Her Steel Heart
Released: 19th December 2014
Level 11 Storyline Quest
Previous Quest: Enemy Lines
Next Quest: Crash Landing
Level 11 Storyline Quest
Previous Quest: Enemy Lines
Next Quest: Crash Landing
Main Characters / Extra Characters:
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Requirements / Rewards
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Part 1
Ethan: We have to find Holly TODAY.
Ethan drives his Porsche through the city at breakneck speed, the buildings whipping by in a concrete blur.
Danny: Mind telling me why we’re heading away from the marina?! If Holly’s on Catalina Island--
Ethan: We’ll never reach her in time by boat. Every hour that your movie’s not done, we lose money out of our pockets. We’ve gotta get to her fast.
Addison: So what then?! Are you trying to get this up to 88 miles an hour?! News flash, it’s a new Porsche, not a time-traveling DeLorean!
Ethan suddenly makes a sharp turn, the car now careening down a side road in the direction of a private airport!
Danny: We’re flying there?!
Addison: Wait... what are we flying in?!
A moment later, the three of you are standing in front of a shiny, black helicopter.
Danny: Okay. A helicopter is awesome. But please tell me you didn’t sell your soul for it.
Ethan: Nah, it cost more than that: Lakers tickets.
Addison: Am I the only one concerned for personal safety? Who is going to fly this thing?
Ethan: Oh, I got that covered. It pays to have danger-seeking friends.
Danny: You don’t mean...?
Just then, the helicopter blades whir to life! Crash leans out of the cockpit and shouts above the roar of the rotors!
Crash: ALL RIGHT! Who’s ready to stare death in the face and say, ‘Not today, sucker?’
Danny: Oh god. You did mean Crash.
Time - 4 hours
After a few minutes, you, Ethan, and Addison are strapped into the helicopter. Crash pulls up on the throttle, and the helicopter slowly rises...
Crash: Catalina Island! Brace for impact!
Addison: Impact?! Did he say impact?!
Ethan: That’s just Crash-speak for landing... ...at least, I hope so.
Up ahead, a towering bridge of arched steel strung between two massive pylons looms over the bay.
Crash: Who wants to bet I can fly through those arches upside-down?
Crash jams the throttle forward, and your stomach lurches as the helicopter dips sharply, picking up speed!
Addison: Oh god...
Crash turns around and sees everyone looking queasy.
Crash: Actually...
Crash eases up on the throttle, and the helicopter slows and rights itself, the blades leveling out. Crash aims the nose of the helicopter up and over the bridge.
Ethan: Um, did Crash just choose the path of least extremeness?
Crash: I did. Don’t tell anyone.
Danny: What’s up, Crash? Or are you the real Crash? I’m not talking to a clone, am I?
Crash: Nah, I just had some time to think while I was... you know... in jail. Sometimes it pays to think before you do something reckless. Like driving a tank with faulty brakes.
Danny: Hey, don’t get too down on yourself. The tank thing wasn’t completely your fault...
Crash: Tell that to the LAPD. I still owe you one for bailing me out of jail. Actually, I owe you more like fifty for that... but I’ll start by getting you to Catalina safely.
A little while later, Crash brings the helicopter down gently onto the helipad at Catalina Island.
Crash: No casualties! New personal best!
Ethan: See? You’re already turning over a new leaf. We’ll be back soon. Hopefully with Holly. ...as long as the monks let us in to talk to her.
Danny: Monks?!
Ethan: Oh, you’ll see.
Rewards
After a short ride in one of the island’s many golf carts, you reach an unassuming temple secluded within a grove of palm trees.
Ethan: Welcome to Inner Muse, a writer’s paradise. Where animal-loving, meditation-loving, vegan-loving writers come to search their souls... or something.
In the front garden, the temple monks and a gaggle of visiting writers nurture hopeful bean shoots. Hummingbirds hover overhead, the hum of their wings a relaxing music for the temple guests.
Addison: It’s so PEACEFUL!
Several robed monks whip their heads around, scowling at Addison.
Addison: Heh. I mean... it’s s peaceful. Geez, these monks are awful touchy about volume...
Danny: Look! There’s the front gate!
You read off a wooden sign tied to the gate.
Danny: It looks like in order to get in, we’ll have to do two things: pay for the retreat and... ...bring a WHAT?!
The monks turn to you.
Danny: Uh, I mean... ahem... bring a what?
Part 2
Holly: What do you want, Danny?!
Inside the temple, you, Addison, and Ethan quickly find Holly in a serene garden, sitting in a circle of budding writers. She’s yelling at Diego...
Holly: I’m sorry, Diego! But you can’t name every character in your screenplay ‘Matt!’ It’s totally unbelievable, not to mention confusing!
