YazebaPbP/SecondChapter

A Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast adventure.

The Second Chapter: Wash Cycle
In which the laundry room has become a disaster, and Sal must lead the charge to fix it (with Gertrude's reluctant help).

Amelie’s arms had fallen off. This was less of a problem for Amelie than it would have been for most of the B&B’s residents, but the local repair shop was waiting on a part from out-of-town to arrive and it had been an entire week since they’d twisted their joints apart mopping. Footprints mottled the floor, turning it the rich brown color of early spring mud.

Gertrude was curled up with a book underneath the fax machine, trying not to eavesdrop too obviously on Sal’s phone call. She didn’t want to be in the lobby, but the smell of sweaty clothes and damp had filled the B&B, and the calming scent of printer ink clinging to the clunky device was the only thing that could crowd out the more pungent odors.

Sal put down the phone with a heavy thud, and Gertrude looked over at him. “What’s wrong?”

“Yazeba says, with Amelie out of commission, I’ve gotta get all the laundry done. Today.”

Gertrude looked appalled. “But Sal, there’s a mountain of clothes and sheets and stuff in there! What about your concert?”

“I tried to bring that up, but she, uh, well…” Sal glanced down at the phone’s speaker, still glowing orange from heat, and scratched the back of his head. “I don’t think she liked the sound of that.”

Gertrude stood, straightening out her back, which hurt a fair sight more than a teenager’s probably should. Nobody knew the laundry room better than her; she’d never been on laundry duty per se, but she’d tried to sleep through more than a few wash cycles.

“Well, okay, maybe you can still make your concert if someone else pitches in?”

Sal’s eyes glinted—he recognized a chance for someone else to do the dirty work when he saw it. “Really, that’s so sweet of you, kid! Let’s get to work.”

Before Gertrude could stammer out a clarification, the two of them were tumbling headfirst into the laundry room. She looked out across the horror of the vast sea of dirty bedsheets and stinky socks, and realized that she had just signed up for a very long day indeed.

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Our Cast:

• thenorm42 as Sal
• Naphthalim as Gertrude
• Gon and then various others as Hey Kid
• FrivYeti as Muckleby

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Key Events

• Amelie was still broken from the events of the previous chapter, just as Gertrude wanted to move out of the laundry room!
• Muckleby thought the laundry was a hot tub, and had to have the concept explained to her
• A series of misunderstandings led to Muckleby thinking that Gertrude was angry, and then to Muckleby's face falling off, and then to Gertrude having a panic attack under the sink. Muckleby helped Gertrude by giving her an extra ribbon, and the two became friends
• Sal convinced Hey Kid to help out more, and began to think that his talents might lie in teaching more than in composing. He needs more time to think about this.

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Chapter Rules:

This Chapter is played in a Frantic Mood. Everyone starts with 0 Chaos Coins. When anyone wants to tick a chapter Track, they'll consult their Chaos Coins:

• If they don't have any Chaos Coins, they succeed right away, and then take a Chaos Coin.
• If they do have Chaos Coins, they flip all of them at once, and if all the coins come up heads, they succeed! Otherwise, they don’t tick the track and must do a Whoopsie about it. Either way, they take another Chaos Coin.

Anyone can cash in five Chaos Coins to tick a track right away.

When anyone does a Bingo, they may give away all their Chaos Coins to someone else, making the whole mess their problem. (That person shouldn’t then turn around and return the coins with a new Bingo—no tag backs!)

Tidy Cycles:
Washing: {____}{____}{____}
Drying: {____}{____}
Hamper: {____}{____}

Here’s how to do laundry: 1. Consult your Chaos Coins to fill a segment of the Washer Track.
2. Once the Washer Track has filled up, consult your Chaos Coins to empty the Washer Track and fill a segment of the Dryer Track. Repeat steps 1-2 until the Dryer Track is full.
3. Once the Dryer Track has filled up, consult your Chaos Coins to empty the Dryer Track and fill a segment of the Hamper Track. Repeat steps 1-3 until the Hamper Track is full.
4. Once the Hamper Track has filled up all the way, the laundry is done! Gertrude narrates how the Chapter ends, and the Bed & Breakfast gets an ▢ Unmatched Sock. Hold onto any leftover Chaos Coins for Housekeeping.

A Textile Wilderness The laundry piles have become a hostile landscape that impedes our every move, and might even pose an active danger. Everyone has access to the following additional Whoopsies:

• Stumble in the ankle-deep swamp of sheets, falling into it with anything you were carrying.
• Disturb a precariously tall mountain of clothes, and be buried under an avalanche.
• Spill detergent all over the floor, creating a spreading puddle of blue goo.
• Become entangled in a knot of sleeves and pant legs.
• Notice the clanging and banging of something heavy that shouldn’t be in the washer, just before it begins to jump and bounce around the laundry room.

Very Busy Guy

Sal is very busy (of course, of course) and would much rather be practicing for his concert tonight than sitting around folding laundry in the corner of the Bed & Breakfast. And whenever Sal doesn’t want to do something, he’s very good at making it everyone else’s problem. Whenever Sal says something he thinks is encouraging or inspiring to another character, he can pass off one of his Chaos Coins to them.

Yucky

Gertrude is brave, smart, hardy and adventurous. She is also easily overwhelmed. Whenever an intense wave of smell penetrates her mask, an unidentified stain offends her eyes, or a slimy texture passes through her hands, tick her Grossed Out track, below.

{____}{____}{____}{__X(__}

When the track fills up, Gertrude is too overwhelmed to function. She won’t go take a break—Sal is depending on her—but she won’t be able to do a good job until she recovers. She can’t cash in or give away her Chaos Coins until someone helps her out with a Bingo and erases the track.