One Night 2.0: Elizabeth, The Faerie Queene

The next morning I played in Shawn De Arment's game, One Night 2.0: Elizabeth the Faerie Queen. I'm not sure if the game is currently still in development. The idea is people create facts and rumors and characters and questions that everyone wants answered.

• Bruce Nagler: Puck
• Timothy Hulse: Drake
• Ajit: Walsingham, spy master
• Me: Oberon. Paid Drake -- small ability to cast glamour on self
• Molly Mandlin: Titania

Other characters:

• Shakespeare: Chronicler
• Queen Elizabeth
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Indian Boy
• Otto Correcht
• Philistrate

We each created 4 facts and 4 rumors each. Facts had a value of at least 1. Rumors had a value of 0.

Drake and Titania had a son, Tristan, advisor to the Pope.

Questions: Plot points for answering. The more chips we put on a question, the more important it was, and the longer it would take to answer it.

• Who is the Indian boy really? 2
• Who are Cobweb's spies (fairies and humans)? 1
• What is Sir Francis Drake's cargo? 1
• What is Cobweb's true agenda? 3
• How far will Bill go to impress Puck? 2
• Where does Sir Raleigh's true loyalty lie? 2
• Who does Queen Elizabeth secretly love? 5
• What has Puck done to Otto? 2
• Will Sir Walsingham betray Elizabeth? 3
• Why did Oberon pay Drake to leave England? 4
• Why is Puck so loyal to Oberon? 5

The central question would up being "Who does Queen Elizabeth secretly love?

Walsingham wanted Shakespeare to write a chronicle about the fey.

Walsingham: Make it clear our two peoples should not mix.

Writing a Chronicle of Oberon that subtly separates the races.

Drake appeared as his first mate, Longbottom. Walsingham the mortal saw through this and summoned Drake to his chambers with a mission: Embarrass the fey. In return, Drake would get a moment alone with Titania.

Meanwhile, Puck found Shakespeare in a tavern called The Lecherous Unicorn and strewed his charms. Shakespeare was influenced to praise _uniting_ the fey and mortal races.

I forget the context of the following:

Puck: I can only tell Oberon, who will refuse to listen.

Someone: When mortals fly.

Someone (to Puck): You circumnavigate the issue as much as you circumnavigate the globe.

Someone: Well said.

Someone: Rome -- It is a land of Romance!

Someone else: It is a land of Catholics!

Drake needed to figure out how to prove his love to Titania. She indicated that if he truly loved her, he wouldn't need her to tell him how.

Drake asked someone for something -- it would have been either Cobweb or Puck, and he probably asked for greater magic power. I think he asked to have Titania's son magically transported to England.

C or P: This is a great favor.

Drake: So it is. What would you have of me?

Whoever it was wanted Drake to give Titania a potion to turn her a) into a mortal b) in love with Drake so that she didn't "distract Oberon from what we must do."

Elizabeth at some point had barged in on Titania while she had a moment with Drake, and was furious. Titania appeared in Elizabeth's chamber, via magic, and had it out with the queen. Thus, the answer about whom Elizabeth loved was revealed: She wanted to be Titania's lover, but would never marry her.

Titania: Then, Lizzie, I guess we have nothing more to say to each other. <POOF as she vanishes> I will step into the nearest mushroom ring.

Titania was attracted to Elizabeth, but not willing to have her heart broken. She did meet with Drake again, and he explained what he was supposed to do with the potion he had been given.

Drake: Oops. (glass shatters on stone) I seem to have dropped it.

Between this and bringing her son to her, Titania decided that Drake had indeed proved his love, and the three of them left England together. Cobweb and / or Puck told Oberon about Titania's abandoning him for Drake. Oberon decided to take advantage of that, and henceforth, he pretended to be Titania in Queen Elizabeth's bed chambers, but Sir Drake in court.

Shakespeare wrote it all down to impress Puck and secretly unite the realms. When all these mortals now are dust, let Puck bring it back into the world.

The public version of the events was Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck was the Keeper of Shakespeare's Lost Play. He placed it in the tomb of Queen Elizabeth, at her funeral. It was found the day after.