| Threek |
Scene 1: Prince is exploring mountains. Harpy queen approaches him and tells him to be her mate. Prince refuses. Harpy queen laughs/cackles and says that he has no choice and that he'd come to regret that decision.
Scene 2: Harpy queen is in her den. She's casting a spell by a cauldron. Harpy's dance around her. I think I made this one a dance number. :P
Scene 3: Prince is in the throne room with the King. A possible bride from him is brought into the room with her father. Once the bride looks at him she screams in disgust and says how ugly he is and runs off stage. The king is outraged by the display the prince is visible shaken. He's usually regarded as handsome.
Scene 4:Princes bed room. The harpy queen enters the balcony and offers the prince to join her again. The prince refuses. The harpy queen then tells him that no one else will ever love him and he will be hers eventually.
Scene 5:Throne room again. New match. This time there's a shy girl. Sees the prince and is visibly taken aback but does not run off. Her father scolds her for her reaction saying that they need the money from this union or their family is ruined. The girl relents.
Scene 6: Scene 4 replays itself basically could be cut only difference is the prince is more optimistic.
Scene 7:In a courtyard garden. Prince and new girl start to bond. She isn't treated well and no one cares about what she wants. In my play the prince comforted her and then played a flute. PC was a bard with wind instruments.At the end a slight kiss is exchanged.
Scene 8:Prince's bed room. Harpy asks the prince to be her mate. Prince refuses and says that someone can love him. Harpy laughs and tells him he is wrong and that she'd be back.
Can't remember exactly how everything went down. The PC contributed heavily to what happened. Eventually the Harpy Queen finds out that someone else maybe falling in love with the prince. The prince finally has enough and travels back to the mountain to fight the queen. The harpy guards tell him he's too late and that the curse will never be broken now and he should just give up.
Prince calls his guards and a dragon shows up and roasts the harpies.(bard used silent image.)
Back in the thrown room the new girl is hurt and surrounded by guards. The prince asks for her to be healed and brought back.(was planning on killing her and have a tragic ending but the bard had other plans and used dancing lights as holy magic.) Girl gets up and embraces the bard. They kiss passionately. Curse is broken by true love. Harpy queen attacks in a rage and is killed by the prince.
Final scene is a wedding.
How I worked the play was had the PC do an intelligence check to remember what was supposed to happen. ie what I thought should happen in the play. He was given the script earlier and I gave him bonuses and penalties based on how much he studied the script. My PC read the script a bit but didn't study intently so I gave him a bonus in the beginning and it disappeared near the end. He also studied the script in the intermission.
I had him do a bluff check anytime he couldn't remember what to do. If it was high enough the audience bought it.
This took up most of our session to play out. Only one character was involved but everyone had fun with it. If I were to do it over, I'd have everyone have a part with their own checks.