Daybreak: Sessions
13-Oct-2009: Watching the Late Late Show
Adapted from multiple adventure seeds in Superiors 2.

Achaiah, Deyinara, & Meshail
Sweeps Week was coming--something that put the fear of, well, Nybbas, into any demon of Media, no matter how successful they were. And, being in radio, Meshail knew that his ratings would always be in question; his only thanks was that he didn't work in the newspaper business. The Habbalite of Media was approached by fellow Media-ite, Rose, who had cashed in a number of "personal favors" (i.e. Geases) to find out about a Vapulan/Nybbas project in which the demons involved in the project had vanished in the 1950's, taking everything with them. She knew that the project took place in the WWJ-TV transmitter control room on top of the Detroit News building, but little more. Since Sweeps Week demanded she remain focused on the air, she offered her fellow Media-ite shared kudos if he'd check out the building for him. If he found anything, that'd help them both get through the week--and maybe even more.

Going alone into an area where demons had mysteriously vanished is never a good idea and Meshail contacted some fellow like-minded celestials to help watch his back. While they weren't exactly his first picks, Deyinara and Achaiah were his only two options available. He met the two outside the radio station where Rose and his servant, Jet, worked and drove them to the Detroit News building. Meshail and his associates questioned an old janitor who told them the old TV control room on the top of the building was haunted and sealed.

After Deyinara opened the door in the way only a Calabite can (which is to say, with great noise and violence), the three entered the dusty control room, which had been sealed for over forty years. Achaiah found an old school roach clip, which she pocketed, while Deyinara noticed special properties about an old trigger-style flashlight. A click sent the three demons spiraling into some sort of TV land, where they were cut off from the Symphony and placed into a world where the rules worked more like they did on TV shows than in the real world.

The trio channel-surfed for a while, trying to get their bearings and experimenting with the flashlight/control. In a 1950's sci-fi show, Deyinara was zapped by a "laser" and dropped the device in mid channel switch. The three were trapped in a 1960's style western. Pilfering horses from a stagecoach once filled (presumably) with the "bad guys", they rode to town only to be accosted in the town hotel by an out-of-place male wearing a white lab coat. The man threatened them with a "flashlight" of his own, but the device was apprehended by Deyinara, who quickly turned it on the stranger and sent him elsewhere.

Further experimentation with the newly-gained device separated Achaiah from the group. Deyinara and Meshail began searching for their companion or their near-accoster, learning in the process that pointing the device in different angles produced different results. Now, with an understanding of the device they mapped eleven accessible channels. While through this processes they noticed the lab coat-wearing stranger stealing a plain-clothes cop car in a 1970's cop show, they pressed on, more involved in finding their Pusher.

To the surprise of the two, Deyinara got a phone call from the other Habbalite, informing them what show she was trapped in. Which, apparently, was a 1970's BBC science fiction show, complete with bubble-wrap monster. In amusement, Achaiah reached out to pop one of the bubbles only to discover that though it may look fake, the intended result was not; the bubble-wrap acted as acid and burned her fingers.

Fortunately, with the understanding of the device and the knowledge that cell phones somehow transcended the laws in this micro-universe, the three were together again and Deyinara turned the control on the bubble-wrap/acid monster, sending him to channels unknown. They steered themselves back to the 70's cop show, and had a very bumpy chase after the white lab-coated stranger. The three demons in a criminal's brown sedan, the stranger in a plain-clothes police sports-car. Meshail was unused to driving in a high-speed chase to a 70's wakka-chi-wakka soundtrack and nearly lost track of the stranger. However, TV laws came through once again and the stranger made the mistake of driving into a dead-end alley. Meshail pulled up behind the other car, trapping the lab-coat wearing man.

After severe questioning, the three demons learned that their captive was an Impudite of Media named Dantalian, who was the only surviving member of a team working on a device (the Flashomatic remote control that the three now had) which would have hopefully "drawn viewers into the show." Obviously, the device had a few flaws. Meshail and Achaiah put their heads together, using their shared knowledge of electronics to reconnect a few faulty connections--enough to let them go home (and take the semi-Renegade Impudite with them).

Nybbas was well-pleased to receive the Flashomatic control and wayward Dantalian and gave the three hearty pats on the back, thanking them for a job well done. Meshail took full Media credit of the operation and the bounty of Nybbas's thanks, leaving out any mention of Rose.

Meshail began devising how to spin the appearance of dead bodies in a previously empty TV control room into a massive story for his servant (to help bolster ratings) and returned to his daily Role, confident that the rest of Sweeps Week would be in the bag.