And so, Catherine the Band promoter has agreed to sign a sole agency deal with The Big Bs - part of this deal involved Catherine providing 4040 gold up front with some annual contrubitions thrown into the mix. She also threw in any resources that she had spare and the Big Bs were missing. This was all handled by Ruff the Band manager. Soon, The Qinsters come asking for musically protection and agree to become a semi-permanent support Band [vassal] to the Big Bs.
Ruff re-organized the Band to play vassalage and Theocracy songs ... his reasoning including all the free experience that new promotional members would gain from the process. He then proceded to organize the citizens of Chicago promote the band by constructing hugh metal cars with mega-horns on their roof and sending them to different regions.
In 1924AD (turn 334), the Critic (France) included one too many snide comments about The Big Bs and the metal promotional cars suddenly become metal demotivational tanks. The Perpen Fuhrer got in on the act too - it seems that he really liked reading the Critics comments and rushed to his defense.
The Persian Pussycats were making sweet milk during this phase and really rocketing up the hit singles charts. To counter this threat to The Big Bs music domination, a band battle was announced. Hopefully, Catherine can take care of that issue.
The Big Bs donated 40,000 gold to Catherine incase she had any units she wanted to upgrade, next turn when it was noticed that the money was just sitting in the bank, Ruff 'borrowed' it back again. The initial stages went very well and soon the Critic saw the light, apologised for his insensitive remakes about Jakes and Elwoods mother and peace was restored. The other 'disagreements' continued.
Ruff had been researching new light technology for help with the show and decided that this would be a good time to try it out. With promotional vehicles close by, Ruff set off a couple of fire works in Germany as a way of attracting the undecided music public's attention.
As it turned out Ruff wasn't the only one with these goodies and soon Catherine was getting in the act ...
And so, the Persian Pussycats, their groupie (The Mystery Woman) and Perpen Fuhrer all floated up with the slightly glowing ash to join the celestial choir at about the same time. The Qinsters decided that they weren't in the same league as the new Electric Light driven band and so decided to get a few of their own rythm sticks. They also become the house band of the Critic. Various music researchers [spies] were sent around the Qinsters local haunts to try and locate these toys. The three that were found were targeted and destroyed in the first volley of the final verse of this great song. The Qinstes sung their final note on 2003AD (turn 413).
The metal promotional vehicles proceeded to promote the band all through the Critic's newspaper. It was noticed that the chief promotional lady (Catherine) hadn't been seen in a while. Ruff went and visited one of her pubs only to find all the stage hands on strike because of the lack of funds. Maybe the royalties that Ruff was demanding from Catherine (about 500 gold per turn) was a bit much.
In 2017AD (turn 427), the Critic only had 1 newspaper that was still printing his music column. To protect this wide distribution network (ha!), the Critic offered peace on these terms (world map, 70 gold and capitulation). It wasn't good enough and that newspaper was put out of circulation.
[Note Catherine's drop in power due to units being disbanded.]
After achieving world band domination, Ruff took his commission and left 5012 for the Blues Brothers and the orphanage.
What happened to the Band? Why Ruff decided that The Big Bs only needed Jake and Elwood, so the other members (all 5 of them) were packed off to support The Persian Pussycats in Persepolis for a one time payment of 3150 gold. In reality, Ruff decided that he did really hate Paul ShafferThat's right, I cannot stand this guy - I really only know him as the drop kick on The Late Show but that was enough! and didn't want anything to do with him.
Conquest Victory in 2019AD
125,306 Gold in the bank
In Game score of 2666
Final score of 3963 (Ethelred the Unready)