Zeroth Directive

Despite her youth, Tippi has already accumulated quite a lot of experience in Wrankwood. Before she was a background painter, she has worked in scripts, props, lighting... name a role in a film crew, and it is more likely than not that she has done it. As a prop technician, she watched a director combine multiple studio plates, dreaming of making the film of the century where Higashinese ninjas leap from roof to roof atop the churches of Laterano, and Lateran guns are knocked out of their wielders' hands in the bamboo forests of Yan... The final product was indeed dream-like in its wild, disconnected incoherence. She has been a makeup artist, watching the veterans transform a Forte into a Sankta using Originium Arts. She has been a VFX artist, helping create floods and earthquakes, explosions and storms for disaster movies. Tippi says that special effects are a burgeoning industry that recruits many graduates from the universities of Leithanien every year. All of that is part of everyday life on the dozens of studio plates in Wrankwood. She has moved from job to job not because she gets bored easily, but because she wants to experience every part of the movie-making process for herself. At Rhodes Island, she has made no effort to conceal the identities of her parents and grandparents, who are all famous directors. She was also pleasantly surprised to find that Jara, who is like a grandmother to her, has ties to many of our operators. However, due to her sincere love for film, she refused to follow the path her family had planned out for her, and concealed her identity when working in Wrankwood. She wanted to try things out for herself, and make the things she loves on her own terms, be they backgrounds, props, or modifications to the script. Perhaps one day she will become a director herself, and make the movies she wants to see. She also wants to learn more about the dark side of Wrankwood. Perhaps certain tragedies can be avoided, if there is someone there working to make things better.

Archive IV

From FEater's sudden retirement to Roberta's departure, it is not hard to piece together a picture of Wrankwood from the accounts of our operators who came from there. Factory-like movie production pipelines, the flimsiness of the silver screen's facade, an ever-repetitive cycle of work and publicity, the hundreds of dream-chasers who starve to death year after year, and the concealment of this darker side beneath the bright surface. Tippi does not deny any of this. She admits that her willingness to persevere and keep trying new things at Wrankwood was made possible by her parents' and grandparents' status as famous directors, and the love and care that Jara showed her. Even though she had walked her own path and earned everything herself, it was her family ties that taught her about Wrankwood's dark side and how to deal with it. And it is because of these same ties that she is able to laugh off any scorn or abuse she encounters on the set, allowing her to focus solely on what she wants to do. If not for that, she would be one of the thousands of people huddling in tiny rented spaces and working multiple jobs trying to make ends meet in Wrankwood. Tippi does not deny Wrankwood's status as a 'factory of dreams', either. She has met many friends in the years she has worked there. It is not unheard of for a small-town girl to work her way to stardom, a humble stagehand to be brought to tears when they see their own name at the end of the credits, or for an abandoned plate to be repurposed as a studio plate, creating temporary jobs for the unemployed to be extras and stagehands, and giving them a reprieve as they look for the next job. In recent years, Wrankwood has even implemented policies that protect the jobs of Infected actors, provided they can afford the expensive insurance fees—a first step in a long journey for Infected rights, so to speak. Many dreams have come true in Wrankwood, and many people got their first jobs here. Even Tippi's own family, people who've been through the ins and outs of Wrankwood, have their eyes light up when they run across the town's first silent picture. That said, she does understand why FEater and Roberta left: the exploitation and abuse is still there, and it is happening every day. For their part, FEater and Roberta also understand why Tippi has chosen to stay: she has a dream to chase, one that still has a chance of coming true—it is, after all, Wrankwood. Yet Tippi has also told us that she wants to establish a union, not just to work with Rhodes Island to further protect the rights of Infected cast and crew, but also to help people like Laura and Moira, people struggling at the bottom rung of Wrankwood's ladder. To create a better environment for them, so that they will not have to fall by the wayside on the path of dreams.

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