Dungeons and Dankness Part 12: Summer Nights and Autumn Leaves

Hojo is a Pirate King who controls much of the underworld of Korotiku.  Styling himself as a gentleman and noble, he has recently taken up play-writing and poetry.  Even then, his sadistic nature shows, as when a character gets hurt or dies in the play, they dies for real.  Hojo believes that an actual life and death situation will create the most genuine acting.

His play, titled Summer Nights and Autumn Leaves, is a short, two act play that draws inspiration from Romeo and Juliet and  Othello.  The chief characters are Veronica, the guard of Prince Cosmo's palace, the thief Giovanna, and Giuseppe, the clown.  Veronica and Giovanna kill each other over Cosmo's love, and a distraught Cosmo leaps off the highest set on stage.

Two of the players act out the characters Giovanna and Cosmo while an NPC named Othella plays Veronica.  Othella, like hundreds of actors before her, has been forced to kill her fellow thespians in Hojo's  theater.  The players will have to choose if they will try to set her free while escaping, or defend themselves in this dark play.