Everything Must Ship

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Scene 1 — Everything Must Ship
Scene 1 · Dev Studio Storage Room Cold open, the morning after the server rack fire. The storage room is scorched: soot up the walls, burnt boxes and puddles from the fire hoses. A melted heap of computer parts sti…
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Scene 2 · Dev Boss Office Late morning in Triscuit's office. Triscuit is back from his ride, sweaty and beaming in the big leather chair, his (triscuit_bike) leaning against the window behind him. He has a…
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Scene 3 · Dev Meeting Room That afternoon in the meeting room: the first ever Game Dev Co Project Draft. Triscuit has dumped the (project_box) on the table and gone riding again. Sith Lord runs the draft fro…
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Scene 4 · Studio Dumpster Alley Evening in the alley behind the studio. The burnt storage room is being rebuilt into a meeting room overnight, and it has no chairs. Cougar sits on top of his (dumpster_command_cen…
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Scene 5 · The Roundup Room Nine o'clock the next morning: the very first Dev Roundup, in the rebuilt storage room. Mismatched chairs from the dumpster, the burnt coffee pot in the corner, a fresh whiteboard…
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Scene 6 · The Roundup Room Same meeting, ninety minutes later. The fifteen-minute meeting is still going. Sith Lord stands at the whiteboard; its left column is still completely empty and the middle one is c…
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Scene 7 · The Loading Dock Noon at the loading dock behind the building. A freight truck is backed up to the dock. Pux stands at the podium with the clipboard, logging shipments. Gnarl tapes up boxes on the…
Scene 8 — Everything Must Ship
Scene 8 · The Loading Dock Later that afternoon at the loading dock. The truck has gone. GONK, the studio's new courier, stands at the podium with the sign-in clipboard. Jezz, just cut out of her box, sits o…
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Scene 9 · The Roundup Room Five o'clock, the second Roundup of the day. The whiteboard's left column is now crammed full, top to bottom. Sith Lord stares at it in horror. Gnarl and Pux lean back in their cha…
Scene 10 — Everything Must Ship
Scene 10 · Game Dev Co. Exterior Dusk outside the Game Dev Co building. Triscuit, holding his bike helmet, stands by the street lamp next to the empty bike rack, ready to ride home. Sith Lord stands on the welcome…

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