Trollheart

When http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/48...e-turmoil.html was finally cancelled after twenty-four successful seasons, fans were livid. The show, they said, had only just been about to reach its greatest heights, and many loose ends were yet to be tied up. But series creator someonecompletelyrandom (known forever more as SCR) scoffed at their letter, email and flaming-poop-on-doorstep campaign to save, or revive the show. Enough was enough, he said. What do they think this is? Star Trek? I've given thirty years of my life to this show, and I don't intend to die writing it! We had our fun, now let it rest in peace.

And so it was, for twenty years, until one day, an insignificant little MB troll who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful thread found himself reasoning thus: Yes, the show was all but forgotten now, and the stars dead or in various institutions, with its writer rumoured to have bought his own private island, from where he issued an edict to declare that the land of Randomia was a new and independent state, and had deep and intimate knowledge of the government's contact with aliens, which he intended to reveal soon in a tell-all book, just before the island was "mistakenly" used as a drop site for a new type of bomb by the US Army. And yes, the storylines were convoluted and intricate, and would be unlikely ever to be sorted out, but what if... what if, there was a New Generation? Star Trek had done it, why not MB:AEIT? Bring in new stars to replace those who had all drifted away or died, new storylines, maybe even some of the older stars who were not dead could return to do guest slots?

And so, off he went to the networks with his idea. Every single one of them laughed at him. One chased him out of their offices with a broom. But he did not give up, and through the miracle of crowdfunding, eventually, MB: AN Empire in Turmoil --- The Next Generation was born!
(Super glitzy graphic from Plankton pending...)

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CAST MEMBERS (Collect them all! Trade with your friends! If you have any friends..)

Name: Frownland
Position: Emperor in waiting
Age: 46
Status: Stoned
First Appearance: Out of Town on a Rail
Last Appearance: still current as of season nine

First seen in the opening episode to season four, Out of Town on a Rail, Frownland had in fact auditioned for the role of Sleazy Pusher but had been turned down by the producers due to, quote, that ridiculous moustache. Cleverly concealing the offending face fuzz by tying it back, Frownland managed to land the job and so was first seen in the very first scene of S04:E01 when he attempted to sell blow to the kids in the local school. However he was outfoxed and the kids beat him up and stole his stash. When he tried to get it back, the kids sicced the cops on him, calling him a paedophile. Frownland's response to this has since become a cult classic:

"Look, I think that's a bit much. I mean, I LIKE Pedestrian, sure, but to say I'm obssessed with her? She's hardly John Cage, you know!"

Thrown in jail for eighteen years, Frownland resigned himself to his situation and endeavoured to "Do a Burzum", making music from the cell bars and his own teeth. His plans to record and release a six-album box set, "Frownland In Pokey", were however thwarted, when the cops, unable to take anymore of his so-called music, petitioned the judge for a retrial. At the retrial it turned out that evidence of his guilt had been falsified by YorkeDaddy, the prosecuting counsel, and his offence was quashed, and Frownland was a free man again.

After successfully running for mayor in season five however, Frownland was found to be guilty himself of fraud, when it was discovered that of the 140,000 votes he had acquired, 138, 904 were dead and the rest were just his own name written in various cunning disguises. Stripped of his post, Frownland retired to the local music school, where he now teaches music theory. Pupils love his classes, they are very popular due to his somewhat revolutionary theories based around the John Cage 4:22 principle, wherein nobody in his class plays or sings anything but simply sits still, visualising the music process. He says he has trained some very promising students.

Frownland has written four books on this theory, all of them blank, and all bestsellers. He is currently in discussion with movie producers with a view to bringing the first one to the big screen.

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If anyone is interested in being a character, this will be FCFS so let me know. Otherwise you may just get done anyway. No permission from you is required and no lawsuits will be entertained. Let them get their own damn clowns!

