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thanks for letting us know jbviolet .

if anyone can get a hold of that pic, please post!

Cool thanks!

You are so right about real world vs. fictional world. In one of my role-playing games, I play Danny Pickett. I love that character. He is so unlike me, but I love playing him.

I used to do local theater. The role-playing game I am mentioning is done over the Internet. The dialogues are ad-libbed and written down. Each of us react to the dialogue with our characters. Currently, I am in 2 games and play 5 characters:

Ben Linus, Walt Lloyd, Rose Henderson, and Danny Pickett in one game and Danny Picket (again) in another game.

I really wanted to be Benjamin Linus only. I started playing Danny Pickett as a fill in. Rose and Walt are minor characters, and in that particular game, we are all required to play one major character and 2 minor ones. Someone liked my portrayal of Danny Pickett and invited me to play him in another game. I ended up falling in love with Danny. He is a great character to play. Totally opposite of my personality.

Here's an example how it is done:



danny_pickett
2006-12-14 05:25 pm (local) (link)

Danny was really getting antsy. Juliet was there ready to give blood, but the doctor did not seem to be moving fast enough. He yelled out to both of them below:

"How is Cole doing? How long would she need to be in the operating room? When are you going to fix her up? I need to know."
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x_drjackshep_x
2006-12-16 12:28 am (local) (link)

"I need out. One hundred percent out of this building," Jack yelled to Juliet. Jack wasn't sure if he could save this woman, he was betting on no. Jack walked over to the wall and leaned against it.
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danny_pickett
2006-12-16 01:39 am (local) (link)

Danny heard the doctor's outburst. He was not going to let this guy out. He pulled his gun, pointed it at Jack, and said.

"Doctor if you don't do everything you can to save my wife, you will NOT see the light of day, and that's a promise. Now get back and save my wife."
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x_drjackshep_x
2006-12-21 11:45 pm (local) (link)

"Your wife is dying and you want to know why?" Jack shouted to the man. Jack could see the gun but didn't care. "She is dying because your people don't have the equipment to save her." Jack went over to the wall and gave it a kick.
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danny_pickett
2006-12-27 02:32 pm (local) (link)

"Somebody better take good care of her, doc." Danny yelled out to the doctor in desperation. He saw that Cole's life was in a precarious situation and that the doctor seemed genuinely concerned about her health.

The doctor was right about the facilities not being up to date. There never was a need to keep up the facilities. No other group of survivors ever fought the group as much as this group did, which made Danny very angry and frustrated. He liked to have the upper hand and he did not feel he had it with the Oceanic survivors.

"Juliet," he pleaded, "make sure that Cole gets the best care we can give her. I'm going home to rest. Tomorrow, I'd like to see what Ben can do for her and for our future."

As he said his final words, he saw his Colleen being wheeled away to one of the available rooms in the compound. He found himself alone in the station. He wiped his tears away and promised to himself that somebody, either Sawyer or the actual person who wounded his wife, would pay heavily for the heartache he was experiencing.

Thanks, it is fun doing role plays. It is not as satisfying as hearing applause from the audience (nothing can replace legitimate theatre), but getting the parts are not as difficult either.

Oh, I think my Ben Linus is a good one (even if I have toot my own horns). He is slick, mean, sensitive, overbearing, etc.

You have to realize that we do not follow the show very closely. We can't, that would be total reenactment. So, in our game, Ben and Alex are father and daughter. Ben, with Danny, stole Alex from Danielle. Ben raised Alex as his own (after he lost his own child to SID). Alex is a rebel who just found out that her father is dying and is trying to get Jack to operate on her dad.

Ben and Juliet had a "love" relationship that waned away. Juliet now wants to take over the leadership.

Ben met Shannon when he was Henry Gale and beat the crap out of her and broke her arm.

So you see the game is a bit different.

As the experience on stage is one the greatest rush you can have. Hearing the audience's applause is indescribable. Getting to that point is tedious and hard work. Rehearsals go on and on. Sometimes they are lots of fun; sometimes they are grueling.

Auditions are murder. You have to sell yourself. You cannot show that you desperately want the part (even though you desperately want the part). I find auditions very demeaning. It is almost like being naked in front of other people.

When you get that call that you got the part (or a part) is incredible. Then you have the readthrough, the rehearsals, and finally, the moment you were waiting for, the performance. Your heart sinks down to your toes and you hear the other actor’s lines and one of them is your cue. You are due on stage. You feel like your feet will never get you there. You tell yourself, “Why did I let myself do this? I don’t want to be on the stage.” But you go on because you made a commitment and you honor it. Next thing you know, you said your lines and you’re off the stage, waiting impatiently for your next scene.

