"Reed may not understand cable management, but then again neither did I."
"Probably better to let sleeping fossils lie."
define LeftStage = "1"
jump PostCableConundrum
label FixCables:
"It could be a serious hazard if I leave them like this."
"Like a fire hazard or something. I think."
"I’ll just put them all on one of Moe’s surge protectors."
"Aaaaaand done."
label PostCableConundrum:
"Now that that’s taken care of, I glance at the pizza-themed clock on the wall."
"Thirty minutes until the show starts."
"The band is doing one last sound test, Reed’s bass drum bearing another new logo for VVURM DRAMA that doesn’t look half bad."
"Trish has a wicked grin on her face and I can practically see the dollar signs in her eyes."
scene moebackrooms
show fang hiding at sright
with fade
"And Fang…"
"Fang looks anxious, hands wringing the strap of her hollowbody electric guitar."
"I consider what I’m about to do extremely stupid but…"
A "Hey."
show anon neutral at aleft with moveinleft
show fang surprised flip at scenter with dissolve
"She jumps a little as I step back on stage. Her knuckles are bright white as they strangle the leather strap."
F "...Hey."
Moe "{alpha=0.5}{i}The secret is support!{/i}{/alpha}"
"I offer her my most supportive smile."
A "You’ve got this, Fang."
show fang sad flip with dissolve
F "Don’t feel like I do, though."
A "You do. You’ve been practicing all month for this."
A "And you’ve improved immensely since your last gig."
A "I have complete faith in your ability to play guitar."
A "Don’t worry so much."
A "Just don't fret about it, you’ll be fine"
show fang happy flip with dissolve
"Trish rolls her eyes, Reed’s vacant stare has a bit of approval."
show fang neutral flip at sright
show trish neutral flip at tcenter
with dissolve
T "At least it wasn't a dinosaur pun this time."
A "I'm not that unfunny!"
T "You are."
A "Fuck you, I’m hilarious."
T "No one thinks that, loser."
A "Don’t you have something to be triggered about!"
show trish fury flip with dissolve:
xalign 0.5 yalign 10.0
T "YOU CAN’T USE THAT WORD, THAT’S OUR WORD!"
show trish angry flip with dissolve
A "Just did, wanna see me do it again?"
F "Ladies, Ladies, please."
F "Shut the fuck up."
stop music fadeout 1.0
F "We’ve got sweet music to play."
scene moebackrooms
if LeftStage == "1":
show trish neutral at tleft
show fang neutral at scenter
show reed neutral flip at rright
play music 'audio/OST/The.ogg' fadein 1.0
"Showtime"
F "All right! Next up we got 'The!'"
"WHAT."
"They go right into their next song with gusto."
"..."
"An hour later and the band is wrapping up their last song for the night."
"I take my eyes off the stage to get a read on the crowd."
"Easily a good hundred people showed up to see VVURM DRAMA, better than any of us expected."
"The look on Fang’s face when everyone began filtering into the restaurant was priceless."
play music 'audio/OST/The Hitler Song With The Really Long Name.ogg' fadein 1.0
"They were on the last song of the night, the bizarrely long name of which I missed."
F "I JUST GOTTA ASK:"
F "WHY IS HITLER"
F "RIDING MY BIKE"
F "PRETENDING TO BE"
F "A MONKEY"
"Oh right… Reed definitely wrote this one."
"The band really has improved, as opposed to booing and pointing at the audience is listening intently."
F "AT THREEEEEEE AAAAAAAA MMMMM"
F "IN THE MORNIIIIIING!"
F "ON A FUCKIN’ TUESDAAAAY!"
"After the song ends, VVURM DRAMA hangs onto the pose of their final note."
stop music fadeout 1.0
"It’s silent."
"I applaud the band, eventually some other patrons join in."
"The applause turns to cheers, and the cheers turn to uproar."
"The crowd was cheering."
"Actually cheering this time."
play music 'audio/OST/punk_revamp.ogg' fadein 1.0
"The bandmates’ faces light up, and they all glance at each other."
"The hard work has taken its toll on the three, giving them varying degrees of perspiration."
"The sweat is trickling down Fang’s forehead, Trish has gone from an afro to dreadlocks, and Reed is providing the restaurant with a nice ocean scent."
"Fang finishes with a furious flurry of strumming on her fretboard."
F "Woooooooo! THANK YOU LITTLE TROODON!"
"The crowd’s approval is obvious, even in the makeshift mosh pit where I see Stella getting fake curb-stomped."
"At least I think it’s fake."
"Rosa is on the other side of the room, too entranced by the music to care."
"Eh, I don’t see any blood so she’s good."
scene moebackrooms
show fang very happy at sleft
show anon neutral flip at acenter with fade
F "ANON!"