Diego: But all the Matts are doormen at the beachfront hotel who get walked on by society. They’re all door Matts. It’s so cerebral!
Holly: Grr! Your movie, ‘Sharkageddon’, is about sharks! That can walk! I’d say you’ve veered pretty far from cerebral!
Danny: Ahem.
Holly glares at you when she sees you.
Holly: What are you all doing here?! I was just finding my inner peace!
Ethan: Holly, my favorite writer, you’re looking--
Holly: Can it, Ethan. Danny’s the only real one here. Danny, I’m giving you three minutes tops.
Holly yanks you over to the edge of a small pond filled with little goldfish.
Holly: Speak! And this had better be good!
Danny: We ned your help. I’ve been forced into giving Bianca Stone a significant party in my movie. But she’s awful.
Holly: And?
Danny: And you’re the only one who MIGHT be able to salvage this movie.
Holly: ‘Might?!’ Are you suggesting that there’s a writing challenge I can’t meet?
Danny: I’m saying that it’s possible this can’t be done by anyone.
Holly: I’m not one to ever back down.
Danny: I didn’t think you were.
Holly: You’re good, Danny. I’ll do it.
Danny: Awesome! Wait... your fee isn’t another bench or a bush or something, is it?
Holly: No, standard money will suffice this time.
Rewards
Ethan: Welcome aboard. ‘Clash at Sunset’ needs your touch.
Addison: Badly.
Holly: If things have really hit the fan, you’d better get me back to the mainland fast. How’d you get here anyway?
Danny: Uh, you’ll see...
Another helicopter flight back to L.A., you all return to the set.
Holly: I’ve never felt so grateful to be alive. Now let me see firsthand what we’re dealing with...
Danny: Sure. We’re about to film an action sequence where Bianca’s character, Zola, is trapped by a vengeful Mutant. Let me just find our Mutant, and we’ll be good to go!
Part 3
Danny: Bianca’s acting... yeah, it’s that bad.
The cameras roll as Bianca and Tegwen start their scene. You and Holly watch nearby...
Tegwen: You normals spit on me and my people because of our mutations, but soon you will be the mutants!
Tegwen lunges at Bianca, swiping at her with mutant tentacle arms!
Bianca: Get off me, you... damn Mutant. Your kind were... a mistake. A sad reminder... of man’s foolishness.
Holly: Wow. It’s like watching a redwood. Have you considered just killing her character off in Act One?
Danny: If that were possible, you wouldn’t be here.
Holly: How about digitally enhancing her skills?
Danny: Movie magic can only go so far...
Holly: Then I’m only left with one crazy, insane, so-weird-it-might-work idea...
Danny: Really... what is it?!
Time - 5 hours
Danny: So? What’s this crazy idea of yours, Holly?
Holly: We’ll have to test it out, but what if we turn Bianca’s character... ...into a robot?!
Danny: A robot? I don’t know...
Holly: Think about it. Bianca’s acting is already robotic, so all the scenes you’ve already filmed will make sense retrospectively. And with my rewrites to the remaining scenes, we can really play up the Zola’s robotic nature. We can make it so that the character’s discovery happens simultaneously with the audience’s!
Danny: It’s... it’s brilliant!
Holly: And that’s why I’m worth money, life-threatening helicopter rides, and the occasional park bench.
Rewards
Danny: I imagine you’ll need time to rewrite the scene?
Holly: An hour or so.
Danny: In the meantime, we’ll get started on transforming Bianca into a robot for the big scene where we’ll reveal her true nature!
Holly: We’ll want it so that her robotic self is just beneath the surface of her skin.
Danny: I think I know just the people who can make that happen!
Part 4
Danny: Can Bianca handle playing a robot?
About an hour later, Holly finishes the revisions just as Liam and Morgan emerge from Bianca’s trailer.
Danny: Well? How’d it go?
Liam: It wasn’t fun, that’s for sure.
Morgan: Yeah, I wouldn’t even call Bianca ‘difficult to work with’... she’s more like ‘homicidal rage-inducing.’
Danny: The makeup’s that bad?
Liam: Oh no, the makeup’s awesome. We are professionals.
The door to Bianca’s trailer flings open, and Bianca storms out, her arms and legs encased in polished metal and gleaming circuitry.
Bianca: Danny! Why am I wearing this ridiculous outfit?! Can you tell Liam and Morgan that my character is a human, not a robot?
Lance Sergio: For what it’s worth, babe, you’re really sexy as a robot.
Shae: Yeah, Liam did a pretty good job with the makeup... not as good as I would’ve done, of course, but still.
Bianca: Everyone shut up except for Danny! Tell me what’s going on!
You hand Holly’s revised scene to Bianca, and she flips to a marked page.
Danny: You’re an android now, Bianca.
Bianca: Since when?!
Time - 6 hours
Bianca leafs through the revised script, her eyes narrowing.
