Resolving an Issue

[Mayuran]

In our recent game of Primetime Adventures, Quantum Bums, I resolved my character's issue during his spotlight episode. It was unclear to us whether he picks another issue, or continues through the remaining four episodes of the series without one. The latter seemed to be more obvious choice, since there won't be another spotlight episode to bring a new issue to focus.

Any advice on this front? How have other folks dealt with this in their series?

peace-

mayuran

[JMendes]

Hey, :)

I think the rules specifically say that you have to pick a new issue, or even keep the same one, but transformed, somehow.

Sure, you won't have another spotlight ep, but you're still in the show, and there are still going to be conflicts about you, which means you need an issue so that you can set stakes.

I think.

Cheers,
J.

[Matt Wilson]

Hey Mayuran.

The point in all that is deciding what has changed, or what do you think that change is going to be? That's what your next issue is.

What was your character's issue? I can give you some ideas of how it'd work.

[Mayuran]

What was your character's issue? I can give you some ideas of how it'd work.

The character's issue was "self destruction." In the series, he is a time traveller from a dystopian 2020 who is back in the 1950s (to keep the Brooklyn Dodgers from leaving for LA) and saw things in the past to be equally dysfuctional (in terms of politics, race, and in how personally unwholesome and despicable the other characters were). In the pivotal scene of the spotlight, he overcame his disgust and despair and decided that his mission was too important to give up, and that he could help these damaged people be better.

[David "Czar Fnord" Artman]

...his mission was too important to give up, and that he could help these damaged people be better.

That sounds like an issue to me: cynical martyrdom. Transitions nicely from self-destructive, too; he is self-sacrificing for entities which he feels might not deserve it.

Just 2¢;
David