By Cliff “Pops” Potts
Baybay City, Leyte — September 25, 2026
Dark Val Fiction — The following dispatch takes place inside the fictional world of Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion.
Somewhere in Brussels
Ten days ago, Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion walked onto a London stage and officially began something that probably seemed like a better idea when everybody was still at home.
Now the gang is in Brussels.
The fictitious world tour has become the usual combination of music, hotels, buses, backstage confusion, missing sleep, questionable decisions and occasional attempts to remember exactly what country everybody woke up in.
Fortunately, Brussels has beer.
Unfortunately, Pops is still drinking Coca-Cola.
Life on the Road
The shows are only part of the story. Dark Val is considerably more interested in what happens after everybody walks offstage.
There are meals nobody can identify, conversations that should probably never be repeated, arguments over absolutely nothing, exhausted musicians attempting to find their hotel rooms, and the continuing question of whether taking this particular collection of personalities across Europe was ever a responsible idea.
It wasn’t.
That’s why we’re doing it.
Brussels is today’s stop. There are more cities ahead, more shows to play and plenty of opportunities for the wheels to come completely off this operation before anybody gets home.
And Dark Val will continue documenting the evidence.
For those who want the less respectable version of the tour diary, additional details are available for a small donation on Fanvue.
Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion on FanVue
This story is fiction. The tour is fiction. The characters and events presented through Dark Val belong to the fictional Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion universe.
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