Theater.

Theater is the function of this microverse. Travel vaudeville style to places, real and imaginary. The game is to get prepped for showtime.

1.

Put up posters around locations. Be ready to take down those that are conflicting if you find out they shouldn’t be at a certain spot.

Relevant show promo, coordinating relevant stars and culturally significant imagery wins fans. Pick the most appropriate flyer.

Some flyers must go to sponsors of the show for hype groups.

Heed newspaper headlines for tips. Win special fans through interactions and handing out flyers to them.

Family & friendly connections in an actor’s hometown. Give them a character featured flyer at their home bulletin board or business bb for a hype boost.

One Night A Werewolf or Codenames style minefield, which has +/- repercussions at showtime. Navigate the positives and negatives.

2.

Collect Groceries. This is your chance to talk to people and make sure they are in favor of the show. You also must check off a grocery list. Timer shows minutes to call time. Subsequent timer is deadline to curtain. If you don’t make it to call time, you must seek out the persons you are catering to before the curtain comes up. This is the reason you may want to bring a load of groceries back before you run out of time and have to deliver to each person individually.

3.

The theater is the temple. The curtain call location is the altar. The company is earth. The audience is heaven.

4.

Your role as part of the company is to smooth over front-of-house issues. Redirect anger. Encourage first timers. Restock playbills. Win over the crowd before… showtime.

B.A.R.C. Ode

(Binary Android Recall Control)

With one and two

Input a cue

To play a groove

Or perform a move

In app or game

A theme the same

Set for you to use

To quickly choose

Command your gadget

With 1/2 magic

Use volume buttons?

Let’s come up with something

Input by hand

Here’s the plan

// press 1/2 together (<)

To let the inputs gather

The binary (1,2) huddles

Of button singles (1) and doubles (11)

Each bar pressed right

As either black or white

One or two

Interchange, but still true

And end the set

With the 1/2 press (>) //

Maybe a happy song

Or a photo of fun

Maybe a thought of a friend

For a tune or a vid

Depending on how

You’re active right now

And a scan can be

Substituted easily

As a barcode, visually

As is used on groceries

Input by camera or clicks

Get your kicks

And set your coding

Manually chosen

…I’ll lay it out in prose

When I have time to compose.