On July 3rd and 4th, 2022, Friends at the Table hosted a marathon livestream fundraiser to benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds. As a reward for meeting the $75,000 fundraising goal, Austin, Janine, Art, Ali, and Sylvi played a one-shot of Scene Thieves set in Marielda.
Plot[edit | edit source]
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Opening[edit | edit source]
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Well, I suppose I’ve got a story or two left in these old bones. And hell, since it is another one about Marielda, why not make one about stories and the people who tell ‘em.
Now I know what you might be thinking: Physicality alive, in the era that The Six operated in Marielda, it was knowledge which was forbidden, turned into contraband and currency both, not stories.
But as anyone ever wounded by art can tell you, fiction is a sharper knife than information could be. And living fiction, played out in front of your eyes and ears? Very few things are as well honed as that.
And so it was that Samothes, ever jealous and increasingly suspicious that his erstwhile beau might conquer his capital with culture instead cudgel, all but forbade the theater.
Of course, any scoundrel worth their shadow would narrow in on those two words preceding “forbade”: “All but. “
There were two exceptions to the rule banning theater.
The first was liturgical drama, approved by the Blessed Council and performed in the True Church of Samothes on the Day of High Sun and other feasts. Between us, these were boring. They might serve academic value to someone of today’s New Archives, and I suppose for the true believer of that old era, seeing even the most sanitized depiction of their King-God, Artificer Divine would make their day.
But most folks, they wanted something a little less sacramental.
Which is where the second exception comes in.
Once a season, as an act of supposed Good Will, the Preceptors of the Font of True Knowledge—the Fontmen—opened the gates of their domain and put on a grand show. A day of comedy and tragedy in the Font Theater—the leash let slack so that the next time those censors pulled on it, they could claim it was done in good faith.
What does any of this have to do with the Six. Well, nothin, until those out-a-towners with mysterious pasts and glorious masks showed up, claiming they had a spot on the stage and job for Hitchcock, Castille, and the rest. Help those actors steal their names back.”
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Austin Walker (Facilitator)
- Ali Acampora (Castille)
- Art Martinez-Tebbel (Raven)
- Janine Hawkins (Violet)
- Jack de Quidt (Hitchcock)
- Sylvia Clare (Aubrey)
Other characters[edit | edit source]
- Grimaud, a spaniel in a classical Venetian clown costume
- Samolephant, a miniature elephant trained for the theater
- Maelgwyn, amateur actor and cult figure
- Little Wolfgang, Virtuoso