Bianca: Why am I suddenly a robot? What was wrong with my character before?!
Danny: Relax, Bianca. We’re ready to film the second half of the scene. The robot’s monologue.
Bianca: But I’m just finding out about my character now! How am I supposed to act on such short notice?
Jenni: Totes unfair.
Danny: You’re a robot, don’t overthink it!
Bianca: If I get a Razzie, it’s going to be your fault!
A moment later, Bianca stands in front of a green screen, wind from a fan whipping at her hair. The camera pans up behind her, keeping her face hidden.
Bianca: I’ve seen the Burners incinerate... entire city blocks... just to kill a few Mutants... You don’t know... what it’s like, Brianne... life in a vault is safe... secure. Here, on the surface... you’ll find only death.
Lisa: But I found you, Zola. We’d never have met if I’d stayed on the vault.
Bianca: Perhaps... that would’ve been better. I’m... I’m not what you think, Brianne.
The camera swivels around to show Bianca. She reaches up and tears at a prosthetic mask concealing her face, revealing the android hardware beneath! Next to you, Holly pumps her fist in the air.
Danny: I think that means the scene works.
Holly: That was amazing! Great makeup work!
Rewards
After a few more takes...
Holly: Well, the good news is that Bianca as a robot works.
Danny: And the bad?
Holly: I need to rewrite the rest of the script. That means we’re going to be pulling an all- nighter.
Danny: We?
Holly: I need someone as a sounding board, someone who knows the movie inside and out. That’s you. And I’ll need someone else... someone who can fetch me whatever I need to get this done. Know anyone you’d want to send on errands all night?
Part 5
Holly: Send for coffee, Danny. This is going to be a long, loooong night!
Later that night, Holly gives Alexandra her coffee order as the two of you hammer out the screenplay revisions.
Holly: I’ll take a venti iced skinny hazelnut macchiato, upside down, no whip, with caramel drizzle and an extra shot of espresso.
Alexandra: Coming right up!
Alexandra dashes out the door!
Holly: That’s the first time I haven’t had to repeat my coffee order! You’ve surrounded yourself with talented people, Danny. I can respect that.
Danny: Speaking of talented people, how’s the screenplay looking? Anything I can do to help?
Holly: I just need time to think. I’m stuck on this one scene where robo-Zola’s emotional core gets reactivated by an EMP blast, and she has a total breakdown.
Danny: I thought the whole point of making Bianca a robot was to avoid emotions?
Holly: I know. The girl’s got, like, zero emotional range, but there’s something profound about a robot’s first emotions. Like a baby’s first steps, you know? Trust me, Danny... we need this scene. I’ll figure it out. I just need that coffee...
Danny: Alexandra should be back any minute... Starbucks is right across the street!
Time - 7 hours
Twenty minutes later, Alexandra still hasn’t come back with the coffee.
Holly: You said Starbucks is right across the street, right, Danny? What’s taking so long?
Danny: I don’t know... maybe I’ll go look--
Just then, you hear a bunch of shouting down the hall! You and Holly run to check it out. Peering around a corner, you can see Alexandra being yelled at by Bianca!
Bianca: Don’t you think MAYBE next time you could watch where you’re going?
Alexandra: I’m sorry, I didn’t--
Bianca: Didn’t what? Didn’t what? Didn’t realize I wouldn’t appreciate having macchiato all over my dress?! Well, think again!
You rush to Alexandra’s defense.
Danny: Lay off, Bianca. It was obviously an accident.
Bianca: Whatever. Now that you’re here, this hallway is officially at maximum loser capacity. I’d better leave.
Bianca storms off to change while Alexandra approaches you and Holly, looking sheepish.
Alexandra: Sorry, Holly... I don’t know if you heard, but I spilled your macchiato all over Bianca.
Danny: Don’t worry about it, Alexandra Holly, do you want to go to Starbucks? I know you were hoping that macchiato would give you a mental boost...
Holly: No macchiato necessary! Bianca gave me exactly what I needed!
Danny: What?
Rewards
Holly: Anger... indignation... rage... it’s all there, waiting to be tapped. We just have to find a way to make her this angry while the cameras are rolling...
Danny: Making Bianca angry on purpose? I don’t know if that’s a good idea...
Holly: Come on, Danny. Look at everything I have up to help you with your movie! I could be finding my hidden self on Catalina Island right now! We all make sacrifices. This is yours.
Part 6
Danny: Making Bianca angry on purpose... shouldn’t be too hard, right?
The next day, you and Holly prepare to capture Bianca’s fury on camera.
Holly: Okay, Danny, I’ll set up a video camera behind this bush. It’d be too suspicious to get our camera crew involved. Do you need a refresher on the lines you need her to say?
Danny: That’d be nice.
