TEXT: KEN COBLE 
  TOM GURGANUS
  
  CN01 NEWS CHANNEL SIX
  CREDITS
  Written by Ken Coble, Tom Gurganus, and Chris Norwood 
  Edited by Steve Segedy and Jason Morningstar
  Cover art by Jason Morningstar
  News Channel Six was Playset of the Month, April 2011.
  BOILERPLATE
  This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully 
  Pulpit Games.  
  This playset is copyright 2011 by Ken Coble, Tom Gurganus, and 
  Chris Norwood.  Fiasco is copyright 2009 by Jason Morningstar. All 
  rights are reserved. 
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  THE SCORE
  WHEN THE NEWS BREAKS, WE’RE 
  THERE TO FIX IT!
  Times are tough at Action Six News.  We’re last place in an already 
  small market and losing ground all the time.  It’s not like much 
  news-worthy stuff happens in this crappy little town anyway, and 
  those bastards over at Action News Eleven always seem to be one step 
  ahead of us!  With advertising revenue drying up and people turning 
  more and more to that blasted internet, sometimes you’ve got to get a 
  little creative in reporting the news.      
  The Action Six News team could be from any small city around the 
  United States, filled with people who desperately seek notoriety, fame 
  or— just occasionally— a better world.
  MOVIE NIGHT
  Anchorman, Network, WKRP in Cincinnati (TV), News Radio (TV), 
  Broadcast News, The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV), the local news 
  team from your hometown (TV)
  
  relationships...
  1 ACTION SIX NEWS TEAM
  1 Work partners (co-anchors, cameraman/reporter, etc) 
  2 You and the dude who got fired last week 
  3 On-air talent/support person (writer, makeup, etc)
  4 Management/talent
  5 Tired mentor/ambitious protégé
  6 Work rivals
  2 FAMILY 
  1 Ex-spouses, current parents
  2 Currently married
  3 Siblings, at each other’s throats
  4 You and your parent’s hot new spouse, who’s younger than you
  5 You and your good-for-nothing in-law
  6 Faked family
  3 FOOLING AROUND
  1 Secret lovers
  2 “Secret” lovers only to yourselves
  3 Friends with benefits
  4 Did it once at the office Christmas party... you think
  5 Don’t like each other much, but keep having sex anyway
  6 Not having sex, but everybody thinks that you are
  
  ...AT NEWS CHANNEL SIX
  4 WE’VE GOT HISTORY
  1 “I know a secret about you”
  2 Odd couple room-mates
  3 “We’ve been through Hell and high water together”
  4 One of you cost the other one his last job
  5 “The restraining order is still in place, you know”
  6 Went to journalism school together
  5 UP TO NO GOOD 
  1 Coke-head and supplier
  2 Robbing the station blind together 
  3 Plotting the downfall of the Big Anchorman together 
  4 Shooting an “art film” after hours using the station’s equipment
  5 Blackmailer/victim
  6 Moonlighting as thieves
  6 US VS THEM Use judiciously
  1 News team member and source/witness/subject of the big story
  2 News team member and a major advertiser
  3 You and your counterpart from Action News Eleven
  4 News team member and Local bigwig (mayor, chief of police, etc)
  5 You and the star of another locally-produced show on Channel Six
  6 You and your friend from the Peabody Awards Committee
  
  1 TO GET LAID
  1 By the local celebrity or politician
  2 Constantly
  3 By a work partner
  4 So I can have a baby before I’m fifty
  5 By the Big Anchorman’s trophy wife
  6 For the very first time
  2 TO GET FAMOUS 
  1 By making it to a bigger market
  2 By breaking into acting
  3 By finally getting your own signature human interest segment
  4 By winning a Local News Peabody Award
  5 By getting the weekday six PM chair
  6 By going out with a bang
  3 TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
  1 By blowing the lid off the whole story
  2 By bringing honor and respect back to the local news
  3 By finally making it to see my kid do that thing
  4 By getting your own recurring exposé-style news segment
  5 By saving a life
  6 By bringing down God’s wrath on this wicked, heathen society  
  NEEDS...
  
  4 TO GET RICH
  1 Through a secret I learned at work
  2 By stealing something
  3 By securing book and movie rights
  4 By fabricating a story
  5 By blackmailing the Big Anchorman
  6 By scamming all my co-workers and then skipping town
  5 TO SETTLE THINGS 
  1 By getting even with that douchebag who stole my story
  2 By putting those bastards at Action News Eleven in their place
  3 By getting that Big Anchorman fired
  4 With that suit who doesn’t get your “vision” for the news
  5 With our mutual ex
  6 With that dude who landed me in jail
  6 TO COVER OUR ASSES
  1 By being a willing tool for powerful, corrupt forces
  2 By covering up a major conflict of interest
  3 By “taking care of” a witness
  4 By destroying that freaking file/tape. So, so stupid!
  5 By framing a co-worker
  6 By hiding the fact that I’m illiterate
  ...AT NEWS CHANNEL SIX
  
