world.  You must bring it 
  to them, show everyone how life can be, where you can experiment with 
  your choices without fear.

  == Goals ==

  * Make the Shows as exciting and surprising as possible.
  * Make things interesting for those around you outside of Shows, too.
  * Talk to both Actors and Judges and learn more about how they relate
  to this Place.
  * Answer your question so you can leave this place freely.
  * Figure out who will rule this place after Ii Ma and get them to work
  with you.
  * Find some sort of Magic Mirror so you can observe this place easily
  after you leave.  For some reason, the idea makes you think of some
  sort of castle.
  * Find something that could serve as a reset button for the real world.
username:
badgedesc: A Calm, Watchful \Human
number: <<parent.this />>
castinghint: |
  Your character is \name, an actor newly arrived in the Place without
  Recourse. You hate the real world and escape into the worlds of
  plays or tv, where the world resets and forgets your mistakes every
  day. In the real world, drama upsets everyone and changes things
  permanently. In plays, the drama is what is interesting to watch!
  The Place without Recourse, it has the perfect setup to wipe the
  slate clean every day, so you are here to create drama. This would
  make a chart-topping syndicated 'reality' tv show if you could get
  some cameras set up here, too.  Once you've got the cameras rolling,
  it'll be time to set up some drama -- because here in this place,
  there are no repercussions.  Let the lying and manipulation begin.

  Costuming:\\
  Modern tv producer.

  Suggested Reading:\\
  http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-secrets-making-reality-tv-they-dont-want-you-to-know/
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claimedby: Kendra
status: Draft
answers: |
  [[RealityShowAnswer1]], [[RealityShowAnswer2]]
email: sueshep88@gmail.com
