After a false start earlier this year, I’m definitely running this game on this date. Sign ups are now open. Those who played in the prequel game, The Crossing of the Caliburnus, have the option of reprising their characters. It is absolutely not necessary to have played in the prequel, or to know anything about the prequel, to play this game.
About
In an alternate - steampunk - futre, the home isles of the British Empire are being ravaged by a swift and devastating plague. Two weeks ago, fears that it would reach London were confirmed, and the disease is sweeping through the city, leaving thousands dead in its wake. The plague is painful, its symptoms strange, the contagion unknown and survivors almost unheard of. Few plague doctors have dared to get close to the infected, and even fewer of those have survived to make report. The British Isles are in an unproar, and Her Majesty is most certainly not amused.
The Mayor of London, at the behest of her Imperial Majesty, has summoned several of the finest doctors and scientist the realm possesses to determine how to stop the spread of infection. To the Mayor’s dismay, the Queen’s unusual advisor has invited some stranger guests to the Mayor’s council – explorers, military generals, an East End witch, a plague survivor, an airship engineer, the Queen’s youngest son himself, and others. Locked down in a quarantine amidst plague-wracked London, this strange assortment of her Majesty’s subjects is tasked with finding out where the plague came from - and more importantly, how to stop it in its tracks.
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is a steampunk mystery inspired in part by House, for approximately 30 players.
Details
When: It will run from 8pm to 11pm. Arrival at the venue from 7pm.
Where: Ferndale House, 830 New North Road, Mt Albert, Auckland.
Register
To register, please fill in the casting casting survey.
Cast List
The Queen’s Men
- The Queen’s Unusual Advisor (M)
- The Mayor of London (M)
- The Chief Royal Surgeon (M)
- The Chief Royal Coroner (F)
- The Chief Royal Computator of (Im)probable Events (F)
The Church
6. The Archbishop of Canterbury (E)
7. The Abbess (F)
8. The Plague Doctor (M)
Representatives of Industry
9. The Baron of Industry (M)
10. Lord of the Coals (M)
11. Lady of the Looms (F)
The Military
12. An Experienced Airship Captain (F)
13. A Brilliant Airship Engineer (M)
14. The Chief from a Colony (M)
The Crew of the Caliburnus
15. Captain Ambrosius, a man of many talents (M)
16. Morgan, a healer (F)
17. Sir Bertilak, a guardian (M)
18. Meredith Brunwich, a master toymaker (F)
19. Abraham Jonas, a chemist (M)
20. Johanna Carter-Willett, an artist (F)
21. Professor Geoffrey Corkwell, an eccentric scholar (M)
22. Constance Moran, a bureaucrat (F)
23. Lottie Corringham, an orphan (F)
The Eccentrics
24. A Notorious Lady Thief (F)
25. An East End Witch (F)
26. A Ringmaster (E)
27. A Lion-Tamer (E)
28. An Explorer of Faraway Places (F)
29. Her Son, A Banker (M)
30. A Plague Survivor (E)