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YorkeDaddy

**** like this is always funny as hell to me (hence me creating Music Banterus), so I approve of this thread and should obviously be a character

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Name: Black Francis
Position: Revolutionary
Age: 31
Status: Deceased
First Appearance: A New Life
Last Appearance: The Red Dinnerparty

Coming from the “wrong side of the tracks”, ie MB's natural enemy, mundane Banter (identified by the lowercase “m” in its abbreviation), Black Francis arrived from the small town of PortiRoci in the second episode of season one, and with his family set up the now iconic Pixies Bar and Grill, where he worked tirelessly for three years. He met and fell in love with ChelseaDagger, a member of the Council of Ten, and they had a child, Little Frank Dagger. Viewers of the show watched their romance blossom and grow throughout two seasons until the shocking reveal at the end of season three, when it was shown that Pixies Bar and Grill (ever after known simply as Pixies) was nthing more than an elaborate front for the CEMB, the Communist Enemies of Music Banter, who had, unbeknownst to them, recruited all of Francis's family into their organisation and sent them there as sleeper agents.

At the climax of season three, S03E22: The Red Dinnerparty, Pixies is hosting an important gala dinner for the Council, when the trigger word is sent. Immediately, all the meals are laced with strychnine, and there ensues a horrible and memorable scene where Francis, regaining some control due to his love for Chelsea, knocks the plate from her hand and saves her from death. Tragically, his hand, which falls into the spilled food, is cut on the sharp pottery and when he instinctively licks the blood, he tastes the food and falls prey to his own murder weapon, dying on the spot. Chelsea is aghast, and tries to commit suicide, but Urban and Janszoon, as well as the dying Loathsome Pete, entreat her to live, for the boy. Urban, Janszoon, Vanilla and a few other survive the massacre, but much of the Council is wiped out.

Perhaps ironically, a statue is built in the town square in PortiRoci, proclaiming the family as brave freedom fighters, who gave their lives to destroy the inner circle of the hated enemy.

(Editor's note: The actor who portrayed Black Francis says he is still persona non grata in every restaurant in the country, and has had to resort to eating in, every single night. "People still boo me when I walk down the street", he sighs. "You'd think this stuff was real. For some people, I guess it is." Chelsea still receives notes of support, sympathy and marriage offers on a regular basis. She has since deleted her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.)

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You are: you're the corrupt lawyer who trumped up the charges that saw Frownland jailed.

Also, you should know that though this was certainly not my idea (and thanks to SCR for the amazing start) much of it is based on your journal, though I'll make sure not to rip you off.

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The Batlord

If you're quoting someone, their quote should be put in quotation marks.

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Name: Mordwyr
Position: Professional Plate-spinner, second grade
Age: 17
Status: Deceased
First Appearance: You Want it When?
Last Appearance: Fall of a Pushbroom, Part II

Although initially Frownland's enemy, to the degree that he stole his girlfriend, which is to say his favourite mirror, it was revealed in a shock ending to season four that mordwyr was in fact the ex-mayor, ex-jailbird's half-brother. When the two fought on Overhang Bluff in the now legendary season (literal) cliffhanger, and Frownland wrested the mirror from mordwyr's hands, hitting him over the head with it and thus causing him to fall, he was amazed to hear his adversary admit that he was his brother. The line “Every time you look in a mirror, you'll see me” has gone down in television history as one of the most moving ever, especially when Frownland, faced with the prospect of saving his now-revealed half brother, or his favourite saxophone, which had slipped from his hands during the fight (Frownland later revealed he had hoped to capture the “true sense of man's conflict with himself through music”), grabs for the instrument and watches with a tear in his eye as his brother falls to his death.

Viewing figures for Fall of a Pushbroom, Part I which ended season four and had the shock revelation as to who mordwyr was, though impressive, were blown apart by those for the season five opener, which resolved the arc and led to the character's death, still seen as one of the most iconic in the last five years.

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Trollheart

Not if you put the word quote before it. Now shoo, before I have you introduced in episode one and killed off in episode two!

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The Batlord

I'm gonna need you to back that one up.

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