So the word's on the street...

There's an ad running in this week's 24/7 Magazine, and this flier is being handed out at the box office here in the hotel. And since I'm advertising on my own journal, I may as well do it up right.

I put together the print ad, but this is the blurb the boys in PR did up for me:

You've seen him cheat death above ground in a water-filled wine barrel, and below ground in an escape from the grave itself. Now, rising Las Vegas sensation Tommy Karras will defy death in a whole new way: he will go into battle with a ghost.

In JAILBREAK, his newest concept in the art of escapology, Tommy won't be putting his life on the line, but he will be putting up his fragile reputation and make a bid for the mantle once held by Harry Houdini as the King of Handcuffs. Duplicating one of Houdini's favorite stunts, he will stage a jailbreak while shackled hand and foot. What's more, he will do it all in the same irons, cell, and fashion as Houdini did it over a century ago.

The stage will be set in Pioche, Nevada, a small town outside of Vegas which is home to a historical landmark holding one of the last jail cells of its kind. Bound in five sets of cuffs worn by the master himself during various escapes, Tommy will then be shackled with a ten pound weight on his left foot, also used by the master, and locked in a jail cell crafted in 1899 with a door that does not lock in the front, but rather two feet to one side.

In his heyday, Houdini originally escaped a cell similar to this one in roughly four hours...on June 21st, Tommy Karras will attempt to perform it in two.

No modern conveniences. No technological advantages. With the same instruments and resources at Houdini's disposal, Tommy will stand toe to toe with the long dead master of escapology and hope to best him.

In the end, there can be only one.

I know it sounds hokey, but whatever gets butts in the seats, right? The courthouse in Pioche is small, so there's not a lot of tickets available? I do have some passes for anyone I know that's coming and wants in. Just hit me up and I'll get you taken care of.

Now if you'll excuse me, I got rehearsal. Today, I get to make Channing disappear. Wish me luck.

[otc] 50.3 - what's your theme song?

Viva la Vida by Coldplay. That’s my theme song, has been since I came into my powers last year. If you’ve ever heard it, and you’d have to be living under a rock not to have, you know why. The melody, the string sections…it’s a powerful song and it evokes powerful feelings.

It means more to me than the emotion it calls up, though. It’s a story about us…who we are, who we’re going to become. Forgotten kings and power, it’s a story about redemption and how there’s none to be had. No rest for the wicked or the blessed. It’s one man standing up and calmly telling the truth: he knows in his heart he’ll never see the gates of Heaven.

That’s me. Whatever hereafter there might be, Tartarus or Elysium, Heaven or Hell, my loved ones will go there. In all likelihood, I never will. Unless I’m very lucky and I get shot or stabbed or fucking cancer before I die, when my life ends there won’t be anything left. No salvation, no reincarnation…just a notch in a celestial gun nobody will ever see.

And we choose this, me and the avatars like me. We make a conscious choice to end our lives knowing there’s no hope for us in death.

There’s only hope for you.

This is my theme song because it’s yours. My people don’t exist without you, and you’re the masters we serve. We’re the puppets on lonely strings. You are the wicked and wild wind, the shattered windows and sound of drums. You are the revolutionaries waiting for the head of the king. We’re the sea, commanded to rise…we move, we breathe at your whim.

If an avatar never again had to fight the darkness, we would still be yours to destroy. Every avatar is born with the borrowed face of a living human, and every time a human being loses hope, one of my people dies.

You are the power. You always have been. When you rise each morning, remember that. Know that in your image, we are made. Our hearts beat in time to yours.

You make the magic. All we do is use it.

Muse: Tommy Karras
Fandom: Original Character
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