THE VAMPIRE an Interactive Drama Live Action Freeform Role Playing Scenario for 6 players (5 male and 1 female) written by Maggie Wang, Sylvia Wu, Shirley Tseng, and Veronica Wu Written as an assignment in English Conversation One, an English as a Foreign Language course taught for freshmen by Brian David Phillips in the Department of English at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Spring Semester, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Maggie Wang, Sylvia Wu, Shirley Tseng, and Veronica Wu. About the story: The time is January 1, 1897, England. An old but still beautiful women, Helen White, was found died at Ruth's backyard with her blood all gone, her neck having three small pits at 6:30a.m. Police said that she had died for about 7 hours. Character: Ruth Christie Public You used to be a good friend of Helen. You are 60. You live in the castle and know Brain---the servant. Secret You are a witch. You love James since you are a young lady, but James doesn't lave you at all, he loves Helen. In order to show off her beauty, Helen took James away from you. She did not love him at all. James sometimes tells you that Helen doesn't treat him very well. Therefor, you hate Helen very much. You want to take revenge of Helen for James James Charlie Public You are 65. You and Helen are good friends since you were very young. You work for more than 40 years. You also know Ruth when you were young. Secret You are the killer. You love Helen very much but she doesn't love you. He took you back to her castle and asked you to do heavy work. You became mentally ill. You sometimes complain to Ruth. The truth is that on December 30, you proposed to Helen but she refused. You went to Ruth and told her that. When you were in her house, you found several thin needles. This is when you decided to kill Helen. We'll tell you more details. Tom Miller Public you are Helen's son in law. You are 35. You have no job and all you do is to fool around all day. You live in the castle with your wife (Vanessa) and Helen. Secret You married Vanessa because of her mother's money. You always beat your wife and force her to ask money from her mother. You don't love your wife at all. Your wife told her mother the day before her death. You know that Helen would force you to divorce. You are very anxious about it. Rey Wood Public You are the leader of the village which is near the castle. You are 43 years old. You are very responsible. Your field is belong to Helen. You need sufficient water in order to have a good harvest, but Helen cut the water. You are very angry about it. Secret You have ever been to Helen's castle secretly in order to release the water. But you were caught and Helen threatened you that if you did it again, she would take back her field. You became more angry with her. Robert Smith Public You are 25. You live in the castle, too. You are the lover of Helen. You and Helen met at a concert two years ago. You owed your friends a lot of money because you liked to gamble at cards. Secret You don't love Helen at all. You become her lover because of her money. You want to use her money to pay off your debt. Helen found that you only love her money and decided not to give you money anymore. Louis Tailer Public You are 45.You are the parish priest in the village. You always help your parish but get angry easily sometimes. You have lived here for over 20 years and you want to build a new church for the habitants. You need money badly. You have borrowed money from a lot of people, but the money still not enough. Secret You went to Helen for the money, but Helen refused to offer you any money. You argued with her at 8:45p.m. the day she died. When you were having a quarrel with Helen, Robert came in and asked you to leave immediately. Clues: Ruth Christie Clue(1) On December 30,James told you that he was very sad because Helen fell in love with Robert and refused your proposal. You are very angry. About this murder, you think that Helen was killed by a vampire because of the way she was killed. James Charlie Clue(1) You love Helen very much and proposed to her, but she refused. You were very upset about it and told Ruth this. After telling her about this, you could feel that Ruth wanted to take revenge on her. (Truth: When you saw thin needles in Helen's house, you decided to used them to killed Helen because you couldn't have her. You stole several needles and used them to killed Helen.) Tom Miller Clue(1) On 5:00p.m.,December 31, Helen told you to go to her parlor. You didn't know what she was going to say, but you were a little nervous. When you walked near the parlor, you heard Helen and Rey were having a serious quarrel. After that, Rey shut the door close and left. Rey Wood Clue(1) On 4:00p.m.,December 31, you visited Helen at her parlor for the problem about water. You asked Helen to give the water nut Helen didn't care at all. Therefore, you and her had a serious quarrel. You left angrily at 5:00. When you left, you met Tom. Robert Smith Clue(1) You ate lunch with Helen on December 31.You wanted to borrow money again, but Helen told you that she would not give you any money. She also insulted you with words. You couldn't bear this kind of insult and had a serious quarrel with her. Louis Tailer Clue(2) You visited Helen about the money at 8:00p.m.,December 31. This was the second time you went there to borrow money. Helen still refused to give you any money. You were very disappointed Ruth Christie Clue(2) Although the body was found in your backyard, you can feel that you are designed. You still deeply believe the body was killed by the vampire. You had read somekind of book about the vampire. You know that it is exactly the way how a vampire kills person. James Charlie Clue(2) You think that only Ruth can do this kind of thing to a woman. You believe that you saw the same kind of needles at Ruth's house and you know that Ruth would kill Helen for you because she loves you. (Truth: After taking back the needles, you were seen by Rey, who just came out from Helen's parlor. At 11:30, you proposed to Helen again, but her answer was still the same. You killed her out of anger. You tried to killed her in the way that just like Ruth would do. You took the body to Ruth's house and want people to believe the murderer is Ruth.) Tom Miller Clue(2) You came in Helen's parlor after Rey's leaving. You also argued with her because she forced you to divorce. You left the parlor at 6:00p.m. Rey Wood Clue(2) You couldn't do anything about the problem of water. You wanted to teach Helen a lesson. By the way, when you left the room, you saw James was carrying something. Robert Smith Clue(2) At 8:45p.m.,December 31, you passed by Helen's parlor and heard a big quarrel in there. You came in and saw Helen was arguing with Louis. You asked Louis to leave immediately. Louis Tailer Clue(2) You know something secret about Tom. You know that he married Vanessa only because of her mother's money. You also know that Helen would force Tom to divorce. Tom is anxious about it.