Balance of GLITTER!
Welcome to Balace of GLITTER! Time to be the gayest gaylord who ever gayed in gayville!
The year is 2021! The place, Canal Street, Manchester UK.
After the utter failure of the Tory government to pull Brexit together, the entire thing was scrapped. The Tory party fell completely apart in April 2019, after losing almost all their mandates in a special election due largely to the flaccid leadership of Theresa May. Boris Johnson was sent to prison after a massive pedophilia scandal was revealed. Nigel Farage and UKIP attempted a coup d'etat, but were easily stopped by the London Metropolitan Police. All UKIP members were shot for treason and the party Outlawed. Theresa May herself, having to take all the blame for the collapse of the conservative wing, hung herself from the rafters of 10. Downing Street on her final night before having to move out.
Following these events there was a massive liberal surge in the country. In the special election of autumn 2019 Lord Buckethead won the majority vote alone, with 56% of the votes. And the newly formed Gay Lobby Party won a strong minority vote, forming a coalition government with Labour and Lord Buckethead. The latter realising he was a one man party, and that it would provide an inordinate amount of work to be his own entire cabinet. Lord Buckethead became the new PM, and divided ministerial positions evenly between the other two parties.
Following the economic collapse, and subsequent bankruptcy and foreclosure of the entire US after president Trump spent six national budgets on golf equipment and plastic surgeries for his family, there was a surge of economic refugees pouring into Britain. Lord Buckethead's cabinet managed the crisis both efficiently and humanely. Integration of the refugees was laregely seamless and painless. Except in ****ty places like Newcastle and Hull. But nobody cares about those places anyway.
Manchester, a city of now some eight million people, with its particularly vibrant gay district centred on Canal Street, became the gay capital of Europe after renowned singer, drag queen, television personality and general gay icon RuPaul moved there in winter 2019 following the US collapse. She brought a myriad of other drag artists and other lgbtq community pillars along with him. She won the election for mayor of Manchester the year after. And instituted a series of renovations in the Canal Street area. As well as a general fabulification of the city. Manchester now stands as one of the most colourful, diverse and vibrant cities in the world. Largely due to the massive gay influences. Long gone are the days of being branded as the cultural cesspool of Britain. It is now a cultural giant, housing a thriving and diverse club scene, several record labels, and a booming theatre industry.
Ru also started the organisation POOF (People Of Outstanding Fabulousness) to work as a trade guild to organise the various cultural instances in the city. It quickly grew to become a national organisation. And smaller branches and sub-branches now help organise events and cross-branch as well as inter-branch events and cooperative efforts.
It is a new and brighter day. The dawn of an era of boundless tolerance, multidude in all its facets, an vibrant cultural life!
And this is where our story begins...
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Should be fairly self-explanatory what you fill in and what I fill in. But ask if you're uncertain. Please keep me involved in the process to make your fabulous, fabulous bars! It's a big part of the fun for me to play gay-ball with you about ideas!
Player/Manager name: (Your name)
Club name: (Self-explanatory)
GLITTER-score!: This is the nebulous rating system for how trendy and "in" your club is right now. It's a mixed score between recent events, both yours and mine, and how well they went. Coupled with a degree of randomness to simulate the fickle nature of the hot and fabulous gay crowd.
Club description:
- Meaning stuff like style, design, music choices, type of patrons you cater to etc. Being a more mainstream place nets you bigger possible revenue. But more fluctuation in weekly income due to the ever migratory nature of your target mainstream clubbers. Being more niche and geared towards regulars over the ever fickle "in-crowd" however will get you more stable income. A possible part of gameplay will be coming up with events you can do to pull customers and get the spotlight on your club.
Cash: (Starting cash will depend upon type of club and a few other factors in club-gen. But should be pretty similar).
Weekly revenue: (Again, will be dependent on several factors. Also events. Both player-created or host-forced).
Notable personnel: (You get to design two notable staff members. Basically just short character descriptions. Personality, job description etc. Please try to make them funny and gimmicky! Then I'll make a couple more that you'll have to deal with. Expect conflict!)