Originally shared by Nathan Paoletta
Last Night, on World Wide Wrestling
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A night of returns!
Eric Mersmann ‘s Mammoth Marco came back as Millionaire Marco, changing to the Veteran Gimmick upon “discovery of oil fields in his ancestral homelands of Dead Horse Alaska”. Always a company man at heart, Millionaire Marco signed a contract with general manager C. Colton Craig giving him part-ownership of WWW.
After a squash match to get the crowd warmed up, Millionaire Marco went out to the ring to call out anyone from The Revolution (Keith Senkowski ‘s Anti-Hero’s stable) to show them who’s really in charge. The Revolution comes out, and CHL gets the nod to face Marco. Marco, still one of the largest men in WWW, tosses CHL around like a ragdoll before the rest of the Revolution gets involved…but then Perdition runs in to pull the pack off of Marco!
Backstage, Roxy Rambo and Ron Edwards ‘s Bruto are watching on the monitor, and Roxy nudges him “hey…this is the hottest angle right now, we should get in there”. They run in as well, making it a four-on-four brawl, with the Revolution ceding the field.
This is Bruto’s first appearance in his new role as a Legend (this is an Advanced Role, Bruto has made such a name for himself that he’s transcended the Babyface/Heel divide). He steps out of the pack and triumphantly breaks an ax handle over his head to show that the HARDCORE is BACK, and the crowd pops!
Atlas the Geek (Dylan Clayton ‘s Wasted) decides to show up, and his valet Ava Dread tells him she’s gotten him booked with a new guy “from the indies” who she thinks will be a good match. I got to show off a new contestant, Sebastian Pale, a goldust-by-way-of-David Bowie wierdo with a butler (of course). Pale cuts a promo on Atlas about how “if the crowd wants to see freaks, they should be giving me their adulation.” Their match is dominated by Atlas and his new custom signature Move of using his bizarre joints to his advantage (including dislocating his own shoulder to get out of a submission), but with Pale’s Butler’s interference he gets the win with his finisher, Beyond the Pale.
We come back from commercial and Tina Tahini is in the ring in ring gear, calling out Keystone for locking her (along with the rest of Management) in and taking over the show. Backstage, it’s been made pretty clear that Craig isn’t happy with how she’s been doing her job, and this is a bit of a punitive match. Anyway, The Revolution comes back out, and Keystone cuts a promo on her then comes into the ring. They mess about for a minute until she hauls off and gives him a good slap (booked) and then another one (legit). That’s Bruto’s cue to come in and make the save, and it becomes a Keystone-Bruto match with the Revolution at ringside.
They go back and forth, working the crowd and showboating appropriately, until Keystone gets tipped out over the ropes. Tex Arkana gets up on the apron and starts shouting at the ref, distracting him and setting up Keystone to grab the broken ax handle and whack Bruto with it from behind! He gets a partial on his Break the Rules Move, and we narrate how the ref turns around and sees it, DQing Keystone and triggering ANOTHER pull-apart brawl around the ring.
Cut to the interior of Marco’s private office, where he’s watching the events on his personal monitor. Suddenly the lights dim, and we just hear Perditions voice “We…are the only one’s strong enough…to stop this chaos. We must take control.”
Roll credits!
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It was a good session fictionally, but I think I didn’t handle the booking very well and it didn’t feel as solid, to me, as some of our other ones. Keith, Eric and Ron’s characters are so integrated at this point that I didn’t think to try and pull Dylan’s into it, and I should have – as it was, his bit was pretty much just me and him, and it felt lower energy than the rest. Overall I just wasn’t on my A game, sorry guys.
In retrospect I should have definitely booked Atlas with one of the PCs and introduced Pale somewhere else, maybe even as a run-in to that match.
Stuff to think about from Creative’s chair, as it were.