When Justice Is Done Pt. 0 is the worldbuilding and character creation episode for the When Justice Is Done Arc.
Episode description[edit | edit source]
LIST OF ARCADE MACHINES AT SALTWATER PIER IN ORDER OF HOW FRIGHTENED I WAS BY THEM WHEN I WAS A KID (ASCENDING)
salmon rOH-NO: a caviar game
horse chase 5 stack ‘em tall, pile ‘em high, let ‘em loose
our farm in the valley
yesterday’s gunslingers, today!
drink up the oceans
armageddon 4: they’re back
asteroid
timber! a lumberjack game
horse chase 3
lighthouse keeper: rivals (competitive)
drift ’n’ crash drum, drum, drum
cage of death
you’re the king now
chicken coop!
the end of the world
lighthouse keeper: rivals (cooperative)
the reset
calliope
calliope 2
calliope 3
Contents[edit | edit source]
Opening[edit | edit source]
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Hello and good evening, Bluff City. It is your voice and your servant, Hector Hu, and it is also something else, you know what it is? It is a beautiful, 70 degree, late summer evening and I am coming to you live from WBRK The Break with a full six hour block of creed, conjecture, and of course call-taking too. And speaking of the phones, I hear a ringing right now, so let's go right to line one.”
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Hi, Hector, it's Chris, Chris Andrews?”
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Christine! So good to hear from you again. How can I offer you guidance this fine night?”
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Well, I was just calling 'cause I was curious what you thought about this whole Goldfish thing? Like, do you think she's really gone for good? We're gonna be okay, right?”
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Thank you so much for your words, Chris. I know that your lips give breath to the feelings running through the hearts of so many people here in Bluff City tonight. The shining beacon of justice Goldfinch has left us behind for mysterious reasons and that can make all of us feel alone. When the cords of life get all tangled and confused, it's like—it's like on a holiday morning when you get that new VCR and the new TV combination unit and all the cords—all the cords get all tangled and you look at the—you look at the manual—the paper manual and it's all written in confusing technological jargon with the inputs and the outputs and the—all you know is you got a lot of tangled cords and you feel alone. I know that. I know that, that's how it feels when a city is left without a guardian.
But what does the Lord tell us? Joshua 1:9—you remember this, right, Chris? Right, Bluff City? The Lord, they say to us: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened; do not be dismayed.” Why? Why should we not be dismayed? Because there is strength in each other. Goldfinch was not alone, was she? Her love, her partner, Waxwing, she still prowls the streets for evildoers. And what does Proverbs say? “When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to evildoers.” And she is not alone. She has you, too, Chris. And she has others, the young, the determined, the heroic. And I tell you this because I know it—because I have been to the other world where there is not but evil, not but destruction, not but regression and fear of the new. And this—this is Bluff City and this is not that place. This is the city of life—the city of creation absurd and beautiful.
And listen—listen to the scripture always, because it is our guide. Listen to Isaiah 41. What's it heed us do? What's it heed us do, “O coastlands”? It says: “Listen to me in silence, O coastland. Let the people renew their strength. He”—the evildoer—“he gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings under foot. He makes them like dust with his sword. He pursues them. And the coastlands have seen and are afraid. The ends of their earth tremble.” And yet Isaiah says what? Isaiah says that “everyone helps their neighbor and says to their sibling ‘Be strong.’ The craftworker strengthens the goldsmith, and they who smooth the hammer, they who strike the anvil? They say of the soldering, ‘It is good.’ They strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.” That is you, Bluff City. You could be the craftworker, you could be the goldsmith. And if you cannot find strength to be either, that is okay. Have faith in your neighbor, have faith in your sibling. They will strengthen *you* with nails so that you—you cannot be moved.”
Plot[edit | edit source]
This episode is character creation only.
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Austin Walker
- Jack de Quidt (Hilda Quick aka Paternoster)
- Art Martinez-Tebbel (Elana Flores aka The Champ)
- Janine Hawkins (Chanti Park aka Grouse)
- Keith J Carberry (Franklin Bano aka Mr Good)
Other Characters[edit | edit source]
- Hector Hu (opening)
- Christine Andrews (opening)