Holly: Okay, first you need her to say, ‘Get away from me!’
Danny: That shouldn’t be too hard.
Holly: Then we need, ‘I’m not like you!’
Danny: Okay...
Holly: And finally, if you could get her to say, ‘I will crush this petty world in my iron grip,’ that’d be great.
Danny: Uh, what was that last one?
Holly: Enough practice! Time to put this plan into action!
Danny: Okay. Let’s do this.
Holly: All right, game faces on. Remember, the first line is ‘Get away from me.’
You and Holly stomp over to Bianca with your hands on your hips.
Danny: Bianca! We’ve got a bone to pick with you!
Bianca: Sorry, what was that? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how lame you both are.
Danny: Oh, yeah? Well, maybe you’d be able to hear me better if I got right up in your grill!
You get right up in Bianca’s grill, causing her to step back in surprise!
Bianca: Ugh, Danny, what the hell?!
Danny: Can you hear me now, Bianca? CAN YOU?
Bianca: Ugh, GET AWAY FROM ME!
You ease off Bianca, having gotten her to say the line. Holly gives you a thumbs-up.
Danny: Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Holly whispers to you.
Holly: Next line is ‘I’m not like you.’
As Bianca turns to leave, you shout after her.
Danny: I don’t get what your problem is. We’re really not that different, you know.
Bianca: You must be joking. Name one thing we have in common.
Danny: Well... We both want to run this town. We’re both ambitious, out stars are on the rise... we should be working together, not fighting like this.
Holly: Actually, that’s a pretty good point...
Bianca: That’s... that’s not true! You’re not even on my level!
Danny: You know it’s true, Bianca. I’m more like you than any of your friends.
Bianca: I... we... No, you’re wrong! I’M NOT LIKE YOU!
Holly winks at you as Bianca delivers the line.
Danny: Fine. Keep lying to yourself.
Holly elbows you and leans in to whisper in your ear.
Holly: This is it, Danny. The big one. Do you think you can get her to say, ‘I will crush this petty world in my iron grip?’
Bianca: Who is this anyway?! The Danny whisperer?! Why are you even here?
Danny: Sorry, Bianca, we were just wondering whether you will crush this petty world in your iron grip?
Bianca: If by ‘this petty world’ you mean your self-esteem, and by ‘iron grip’ you mean my acerbic wit, then yes... I will crush this petty world in my iron grip.
You whisper to Holly.
Danny: That was easy.
Bianca: What was easy?
Danny: Uh, nothing. You really got me with that one! Ow, my self-esteem!
Bianca: You are so weird. This conversation is over.
As Bianca walks away, Holly gives you a high five!
Holly: Nice work, Danny! We got all the footage we needed!
Danny: Glad to hear it. That was possibly the worst five minutes of my life!
You and Holly review the footage on the hidden camera.
Holly: This is great stuff! Good work, Danny!
Danny: Eh, it was your idea to piss her off. I just did what I do best.
Rewards
Danny: Do what’s our next step? Ned me to mess with anyone else?
Holly: Whoa there, Walter White! Save it for the camera, okay?
Danny: Aw, if you insist. Let’s take this footage to Dean and see what this’ll look like with special effects!
Part 7
Danny: Everything looks better with special effect. Even angry Bianca.
Dean shows you the footage with plenty of cool effects added! On the screen, Robot Bianca’s circuits spark, and her eyes glow red as the emotional core malfunctions!
Bianca: GET AWAY FROM ME! I’M NOT LIKE YOU! I WILL CRUSH THIS PETTY WORLD IN MY IRON GRIP!
Dean: So, what do you think?
Danny: I think it looks awesome!
Holly: You can really feel the depth of her simulated robot emotion!
Rewards
Dean: So how much filming do you guys have left? Just the final scene, right?
Holly: Just the epic, massive battle that masterfully resolves all the plot threads and provides al satisfying completion to each character’s emotional arc, yes.
Dean: Oh... well, let me know when it’s ready for postproduction!
Danny: We will. And thanks, Dean, for--
Just then, the door of Dean’s editing studio bursts open!
Bianca: Danny! You can’t just act like a total weirdo and walk away! What are you--
Bianca sees the footage playing on Dean’s monitor.
Bianca: I WILL CRUSH THIS PETTER WORLD IN MY IRON GRIP! What the... You were using me?!
Danny: Bianca, wait!
Bianca: NO! Good luck finding funding for you movie, Danny... because my father’s money and I are out!
Bianca slams the studio door and stalks over to her trailer, fuming.
Danny: Oh crap. This is going to be a problem.
How will you deal with Bianca’s latest blowup? Will she call her dad and tell him to stop funding your movie? Keep playing to find out!
Ethan: We have to find Holly TODAY.
