Coates was convinced he was the best actor in business – or at least that is what he claimed. He forgot his lines all the time and invented new scenes and dialogue on the spot. He loved dramatic death scenes and would repeat them – or any other scenes he happened to take a fancy to – three to four times over.
Coates claimed that he wanted to improve the classics. At the end of his first appearance as Romeo he came back in with a crowbar and tried to pry open Capulet’s tomb. In another of his antics he made the actress playing Juliet so embarrassed that she clung to a pillar and refused to leave the stage. Eventually no actress would agree to play the part with him.
The audience usually answered with angered catcalls and embarrassed jeering – and loads of laughter. His fellow actors would try to make him leave the stage. If Coates thought the audience was getting out of hand, he turned to them and answered in kind.
Coates went on with his antics. Once, when he dropped a diamond buckle when he was going to exit the stage, he crawled around the stage looking for it. During his first performance of Romeo & Juliet, he pulled out his snuff box in the middle of a scene and offered some to the occupants of a box. Then, during Romeo’s death scene, Coates carefully placed his hat on the ground for a pillow and used his dirty handkerchief to dust the stage before lying on it. Finally, at the invitation of the audience, he acted out Romeo’s death twice—and was about to attempt a third before his Juliet came back to life and interrupted him. The amusement of the audience was enormous. There is some question as to whether Coates believed he was a great actor as he professed to, or if his performances weren’t brilliant parody.
Storm started a fire just outside the camp.
Fun times
I should really just give up, you know?
Always hoping that maybe, just maybe, I’ll have a chance at a relationship, that maybe I’ll actually be happy. Really, I’m not. I feign my happiness most of the time. In all honesty, I’d rather not go anywhere while I’m at home, I derive no real pleasure from it.
I’m happiest when I’m travelling, my mind allowed to my worries. though, it’s just a distraction really.
My inability to forge and maintain relationships wears me down, hell, I can’t even maintain a friends-with-benefits situation. By the time I had returned from work, they had a full time partner. It’s just so frustrating. I could do long distance again (hell, my job practically makes it unavoidable for a part) But I honestly don’t know if I have the energy anymore. Every option I’ve tried has pretty much ended in a dead end for me because I’m so terrified of what could happen, and even though I know it’s really an irrational fear, I just can’t control it.
I’m at a loss of where to go, I feel there’s nothing emotionally for me here, but with how difficult it is to even consider moving, I just don’t have the ability to try anywhere. I’m feeling like I’m in a rut.
I just want to feel like I have someone (physically) close to me who actually cares.
I’m tired of being alone.
it hurts
but I don’t have the strength to fix it alone. I’m too drained…
“Plumes of hot smoke and steam puff out from a field of fissures, billowing into the sky in soft spirals. And, as ever in the Empire of Huoshan, a low, earthly rumble permeates the air. At the center of the caldera, a lake of lava bubbles and churns, and at the edge of its shore is an intricately sculpted spire of volcanic rock that stretches skyward. The Royal Palace.
At the base of its tall obsidian stairway, rows and rows of Huoshan soldiers stand at attention, formally adorned in golden armor. Each are various shades of green, their bodies covered in scales. Where their manes and tails should be, great waves of flames dance, but what impresses most are their fiery wings that send licks of orange up into the air, like scalding leaves in the wind.
And at the top of the shining black stairs, sitting on an ornate throne of red and gold, is the Daughter of Heaven, Her Royal Highness, Empress of the Miniscule yet Mighty Realm of Magnanimous Magma, Lava and Fire, Huoshan.
She abruptly turns her head and looks to a burning comet streaking across the sky. Closer and closer it approaches until it smashes into the apex of the stairs, engulfing the Empress and her throne in an inferno.
The flames dissipate and reveal Tianhuo, Most Noble and Virtuous Captain of the Guard. The Empress, who is completely unsinged, smiles at her champion with admiration. In a show of esteem and respect, the entire army stomps a single hoof, creating a cacophonous din that echoes through the caldera. After today’s ceremony, Tianhuo will be more than the most celebrated soldier of Huoshan, she will be named Imperial Key Keeper, destined to save all of Fœnum from an impending danger the Longma have not known for generations.”
In other news, we’ll be uploading the recordings of Saturday’s stream to youtube tomorrow. In fact, we’re uploading them right now, but youtube is just taking ages on the processing, so we’ll post them properly tomorrow. Thanks to everyone that attended, we’re looking forward to seeing you again during next stream!