Thank you about your confidence on my talent. My age? I am old enough to be your grandma... 57.

I'm pasting the last moments with Ben and Shannon. I am not a violent person, but it is fun playing violent men. (LOL)


ben_linus
2006-12-16 09:19 pm (local) (link) Track this
Ben leaped up fast and furiously, grabbed Shannon by the neck, and angrily, with clenched teeth said,

"You people think I am the enemy? I am NOT the enemy. I have done you people no harm, yet, you have no trouble keeping me like a prisoner and treating me like a criminal."

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lostlilprincess
2006-12-16 09:37 pm (local) (link) Track this
If Shannon could breathe right now she would point out that he had her by the throat and that was very much so doing harm to her, but she couldn't do that. Instead she kicked him in the groin and tried her best to get away.

She managed to break free, as she was trying to catch her breath she saw him coming at her again. Instead if letting him get her throat again she ducked and he went rushing over her.

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ben_linus
2006-12-16 10:03 pm (local) (link) Track this
Ben felt the pain in his groin and for a moment he thought he would faint. He saw her running free. He couldn't let that happen. He would be done. He had one choice, and one choice only: He had to escape.

He tried to grab her by the neck. She managed to avoid him. As she ducked, he jumped on her. He hated hitting women. He could choke them to death, but not hit them. He was on top of her and tried to knock her out, but saw nothing viable. He grabbed her arms with one hand, and covered her mouth with the other. He didn't want her to scream. He looked around to see what he could use to knock the woman senseless. He saw a vase on top of the coffee table. He pulled Shannon up with him and pulled her towards the coffee table. All the time, he was muttering out loud:

"I didn't want to cause you people any harm. I am not the enemy. I am a good guy. You came to my island and destroyed my people. You killed Ethan and Goodwin. I came in peace. But with your distrust you made an enemy. We are not whom you have to fear."

As he was dragging Shannon towards the table, he found the rope they had used to tie him up the first few days he was in the hatch. Before he released the hand that was covering up her mouth, he told her, with a very determined and menacing voice,

"I am going to release your mouth. If you scream, I will push your head against the concrete and you will be dead. If you cooperate, I will spare your life. Are you going to cooperate?"

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lostlilprincess
2006-12-17 10:22 pm (local) (link) Track this
Shannon tried her hardest to get away from Henry. She thought she had succeeded, but instead he landed on her back and was hitting her.

She could feel pain coursing through her body, not only from his hands impaling her trying to incapacitate her, but also where she was shot was coursing with pain.

Shannon knew if she was going to survive this she had to play this smart and to do that he had to believe she wasn't going to scream. Allowing her body to go limp in his arms and nodding she lets him think that she won't scream or cause a scene. She had another plan now and that required her hands to be free, if even for a moment.

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ben_linus
2006-12-17 10:40 pm (local) (link) Track this
He felt Shannon relaxing. He didn't trust her, but he needed her cooperation. He slowly dragged her to the spot where the cord was. He removed his hand from her mouth and whispered hard into her ears, "You make any sound, any sound at all, I will pull your arms so hard that they will break. Believe me, they will break. Do you understand?"

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lostlilprincess
2006-12-18 12:38 am (local) (link) Track this
Shannon knew the moment he let her go she had only a moment to react. She nodded to his statement about remaining quiet and the moment he leaned forward to pick up the cord she kicked him into the table.

Henry fell into the table splitting it in half and shattering a vase. Shannon knew the amount of pain she was in she didn't have a chance at in a hand to hand battle with someone as spry as he was so Shannon ran, screaming for help as well.

"HELP, SOMEONE, ANYONE, HELP ME! SAYID!!!" She yells as she heads for the door.

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ben_linus
2006-12-18 06:38 pm (local) (link) Track this
Ben was furious. He knew he couldn't trust this woman. He had no choice--he had to knock her out, tie her up, and run away. It is not the way he had planned to convince Jack to help him. Once he was back in camp, he would schedule a kidnap of all the relevant LOSTIEs.

She was heading for the door, he jumped up on her, started hitting her with all his might. For a moment, he forgot that he was strong and well trained in combat. By the time he realized what he was doing, it was too late: Shannon was bloodied but good. He looked around, found the rope, and tied her hands up in her back.

A cracking sound came off of Shannon's body. He heard it, but it was too late. He knew that he broke her arm. As much as it was paining him to end the situation this way, he had no other choice. Violence was not his way. This woman gave him no choice. He was a good guy, he knew it. She forced this out of him. After all, he was a good guy.

He opened the door to the hatch and ran away.