Alright guys, here are my ideas for Boomtown's plot/current situation so far:
I've skipped to Friday with Moonshine & Monroe, but we're not actually there yet, per say, I'm just fast-forwarding a bit to set the stage.
The day after Tuesday, (the night Bomb Boi, Monroe & Edward have their dinner), starting Wednesday, and during Thursday, and Friday, Edward works with Julius Westletin, the weaselly miser who runs the Stillglaive Theater, named after the famous playwright of Old Aethasia, and finds the work somewhat tedious, but easy, and it pays very well. There's somewhat of a rift between Monroe and Edward, seeing as they can't communicate very well if they don't see each other often. The next day after Friday night is Saturday, though, so they can take that and the next day off.
Edward is working backstage during the Friday night show.
During the fast-forwarded three days Isabel Blackstone meets Crystal, attaching herself to Mademoiselle Carlisle, who seems refined, at first only to keep her promise to her father, but ends up enjoying Carlisle's company, and they become friends.
They attend the Friday night play.
Samson, Jacques, and Carlos will also attend the play.
Virgil will attend as well.
The Friday night play (in case you haven't noticed, Cornelius Stillglaive is my Aethasian version of William Shakespeare) will be a slightly different version of a William Shakespeare play, adjusted to be age-appropriate for the forums and to have a slightly medieval or steampunk twist.
My Shakespearean knowledge is almost nil, so I'm open to suggestions. (Something involving a band or at least a group of bandits/assassins/robbers is preferable.)
During the show, three bandits hijack the performance, turning their guns on the audience and demanding their wallets/purses, and nearly succeed, if it weren't for a timely distraction by a dark blue-cloaked figure who swung onto the stage, confronting the robbers with his electric staff, giving the Sheriff and the audience time to draw their weapons and face the robbers as well, who decide to call it quits and disappear in a poof of smoke that sounds like a gunshot, causing pandemonium as everybody fires their weapons out of nervousness.
After the smoke clears, the robbers are gone, thankfully no-one is hurt. Julius is indignant at the damage done to his stage, which is riddled with bullets, knives, scorch marks, and clusters of crystal (I wonder whose weapon that could be? 
), but assures the audience the show will go on, and after reluctantly agreeing to hand out refunds to the half the audience who prompt to vacate the theater, the play resumes after a delay of a mere fifteen minutes.
The next day, the three robbers on stage, who at first everyone thought were actual members of the stage cast, are identified as the Three Highwaymen, two of which who have been operating in the area for quite some time, but the third has only recently made a debut, causing the general populace to suspect he had been pulling the strings from behind the scenes all along, only getting his hands dirty when the Three Highwaymen stepped up their game.
The Three Highwaymen never address each other with names, only as "American", "Frenchman", and "Spaniard", a fact accented by their- accents (or lack thereof, in the American's case).
That Saturday, the town is quieting down, and everything seems normal.
However, a robbery occurs that night, a fact which is only discovered in the morning. The apparent perpetrator? Virgil Maxcraft, the hero of Friday night's sabotaged play.
More on that if everything goes as planned.
How does all of this sound? I have much more planned, along with all of the specifics, but I've been careful only to assign concrete roles to my characters.
If anybody has any objections/comments/questions, now would be the time to make/say/pose them.
