There are no more dragonfliesA game for four players and one or
two GMs.It's been years since you last saw him, years since youve
heard from him, and now he's gone forever. He was your best friend,
they all were, but he mattered the most to you. He left it for the
four of you, the place where you truly felt at home, the place
where the dragonflies reside. The game takes place in an old
vacation home by a lake, where five boys spent their summers
together, collecting dragonflies. Years later they meet again,
after one of them, the owner of the home, has passed away and left
the other four the house and all of its content, including their
old dragonfly collection. Even though it has been abandoned for
decades, the place looks and feels almost the same, except for one
thing, there are no more dragonflies.Setup:Each of the four players
randomly receives one of the following sentences expressing their
feelings towards the deceased friend and one item left specifically
for them by the owner, which defines their character. (The items
and sentences are not linked to one another and a player can get
any combination of item-sentence from the list. An item or a
sentence cannot appear twice in the same game.)The sentences:1. The
one thing I could never tell him was _______2. I was his friend
only because of ______3. I was so jealous of him for ______4. He
thought I didnt know that ______In each of the items there is a
hidden message. The items:1. A pocket watch and in it a note that
says "for you I kept the dragonfly we caught when we were ten"2. A
small handbook and in it records of dates (no year, just the date
itself) and dragonflies caught each day. Under one of the records
in the middle of the handbook it is written in a different color "I
left this one for you"3. A pen with a roll-out page (pictures
attached in the end of the file) that on its stem it says "for you
the dragonfly we chased all day"4. An empty packet of pills, and in
their instruction and ingredient manual it says in handwriting
"remember that time we caught that dragonfly and you scratched your
knee? That one's yours"Game mechanics:The game is made of two
stages; one is the present stage, on this stage all players begin
as their adult characters. The other is the past stage, where
flashback scenes are acted out. On the past stage stands an empty
chair, covered by a white sheet, to represent the fifth friend. The
players are allowed (and encouraged) to talk to the chair and react
to it as though it was their friend."Past" scenes can be acted at
any time, and when they do the scene on the "present" stage
freezes, any amount of players can participate in a past scene -
whether it is one player or all four of them and they may play the
characters of other players from the group. For example, Tommy and
Oliver's characters are having a heated argument on the "present"
stage. The two other players may choose to pause the "present"
scene and act out a scene on the "past" stage, playing as Tommy and
Oliver's characters, and not as their own characters, giving g the
argument from the "present" context. Every "past" scene must end
with the capturing of a dragonfly.The game is ended by a dragonfly
flies into the house on the "present" stage.Pen:The pen in its
opened form, the stem is the inner part marked in yellow (not on
the page itself)The pen in its closed form
Names and Email addresses Thai Divone [email protected]
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