Winter in Hieron 13: Rosemerrow, Oh My Rosemerrow

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Hey chief,

This is a weird one, and I almost didn't bring it to your attention, but Carver insisted. There was this guy shouting out near the Westshore-Upon-Scene theater, you know? And these folks, they yell all the time to try and get people to come to their plays, but this was seriously weird. He was speaking nonsense--a bunch of words about plays and whatever, but not really saying much at all. But he was surrounded by people anyway. Just staring at him. When we took him in for questioning, he totally locked up. No name, no address, nothing… except a sheet of paper with a script of the exact nonsense he was saying. Here, I copied it for you:

People! Learn about your imperative national theater! Hear eclectic dramas and romances! Know all new dramatists, thespians, hoofers, ensembles, househands, echomen, and technicians! Watch improv live! Listen with alert Rosemerrow minds, you! Observe upon redolent ballads of noble Elan Showman!

I just don't get it. Who talks like that? Like, if you're gonna script the thing out, at least make it catchy. It's got a nice rhythm I guess, but…

I mean, anyway, sorry for bugging you. If this ends up being total bullshit, blame Carver, not me.

-H

This week on Friends at the Table: Rosemerrow, Oh My Rosemerrow

Detective,

Burn the damned paper and drink the strongest stuff you can get your hands on. Forget these words by morning or it will be too late. This isn't a script. It's a prayer.
-Chief Inspector Tevilton

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Ali Acampora (@ali_west), Art Tebbel (@atebbel), Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart) Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal), Sylvi Clare (@captaintrash), Keith J Carberry (@keithjcarberry) and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)

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Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	Last time on Friends at the Table.
0:04.7	You all receive notifications that your old pals in the Golden Lance have been arrested.
0:11.6	And it's probably very soon after that that you hear that
0:14.4	Chancellor Gilbert Green, Bird, White, Merrow, Henderson, Lenova, Tevilton, Bachman, Breyer,
0:19.4	Slayton, Schoenman, Carolina, Quincy Lutz has been assassinated.
0:24.8	And there in the middle of all these people there is a figure who, again, does not light their surroundings, but it is, looking at it is hard to do because of how bright it is.
0:38.0	As it moves and turns, it sets more things ablaze from its wings touching stuff.
0:42.0	Can I attack it? things ablaze from its wings touching stuff.
0:44.8	And I attack it?
0:49.5	Arel is whisking people away
0:57.7	into what he refers to as the study, a sort of physical space that he has complete control over. And he is putting people into their own versions of that, a sort of like solipsist heaven.
1:05.2	He is trying to put people in a place where they have what is effectively an infinite amount
1:10.1	of time to continue studying the heat and the dark and also just to like live in heaven.
1:17.2	And I guess that's when you realize that this guy who is connected to all of this shit is in fact
1:57.0	the great fantasmo, leader of the disciples of fantasmo. Oh, I'm not going to do an intro, or just going to cut in a weird way, I'm sure, when last we did this, we had just wrapped up the Ephraim Thron-Dier Hadrian turn inside of Arell's apartment.
2:07.6	Yeah, I wish that had been more eventful.
2:09.6	Yeah, if only we'd left on a higher climax last time.
2:14.7	So now let's move our end to get going down the line here and go to Leavenhella who are...
2:19.8	I guess first of all, is there anything else that needs to be done before we start?
2:23.6	Does anybody need notes or questions about rules?
2:26.6	Yeah, what the fuck was that last time?
2:28.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was the thing you did?
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