MULAN an Interactive Drama Live Action Freeform Role Playing Scenario
for 6 players (3 male and 3 female)
written by
Allison Tsai
Written as extra credit in English Conversation One, an English as a Foreign Language course taught for freshmen by Dr. Brian David Phillips in the Department of English at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Fall Semester, 1998.
Copyright 1998 by Allison Tsai.
Since I have learned to compose an Interactive Dram, I also write a Interactive Drama on Mulan and has asked our actors and actresses to perform this unique version. It was fun and I also took some photos from those lovely actors and actresses.
Characters:
- Mulan-Vincent Lu
- General-Robert Chen
- General's wife-Iris Liu
- Magician-Jill Chen
- Soldier-Frank Liu
- The messenger-Tien Chao
Background Information:
It was dark in the night, quietly, there's rarely a peaceful time like this since everyone is nervous about the wars. Suddenly, a scream broke out, it was general! What happened to him? Everyone went out of the camp to see what happened. Then they see the general, with desperate eyes, lingering over his camp and murmuring;" It's gone, It's gone¡K." Later you know that the general's orders has been STOLEN! This is a very important order sent from the Emperor with some important information based on the warfare. If the lost order came to the enemies, you will all face your fate. Quick! find out who the thief is and asked the order back.
Mulan
- Public information:
You are 18, and a brave girl who went to the army in replacement of your father. In the old days, woman aren\'t supposed to serve for the army. However, if you don\'t take your father\'s place, so old as your father, he might not be able to survive numerous battles. Thus, you run the risk of your life when you try to deceive the general that you are a man. So far everything seems to be fine and no one has discovered this secret. You have also won several battles that other soldiers really put you in high esteem. In the army camp, you also know many other soldiers, and Frank is your best friend among them.
- Secret information:
You steal the order! You are actually a spy from the invaders. You have received well-training as a spy when you were very little. Although you are a girl, you know how to disguise others since you are taught some of theses techniques to be an excellent spy long time ago. 5 years ago, you were sent by the Heus-the invaders, and has come to China to live with your fake parents, who are also spies. You were very careful as not to expose your real identity during these 5 years, and are waiting for a chance to get into the army and help collect the information from China and sent it back to your country. You came into the army 2 months ago and has constantly keep in touch with your leader, and has sent him some information regarding the warfare.
General
- Public information:
You are a married man who is in her early thirties, and your wife is Iris. Iris is a woman with extremely beauty, however, she has a very strong personality of jealousy. You really love her but you are often irritated by her for her being suspicious that you have extramarital affairs with others woman all the time. But you always tell her that there\'s no such thing happen and that it\'s the most ridiculous idea she has in her mind because she is the only woman in the world you love. Last time, when you were having a dinner with the magician-Jill, your wife broke in and assumed that the musician is your mistress. And you were very upset about her behaviors and explained to her that you were only consulting the magician for some country policies. This time, you really got into big trouble for missing the important order came from the Emperor. You are really regret for being so carelessly treat the order. Because you was thinking about going to the magician\' room tonight and was not aware that you put the order on the desk instead of lock it in the place where you usually put the important files in.
- Secret information:
Actually the magician is indeed your mistress. But no one knows it except you two. You feel puzzled about what happened last time, when you were having dinner with Jill, how could your wife know this? Let alone breaking in and spoiled your sweet time with Jill. You wrote a note to Jill to inform her your coming, and told the messenger to pass the note. You always use letters to keep in touch with Jill, thus, if someone else know anything about you and Jill, The messenger-Tien-will be the one. You are also suspicious of he to be the person who steal your order. You know he doesn\'t like you because you had put him into jail two years ago for three months as a punishment for his irresponsibility as to lost the letter from you to the Emperor.
The leader's wife
- Public information:
You are a woman with the traits of being jealous. You always argue with your husband over some trivial things just because you think she has an affair with other women. Last time, you were informed by the messenger that he got the evidence of general\'s betraying you. She gave you a note from general to the magician--Jill, on it says;\" Honey, I\'ll come to your room tonight at the same time. I LOVE YOU.\" You were really crazy when you see the note and immediately ran to the magician\'s room and found your husband also sit beside her. Your husband explained to you that he were just having dinner with the magician with nothing further. When you questioned him about the note, he said that it\'s not his.
- Secret information:
You weren\'t really a jealous type until 10 years ago. When you were a beautiful young woman and has crazily fall in love with another guy. You thought that he\'ll marry you and you\'ll be together ever after just like the fairy tales. However, he dumped you for another woman. The woman wasn\'t as beautiful as you are, let alone her poor family condition while you were brought up in a wealthy family. You don\'t understand why your boy friends will love her instead of you. Ever since then, you became very cautious of other women, not matter they are ugly or beautiful, poor or wealthy, you see them as the same-your enemy. After you married to your husband, the general, you still keep this habit around and thus your husband were constantly irritated by your suspicions.
Magician
- Public information:
You are a very young lady, who isn\'t too beautiful. Somehow you never fail in attracting the man you love. You have had many affairs with other men before, and every woman is very cautious of you by keeping their husband away from you. You have the magic power of seeing through the future, that\'s why general always consult you and ask for your advise referring to the warfare. General is really a charming guy that you soon fall in love with him. However, he doesn\'t want to betray his wife. Somehow in the end, you succeed in making him fall in love with you even he himself doesn\'t know why.
- Secret information:
Except for the power of telling the future, you also possess a power of attracting every man. You have a spell: \"ada li coo, \" whenever you say the spell to any man, they\'ll crazily fall in love with you. You use the same technique to attract the general, but he doesn\'t know this and fall in love with you eventually.
Soldier
- Public information:
You are Mulan\'s best friend in the camp. You are very proud of him and look forward to be like him one day. The reason why you and Mulan has become friends is because of one war. During that war, you almost got killed by the invaders were it not for Mulan, who had saved your life in time. Thus, he became your best friend. You would die for him if necessary since your life is saved by him.
- Secret information:
Although Mulan is a hero, somehow you find something weird about him. In the dark of night, you always found her writing letters and attach the letter to a dove. He tried to do it privately without being noticed by others. However, since you are his best friend, you pay more attention to his daily life than others and thus discover his weird actions. One time when you asked him about this, he told you that he was asked to write letters to his parents everyday and told you not to worry about it. You are really a curious cat, and one time you decided to have a look at what he has wrote. When you begin to open the letter, Mulan suddenly came in and was very angry at you and told you should never never has this intention again or he will never regard you as his good friend. You were really puzzled at his anger? How can he be so angry since they are only letters sent to his parents? But you never dare to look at his letter again.
The messenger
- Public information:
Your job is to carry the messages or letters from other people and finish your tasks on time. You have always been a very responsible messenger and thus everyone trust you very much and give their letters to you. However, during your mission one time, you lost a very important letter written from the general to the emperor. You remember you did put the letter in your bag and intended to give the letter to the emperor the next very early morning. After you woke up and begin to do your job, you found your letter been missing, and you told the general this. He was very angry and say that you should be responsible for it. You was punished by him and was sent into the jail for 3 months. You shouldn't have the chance of coming out from the jail were it not for general's wife-Iris help you to beg the general for forgiveness.
- Secret information:
You wanted to take revenge of the general. You know you did put the letter in the bag, somehow it was lost. You shouldn\'t be the one to take the responsibility, because it\'s not your fault. One time when the general wrote a note to the Magician-his mistress-and told you to send the note to the Magician, You gave the note to Iris, his wife, instead of Jill. Of course it brought another argument between Iris and the general, and general was very confused how come his wife will discover the secret. That's all because of you.
