IN-THEATRE

"The Opera has a budget for in-theatre expenses, surely...?"

Nothing short of an in-theatre liability and, what's worse, one that's auto-generating false lore in real time.

"Unfortunately, I literally don't have the money. There's your 'in-theatre budget'."

"If you're going to be killed, it's going to be in-theatre, horribly, by Weeping Eye goons."

"Let's see how he gets around in-theatre with no money and no documents." PSEUDOPOD grins and holds aloft a wallet.

"... Though it's unsurprising that his consciousness left some kind of impression upon the terrestrial plane... Maybe it could hold up useful placards in-theatre..."

"See you in-theatre." He nods after you.

The spectacular in-theatre eruption of psychic capsules, a thousand months of nightmares unspooling in one instant.

Got to keep up appearances in-theatre.

"You know nothing. There are already two of me active in-theatre at this very moment."

"It's a new initiative. Supposedly a more 'objective' way to rate operants' performance in-theatre."

"Not for me to say, really. 'Z'-rank is supposed to be for 'inconspicuous brilliance' in-theatre. Your performance may've had elements of brilliance, but you can't really call it inconspicuous."

"Tested in-theatre, then. Smart spy might ask what this EMTERR fool is doing with his hands on such a thing. Seems important."

"It. That ineffable, inexplicable quality, essential to success in-theatre. Frequently discussed, rarely demonstrated."

"Agora Minor, some years before the Reunión. Reyes was an under-minister, attending a trade fair on behalf of Luz. Double and myself are in-theatre, passing as techno-curious buyers."

"Probably not. But then, probably shouldn't be running around in-theatre without approval. Controllers get very twitchy about that sort of thing."

"Very tough words for one who famously broke down in-theatre. Forgive me if it sounds like an act."

"One of the negotiator subclass, in bad repair from the sound of it. I understand they've got operants in-theatre as well."

"Some reputations precede. I heard a notorious spy had escaped from the freezer and was running amok in-theatre, had to see for myself."

THE PUNISHMENT FOR DESERTION IN-THEATRE IS REASSIGNMENT TO THE LUNAR CADMIUM MINES.

"That would be the negotiator subclass. Nothing like it in the animal kingdom. I understand they've got operants in-theatre as well."

"Asinine fools, never been in-theatre, wouldn't recognise real stagecraft if you thrashed them with it."

Overplaying his persona, classic misstep. Baby's first time in-theatre.

Making inroads with his persona. Competent in-theatre, at least for this period of play.

"I thought it was a good thing to improvise in-theatre? Don't do this to me. You can't ask me to ignore him."

"Archives, hm. Makes sense. But you're out, now. In-theatre, I take it." She looks back to you, her expression harder than ever.