Masquerade on Fleet Street - September 26th

Auckland
#41

That’s how I felt when you rang me and asked if you should bring cut-throat razors, because I knew (but you didn’t) that you were playing the Sweeney Todd equivalent.

Similarly amusing when Andrew, who I had pegged as my nefarious Judge Solomon, emailed me saying he wanted a good guy. I emailed back, heartbroken, asking if he would consider playing a bad guy. He agreed, saying “I feel like Alan Rickman sometimes.” Unbeknownst to him, he had just agreed to be Judge Solomon - in the Sweeney Todd movie, Alan Rickman played the Judge character.

#42

I realised this morning that I spent half the night calling myself ‘Chastity’ instead of ‘Charity’. Oops!

I had an absolutely fantastic game, despite giving myself a massive bump on the head (don’t faint near walls, walls hurt!) and getting killed (in a puddle in the men’s room with a large blunt instrument. Ironic).
The best thing is that, despite having played two different characters, I still feel like I have only a tiny, tiny part of the overall plot revealed.

#43

Actually, there’s a 50/50 chance you were the real father. It isn’t determined in the game script who the real father is. I think some characters might’ve been able to come up with a way of finding out (possibly Dr. Flemming and her unconventional science, Scythrop Glowry’s trivia could’ve come up with something or the Tome of Ligeia) in which case I would’ve flipped a coin, since either way is suitably dramatic. I think I actually prefer the version where Beckett is the father because the only thing Rex truly loved unselfishly was Bella, and to lose her to Beckett would’ve been a poetic echo of the way he lost Lucille to Beckett all those years ago.

Trivia: the characters sheets alone are 50,544 words, the longest easily being Rex Solomon’s at 2,317, followed by the Raven at 1,937 and Branwell Bronte at 1,930. The shortest character sheets belong to the housekeeper (912 words) and the amnesiac sea captain (1,016)

#44

[quote=“Moo”]I realised this morning that I spent half the night calling myself ‘Chastity’ instead of ‘Charity’. Oops!
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I think I called you Chastity at a few points too. I blame Communion Wine.

#45

That was beyond awesome! Probably the best roleplaying experience i’ve ever had. extremely emotional. its funny I didn’t even realise till afterwards that we were playing the sweeny todd plotline at all hahaha now I think of it, it was really obvious.
A rather amusing point about my character sheet was that on top of all the emotional upheaval my last goal was to fall in love! lol as if that could possible happen in all the other chaos of the night.
but it was such a pleasure to play with so many talented roleplayers, it felt so real.
and i would also like to mention the whole atmosphere, venue and all was amazing. even the music in the background always seem poignant to what was going on which is amazing. and as always the costumes were amazing.

It was loads of fun to play an influential but naive character, way too trusting of everyone. It was also quite hilarious not having time to beat around the bush and so making a few future enemies in the process, just because I didn’t have time to deal with it all.
probably the most intense moment was in the last minute of the game I saw both my fathers die before my very eyes. so you know the matter of paternity didn’t really matter anymore as i colapsed sobbing into my godmothers aka zara’s arms. and therein ends the game.

thanks anna for such a well written awesome game! you deserve your sleep.

#46

I had a wonderful time, thanks Anna :slight_smile: And my friend Katherine really enjoyed it too, and is looking forward to the next game.

My character’s body count was 2 - the Ship’s Captain (in a successful bid to develop an explanation as to Charity was murdered) and Scythrop ('cos he had it coming).

I might be able to go one better. I had Scythrop’s sister, Eleanor, lure him under false pretences into one of the back rooms, and she knew full well that I was going to murder him. Man, that’s cold.

#47

I know! I couldn’t believe it when Daniel (player of Scythrop) told me that Eleanor set him up! I never saw that one coming :open_mouth: (I figured if Eleanor was gonna bump someone off, it’d be Katherine Glowry) That was some fabulously gutsy roleplaying from both of you.

#48

yay!

#49

That was an extremely fun game! I played Dr Lucretia Flemming, the mad scientist from Belgium.

I managed to kill Benny Ratsley, Rex Solomon’s cats paw, with a double dose of poison, the first delivered via a poisoned mask, and the second in a glass of wine. The second dose because he looked a bit sick and was getting medical assistance, and I really didn’t want to take the chance that they might be able to fix him. He had it coming because he framed me for three murders 17 years ago.
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I’m kind of glad my character didn’t find out about Benny Ratsley dying during the game. She was the one who gave him the medical attention which cured him from his first dose of poison, but got him into more trouble. There would have been a scene (well, another piece of drama on top of the many many dramas going on at the game). Lucretia had done quite a lot of mad scientisty work on Benny in the past you see- he was one of her experimental subjects, she had almost perfected her experimental work on him and regarded him as her greatest work of art. Many thanks to Gretchen Klausen for her assistance :slight_smile:

Dr. Flemming also got to save the life of Tigger’s character by sewing an extra arm to him in the place of a gaping chest wound. Unfortunately that wasn’t appreciated as much as it might be, so the arm was replaced with a heart belonging to a recently deceased person instead. I thought an extra arm could be very useful for all sorts of things, but each to their own… :smiley:

#50

Hey can someone post links to the group photos we took? thanks

#51

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f172/Anastriel/Masquerade%20on%20Fleet%20Street/