Shakespeare, Vampire, Maelstrom.

[smokingboot]

I hope I am not going out of my mind. Last night during our game of Vampire, Cyanidemigraine quoted a speech at me which sounded fabulous and which I was convinced was from The Tempest. He corrected me (with barely concealed glee) telling me it was from A Midsummer Night's Dream. I can now find the speech in neither play. Where is it?

I hope it actually exists and isn't some strange amalgamation of Cyanidemigraine's educational defects. It sounded genuine enough. All this tells me is that I have been focusing on the everyday far too long. Time to read and dream and relax, as well as working like a total fooowel.

The game was fantastic for me. I just worry about the others as I don't want to hog all the attention (honestly!) cos I could so easily get greedy, especially with this game and this character.

Other things: the Maelstrom pack has arrived.

There has been a lot of talk about missed deadlines. It's not a sign of great project management, but the only drawback I can see is that a divisional clique potentially already exists in infant stage; those in the playtest and 'in the know' who have clued their chums in and formed their groups already, and those others hovering on the edge waiting for the rules to come out; ordinary punters feeling disadvantaged and left behind.

These latter are the lifeblood of a business and should not be made to feel like outsiders, or the business will rely on a loyal few. No asides or jibes there, just common sense.

Now to Maelstrom itself: the books are gorgeous. Love and labour fall off every page. I haven't even begun to look at the system yet, I'm so awestruck by the look of the thing. Matt and his team should be very proud of this. If this mailshot is the product showcase, it is spectacular.

Now to read it more closely!

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the relevant passages

[cyanidemigraine.livejournal.com]

The lines that the very naughty fae in question reffered to are the ones spoken by puck in the following scenes, ive included the previous bits just for context


Midsummer Night's dream act 2 scene 2


OBERON
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
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PUCK
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
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AND


Midsummers dream act 3 scene 4


OBERON
About the wood go swifter than the wind,
And Helena of Athens look thou find:
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,
With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:
By some illusion see thou bring her here:
I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.


PUCK
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I go, I go; look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
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Re: the relevant passages

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Thank you!