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1) Color versus Plot - The implicit tradeoff in Soiree is that roles with more leeway for digression tend to be color characters, while characters with specific goals and things to accomplish tend to be locked into more rigid options..

a) Playing a character who could do or be anything, but may not start with a plan or vast resources, and is mostly a "personality"

b) Playing a character with specific resources or a plan, but with less leeway to diverge during the game.

2) Working with Others and Making Your own Gravy

a) Working with a team

b) Having to find allies

c) Being a "self starter" and helping to make your own fun

d) Playing a character who has something specific "to do" even if that is an arbitrary goal or a somewhat pointless activity

e) If you replied positively to the above, does it matter strongly to you whether or not you achieve arbitrary "success" by the end of the game.

f) Talking to and interacting with other people pro-actively

4) Screwing and Being Screwed *

*Note - we make an effort not to put real life rivals in positions like this. If you say "yes" we will try to ensure that your "nemesis" is neither your real life 'person to be teamed with' or someone you really don't get along with.

a) Has someone out to get them - that is there is some other player actively "gunning" for you*

b) Is out to get someone - that is to make trouble for another player

c) I find it frustrating to play a character who is "screwed over" in metagame terms, even if succeeding in the character's "goals" is obviously fairly arbitrary or pointless.

d) I have the strength of will to cold bloodedly screw over another character up to taking them out of the game*

e) Some characters may be engineered to fail spectacularly, but not necessarily in a dignified way - for example being lobotomized, and either picking up a new character or becoming a drooling and impotent madman. Could you play a role like this?

f) Playing a replacement character - usually replacement characters are not heavily plotted, but either support another character, or add mood and atmosphere. Because they may or may not be played they tend to be "single shot"

g) I do not mind playing a character who is "screwed over" in metagame terms (for example has a strong disability) if the real point of the character is portrayal, not succeeding in an arbitrary and largely pointless goal.

5) Social Responsibility

a) Has to organize activities or push certain events

b) Is supposed to stop certain things from happening, but must fail to for the game to be any fun - i.e. "my goal was to keep the game from happeing"

c) Helps make fun for other players by organizing activities or games

d) Some roles for Soiree are somewhat "higher profile" but require a great deal of reading, and closely following the game. Would you be interested in a role like this?

6) Villainy

a) Is a handicapped villain, who may get a moment of apparent triumph, but will fail in the end, and must to some extent work towards their own undoing

b) I like to costume elaborately

I am bothered by playing characters with strong themes or allusions to:

c) Sexuality

d) Homosexuality (including playing a homosexual character)

e) Racism

 

f) Pro-Fascist French - Petainists

g) Nazisim

7) Special Skills or talents

a) Helping with a nightclub stage show

b) Performing as part of a comedy routine, rehearsed before game

c) Singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument (tell us in the notes below)

8) Role Specific Information

a) Interviewing other characters for their stories, talking to them in detail, potentially preparing a radio broadcast to be presented live in game.

b) Playing cards, Roulette, or other gambling games

c) Being an actual detective - trying to deduce a conclusion by asking questions and gathering information

d) Discussing period politics

e) Discussing period Literature, or literary figures of the 20s and 30s

f) Portraying a character who is specifically tilted to be "pro-fascist," but is not a Nazi or extremist - basically a conservative person of the period who felt that the French Government was corrupt and got what it deserved, and that Hitler had some pretty good ideas.


9) People I'd Rather avoid

10) People I'd like to play opposite or close to

Please remember - the more people you specify the harder it will be for us to cast you

11) Notes or Comments: