Will Hines

Part 7 - Shows in Background

CurrentShow is a backdrop. It is in MainSeats and House. Understand "show" and "performance" and "stage" as CurrentShow.

CurrentShow has a text called team.

CurrentShow has a text called skit.

CurrentShow has a text called teamdescription.

CurrentShow has a number called skitcount. The skitcount of CurrentShow is 1.

CurrentShow can be seen or unseen. CurrentShow is unseen.

Changing Skits is an action applying to nothing.

Understand "change skits" as changing skits.

Carry out changing skits:

let oldteam be team of CurrentShow;

let r be the next row to use in scenes-list;

choose row r from Table of Skits;

now team of CurrentShow is team entry;

now skit of CurrentShow is skitsummary entry;

if team of CurrentShow is a team listed in Table of Teams:

now teamdescription of CurrentShow is description entry;

else:

now teamdescription of CurrentShow is "Some team.";

If oldteam is not team of CurrentShow:

now CurrentShow is unseen;

if the player is in the MainSeats or the player is in the House, say "A new team is taking the stage. The audience claps happily and people scramble back and forth through the curtain.";

else:

now skitcount of CurrentShow is 1.

When play begins:

try changing skits.

Every turn when the player is in the MainSeats or the player is in the House:

increase skitcount of CurrentShow by 1;

if skitcount of CurrentShow is 6:

try changing skits;

Instead of examining CurrentShow:

say "[team] is on. [if unseen][teamdescription][end if]";

say "[paragraph break]Right now, [skit][br]";

if team of CurrentShow is "The Swarm" and the player is in The Bar, say "[br]The ghost of Del Close appears and says 'You may have noticed that Billy Merritt is here in the The Bar with you, but he is also on stage with his team The Swarm. That is possible because I, the ghost of Del Close, allowed it so that he could be here to teach you a lesson! Good day' and then vanishes. Wow, weird.";

now CurrentShow is seen;

try changing skits.

Table of Teams

team	description
"The Swarm"	"The best team at the theater -- patient, absurd and sharp."
"Respecto"	"An explosively hilarious and fast team."
"Mother"	"Masterfully slipping between loud silly joy and quietly brilliant."
"Monkeydick"	"A former practice group that spends much of its shows making fun of each other."

Table of Skits

team	skitsummary
"The Swarm"	"Daly and Secunda are customers in a donut shop. Daly is arguing that because he is bigger, he deserves a bigger donut."
"The Swarm"	"Blumenfeld is delivering newspapers he wrote himself 'with the REAL TRUTH' to a bashful housewife played by Conroy."
"The Swarm"	"Katie is threatening to set herself on fire in protest of human rights while Secunda, Daly, Conroy and Blumenfeld are debating over the proper F-Stop on a camera to properly record the blaze."
"The Swarm"	"Conroy is a lawyer trying to describe a father's will to a family of circus performers."
"The Swarm"	"Delaney is a Scottish man excited to visit one of these 'MacDonalds'"
"Respecto"	"Chad is a veternarian who elects to put animals to sleep the moment they misbehave."
"Respecto"	"Paul is a jet ski stunt driver trying to impress his Japanese manservant played by Huebel."
"Respecto"	"Jackie is a male bowling instructor aggressively hitting on a blushing Owen, who is playing a girl from a finishing school."
"Respecto"	"Paul Scheer is a fat, obnoxious lady, styling the hair of highbrow Connecticut wife Jackie Clarke, who is complaining about how her husband made her get her vagina sewn shut because he hates their children so much."
"Respecto"	"Rob Huebel and Rob Riggle are Vietnam vets who wander into a Star Trek convention, mistaking it for a futuristic warfare expo."
"Respecto"	"Dannah Feinglass and Danielle Schnider are two twin brothers who are also karate instructors who are also current reigning karoke champions of East Jersey."
"Mother"	"Jon Daly is Gallagher being employed by James Eason, who owns Google."
"Mother"	"Jason Mantzoukas and Christine Walters are acting out a musical number from the Billy Joel Broadway show 'Moving Out.'"
"Mother"	"Jessica St. Clair and Tara Copeland are having a home-school prom."
"Mother"	"The entire ensemble is a sex robot assembly line."
"Mother"	"Jon Daly is a British Dandy trying to convince two Mexican thugs, played by James Eason and Jessie Falcon, to let him be a drug mule."
"Monkeydick"	"Curtis Gwinn is ordering John Gemberling to not use his laughing gas machine while he takes a nap with earmuffs on."
"Monkeydick"	"Mitch Magee and Rob Lathan are two hunters. Mitch wants to fall in love with a tree. Rob keeps getting caught in bear traps."
"Monkeydick"	"Brian Berrebbi and John Gemberling suspect that they are living in a house formerly owned by clowns."
"Monkeydick"	"Matt DeCoster and Andy Rocco are two scarecrows who are trying to escape their farm but keep accidentally running into each other."

Andy Secunda is a male performer.

Dave Blumenfeld is a male performer.

Sean Conroy is a male performer.

Katie Roberts is a female performer.

Andy Daly is a male performer.

Paul Scheer is a male performer.

Jackie Clarke is a female performer.

Rob Huebel is a male performer.

Rob Riggle is a male performer.

Jon Daly is a male performer.

Jason Mantzoukas is a male performer.

Christine Walters is a female performer.

Jessica St Clair is a female performer.

Tara Copeland is a female performer.

Jessie Falcon is a male performer.

James Eason is a male performer.

Curtis Gwinn is a male performer.

Mitch Magee is a male performer.

Rob Lathan is a male performer.

Brian Berrebbi is a male performer.

John Gemberling is a male performer.

Matt DeCoster is a male performer.

Andy Rocco is a male performer.

Dannah Feinglass is a female performer.

Danielle Schnider is a female performer.

scenes-list is a cyclic list controller.

The associated list is the Table of Skits.

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