- Level 16+ Danny
- Level 10+ Addison
- Level 10+ Ethan
Ethan drives his Porsche through the city at breakneck speed, the buildings whipping by in a concrete blur.
Danny: Mind telling me why we’re heading away from the marina?! If Holly’s on Catalina Island--
Ethan: We’ll never reach her in time by boat. Every hour that your movie’s not done, we lose money out of our pockets. We’ve gotta get to her fast.
Addison: So what then?! Are you trying to get this up to 88 miles an hour?! News flash, it’s a new Porsche, not a time-traveling DeLorean!
Ethan suddenly makes a sharp turn, the car now careening down a side road in the direction of a private airport!
Danny: We’re flying there?!
Addison: Wait... what are we flying in?!
A moment later, the three of you are standing in front of a shiny, black helicopter.
Danny: Okay. A helicopter is awesome. But please tell me you didn’t sell your soul for it.
Ethan: Nah, it cost more than that: Lakers tickets.
Addison: Am I the only one concerned for personal safety? Who is going to fly this thing?
Ethan: Oh, I got that covered. It pays to have danger-seeking friends.
Danny: You don’t mean...?
Just then, the helicopter blades whir to life! Crash leans out of the cockpit and shouts above the roar of the rotors!
Crash: ALL RIGHT! Who’s ready to stare death in the face and say, ‘Not today, sucker?’
Danny: Oh god. You did mean Crash.
Time - 4 hours
After a few minutes, you, Ethan, and Addison are strapped into the helicopter. Crash pulls up on the throttle, and the helicopter slowly rises...
Crash: Catalina Island! Brace for impact!
Addison: Impact?! Did he say impact?!
Ethan: That’s just Crash-speak for landing... ...at least, I hope so.
Up ahead, a towering bridge of arched steel strung between two massive pylons looms over the bay.
Crash: Who wants to bet I can fly through those arches upside-down?
Crash jams the throttle forward, and your stomach lurches as the helicopter dips sharply, picking up speed!
Addison: Oh god...
Crash turns around and sees everyone looking queasy.
Crash: Actually...
Crash eases up on the throttle, and the helicopter slows and rights itself, the blades leveling out. Crash aims the nose of the helicopter up and over the bridge.
Ethan: Um, did Crash just choose the path of least extremeness?
Crash: I did. Don’t tell anyone.
Danny: What’s up, Crash? Or are you the real Crash? I’m not talking to a clone, am I?
Crash: Nah, I just had some time to think while I was... you know... in jail. Sometimes it pays to think before you do something reckless. Like driving a tank with faulty brakes.
Danny: Hey, don’t get too down on yourself. The tank thing wasn’t completely your fault...
Crash: Tell that to the LAPD. I still owe you one for bailing me out of jail. Actually, I owe you more like fifty for that... but I’ll start by getting you to Catalina safely.
A little while later, Crash brings the helicopter down gently onto the helipad at Catalina Island.
Crash: No casualties! New personal best!
Ethan: See? You’re already turning over a new leaf. We’ll be back soon. Hopefully with Holly. ...as long as the monks let us in to talk to her.
Danny: Monks?!
Ethan: Oh, you’ll see.
Rewards
- 1571 XP
After a short ride in one of the island’s many golf carts, you reach an unassuming temple secluded within a grove of palm trees.
Ethan: Welcome to Inner Muse, a writer’s paradise. Where animal-loving, meditation-loving, vegan-loving writers come to search their souls... or something.
In the front garden, the temple monks and a gaggle of visiting writers nurture hopeful bean shoots. Hummingbirds hover overhead, the hum of their wings a relaxing music for the temple guests.
Addison: It’s so PEACEFUL!
Several robed monks whip their heads around, scowling at Addison.
Addison: Heh. I mean... it’s s peaceful. Geez, these monks are awful touchy about volume...
Danny: Look! There’s the front gate!
You read off a wooden sign tied to the gate.
Danny: It looks like in order to get in, we’ll have to do two things: pay for the retreat and... ...bring a WHAT?!
The monks turn to you.
Danny: Uh, I mean... ahem... bring a what?
Part 2
Holly: What do you want, Danny?!
- Spend 3500 Cash
- Have 1 Flower Box
Inside the temple, you, Addison, and Ethan quickly find Holly in a serene garden, sitting in a circle of budding writers. She’s yelling at Diego...
Holly: I’m sorry, Diego! But you can’t name every character in your screenplay ‘Matt!’ It’s totally unbelievable, not to mention confusing!
Diego: But all the Matts are doormen at the beachfront hotel who get walked on by society. They’re all door Matts. It’s so cerebral!
Holly: Grr! Your movie, ‘Sharkageddon’, is about sharks! That can walk! I’d say you’ve veered pretty far from cerebral!
Danny: Ahem.
Holly glares at you when she sees you.