"Before I could react I was swept up in a blur of feathers."
hide anon
hide fang
show fang hug
"Fang wrapped her arms and wings around me and kept rocking back and forth."
F "OHMYGOD OHMYGOD WE DID IT WE DID IT"
F "THEY ACTUALLY LOVE VVURM DRAMA!"
"I tune out the alarms screaming in my head and hug her back."
hide fang hug
show fanganonhug
"Her wings are just as soft and huggable as they look."
"Fang’s beak settles against my cheek, the warm scales sliding smoothly up and down against it."
"This is nice."
"I become aware of my hands, planted firmly on the small of Fang’s back and pressing her closer to me."
"Beneath my splayed palms is soft, warm and drenched in sweat. I find that I don’t really mind the slickness."
T "Fang?"
"I feel like I could stay like this forever."
T "Hellooo, Fang?"
"Fang suddenly flinches, and I get a split second view of a purple hand on her shoulder."
"Her face is beet red and the warmth in my own cheeks tells me I don’t look far behind."
"Trish looks like she’s sucked on a lemon with how twisted her face is."
"The tiny triceratops pulls Fang out of my hands, and I can picture my fist twisting that horn right off her face."
hide fanganonhug
show fang neutral flip at scenter
show anon neutral flip at sright
show trish neutral at tleft
T "Hmmm... "
A "Great show, right?"
T "I guess. For our first show, anyway."
show fang happy flip with dissolve
F "What? It was great though! Everyone was cheering!"
show trish indignant with dissolve
T "But it was a small crowd."
A "Was it? The place was packed."
show trish explanatory with dissolve
T "Small venue. We gotta think bigger now."
A "Why bigger?"
show trish happy with dissolve
T "Because I still have stock!"
"She motions to the bar, where there is still some hung up shirts with the new mediocre logo lazily spray painted on."
A "Have you sold much?"
T "Three buttons, four stickers, and an Apron!"
A "An apron?"
Moe "AY, KIDS!"
#moe now has vvurm drama apron
show moealt with moveinright:
xalign 1.8 yalign 0.0
Moe "LOOKIT DIS ‘ERE AH-PRON YA LIL TRIGGA FRIEN SOL’ ME!"
show trish unimpressed with dissolve
"Trish looks split on whether to be mad about the trigga comment or happy about the successful sale."
unknown "Hey! Someone took ma apron!"
Moe "GIT BACK TA WORK JERRY YER ON DA CLOCK!"
show fang happy flip with dissolve
F "It uh… looks nice, Uncle Moe."
Moe "Anyways, youse all gonna be helpin’ wit da clean up, right?"
"I look at the absolute mess around us."
"Fuck."
stop music fadeout 1.0
else:
show trish neutral at sleft
show fang neutral at scenter
show reed neutral flip at sright
play music 'audio/OST/The.ogg' fadein 1.0
"Showtime"
"I take my eyes off the stage to get a read on the crowd."
"Easily a good hundred people showed up to see VVURM DRAMA, better than any of us expected."
"The look on Fang’s face when everyone began filtering into the restaurant was priceless."
play music 'audio/OST/The Hitler Song With The Really Long Name.ogg' fadein 1.0
"They were on the last song of the night, the bizarrely long name of which I missed."
F "I JUST GOTTA ASK:"
F "WHY IS HITLER"
F "RIDING MY BIKE"
F "PRETENDING TO BE"
F "A MONKEY"
"Oh right… Reed definitely wrote this one."
"The band really has improved, as opposed to booing and pointing at the audience is listening intently."
"And nobody has tripped so far."
F "AT THREEEEEEE AAAAAAAA MMMMM"
F "IN THE MORNIIIIIING!"
F "ON A-"
"As if right on cue, half of the lights on stage cut out."
stop music
scene black
"Trish strummed silently before giving a confused glance at the speakers."
F "T-tuesday?"
"Fang fell out of tempo with Reed’s drums, stumbling over the end of the song."
scene dimstage with fade
show anon neutral at aright with dissolve
"It’s silent."
"I began to clap, followed by several other patrons."
"Including Stella who looked seconds away from being curb-stomped."
"Rosa is on the other side of the room, too entranced by the music to care."
play music 'audio/OST/Summertime Synth.ogg' fadein 1.0
"My eyes scan the room before noticing Trish, the sheer vehement rage radiating from her visibly distorting the air around her."
"Fuck."
stop music fadeout 1.0
"My jaw aches as I picture myself in Stella’s place, courtesy of one pissed of womanlet."
"Before I have the chance to escape I hear my one saving grace."
show fang happy with moveinleft:
xalign 0.6 yalign 0.25
F "ANON!"
