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Join the City Council and your fellow citizens as we usher in Normalville's 100th birthday with a bang! (Bring an umbrella, the forecast calls for showers.)
Casting: Chris - Mayor Greg - Entertainment Director Roger - Johnny Plotdevice Tanis - Treasurer Dan - Anonymous Criminal Nori - Random Councilwoman Ann, Dave S, Kiran, Derek - Meteorite pelters MAYOR: Hello, everyone! It's great to see everybody here. I know you've been waiting all year for this weekend, and so without further adieu, on behalf of myself, Mayor Chris Morse, as well as some of the members of the Normalville City Council, I'd like to welcome you to Normalville's Centennial Celebration! [wild applause seeded by City Council] MAYOR: It's hard to believe that for a hundred years, this city has prospered and thrived with no pollution! COUNCIL: Yay! MAYOR: No unemployment! COUNCIL: Yay! MAYOR: No crime! COUNCIL: Yay! MAYOR: And none of the other awful problems that make other towns far from normal. The City Council and I have been working for months to make this the biggest and best celebration in the history of Normalville, and we hope you will participate in the exciting events we have planned. For more on that, here's the weekend's Entertainment Director, Councilman Greg Pliska. GREG: Thanks, Chris. The City Council should be passing around schedules describing six exciting events, including this one, to which we are cordially inviting all of you. In addition to celebrating our hundred years of normality, we're also celebrating the spirit of unity and cooperation this weekend, and at many of these events we hope you will show that spirit and come together as a city. MAYOR: Thanks, Greg. So thank you all for coming and well see-- JOHNNY: (running in) STOP EVERYTHING! MAYOR: Why, it's the city Meteorologist... COUNCIL: Dr. Johnny Plotdevice! JOHNNY: A meteor shower has struck Normalville! Brightly glowing meteorite shards have landed all over the city, and they're having terrible inexplicable effects! MAYOR: What kind of effects? JOHNNY: Pollution is rising! COUNCIL: Oh no! JOHNNY: Unemployment is rising! COUNCIL: Oh no! JOHNNY: And diabolical criminals are running amok and victimizing the city! [Diabolical laughter from balcony] CRIMINAL: Hahahahaha! I'm running amok and victimizing the city. Take that, Normalville! (he runs off) GREG: Dr. Plotdevice, what can we do? JOHNNY: Well, six meteorites of different colors have broken into shards. If we had some helpers who could walk around the city picking up the meteorite shards and safely removing them, things might get back to normal. MAYOR: Is it hard to safely remove a meteorite shard? JOHNNY: It's about as hard as solving a puzzle. MAYOR: Well, that's not so bad. What do you say, citizens? Will you help us? [Hopefully everybody says yes or cheers. If they say no, we go home.] MAYOR: All right! There's safety in numbers, so we'll go out there in teams. So we can keep track of you, each team needs to get a username and password from Ray Jones, our comptroller, before you leave. And if you don't have a team, come talk to us and we'll try to get you set up with one for the weekend. Once you get started, we'll give you a map of the city with the meteorite shard locations labeled on it. Now, the shards are large and extremely dangerous, so you won't be able to pass a location containing a shard until you've removed it. JOHNNY: And according to my legion of science advisors, it might pay to analyze the shards of each colored meteorite as a group. If you do so and discover what might be an answer to our problems, make sure you contact the City Council for further instructions. GREG: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What about the Centennial Celebration events? We've worked hard on them, and I'm not going to let some silly rocks from space get in the way! MAYOR: That's a good point. I suppose we could provide some sort of safe transportation over the shards for the Centennial events. Treasurer O' Connor? TREASURER: Yo. MAYOR: Do we have enough money to provide buses made out of lead to transport hundreds of people five times this weekend? TREASURER: Dude, we haven't had to fight any crime, pollution, or employment for the last one hundred years. We've got tons of money. MAYOR: Well, then, it's settled. Remove as many of those meteors as you can, and we'll see you at the next Centennial event at six o' clock sharp. (Nori raises her hand) Oh yes, question? NORI: Mr. Mayor, if the meteorites have struck the rest of the city, why haven't they hit us here in the town square, where we're right out in the open? (Everyone looks confused for a moment) COUNCIL: Look out!!!!!! (Meteors)
Unfortunately, the ceremonies were marred by a freak meteor shower, pummelling Normalville! Several meteors fell on the ceremony, labelled as follows:
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