players: Tim, Seth, Jory, Nick, Ben

Fiasco using the high school playset. We started *way* beyond the realm of what is legal or appropriate in school (so much bad touch…), but then as we played we actually toned it down and zeroed in more on the characters as people — even with all the messed up crazy things going on. Our zaniness calmed instead of accelerated, in the best possible way. Yes, even Cecelia knee-capping the science teacher, Mr. Ross, while he ran around the school naked except for the school mascot jackalope head was much more toned down than how we started.

The nerdy freshmen, Wilson & Prescott, playing D&D under the punch table at prom (after the whole crew escaped detention to get to the prom, Breakfast Club style) *and* being surprised when upper class students in their crinoline dresses and ruffled tuxedo shirts miraculously wanted to roll up characters and join them was about as charming as it gets. They finally had more than one player to DM!!!! Kudos to Nick for bringing that in as our final scene. That’s a rare case where I really could have stopped the game right at the last scene and skipped the epilogue. It felt like we had wrapped very nicely.

Thanks everybody! I had doubts at the start but it turned into something rather sweet.

As I described the game elsewhere: we started off 50 Shades of Grey and then went more Freaks & Geeks meets Breakfast Club