Interpersonal scripted violence inside the construct: Mikey D enforces the novel’s brutal beats (threat to Rita / bellboy) and the away team’s impotence in preventing it — personal courage & vulnerability vs. narrative brutality.
Interpersonal scripted violence inside the construct: Mikey D enforces the novel’s brutal beats (threat to Rita / bellboy) and the away team’s impotence in preventing it — personal courage & vulnerability vs. narrative brutality.
Events in This Arc
In the Royale lobby Riker pivots from exploratory curiosity to survival protocol when Data, cut off from the Enterprise, orders an immediate withdrawal. The bellboy’s nervousness and the Assistant Manager’s …
In the Royale lobby a scripted violence erupts: Mikey D arrives like a menacing piece of prose, confronts the bellboy and, when the boy defiantly reaches for his hidden gun, …