Insight's "The Silent Partner" IC

[Walking Dad]

I really hope to get hired.
Allan says to "FACE" that stads beside him, shrugs and whisper to himself.
I must, MUST, if not this one I'll be lost.
...

"You have seen my poor excuse for a face. You are still lucky." He says with a crooked smile.

 

[Insight]

Renna was disappointed.

She'd been overjoyed when she got the call from the personnel department. Overjoyed to know she'd be working on a real movie. Ecstatic to be working on a movie with Murnau who's work in Germany had not only made him a star but proved him a genius. What would he make next? What role would she play in its making?

But in the end, the role seemed to be 'get coffee every so often,' and 'wait around with a clipboard.'

"Dave?" she called on seeing hm. But he was already heading back into the studio.

Damn. What are they DOING in there?

Renna can't quite make out what's being said, but the voices sound like Murnau and David Neal. Renna could go inside if she really wants to know what's going on.

 

[Insight]

Jack and the other security guards usher Pierson, Coleman, Martin, and the other actors away from Studio 13 and towards the entrance to the lot.

Walking up to the security shack, Jack notices his remaining guard sitting on the stool, his torso leaning against the shack wall, seemingly motionless. The guard's back is to the group.

 

[jackslate45]

Jack shrugs his shoulders and goes over to relieve Bill from his post. "I got it from here Bill. Thanks. Finishing escorting the actors out, can ya?"

 

[Insight]

Jack shrugs his shoulders and goes over to relieve Bill from his post. "I got it from here Bill. Thanks. Finishing escorting the actors out, can ya?"

Jack notices that the security guard, Bill, clutches a PLAYBILL of some kind in his hand. Bill awakens with a START and nearly falls off the stool. Bill's eyes seem watery and there is visible sweat around the collar of his uniform. He couldn't have been asleep for more than 10 minutes, but from the look of him...

"Woah. Sorry, boss. Not sure what came over me there. Must be all the late night drinkin'... water!" Bill has a good guffaw and then coughs up a lung.

Jack and the others see playbills scattered all over the ground at Bill's feet.

 

[Shayuri]

Renna goes over to stand by the door, watching as the security guards round up the loitering actors and sends them scuttling away. She tries to hear what they're arguing over, but can't make it out. She could go inside, but the risk of attracting Murnau's legendary temper like some kind of anger-lightning-rod keeps her frozen where she stands for the moment.

If they needed her they'd call her in, she tells herself. If she went in without invitation...well, maybe best not to disturb them when they were already clearly high-strung. She'd give them a few minutes to calm down a bit.

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: Is Face seeing the playbills, too?

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Allan Coleman - actor

Allan says nothing, he stands near the others and looks what is happening with the now-awaken guard but his thoughts take him to other places. He is optimistic and thinks about how much he wants to participate in the movie and what he is willing to do for it.

 

[Insight]

OOC: Is Face seeing the playbills, too?

OOC: Yes. Everyone present can see the playbills, both the one clutched in the security guard's hand and the probably two dozen at the guard's feet.

OOC: Also, everyone present at the guard shack should make a Medicine or Psychology check.

 

[Insight]

Renna goes over to stand by the door, watching as the security guards round up the loitering actors and sends them scuttling away. She tries to hear what they're arguing over, but can't make it out. She could go inside, but the risk of attracting Murnau's legendary temper like some kind of anger-lightning-rod keeps her frozen where she stands for the moment.

If they needed her they'd call her in, she tells herself. If she went in without invitation...well, maybe best not to disturb them when they were already clearly high-strung. She'd give them a few minutes to calm down a bit.

David Neal emerges from the building. He grabs Renna's arm. "Come in here," he says. They enter Studio 13.

Inside, Renna sees the casting area, which is one large room, probably 15ft on a side, with yellow tarps draped on the walls. F.W. MURNAU stands in the center of the room. Behind him, on the other side of the room (opposite the entrance) is a large MOVIE CAMERA. Renna also sees sound equipment piled in one corner of the room. Murnau has spectacles on and is staring intently at what looks like a script. When Murnau sees Renna and David Neal enter, he looks up with a frown.

(In German)"What is the meaning of this? Come here! I do not understand."

Neal looks at Renna. "Look, I can't make heads or tails of it. Be a good lass." He gently nudges Renna in Murnau's direction.

Murnau shoves the script at Renna. She looks down to see hand-written notes, in English, but barely legible.

OOC: Make an Other Language - English check to see how much of this Renna can make out.