Trial Balloon: Play both Male and Female

[dr_mabeuse]

Anyone out there want to really stretch their imagination?

I'm thinking of starting a game where all players would have to play 2 parts: male and female. Their characters could interact with each other, but could only get intimate with other characters. It would be interesting to see men playing women and women playing men for a change.

I think it will be set in a Bradbury-type carnival (think "Circus of Dr. Lao") where the supernatural meets the ordinary: carnival rides, fortune telling, freak show, clowns, acrobats, exotic dancers, fire-eaters, things like that.

I'm just trying to get an idea of how much interest there is for something like this, so respond to this thread.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

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[SexyChele]

*bump*

 

[llyr2]

Hmmm .... don't know about the setting since I'm not familiar with that Bradbury, but the concept is intriguing. Count me in if you want me. I'm think brother/sister team.

 

[sexylilmissie]

me 2

Well, after being gone for a year, this looks like just the ticket to sharpen my writing skills again.

Although, i must admit to adding my name to the ignorance list, i am familiar with Ray Bradbury but unfortunatly not the show of which you speak.

I would use two buisness coleauges that are perhaps at this event in celebration of a raise or promotion.

Will watch this thread for further developments.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Welcome llyr and Sexy,

I'd like to get one more female player, then we'll have 4 players and 8 characters, which should be plenty.

Don't worry about the Bradbury thing. He was a sci-fi/fantasy writer who like to set his stories in these calm little small towns where weirdness would enter and gently shake things up. A very moody and lyrical writer. So this carnival would appear unexpectedly on the fringes of this small town and be a bit strange: the fortune teller can actually tell fortunes, the freak show is filled with real methological creatures, the love potions the gypsy sells really work, and the wishes people make at the wishing well relaly come true. So everyone who comes to the carnival can expect their lives to be changed by their experience.

I think I'll play 2 characters: Doctor Mabeuse, who pretty much runs the circus, sells patent medicines and potions, can work as a trick knife-thrower, and, if no one else wants it, tells fortunes. He's somewhere in his 40's or 50's--it's hard to tell--dark, and his beard and hair are flecked with grey. He wears unusual eyeglasses which have a strange, hypnotic effect on those he talks to. Since he works as fortune teller, he often dressed in outlandish robes and turbans. To most people he appears vaguely familiar.

My female character is Jill Masterson, the sheriff of Greenville, which is where the Carnival of Souls has set up. She's in her thirties, divorced, with blonde hair and green eyes. She knows everyone in town, and everyone likes her. She has a daughter at home, and she's a good mother, but she's lonely and bored with her life.

This is just to give you an idea. Wait till I post the actual story thread before you post your characters. The name of the thread will by "The Carnival of Souls"

Merry Xmas

---dr.M.

 

[yYnot]

Ohhhh... I think I'm interested. Very. What would be the approximate time period? Modern, or more turn of the century? Just out of curiosity for what characters wiould be appropriate.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Welcome yYnot! We now have balloon liftoff!

The time for the story is today, but once upon the grounds of the carnival, things get pretty timeless.

I've started the story. It's under the thread name "Carnival of Souls". See you there.

---dr.M.

 

[sexylilmissie]

OOC

Just a note, I am going for surgery tomorrow morning first thing and therefore I will not be able to post for a day or so...
Sorry for tying things up, I tried to do one last post this evening but the stresses and excitement of tommorrow have dried up the creative well.

I will endevor to post again asap afterwards, In the meantime, happy posting.

(if you wish, you may write around my chars or cause them to do things within reason to let the story continue in my breif absence)