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Topic: Character Flavor
Started by: Matt Gwinn
Started on: 8/30/2002
Board: My Life With Master Playtest


On 8/30/2002 at 12:02am, Matt Gwinn wrote:
Character Flavor

My Minion for our upcoming game is and actor/playwrite who was stabbed in the head during a performance of Hamlet. The injury rendering him unable to speak properly, but like many brain injuries there is a mysterious side effect. THough he can not speak more than a couple words understandably in most situations Gideon can quote shakespeare eliquently.

Anyway, I've been doing some game prep and found a lot of cool Shakespearean quotes to use in the game sessions. Paul suggested that I post some of them. I'll just list a few that seem fitting to the game as a whole. Most of the one's I have are story specific or character specific.

I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.
-The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Service is no heritage.
-Alls Well That Ends Well. Act. i Sc. 3.

Every man has his fault.
-Timon of Athens. Act. iii Sc. 1.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on't.
-Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 2.

We can not all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd
-Othello. Act. i Sc. 1.

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
-Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6.

My nature is subdu'd
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
-Sonnet cxi

,Matt

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On 9/4/2002 at 7:15pm, Mike Holmes wrote:
RE: Character Flavor

A quick question, Matt. I like the concept for his Less Than Human trait. What motivated you to take this one particularly?

Mike

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On 9/4/2002 at 7:25pm, Matt Gwinn wrote:
RE: Character Flavor

I'm not sure. I guess it's a combination of having an english degree and the game being set in a theater.

,Matt

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On 9/4/2002 at 7:30pm, Mike Holmes wrote:
RE: Character Flavor

You just thought it would be cool to get to fling Shakespeare about, then? Given the setting context?

Mike

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