So goals?

[forcechanic]

So. Uh. Three weeks in, does anyone have a sense of which Arcana would be really into whether the book is better than the movie?

[That's the stakes of this Jaunt, right? Whether that movie follows the book or not?]

Also I forgot how much I kriffing hate sludge news.

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[capital_asset]

I don't think it'd be in his best interests for the movie to collapse either, although I'm hesitant to completely rule it out.

[desperate_times_right]

If all that nonsense about a fake relationship to promote the film is accurate, killing it might be the only way he can think of to get out of it.

[capital_asset]

Maybe, but if word gets out that he was responsible, it would probably cause a hit to his career, and I'm not sure he'd want to risk that.

[desperate_times_right]

Good point. He’s young, and secrets only ever stay hidden for so long. Do you know anything about any of the other actors? Maybe a big name who is bitter about one of our young upstarts?

[capital_asset]

I know Jack Mustang has a reputation for being a bit of an ass - which may or may not be an understatement - but I don't know if he's living down to that this time.

[desperate_times_right]

Enough of an ass to kill a film just to get Phillip out of the way, you think?

[capital_asset]

Or Gabe? I don't know. It's possible. But it wouldn't do his career any favors either, unless there's something he's getting in return.

[desperate_times_right]

Right, and that would require a co-conspirator - who also wants this film to die, for whatever reason - offering him something. Which means there’d still be some other mastermind. What are we missing?

[capital_asset]

The producer's the one who's insisting on all these script changes, isn't she? Or is she? Either way, it'd probably help to know why.

[desperate_times_right]

She’s the one giving out the changes but I don’t know if she’s writing this stuff herself or it’s coming from over her head somewhere.

[capital_asset]

That's one thing we're going to need to find out, then.

[desperate_times_right]

Seems like she wouldn’t have time to come up with all of this alone. I hand out new scripts nearly every day.

[capital_asset]

Not unless she's capable of manipulating time somehow, and this is not that kind of world.

[desperate_times_right]

Yes, there definitely seem to be fewer ghosts with an axe to grind this time around.

[capital_asset]

That seems fortunate for everybody involved, whether they know it or not.

[desperate_times_right]

I suppose we should count our blessings, imagine those gerbils with magic.

[capital_asset]

Gerbils?

[There's a short pause while he does a very quick review of the network from the start of the Jaunt until now.]

...Ah.

[desperate_times_right]

I spent a week chasing those little bastards down. The population has probably doubled in size. If they could teleport we’d be doomed.

[capital_asset]

Like the Liminal rabbits all over again.

[He can imagine how that would go over on set.]

[desperate_times_right]

They might not have had to fake a city for them to destroy.

[capital_asset]

Probably not.

[He can actually come up with a decent mental picture of what might happen. Unfortunately.]

[desperate_times_right]

This is the stuff that will be some funny footnote in a history book fifty years from now.

[capital_asset]

And the students reading it will wonder what people were even thinking at the time.

[desperate_times_right]

I’m wondering that now.

[capital_asset]

Honestly, so am I.