Quick Bright Things

Authors

Russ Kale and William Shakespeare


Dramatis Personae

  • Theseus (male)*
  • Hippolyta (female)*
  • Lysander (male)*
  • Demetrius (male)*
  • Hermia (female)*
  • Helena (female)*
  • Egeus (male)*
  • Oberon (male)*
  • Titania (female)*
  • Puck (male)*
  • Peaseblossom (female)
  • Cobweb (either)
  • Moth (either)
  • Mustardseed (either)
  • Peter Quince (either)
  • Nick Bottom (male)*
  • Francis Flute (either)
  • Tom Snout (either)
  • Snug (either)*
  • Robin Starveling (either)

It's important to note that there's no way to guarantee a lack of a romantic subplot in this game, as a lot of it relies on blind luck, but if you're uncomfortable playing a romance plot, you are allowed to ham it up as much as you please. Characters with asterisks next to their names have canon romance plots.


Costume

This high school has no uniform. Players are welcome to wear jeans and a T-shirt, or whatever casual and comfortable clothing they wish.


GM Contact

Russ can be reached at 4am.mouse@gmail.com. William Shakespeare is buried in Stratford-Upon-Avon.


Background

Mr. O'Strate's seventh form drama class is putting on A Midsummer Night's Dream, and he's cast you all eerily well in your parts. Life is starting to imitate art... or is it the other way round?

By the end of this afternoon's rehearsal, the lovers might be reunited, the rude mechanicals might have their lines down pat, and Oberon and Titania might have stopped fighting... but as some famous dead guy once wrote, the course of true love never did run smooth.

A light, fluffy and overly melodramatic game from the authors of Wreck of the Philemon and Twelfth Night.