Thread by @theKimansta

Talking about @LMO_PressPass with a

1) Gen X sports fan
2) who is also really into D&D

made me realize that... that's what it is.

You form characters in a pro sports fiction and contribute to the lore.

Our modern-day sports mockumentary covers and exists in that world.

My first PP:AA character (Press Pass: All Access is the name of the entire franchise) is #Lensface.

He's a lv 119 Lensface, and invented the class.

#Lensface is a "social media influencer / photojournalist" who deliberately produces bad content to reflect a bad basketball team.

I've never played D&D.

Although I have read almost every Dragonlance novel, and want to help adapt that material into a Tier 1 franchise...

I came up with a second character. Well, I used one of my Version Two tokens to claim an assistant coach of the 1939 Boston Potatoes, since we're still generating what happened back then as a community.

His name is Aaron Kellogg.

Assistant Coach of the '39 Potatoes.

The 1939 Potatoes lost in the Freshmen Round of the Basketball Syndicate of America Lore War...

to the Pittsburgh Gridlock.

In this world, each pro basketball team is a mixed-gender and non-binary reality - allowing everybody to participate in producing the lore!

Phyllis Samaroo. The legendary Phantom Sam.

One of the best players in the inaugaral Syndicate...

She was thrown off in that first series, and for good reason.

Her aunt and her cousins had arrived in Havana, Cuba on the SS St, Louis on May 27th, with 900 other Jewish refugees trying to escape the Holocaust.

Cuba had turned them away. So had the USA.

Samaroo scored just 8 points on the 27th, even without the bad news. Bad energy.

On the 29th and 31st, Phantom Sam rang up the Gridlock for 28 points and 27 points, respectively.

Our Potatoes evened the series, and we had a fighting chance...

Then it became official.

Her aunt and cousins were being sent back to Europe.

Samaroo was mostly of Guanahatabey ancestry. Her aunt had married an Estonian Jewish man. They fleed South Germany.

Phyllis couldn't understand how the colonial Cuban government could be so cruel during a time of such need.

With much, much bigger things on her mind, Phantom Sam has weak outings in Games 5, 6, and 8... and the Potatoes lost to the underdog in Round One.

Her aunt and cousins eventually escaped to a safehold in Andorra.

Her uncle, and 250 others on the SS St. Louis weren't so fortunate.

After returning to Antwerp on June 27th, 1939... Her uncle, and 249 others on that boat, were killed in the advancing doom of one of the evilest regimes known to human history.

Remember the St. Louis.

Quick etymology aside:

"Guantanamo Bay" is just years of racist telephone, getting the Guanahatebey people's name completely wrong.

Aaron Kellogg tried to rally his team with a scat song called "Negroes in Pittsburgh."

The Potatoes Head Coach Allison Narling fired Kellogg after the Lore War... but the song became a gramaphone hit.

Kellogg assisted in coaching for the Columbus Dutch in thee seasons after...

... he eventually moved to New York, and brought his tired scat performance to the off-Broadway movement in the 1950s.

He returns as a Head Coach of an expansion team in 1965.. but once again, due to scatting to "inspire the team," Kellogg's leadership days are short-lived.

Are you Phantom Sam?

Collect a Version Two Collectible, register it to the character, and build your character through content.

You can submit 7-seconds to the @LMO_PressPass Season One Archive for each edition you collect.

You become a "Lore Producer" of Season One.

Become a Lore Producer, join our campaign, share ownership in the resulting ecosystem!

This Digital Collectible Experience is for Season One of Press Pass!

V1s are 0.0091 ethereum per edition.
V2s are 0.02 ethereum per edition.

letmeout.productions/lensface/

If you reach 25 editions... you now control 25 character registrations, and you can submit 5-minutes of content per edition.

You become a "Lore Master" of Season One.

If you reach 10,000 editions... you now control 10,000 character registrations, you can submit 5-minutes of content per edition AND if you work in our marketing department 2x a month, helping us curate advertisement story arcs from the archive...

... those 10,000 editions carry exactly 0.188353713205% ownership in Season One.

As a collaborator, we're able to reflect the merit of your support and contribution with a net earning issuance reflective of your equity.

You become a "Co-Producer" of Season One.

If you reach 53,091 editions... you now control 53,091 character registrations, you can submit 5-minutes of content per edition AND if you work on our Executive Producer team, helping us by providing sets of notes.

At least 12 on first drafts and 12 on rough cuts.

We don't have to implement the notes, it's not that kind of relationship, but we obviously value the collaboration and commitment.

We benefit from those notes, and you'll likely see their impact.

... those 53,091 editions carry exactly 0.999988698777% ownership in Season One.

As a collaborator, we're able to reflect the merit of your support and contribution with a net earning issuance reflective of your equity.

You become an "Executive Producer" of Season One.

All collaborator net earnings issuance are issued from a smart treasury once per quarter.

The smart treasury gathers 100% of the 14+ revenue streams from each distributor.

Marketing and distribution expenses are publicly transparent for the community...

... effectively killing "Hollywood Accounting," a practice that's taken it's pound of flesh from my family and our shared grand-uncle, may he stay out of the twitter trends.

Hired collaborators share 20% of Season One themselves, all cast members, crew members, stunt performers, writers, artists, craftspeople, artists, musicians, office workers, assistants, and general staff - the entire hired organization chart - on Season One will earn residuals.

After marketing and distribution expenses, which must always be justified for the collectors in the Season, 90% of the remaining Smart treasury is paid to the 90% of hired collaborators who produced the season.

The remaining 10% creates a fixed treasury for Lore Producers and Lore Masters to enjoy through collaboration.

3% is paid out to voters who approve/deny canon material based on participation.

3% is used as a community fund to sponsor ambition content.

2% is for events.

2% sponsors globally independent journalism, and we're looking for an apolitical partner for this non-profit pursuit.

What a cool #Film3 project, eh?