Post by The Jenn on Oct 18, 2007 18:00:26 GMT -5
The Harvest Festival in the Capital is a cause for festivity and merriment. Most regions celebrate it in some fashion, but the Capital's festival is by far the largest and best-attended in the kingdom. People throng the streets for three days of revelry and drunken merriment, vendors either do their best sales or close to celebrate, and entertainers line the streets to amuse and earn a pretty coin. People are always at their most generous when buzzed and happy. Costumes are everywhere, especially on the third day. On the last of the three nights, a gala is held at one of the royal palaces for the higher-ups in society to see and be seen at their most decorated and fanciful. This year, the Court of Hearts is sponsoring the big to-do.
Actors line the streets beside the musicians and dancers, spouting off lines from popular plays and performing dramatic reenactments of famous scenes. The most successful actors perform as a troupe under the direction of a manager or patron of some kind. In some cases, they even call on audience participation, or even bring up an entire cast of people they pull off the street to perform for an audience's amusement.
His Majesty Serafino has agreed, at the request of a manager he knows, to witness several "impromptu performances" from inexperienced pseudo-actors, who have been coached for several hours by the troupe's regular cast. The play in question is a variant on William Tell, a classic tale with many translations. The manager has both of them, as he collects curiosities relating to the theater, but provided the regular script to his cast for the purposes of teaching their willing (or unwilling) new pupils. One of his actors, however, got her hands on the poorly translated copy as well and may or may not be tempted to screw with the whole thing.
There are a total of five actors required for the play. They can consist of all your own characters or a mixture of characters belonging to various owners, depending on your preference. The lines for both versions of the play are provided below and it's up to you which was given to the hapless 'victims' of this game. The actors and their personality, along with the manager and his personality, are yours to have fun with. There are six regular actors in the troupe, at least one of them sleeping with the manager.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to assemble five characters (at least three of them must be actual characters, but the other two can be NPCs if you truly need them to be) and write their experience with this play. Start with them being grabbed off the street and invited or pressed into it. Continue on with their learning, or trying to learn, their lines. Go through the whole performance with either version of the script, having them excel or bungle things as you choose, and end with them all taking a bow at the performance's conclusion. Children would be nabbed indiscriminately with adults.
Because this is such a significant task, especially if you choose to work with a group, this is a long-running contest. It will run from November 1st to November 30th at 11:00 AM board time. I'm throwing it up early because I want people to start thinking about it and I may or many not have steady access on the first to post it. There can only be one entry for each group of characters. Whether you choose to have one person write it with prompting from others or to have everyone write a section of it, so long as there's one cohesive piece at the end then it doesn't matter. Entries must be at least 1,000 words. The one that His Majesty most enjoys will be chosen as the winner and become the 'official' event. Interpret that criteria however you will. Fino is a fickle creature.
Any questions, please reply to this post. I will happily answer any and all of them. I imagine there will be plenty. All entries should be PMed to me before the due date, which is over a month away from posting.
Prizes will be favors from His Majesty for each participant.
Traditional Script
Lord: "What's the matter, William Tell? Hurry up and show your stuff."
Attendant: "Right, My Lord. No matter how good he is, he's got to be nervous with the target on his own son's head."
Lord: "He, he, he. If he misses the people will turn on him. Especially if he hits the boy. That scoundrel!"
Crowd: "Go for it! William Tell!"
William Tell: "Trust me. Now don't move."
Son: "Yes, father."
[Other characters step into the background while William Tell and the Son step forward. A real bow and arrow should be used, either by a bipedal father or by one of the actors in the background if he isn't bipedal.]
Lord: "Fie on you, William Tell!"
[Lord and Attendant leave.]
Son: "You did it! Father's the world's best!"
William Tell: "'Cause you believed in me."
Crowd: "Long live William Tell! Long live William Tell!"
Poorly Translated Script
Lord: "Are you sad? Are you OK? Come have a good cry and all will be forgiven."
Attendant: "My Lord, what a dirty mind you have."
Lord: "He, he, he. If he misses, I'll see him crying in his bath today."
Crowd: "Tell!! If you miss I'll laugh my head off!"
William Tell: "If I miss... I'll be sorry."
Son: "Th...this is supposed to be good for me...!"
[Other characters step into the background while William Tell and the Son step forward.]