Holly: What are you all doing here?! I was just finding my inner peace!
Ethan: Holly, my favorite writer, you’re looking--
Holly: Can it, Ethan. Danny’s the only real one here. Danny, I’m giving you three minutes tops.
Holly yanks you over to the edge of a small pond filled with little goldfish.
Holly: Speak! And this had better be good!
Danny: We ned your help. I’ve been forced into giving Bianca Stone a significant party in my movie. But she’s awful.
Holly: And?
Danny: And you’re the only one who MIGHT be able to salvage this movie.
Holly: ‘Might?!’ Are you suggesting that there’s a writing challenge I can’t meet?
Danny: I’m saying that it’s possible this can’t be done by anyone.
Holly: I’m not one to ever back down.
Danny: I didn’t think you were.
Holly: You’re good, Danny. I’ll do it.
Danny: Awesome! Wait... your fee isn’t another bench or a bush or something, is it?
Holly: No, standard money will suffice this time.
Rewards
- 1571 XP
Ethan: Welcome aboard. ‘Clash at Sunset’ needs your touch.
Addison: Badly.
Holly: If things have really hit the fan, you’d better get me back to the mainland fast. How’d you get here anyway?
Danny: Uh, you’ll see...
Another helicopter flight back to L.A., you all return to the set.
Holly: I’ve never felt so grateful to be alive. Now let me see firsthand what we’re dealing with...
Danny: Sure. We’re about to film an action sequence where Bianca’s character, Zola, is trapped by a vengeful Mutant. Let me just find our Mutant, and we’ll be good to go!
Part 3
Danny: Bianca’s acting... yeah, it’s that bad.
- A Level 7+ Movie Star (Tegwen)
The cameras roll as Bianca and Tegwen start their scene. You and Holly watch nearby...
Tegwen: You normals spit on me and my people because of our mutations, but soon you will be the mutants!
Tegwen lunges at Bianca, swiping at her with mutant tentacle arms!
Bianca: Get off me, you... damn Mutant. Your kind were... a mistake. A sad reminder... of man’s foolishness.
Holly: Wow. It’s like watching a redwood. Have you considered just killing her character off in Act One?
Danny: If that were possible, you wouldn’t be here.
Holly: How about digitally enhancing her skills?
Danny: Movie magic can only go so far...
Holly: Then I’m only left with one crazy, insane, so-weird-it-might-work idea...
Danny: Really... what is it?!
Time - 5 hours
Danny: So? What’s this crazy idea of yours, Holly?
Holly: We’ll have to test it out, but what if we turn Bianca’s character... ...into a robot?!
Danny: A robot? I don’t know...
Holly: Think about it. Bianca’s acting is already robotic, so all the scenes you’ve already filmed will make sense retrospectively. And with my rewrites to the remaining scenes, we can really play up the Zola’s robotic nature. We can make it so that the character’s discovery happens simultaneously with the audience’s!
Danny: It’s... it’s brilliant!
Holly: And that’s why I’m worth money, life-threatening helicopter rides, and the occasional park bench.
Rewards
- 1571 XP
Danny: I imagine you’ll need time to rewrite the scene?
Holly: An hour or so.
Danny: In the meantime, we’ll get started on transforming Bianca into a robot for the big scene where we’ll reveal her true nature!
Holly: We’ll want it so that her robotic self is just beneath the surface of her skin.
Danny: I think I know just the people who can make that happen!
Part 4
Danny: Can Bianca handle playing a robot?
- A Level 6+ Make-Up Artist (Liam)
- A Wardrobe Designer (Morgan)
About an hour later, Holly finishes the revisions just as Liam and Morgan emerge from Bianca’s trailer.
Danny: Well? How’d it go?
Liam: It wasn’t fun, that’s for sure.
Morgan: Yeah, I wouldn’t even call Bianca ‘difficult to work with’... she’s more like ‘homicidal rage-inducing.’
Danny: The makeup’s that bad?
Liam: Oh no, the makeup’s awesome. We are professionals.
The door to Bianca’s trailer flings open, and Bianca storms out, her arms and legs encased in polished metal and gleaming circuitry.
Bianca: Danny! Why am I wearing this ridiculous outfit?! Can you tell Liam and Morgan that my character is a human, not a robot?
Lance Sergio: For what it’s worth, babe, you’re really sexy as a robot.
Shae: Yeah, Liam did a pretty good job with the makeup... not as good as I would’ve done, of course, but still.
Bianca: Everyone shut up except for Danny! Tell me what’s going on!
You hand Holly’s revised scene to Bianca, and she flips to a marked page.
Danny: You’re an android now, Bianca.
Bianca: Since when?!
Time - 6 hours
Bianca leafs through the revised script, her eyes narrowing.