"Fang reaches me before Trish leaves the stage, extending her hand for a high-five."
F "We did it!"
show trish unimpressed at tcenter with moveinleft
T "No thanks to that asshole!"
"Oh no."
F "What’s wrong?"
show trish indignant with dissolve
T "Skinnie sabotaged the show!"
T "I told him not to touch the wires and look what happened!"
A "I was only trying to help."
show trish annoyed with dissolve
"Trish holds up her hand to my face, waving the other around in grand gestures."
show trish indignant with dissolve
T "You ruined the big finale! We missed our chance to make it big!"
T "Why is it that only my bass cut out anyways?!"
T "Are you actively trying to ruin us?!"
T "I told you Reed knew what he was doing!"
T "Do you not trust him and I?"
show trish sad with dissolve
"Tears trickle down her sweat-glazed face."
T "Is Fang really the only one here you care about?!"
T "You are not the only person in the world!"
"This hypocritical bitch!"
"The sharp words cut right through me."
show fang sad with dissolve
F "Jeez, Trish. The show went great! Our first good concert!"
F "The crowd actually clapped this time!"
T "No thanks to him."
A "I didn’t do it on purpose."
"Even though you deserved it."
"Before she could interrogate me further, Fang grabbed Trish on the arm."
show fang happy with dissolve
F "Trish! Didn’t you say you wanted to set up our merch!"
"Trish winces, then gives a begrudging sigh, lowering her accusatory finger."
show trish unimpressed with dissolve
T "Ugh, you aren’t worth it."
hide trish with dissolve
"Trish storms off leaving Fang and I alone."
"And Reed who was listening the entire time."
Re "Anon, dude… you really should trust others, y’know?"
Re "It’s like they say… trust is the building block of our economy, or something."
"What."
Re "There are two kinds of people in this world, bro... people who believe and people who trust."
Re "And you believed in something false, your impulsiveness."
"Before I can begin to comprehend Reed’s capitalist sermon, my ears are assaulted by very Italian yelling."
Moe "AY, KIDS!"
#moe now has vvurm drama apron
Moe "LOOKIT DIS ‘ERE AH-PRON YA LIL TRIGGA FRIEN SOL’ ME!"
"Reed looks almost jealous of Moe’s new garb."
Re "Nice threads, compadre."
unknown "Hey! Someone took ma apron!"
Moe "GIT BACK TA WORK JERRY YER ON DA CLOCK!"
F "It uh… looks nice, Uncle Moe."
Moe "Anyways, youse all gonna be helpin’ wit da clean up, right?"
"I look at the absolute mess around us."
"Fuck."
scene moebackrooms
show anon neutral at acenter
play music 'audio/OST/west_coast_kicking.ogg' fadein 1.0
"An hour later and I’m stuck mopping up where the mosh pit once stood."
"As my mop head gains a tinge of red I pray to god this isn’t from Stella."
"Rosa wanted to stay and help clean buuut…"
"{i}Ro I am so sorry Stella! Come, I shall nurse you back at my home!{/i}"
"I’d feel more sorry for Stella but Rosa looked capable of helping her."
"My god that’s a lot of… Marinara… Yeah…"
"Fang and Trish are trying to divide and carry out the stage."
"...The mop really isn’t getting much from the floor."
"Am I supposed to have a bucket or something?"
show reed neutral flip at rright with moveinright
Re "Yooo, Anon!"
"Reed crosses right through the puddles, tracking grimy footprints without a care."
Re "Hey man… what’d you think of the lyrics?"
A "What were you on when you wrote that?"
"Reed rubs his forehead, struggling to remember more than ten minutes ago."
Re "I dunno man… the floor maybe? But I also distinctly remember floating…"
Re "Y’know, dude, we’ve been doing this since junior year, right?"
Re "And this is the first show that anyone’s actually liked."
Re "Wild."
A "You’ve only been playing together for a year?"
Re "You know it man, crazy how time flies."
Re "Man, back then Trish had these crazy long horns and glasses."
"Now there’s a thought. How would Trish even look with glasses?"
"Actually, how would glasses even work on any triceratops?"
Re "Fang wasn’t Fang."
A "She- what?"
Re "Er… Probably shouldn’t have mentioned that…"
A "Fang wasn’t herself?"
Re "Honestly… That’s probably something to be left for Fang and Fang alone to talk about… Sorry."
A "Er… riiiiiight."
Re "Only thing that stayed the same was like... me and my carfe, bro."
"How long has he been on that stuff?"
Re "It was almost like a totally different time, man."
show anon neutral at aleft with moveinright
show reed neutral flip with moveinright:
xalign 1.1
show trish neutral flip at tright with moveinright
"Before I even got a moment to picture what it might have been like not even a year ago, Trish appears behind Reed."