  1 HARD NEWS
  1 At the scene of a grisly murder/suicide
  2 In the trailer park just after the tornado hit
  3 At the crime scene the police don’t know about yet
  4 In the big sinkhole behind Buddy’s garage
  5 In the pointless live coverage of that severe weather event
  6 At what will be the biggest drug bust of the decade
  2 HUMAN INTEREST 
  1 At the home of Elmer Jenkins
  2 At the high school football game
  3 At the St. Agnes Rescue Mission
  4 At the hospital for a live on-the-air colonoscopy 
  5 At the civil war reenactment
  6 At Grandma Whittaker’s 102nd birthday party
  3 ON THE AIR
  1 On Six Today’s friendly morning show set
  2 Under the news desk
  3 In the control room
  4 On Six Investigates’ angry exposé set
  5 Behind the set, during the broadcast
  6 In the kitchen set for Chef Ron’s cooking segment 
  LOCATIONS...
  
  4 OFF THE AIR
  1 In the janitor’s closet
  2 On the roof, right behind the big satellite dish
  3 In the Big Anchorman’s dressing room
  4 In the “executive washroom”
  5 In the transmitter tower equipment shack
  6 At the donut table
  5 FACE TIME 
  1 Peabody Award for Excellence in Local News banquet
  2 Groundbreaking ceremony for the local community college 
  3 Book signing for your recently-published memoir/cookbook 
  4 Benefit concert to pay for Little Billy’s medical expenses
  5 Breast cancer awareness screening
  6 Drinking it up at a local bar
  6 OFF LIMITS
  1 Sleazy hotel room with a hidden camera
  2 Action News Eleven studio/editing room
  3 In the evidence room at the police station
  4 Official Peabody Award for Excellence in Local News ballot box
  5 Local underground, high-stakes poker game
  6 The Governor’s bedroom
  ...AT NEWS CHANNEL SIX
  
  1 SECRETS
  1 Positive pregnancy test
  2 Evidence that you tampered with a crime scene 
  3 The contract someone just signed to jump ship and head to Action 
  News Eleven
  4 Flash drive containing leaked U.S. military secrets
  5 The sex tape to end all sex tapes
  6 Channel Six’s real account books
  2 CONTRABAND 
  1 Waaaay too much Pseudoephedrine
  2 Bottle of whiskey under the news desk
  3 List of sponsors not to piss off or report negatively about
  4 Company laptop stuffed with porn
  5 Big Anchorman’s coke stash
  6 Illegal alien
  3 TOOLS OF THE TRADE
  1 Sky Chopper Six!
  2 Little clicker that makes the weatherman’s blue screen work
  3 Buggy and/or hacked teleprompter
  4 Ancient news van held together by prayer and old videotape
  5 Action Six Purse-Cam
  6 Ol’ Blinky, the camera that all the cameramen say is cursed
  OBJECTS...
  
  4 WHERE’S THE WARNING LABEL?
  1 .22 rifle the building manager uses to keep birds off the satellite 
  dish
  2 Bag of peanuts and someone’s well-known peanut allergy 
  3 Fire axe from backstage 
  4 Exotic animal, exotically out of control
  5 Tainted cookies sent to the station by a disgruntled viewer
  6 Carefully loosened 100 lb stage light right above someone’s chair 
  5 PERSONAL 
  1 Six Today anchor’s coffee cup collection
  2 New tits
  3 Homeless dude who lives out back
  4 The Big Anchor’s Peabody Award for Excellence in Local News
  5 Love letter
  6 Lucky couch
  6 PROPS
  1 High-powered model rocket
  2 Giant pot of boiling soup
  3 Box of fan mail/hate mail
  4 “Happy Bear” costume
  5 Golden shovel from community college ground-breaking
  6 “Condom demonstrator”
  ...AT NEWS CHANNEL SIX
  
  A NETWORK AFFILIATE
  INSTA-setup
  Relationships AT CHANNEL SIX
  For three players…
   
  * Action Six News Team: Work rivals
   
  * Us Vs. Them: you and your counterpart from Action News 
  Eleven
   
  * We’ve Got History: One of you cost the other one his last job
  For four players, add…
   
  * Fooling Around: “Secret” lovers only to yourselves
  For five players, add…
   
  * Family: You and your parent’s hot new spouse, who’s actually 
  younger than you
  Needs  AT CHANNEL SIX
  For three players…
   
  * To Get Famous: By winning a Local News Peabody Award
  For four or five players, add…
   
  * To Cover Our Asses: By destroying that freaking file/tape
  LOCATIONS  AT CHANNEL SIX
  For three or four players…
   
  * Hard News: In the big sinkhole behind Buddy’s garage
  For five players, add…
   
  * On the Air: Under the news desk
  OBJECTS  AT CHANNEL SIX
  For three, four or five players…
   
  * Where’s the Warning label?: Exotic animal, exotically out of 
  control
  
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