A Practice game

wesleypeterson

8 pages

Posted
März 31, 2008 - 5:56pm

A Practice game

Basically, this is how it goes.

I will type in a summary of my character. Height, weight, eye color, hair color, interests, ect. Afterwards, I will place the scene and start the opening line. Everyone else plays along with this scene, until it is time to switch scenes. Then someone else will set the scene.

Ok, my character is Joseph Parthers. Obviously, 18, 5'10", brown hair, hazel eyes, pretty normal. Except for one thing, he's stuck in a cult in an unknown place. he doesn't know where he is, doesn't know whats out there, except all he knows is that he wants freedom. He is forced to live in a cult, and that is not the life he wants. In the play Joseph and his friends try a deathly escape out of the town and its cult. The only problem is, theres a punishment. If anyone is caught betraying the sacred law of the land, or in this case, escaping the cult, the consequence is death.
NOTE: I would hope to get a girl and another man as a lead character. Also, don't be afraid to be the antagonist.

SCENE 1:
(The scene is set at the church of the cult. Its raggady and dusty, and very dirty. A very phyco preacher is teaching the serman, and everyone listens in the pews with their wives and children, careful not to make too much noise. Joseph sits with his father, mother, and twin brother Adam. Adam and Joseph whisper to each other in the last pew about the upcoming ritual of marriges for the boys to marry the girls in the city. They talk about arranged marriges. Adam doesn't really know what to think, but Joseph loathes the idea.)

Joseph: Adam, obviously you can't actually go with an arranged marrige. THATS CRAZY!

transience

101 pages

Posted
April 1, 2008 - 7:55pm

RE: A Practice game

Melody Tate. She's about to turn 18, 5'4", gray eyes, sort of pretty but dressed down.

Melody: *hearing the conversation, turns around slightly as she's sitting just in front of Adam and Joseph* You're not even the one getting the raw end of the bargain. I'm going to have to be "under" one of these guys! Not to mention what I'd have to do with him. *grimaces*

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I tried to be perfect, it just wasn't worth it.
I don't know how it got so bad.
It's hard to believe me, it never gets easy.
I guess I knew it all along.

shawnvw

Posted
April 2, 2008 - 12:20am

RE: A Practice game

Adam: Well, I dunno - I mean, that's how Ma and Pa got married, right?

Joseph: That was different. They've always loved each other.

[In a much later scene Joseph finds out that his parents actually HATED the idea of the arranged marriage - but they did it anyway, and only later learned to love each other. Which is why they expect their kids to go along with the idea too -- it's worked for centuries.]

wesleypeterson

8 pages

Posted
April 2, 2008 - 4:11pm

RE: A Practice game

Joseph: Maybe Melody...but still. Both get a pretty bad deal. I mean what if I had to marry you.
Melody:What!
(people sitting around them give a "shush" signal. Melody blushes, then gets quieter)
Melody: Sometimes I wonder if theres more than this. (picks up a pamphlit titled Womans Ettiquite)
Adam: Melody...how could you? You should know this way of life is superior to all! Pastor Noah says so.
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transience

101 pages

Posted
April 3, 2008 - 10:14am

RE: A Practice game

Melody: (whispering) People can be wrong, can't they? Pastor Noah's just a person, right? If you or I could be wrong, couldn't he?

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I tried to be perfect, it just wasn't worth it.
I don't know how it got so bad.
It's hard to believe me, it never gets easy.
I guess I knew it all along.