"She looks like she’s about to snap both our necks."
T "Hey, Reed, what are you two talking about?"
Re "Just talking about some memories of the band, Trish."
T "You didn’t tell him anything about me, did you?"
A "Glasses."
T "Reed, you absolute ass."
"Reed just shrugs."
stop music fadeout 1.0
"By this point the restaurant has been mostly cleaned up with only a few tables left to put back."
play music 'audio/OST/you need gopher chucks.ogg' fadein 1.0
T "So Anon, we showed you ours, now it’s your turn to show us yours."
A "What, out here in public? Didn’t peg you for the kinky type." #lol sex
"Trish inhales sharply, visibly trying to master herself."
T "I meant with your old school."
A "That’s on a need to know basis, and you don’t need to know."
show anon neutral with move:
xalign 0.2
show reed neutral flip with move:
xalign 1.2
show fang neutral with moveinleft:
xalign -0.4
F "Come on Anon, don’t you have any good memories from your old school?"
"Oh god no."
A "I’d really rather not talk about it."
F "Why not? You’ve told me about your parents."
"That seems to catch Trish’s attention."
"Shit. And that look of expectancy from Fang too?"
"I guess it can’t hurt."
A "Well… I did try to get into music at one point."
F "With how much you need my help in music class?"
A "I didn’t say I was good at it. I was just clicking buttons and seeing what stuck."
A "And spoiler alert, nothing did."
"That got a giggle out of Fang and a look from Trish."
T "By the way Anon, I saw you talking to that Stella girl before the concert. You have something going on there?"
"I feel a pit in my stomach as a look of betrayal crosses Fang’s face."
"Right into Trish’s trap, hook, line, sinker and rod."
menu:
"Nyet.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"Nein.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"Non.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"Nope.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"Inai.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"Mei yo.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"None of that.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
"No.":
A "I do NOT have a thing for Incontineisha."
Re "Who?... Thought like, we were talkin’ bout whatsherface."
T "The one with the Dino Duel cards."
Re "...I thought those were Pocket Raptor cards."
F "Weren’t they handegg cards?"
A "Uh… moving on..."
T "Anyone back home you had your eye on then?"
A "Nobody at Rock Bottom was worth the time."
"Fang’s face softens, almost in a silent sigh of relief."
"Is there hope for me yet?"
T "Rock Bottom, huh? I don’t think you’ve ever told us where you’re from before."
"..."
play music 'audio/OST/you can_t sage here.ogg' fadein 1.0
"SHIT."
A "O-oh, I haven’t? Huh."
F "Who really cares where you went to last?"
Re "Yeah, man, it’s just a school."
F "Was it in the sticks?"
A "Not exactly, it was certainly lower class though."
A "I used to buy bulk soda and sell them to the stupid kids for lunch money."
Re "Yooo, my man!"
"Reed gives me a fist bump."
A "I’d usually just go places on a crappy dirt bike, leaving donuts in parking lots when I was sure nobody was looking."
F "Sounds like you were pretty cool at your last school."
"HA."
A "I dunno about that…"
Re "Sure, man… I don’t get why you left in the first place if you had it so good."
"Oh no."
A "Oh, uh, actually…"
"THINK OF SOMETHING THINK OF SOMETHING THINK OF SOMETHING"
A "I had to leave because of, uh…"
"DON’T SAY SOMETHING STUPID YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT AT THIS."
A "Family issues."
"Nailed it."
Re "Bummer man… glad you’re here instead."
A "Yeah, yeah, thanks man."
T "Sounds personal, guess we shouldn’t pry."
stop music fadeout 1.0
T "We’re all friends here, after all."
"Guess we are all friends at this point."
"To varying degrees."
"I let a content smile creep onto my face." #WHAT THE FUCK ANON CANT SMILE WHAT THEW FUCK WHAT THE FUCK
show moealt at sright with moveinright
play music 'audio/OST/Venetian Values.ogg' fadein 1.0
Moe "AY YOU STUPID KIDS!"
"The tyrannosaur stomps over to us from the kitchen."
Moe "Great job again on da show, punks."
Moe "I knew my lil Lucy could pull dis shindig off."
"He clamps one of his tiny hands down on Fang’s shoulder as she reflexively tries to hide her face with a wing."
Moe "Alas, I’m expecting a late night visita’, so I needs you punks to piss off."
Moe "Come on by for a slice sometime, yeah?"
A "Thanks, Moe."
Re "Yeah man… thanks a bunch…"
Moe "Now scram youse kids. I’ve got a different kinds a clean-up ta deal wit’."