Lord: "Curses. Run!"
[Lord and Attendant leave.]
Son: "I thought I was a goner."
William Tell: "Whew, that was lucky."
Crowd: "The force is with you!"
Disclaimer: Please note that both versions of the script were carefully taken bit-and-piece from the game Suikoden III and their rather amusing theater mini-game.
Actors line the streets beside the musicians and dancers, spouting off lines from popular plays and performing dramatic reenactments of famous scenes. The most successful actors perform as a troupe under the direction of a manager or patron of some kind. In some cases, they even call on audience participation, or even bring up an entire cast of people they pull off the street to perform for an audience's amusement.
His Majesty Serafino has agreed, at the request of a manager he knows, to witness several "impromptu performances" from inexperienced pseudo-actors, who have been coached for several hours by the troupe's regular cast. The play in question is a variant on William Tell, a classic tale with many translations. The manager has both of them, as he collects curiosities relating to the theater, but provided the regular script to his cast for the purposes of teaching their willing (or unwilling) new pupils. One of his actors, however, got her hands on the poorly translated copy as well and may or may not be tempted to screw with the whole thing.
There are a total of five actors required for the play. They can consist of all your own characters or a mixture of characters belonging to various owners, depending on your preference. The lines for both versions of the play are provided below and it's up to you which was given to the hapless 'victims' of this game. The actors and their personality, along with the manager and his personality, are yours to have fun with. There are six regular actors in the troupe, at least one of them sleeping with the manager.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to assemble five characters (at least three of them must be actual characters, but the other two can be NPCs if you truly need them to be) and write their experience with this play. Start with them being grabbed off the street and invited or pressed into it. Continue on with their learning, or trying to learn, their lines. Go through the whole performance with either version of the script, having them excel or bungle things as you choose, and end with them all taking a bow at the performance's conclusion. Children would be nabbed indiscriminately with adults.
Because this is such a significant task, especially if you choose to work with a group, this is a long-running contest. It will run from November 1st to November 30th at 11:00 AM board time. I'm throwing it up early because I want people to start thinking about it and I may or many not have steady access on the first to post it. There can only be one entry for each group of characters. Whether you choose to have one person write it with prompting from others or to have everyone write a section of it, so long as there's one cohesive piece at the end then it doesn't matter. Entries must be at least 1,000 words. The one that His Majesty most enjoys will be chosen as the winner and become the 'official' event. Interpret that criteria however you will. Fino is a fickle creature.
Any questions, please reply to this post. I will happily answer any and all of them. I imagine there will be plenty. All entries should be PMed to me before the due date, which is over a month away from posting.
Prizes will be favors from His Majesty for each participant.
Traditional Script
Lord: "What's the matter, William Tell? Hurry up and show your stuff."
Attendant: "Right, My Lord. No matter how good he is, he's got to be nervous with the target on his own son's head."
Lord: "He, he, he. If he misses the people will turn on him. Especially if he hits the boy. That scoundrel!"
Crowd: "Go for it! William Tell!"
William Tell: "Trust me. Now don't move."
Son: "Yes, father."
[Other characters step into the background while William Tell and the Son step forward. A real bow and arrow should be used, either by a bipedal father or by one of the actors in the background if he isn't bipedal.]
Lord: "Fie on you, William Tell!"
[Lord and Attendant leave.]
Son: "You did it! Father's the world's best!"
William Tell: "'Cause you believed in me."
Crowd: "Long live William Tell! Long live William Tell!"
Poorly Translated Script
Lord: "Are you sad? Are you OK? Come have a good cry and all will be forgiven."
Attendant: "My Lord, what a dirty mind you have."
Lord: "He, he, he. If he misses, I'll see him crying in his bath today."
Crowd: "Tell!! If you miss I'll laugh my head off!"
William Tell: "If I miss... I'll be sorry."
Son: "Th...this is supposed to be good for me...!"
[Other characters step into the background while William Tell and the Son step forward.]
Lord: "Curses. Run!"
[Lord and Attendant leave.]
Son: "I thought I was a goner."
William Tell: "Whew, that was lucky."
Crowd: "The force is with you!"
Disclaimer: Please note that both versions of the script were carefully taken bit-and-piece from the game Suikoden III and their rather amusing theater mini-game.
