Performance Troupe Discussion

[Aubrae]

Hello all!

I posted this thread in World Development earlier in the season but apparently this is where it really belongs! So, if you would like to be part of a performance troupe currently forming in Alvadas, post here and feel free to provide advice, give ideas or just announce your interest in the group. We are going through the proper channels to eventually try to get this group in the Consortia section of Discussion but we need to know who is interested first.

My character, Aubrae, is currently getting funding from Kuvarakh to get the group off the ground and we need performers, entertainers, vendors interested in the group, perhaps even groupies who would like to help set up and take down the stage/set when we get to that point. Currently, we are starting with the idea of a sedentary circus in Alvadas but eventually we may be able to travel, however we would need people who have survival skills to help us do this.

Feel free to ask questions and discuss!

[Kuvarakh]

Yes, if you ever felt like running away and joining a circus...

Now Is Your Chance!

Wondering what to do with that fifth PC??

Be a high wire walker, or a trapeze artist, or a Glassbeak tamer (uh...good luck on that one),
Jugglers, knife-throwers, fire eaters, sword swallowers.
Be hurled by a catapult into a bucket of water!
Or the classic...A Clown!

And that's just the conventional stuff. Come up with something new and be the HEADLINE act!!
Fame, Fortune and an early grave await!!

wait, strike that last bit...

[Gregory]

Okay, I'm not interested in joining it at the moment... well I am, but I already got two characters to get off the ground. Don't think I'll be able to handle a third to be honest!.

But I'll ask some questions anyway because I'm honestly interested in seeing this get of the ground! I'll even ask around in the chat a bit if nobody else is interested?

as a theatre group. WIll you guy's just need performers? Will those performers come up with their own acts? Or if you guy's bring theatre pieces. will you guy's need people who write the pieces as well?

What kind of money do you guy's have to start? some acts might not be possible on a limited budget. 'animal tamers for example.'

as for non-entertainers. You mean cooks and security staff right? ALso people who just help keep the stuff running? My answer is, how large is your gruop and what equipment do you guy's have for it? (don't need a number or a ledger here Just an estimate. if some of your equipment has gears and such it might be handy to have a gadgeteer on hand.) Hell a gadgeteer might just be a nice entertainer on it's own as well. Showing off toy's and such.

just some questions I had for you

[Kuvarakh]

Well, right now, it is only a discussion between Aubrae and myself. I believe it was intended all along to be something built IC from the ground up. As opposed to a finished entity placed in Alvadas. I don't know if there was intended to be any limit on the types of entertainment allowed. I am always thinking in terms of 'circus', but I am not going to be hard-nosed about it.

Currently, this is the extent of development IC. Just a proposal for Kuvarakh to buy a slot in the local market for Aubrae and her NPC accompanist to draw attention and get handouts, while also serving to bring potential customers to see goods from the alchemy shop Kuvarakh works at.

From there, we will see the interest in the entertainment side grow much faster than the advertising side of it. Kuvarakh will find that backing the Circus itself will be even more satisfying than a slight increase in clientele at the shop. So the membership and skills of added PCs will be entirely of their own choosing. And yes there will be uses for non-entertainment type skills. (Someone has to capture those exotic animals, build the stages, collect the fares, etc... after all.)

Kuvarakh will then be motivated to invest himself much further into this enterprise, basically taking over the start-up charges in exchange for a contract with the circus to get all their alchemical needs arranged with his shop.

In game terms, he'll foot a good deal of the bills, while being guaranteed a source of job threads. One hand washes the other.