On Being a Book Character (and an improsional one at that!) Captain Vere · April 10, 2016 Respond to On Being a Book Character (and an improsional one at that!) SourcePossibly Incomplete Game Description Mantrap: The Billy Budd Game, team 3This game's players are: Jeaninne, Shadika, Niurkalis, Travis, Josie, Ezra. Our "gamified" Billy Budd will be unlike any novel you're read and unlike any game you've played (though for RPG fans, maybe a bit more familiar). Each of us will play one or more roles. Roles can be: "inside" the text of Billy Budd (and remember, it's already … Ah

marlingspike

hoar frost

dominies

sphynx-like

but in the case of the ship there is this addition; that the living spectacle [pg 118] it contains, upon its sudden and complete disclosure, has, in contrast with the blank ocean which zones it, something of the effect of enchantment. The ship seems unreal; these strange costumes, gestures, and faces, but a shadowy tableau just emerged from the deep, which directly must receive back what it gave.

oakum

Babo

saya-y-manta

surtout

freebooter

which has gained for the negro the repute of making the most pleasing body-servant in the world; one, too, whom a master need be on no stiffly superior terms with, but may treat with familiar trust; less a servant than a devoted companion.