One of the In-show “exits” Olivia and Aurelia are planning involves a 3 box illusion. A persona will be dragged back on stage, ready to go play tennis after the show – she’s got a racket, and appropriate court attire, which she isn’t wearing yet. Olivia throws the outfit in the boxes, and closes the door on the persona as she walks in.
The illusion goes as normal – except something seems to go wrong at the end with the top box. A head falls out (its a puppet). The persona then steps out, headless (this is the Cryptodira trick, tucking her head in her chest, completely out of sight) and wearing the tennis outfit. Olivia apologetically hands her the puppet head and her racket back, as she mimes being angry, the puppet in her arms to make appropriate expressions, trying to talk but giving up. The persona then walks off the stage. Half a moment later, as Olivia is rolling the 3 box illusion off stage, the persona walks across the stage again, bouncing the head on the racket like a ball, before exiting again.
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Ready for hot showers and exercise, Olivia and Aurelia got to the local Purple Chain Gym, where they have a membership – like many live-on-the-roadees. Olivia feels she has to compensate for Aurelia’s lack of upper body strength in training; in comparison, Aurelia is keeping everything on the lighst setting and proud of her reps.
Shenanigans may ensue at the end, involving Aurelia getting manhandles like she might be on stage, before the (possibly second) shower.
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After joking that Aurelia could fit in Nellie’s purse, like a subway dog…
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Halloween. Olivia is Alice, Aurelia is the Cheshire cat – sometimes four footed stride, sometimes bending, sometimes in a wicker basket that Olivia is carrying. The basket looks too small.
What would her hips be doing to look like there’s no human pelvis?
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Halloween. Olivia is a dressed of skeleton in Victorian clothes (white and black paint), with an oversized broach & chain that seems to stare at you with an eye. Opening The broach reveals Aurelia in light grey UV paint and a threadbare shirt, waist and above (risque). Pelvis and down remain concealed, wasp-waist substituting for a ghostly tail. Her inability to handstand still applies. Olivia very careful with broach open or closed, it is as heavy as she is.
How far to go with compression? How tiny is the locket? Eye would suggest palm sized.
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Thumb ring, abandoning for garden hose because she keeps falling out of the former, leaving it stuck in odd positions, throat, waist, bandoleer
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“Stick man suit” – extra Y junction for crotch and X junction for arms/neck/chest, flat fishbowl helmet, stopper feet, chopstick+stopper hands allow self extraction – mostly black, white perforated vinyl to obscure face.
2d Flipbook like movement, 3d statuary effect. Provides a lot more support than Aurelia’s used to. Condition getting worse without support due to lack of exercize.
Putting on piecemeal slow but controlled, Putting on mostly assembled always leads to limbs going in the wrong holes.
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Rubber band ball performance outfit (unfortunately skin colored) – looks a bit like a mummy – not actual rubber bands, resistance does not scale properly.
Doesn’t make any sense here, with “not a contortion act” stipulation
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“Sword box” illusion. What’s the funniest subversion? The box is empty. Probably Olivia in the wrong wig – the one matching the persona who just went in.
Some version where she goes around “gathering up” all the personas to put them in one at a time? Better illusion for that.
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A variant of The Twister. Olivia is in it at first, a quick change from an assistant person to the magician persona to reveal it has one of those corded industrial remotes, rather than being manually cranked, a series of animated LEDs on the outside indicating which direction it’s twisting. Usual hide/twist/reveal/hide/untwist/reveal. In character, Olivia makes noises that are less than believable, The magician and assistant bow.
Another assistant comes for the illusion – some indication of back pain, from an earlier trick – hushing the audience, she gets in herself, leaving the front door wide open as she latches thing in place, managing to keep the corded remote in hand. The audience gets to see the persona twisted multiple times – giving little exclamations of relief with each turn, the ‘effect’ of the twisting body being much more convincing than the first session revealed. But Instead of reversing the motion, realizing there’s no time left to untwist or unlock herself, she awkwardly walks the entire illusion off stage while still secured and twisted in it.
Olivia having not noticed her as she’s setting up the next illusion, looks up confused upon hearing a last yelp of relief.
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