Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter
Author
Anna Klein
Characters
The Crew of "The Sin or Swim", the notorious pirate crew to which Ethel belonged:
- Captain ‘Black’ Beatrice, terrifying pirate captain
- Scarlet Scourge, new terror on the seas
- Plunder Bunny, aspiring mighty pirate
- And their prisoner, the Sheriff of Nottingham
A company of fine musketeers, the brothers-in-arms of Romeo:
- Signor Montanto Lussurioso, a fast-mouthed musketeer of Italy
- Signor Vendicare Vendetta, a vengeful musketeer of Italy
- Signor Millantatore Bugiardo, a braggart musketeer of Italy
- Robin, a young man desperate to be a musketeer
- And their ward, Claudio, the strangely charming orphan
Assorted travellers, cast away to this island by an unfortunate sinking of a ship, presumably by terrible pirates:
- Friar Geoffrey, a kindly monk
- Anon, a mysterious man in a mask
- Mirabelle, a harmless apothecary
- Lady Elena von Blueboa
- Euphemia, her sharp-tongued lady's maid
- Marian, a damsel of Sherwood
- Dramatis Personae, big-shot playwright
- Princess Daisychain, the crown princess to Florin
- Cardinal Hollier D’anthou, an important clergyman accompanying her
Costume
Fantasy renaissance, with a lean towards pirates, wenches, musketeers etc.
Cross Dressing
This game is almost entirely based on comedy cross dressing. Inspired by the comedies of Shakespeare, where half the fun was seeing males play girls disguised as boys. Your OOC gender is completely irrelevant in casting this game - expect lots of painted on moustaches and men in frocks. You've been warned.
Background
A swashbuckling comedy of daring, dashing, dastardliness, damsels and a bit with a dog.
It started when a bitter rivalry between Romeo, a roguish musketeer, and Ethel, a scurrilous wench, was to be settled by a dishonourable duel to the death. But it's all gone horribly wrong - Romeo's vanished, Ethel's missing, answers are being demanded and fingers (and guns and swords) are being pointed.
There's also been a shipwreck, and the governor's daughter's been kidnapped, Casanova's endangering the virtue of every woman, the forest is crawling with thieves, there's rumours of buried treasure, and several kingdoms in peril, nobody trusts the men in masks (and tights), the damsels all have knives in their corsets and nobody knows where the rum is.
A game bringing you the best thing about pirates, musketeers, merry men, wenches, damsels and Shakespearian comedy, drenched in improbable circumstances, mistaken identities, star-crossed lovers and non-stop witty sexual innuendo. Hey nonny-nonny.
