Getting dragged to go watch a school play. King in Yellow. Anyone familiar with it?

[Mikaze]

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

[divineshadow]

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

Umm if that's what I think that is its a mythos based play inspired by hp lovecrafts stories

[yellowdingo]

divineshadow wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

Umm if that's what I think that is its a mythos based play inspired by hp lovecrafts stories

You would be wrong...it would be the play/stories that inspired Lovecraft, seeing they are written in 1800s - about a 1920s America.

link

Cassilda's Song

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.

Be ready to cower in fear.

[divineshadow]

yellowdingo wrote:

divineshadow wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

Umm if that's what I think that is its a mythos based play inspired by hp lovecrafts stories

You would be wrong...it would be the play/stories that inspired Lovecraft, seeing they are written in 1800s - about a 1920s America.

link

Cassilda's Song

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.

Be ready to cower in fear.

Thanks dingo I always get it mixed yuo as I haven't read it in a long time no lovecrafts work for that matter

*wonders how a middle school got permission to do the king in yellow anyways*

[ProfessorCirno]

You, sir, should unmask

[Sothmektri]

I had no idea that there was a play. Post a review, if you don't mind!

[Spacelard]

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

You might end up in Carcosa...

[Tarren Dei]

Mikaze wrote:

Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

You're going to be able to stay awake because your niece is going to be wonderful and you are a good uncle.

[DM Wellard]

Spacelard wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

You might end up in Carcosa...

Or alternatively Darkover

[John Woodford]

Mikaze wrote:

I promised my niece I would come to watch the middle school play she's in this weekend. I don't have the heart to back out now.

So, anyone heard of some play called The King In Yellow? Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

I think I've heard this story before....

[fray]

Um... wow... that's some eff'd up stuff there...
good artwork though.

[Tessius]

Wasn't there an adventure in Dungeon based on this? Now I'm going to have to find it when I get home :\

[W E Ray]

"And Madness Follows"

by Matthew Hope

Dungeon 134

One of the best adventures in the 3E era. Creepier even than the great Greg Vaughan adventure, "Tammeraut's Fate" in Dungeon 105.

[Mikaze]

Tarren Dei wrote:

Mikaze wrote:

Please tell me I'm going to be able to stay awake through this bloody thing.

You're going to be able to stay awake because your niece is going to be wonderful and you are a good uncle.

I know, I know. I'm just feeling gripey over having to push back a date.

I'm definitely going, I'll pay attention. She's so excited about this thing, and I don't want to rain on that. It's just one Saturday night.

[Mikaze]

Well okay, it wasn't all that bad. She acted her little heart hstr out. Everyone seemed to have a good time the black stars hang above damned and lost Carcosa. I had been worried it was going to be some trite sappy hstr affair but it was actually an interesting little show they put all hail the new flesh on.

They're going to a cast party now at the streets are paved with the dead of lost Carcosa Pizza Hut. How those kids have the hstr energy to keep going after that play, I've no hurts it hurts clue.

All in all, I was damnedascendedborn impressed. Bloody hungry now. Don't know no escape why. Heading out to grab it begins some food. Thanks for convincing me to die go, guys. I would have regretted not going never ends not a mask never end.

Later!

[Gentleman Nurn]

Eeeeeeexcellent.

[Shadewest]

Thank you for this clever little thread. I'd never heard of Mr. Chambers before. A quick Google search led me to an evening of very interesting reading.

I just wish I had stopped after the Wikipedia article...

[Col. Nathan R. Jessep]

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

[Crimson Jester]

So was it any good?

[Mikaze]

Crimson Jester wrote:

So was it any good?

WE WAIT AT THE DOOR

[Reggie]

I saw it once, but it was so boring I walked out before the second act.

Reggie.

[yellowdingo]

Reggie wrote:

I saw it once, but it was so boring I walked out before the second act.

Reggie.

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