Bianca: Why am I suddenly a robot? What was wrong with my character before?!
Danny: Relax, Bianca. We’re ready to film the second half of the scene. The robot’s monologue.
Bianca: But I’m just finding out about my character now! How am I supposed to act on such short notice?
Jenni: Totes unfair.
Danny: You’re a robot, don’t overthink it!
Bianca: If I get a Razzie, it’s going to be your fault!
A moment later, Bianca stands in front of a green screen, wind from a fan whipping at her hair. The camera pans up behind her, keeping her face hidden.
Bianca: I’ve seen the Burners incinerate... entire city blocks... just to kill a few Mutants... You don’t know... what it’s like, Brianne... life in a vault is safe... secure. Here, on the surface... you’ll find only death.
Lisa: But I found you, Zola. We’d never have met if I’d stayed on the vault.
Bianca: Perhaps... that would’ve been better. I’m... I’m not what you think, Brianne.
The camera swivels around to show Bianca. She reaches up and tears at a prosthetic mask concealing her face, revealing the android hardware beneath! Next to you, Holly pumps her fist in the air.
Danny: I think that means the scene works.
Holly: That was amazing! Great makeup work!
Rewards
- 1571 XP
After a few more takes...
Holly: Well, the good news is that Bianca as a robot works.
Danny: And the bad?
Holly: I need to rewrite the rest of the script. That means we’re going to be pulling an all- nighter.
Danny: We?
Holly: I need someone as a sounding board, someone who knows the movie inside and out. That’s you. And I’ll need someone else... someone who can fetch me whatever I need to get this done. Know anyone you’d want to send on errands all night?
Part 5
Holly: Send for coffee, Danny. This is going to be a long, loooong night!
- Anyone Besides Danny (Alexandra)
Later that night, Holly gives Alexandra her coffee order as the two of you hammer out the screenplay revisions.
Holly: I’ll take a venti iced skinny hazelnut macchiato, upside down, no whip, with caramel drizzle and an extra shot of espresso.
Alexandra: Coming right up!
Alexandra dashes out the door!
Holly: That’s the first time I haven’t had to repeat my coffee order! You’ve surrounded yourself with talented people, Danny. I can respect that.
Danny: Speaking of talented people, how’s the screenplay looking? Anything I can do to help?
Holly: I just need time to think. I’m stuck on this one scene where robo-Zola’s emotional core gets reactivated by an EMP blast, and she has a total breakdown.
Danny: I thought the whole point of making Bianca a robot was to avoid emotions?
Holly: I know. The girl’s got, like, zero emotional range, but there’s something profound about a robot’s first emotions. Like a baby’s first steps, you know? Trust me, Danny... we need this scene. I’ll figure it out. I just need that coffee...
Danny: Alexandra should be back any minute... Starbucks is right across the street!
Time - 7 hours
Twenty minutes later, Alexandra still hasn’t come back with the coffee.
Holly: You said Starbucks is right across the street, right, Danny? What’s taking so long?
Danny: I don’t know... maybe I’ll go look--
Just then, you hear a bunch of shouting down the hall! You and Holly run to check it out. Peering around a corner, you can see Alexandra being yelled at by Bianca!
Bianca: Don’t you think MAYBE next time you could watch where you’re going?
Alexandra: I’m sorry, I didn’t--
Bianca: Didn’t what? Didn’t what? Didn’t realize I wouldn’t appreciate having macchiato all over my dress?! Well, think again!
You rush to Alexandra’s defense.
Danny: Lay off, Bianca. It was obviously an accident.
Bianca: Whatever. Now that you’re here, this hallway is officially at maximum loser capacity. I’d better leave.
Bianca storms off to change while Alexandra approaches you and Holly, looking sheepish.
Alexandra: Sorry, Holly... I don’t know if you heard, but I spilled your macchiato all over Bianca.
Danny: Don’t worry about it, Alexandra Holly, do you want to go to Starbucks? I know you were hoping that macchiato would give you a mental boost...
Holly: No macchiato necessary! Bianca gave me exactly what I needed!
Danny: What?
Rewards
- 1571 XP
Holly: Anger... indignation... rage... it’s all there, waiting to be tapped. We just have to find a way to make her this angry while the cameras are rolling...
Danny: Making Bianca angry on purpose? I don’t know if that’s a good idea...
Holly: Come on, Danny. Look at everything I have up to help you with your movie! I could be finding my hidden self on Catalina Island right now! We all make sacrifices. This is yours.
Part 6
Danny: Making Bianca angry on purpose... shouldn’t be too hard, right?
- Provoke!
The next day, you and Holly prepare to capture Bianca’s fury on camera.
Holly: Okay, Danny, I’ll set up a video camera behind this bush. It’d be too suspicious to get our camera crew involved. Do you need a refresher on the lines you need her to say?
