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[indent][list][*] [color=B0C4DE]Include which segment number you are posting at the top of your post, in the header; this will help us from having to do segments in [i]order[/i], allowing more posts, without waiting on writers who may be slower.[/color]
[*] [color=B0C4DE]This roleplay will be starting backstage during the [i]current Shock N AWE,[/i]. Feel encouraged to post backstage antics! Not every IC post needs to be a match. In fact, I don't want it to be that way. So don't make it that way or you're all fired.[/color]
[*] [color=B0C4DE]Don't take your character's placement on the card, position in the tournament, or booking to heart. In the OOC we're all friends. If your character gets upset IC, that's another thing entirely. I'll be doing my best to make sure everyone has a part of the show, [i]especially[/i] during PPVs.[/color]
[*] [color=B0C4DE]That being said, I'm going to try to keep the weekly shows at a similar number of segments/length as the opening show.[/color]
[*] [color=B0C4DE]As far as matches go, work them out however you want, as long as the end result follows the booking written down.[/color]
[*] [color=B0C4DE]Commentary will mostly be written by myself and the other GMs, please [i]don't[/i] add your own. I will personally ensure that every match is commentated [i]somehow[/i], I haven't really gotten that far yet.[/color][/list][/indent]
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[sub]Roderick "Roddy" Quinn[/sub][/center]
[indent][hider=History of AWE][color=B0C4DE]Even during the weekly shows that American Wrestling Entertainment puts on, the locker room and backstage area is buzzing and full of energy hours before the show begins. Nearly every active person in the company is in the process of preparing themselves to put on a showcase of the immortals for their fans. Every show needs to drive home the idea that AWE is not [i]must see[/i], but that it is [i]can’t miss.[/i] And, in a lot of ways, that’s true.

Every week, something happens that’s worth talking to your peers about the next day. Every week, crowds show up that are electric and explosive, seas of signs for their favorite superstars, chants for just about everything… Cameras flash almost constantly as people make the memories created at the shows immortal, making the sea of people seem almost like stars.

The atmosphere is unforgettable, and it’s translated as best as possible to the silver screen, with expert production quality, and camera cuts to die for. Everyone is made to look like a star, even the people who open the show. Household names galore.

And it’s all thanks to one man.

No, not Drayden.

Drayden may be the supports holding the tower up, but [url=http://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1970/jack-nicholson/005-jack-nicholson-theredlist.JPG]Roderick Quinn[/url] built this company. He took it from his father, who ended his own life in despair over what his company had turned into. His father, Tanner Quinn, was once a widely respected and beloved wrestling promoter. However, he’d ran the company into the ground, and wound up bankrupt. The turning point was when he put on a show to less than ten people.

Two weeks later, he had killed himself, and willed the dying Association of New England Pro Wrestling to his then 20 year old son, Roddy Quinn. Roddy, despite his family begging him to do otherwise, took the company and a ruthless business sense and he turned it around. Roderick was quick to rebrand the entire company; there was a two month lull, and then the company was back; no longer the AoNEPW, American Wrestling Entertainment was born, pledging to bring AWE to the entire country, not just his side of the US.

He met a man named [url=http://i.imgur.com/MOtR5D2.jpg]Wally Norton[/url], the now retired legend of AWE, and the inaugural American Wrestling Entertainment World Champion, and he built the company around him. In a matter of years, Roddy had taken Wally Norton’s blood and he’d built his skyscraper headquarters in New York.

But that wasn’t enough for him, he needed more money, he needed to be the biggest and only wrestling game in town. By the time Wally was ready to retire, in the mid seventies, Roddy had already met his next superstar: [url=http://i.imgur.com/tZkbW5G.png]Blaze Pierson[/url], and without a care in the world, Roddy stole Blaze’s dream of being a worldwide superstar and bought himself a private jet with AWE all over it. The company went international, but again the superstar was ready to retire after almost two decades on top, Blaze retired. To this day, both Blaze and Wally work backstage, helping younger super stars improve.

In the 90s, Roderick Quinn met his next super star, [url=http://i.imgur.com/2PrQmsL.png]Franklin Gilbert[/url], and he stole Frank’s smile and with it he took his company public and he made himself a billionaire. Roderick and Franklin have not spoken since 1999, when Franklin walked out without a word. And then Roderick was left hung and dry, left to prove that he could make one more superstar. He floundered, and house show attendance flopped, the TV deals faltered.

A billionaire no longer, in the early 2000s. It wasn’t until 2003 that Roderick finally laid eyes on his next project: [url=http://i.imgur.com/mjXVZFF.jpg]William Shepherd[/url], a young man that Roddy met at a wrestling school ran by one of his older stars. Roderick saw something in William that no one else had ever seen before, and though people at the time claimed that William was signed for his size and muscle tone… within two years they were silenced.

William Shepherd, who wrestles as Drayden, had an undeniable air of charisma about him from day one, despite being green as hell in the ring. But ring skill would come, the it factor was what Roddy was looking for, and he found it in William. There were a few gimmick shifts, a few changes in the character… before Drayden was found.

The Drayden character is a lot like William himself is, naturally funny, and able to wrap the crowd around his finger again and again. When the bell rings, things get a little more serious and he does what he does best: he wrestles. Since the day the Drayden character debuted in 2006 the man has put on a clinic with anyone he gets in the ring with. On the night of his debut, he won his first championship, the AWE Television Championship, a mid-card belt used to build stars and defended weekly in open challenges. Now having the most world heavyweight championship reigns in AWE history, at 6, Drayden is respected, and the sound of his music hitting ignites the roar of the crowd like none other.

But now, in 2017, Roddy’s hand has been forced. The light of AWE has temporarily been snuffed out, and for about six months, Drayden is going to be gone from the show, healing from lagging injuries, and Roddy has to acknowledge that one day soon Drayden is going to go to Hollywood and blossom into a worldwide superstar bigger than either of them could have ever imagined.

The boss is on the look out for the next Drayden, the next superstar, the next big thing.[/color][/hider][/indent]
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[sub][b]Commentators: [color=1f71dd]Wade Palmer[/color][/b] & [color=#3eb489][b]Kane Zimmerman[/b][/color][/sub][/center]
[indent][color=B0C4DE]Our story is going to pick up during the first Shock N AWE after the SCS PPV. Currently, the crew is arriving at the Moda Center, in Portland Oregon. For the first time in almost six years, the show is going forward without Roddy Quinn's physical presence. Kevin Harrison is now in charge of... everything.

Times are changing around AWE. For some people, this is a godsend. For others? It's a reminder of their own mortality, and that their time in the spotlight may be coming to an end.[/color][/indent]