Danny: That’d be nice.
Holly: Okay, first you need her to say, ‘Get away from me!’
Danny: That shouldn’t be too hard.
Holly: Then we need, ‘I’m not like you!’
Danny: Okay...
Holly: And finally, if you could get her to say, ‘I will crush this petty world in my iron grip,’ that’d be great.
Danny: Uh, what was that last one?
Holly: Enough practice! Time to put this plan into action!
Danny: Okay. Let’s do this.
Holly: All right, game faces on. Remember, the first line is ‘Get away from me.’
You and Holly stomp over to Bianca with your hands on your hips.
Danny: Bianca! We’ve got a bone to pick with you!
Bianca: Sorry, what was that? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how lame you both are.
Danny: Oh, yeah? Well, maybe you’d be able to hear me better if I got right up in your grill!
You get right up in Bianca’s grill, causing her to step back in surprise!
Bianca: Ugh, Danny, what the hell?!
Danny: Can you hear me now, Bianca? CAN YOU?
Bianca: Ugh, GET AWAY FROM ME!
You ease off Bianca, having gotten her to say the line. Holly gives you a thumbs-up.
Danny: Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Holly whispers to you.
Holly: Next line is ‘I’m not like you.’
As Bianca turns to leave, you shout after her.
Danny: I don’t get what your problem is. We’re really not that different, you know.
Bianca: You must be joking. Name one thing we have in common.
Danny: Well... We both want to run this town. We’re both ambitious, out stars are on the rise... we should be working together, not fighting like this.
Holly: Actually, that’s a pretty good point...
Bianca: That’s... that’s not true! You’re not even on my level!
Danny: You know it’s true, Bianca. I’m more like you than any of your friends.
Bianca: I... we... No, you’re wrong! I’M NOT LIKE YOU!
Holly winks at you as Bianca delivers the line.
Danny: Fine. Keep lying to yourself.
Holly elbows you and leans in to whisper in your ear.
Holly: This is it, Danny. The big one. Do you think you can get her to say, ‘I will crush this petty world in my iron grip?’
Bianca: Who is this anyway?! The Danny whisperer?! Why are you even here?
Danny: Sorry, Bianca, we were just wondering whether you will crush this petty world in your iron grip?
Bianca: If by ‘this petty world’ you mean your self-esteem, and by ‘iron grip’ you mean my acerbic wit, then yes... I will crush this petty world in my iron grip.
You whisper to Holly.
Danny: That was easy.
Bianca: What was easy?
Danny: Uh, nothing. You really got me with that one! Ow, my self-esteem!
Bianca: You are so weird. This conversation is over.
As Bianca walks away, Holly gives you a high five!
Holly: Nice work, Danny! We got all the footage we needed!
Danny: Glad to hear it. That was possibly the worst five minutes of my life!
You and Holly review the footage on the hidden camera.
Holly: This is great stuff! Good work, Danny!
Danny: Eh, it was your idea to piss her off. I just did what I do best.
Rewards
- 1571 XP
Danny: Do what’s our next step? Ned me to mess with anyone else?
Holly: Whoa there, Walter White! Save it for the camera, okay?
Danny: Aw, if you insist. Let’s take this footage to Dean and see what this’ll look like with special effects!
Part 7
Danny: Everything looks better with special effect. Even angry Bianca.
- Level Danny
Dean shows you the footage with plenty of cool effects added! On the screen, Robot Bianca’s circuits spark, and her eyes glow red as the emotional core malfunctions!
Bianca: GET AWAY FROM ME! I’M NOT LIKE YOU! I WILL CRUSH THIS PETTY WORLD IN MY IRON GRIP!
Dean: So, what do you think?
Danny: I think it looks awesome!
Holly: You can really feel the depth of her simulated robot emotion!
Rewards
- 1571 XP
Dean: So how much filming do you guys have left? Just the final scene, right?
Holly: Just the epic, massive battle that masterfully resolves all the plot threads and provides al satisfying completion to each character’s emotional arc, yes.
Dean: Oh... well, let me know when it’s ready for postproduction!
Danny: We will. And thanks, Dean, for--
Just then, the door of Dean’s editing studio bursts open!
Bianca: Danny! You can’t just act like a total weirdo and walk away! What are you--
Bianca sees the footage playing on Dean’s monitor.
Bianca: I WILL CRUSH THIS PETTER WORLD IN MY IRON GRIP! What the... You were using me?!
Danny: Bianca, wait!
Bianca: NO! Good luck finding funding for you movie, Danny... because my father’s money and I are out!
Bianca slams the studio door and stalks over to her trailer, fuming.
Danny: Oh crap. This is going to be a problem.
How will you deal with Bianca’s latest blowup? Will she call her dad and tell him to stop funding your movie? Keep playing to find out!