Shakespeare

"Shakespeare" is a bunch of planned hoaxes centering around the board 8 user Shake. The following is Shake's description of each individual Shakespeare.

Shakespeare I
Shakespeare I: Romantic situation with about a dozen cast members built around the popular female user Gingerbee. Everyone is assigned a specific role and improvises accordingly. We also set up a few scripted events like an AIM chat room for a board wedding reception between her and Master Emerald, which me and Billy crash with lot's of expletives. The guests, including such illustrious names as Aeon Azuran, are flabbergasted.

In the middle of the play, the board's most popular user, MWIS, unexpectedly declares his love for Gingerbee for real. She asks me what she should do. I decide to tell her to let him down easy. He goes apenuts with disappointment and threatens to leave the board. I IM him and tell him to stick around, counting on the idea that he'll be relieved once he hears this whole romantic schtick was a play(After it is done) and that Gingerbee has no interest in online relationships.

The wedding topic commences. MWIS roleplays waiting outside(He was convinced she would recipricate because of my comments, jumping the gun), Priest of Gix does the wedding ceremony, all kinds of board members roleplay along with us, not knowing this is all set up.

Me and Billy crash the reception, and an epic sword fight ensues, between me and Master E. Some join in, others wonder what the hell is going on -- me and Master E seemed pissed at eachother, and now we're roleplaying a swordfight. He kicks my ass, I am down on the floor, defeated. Billy stabs him in the back, Gingerbee does a 180 and marries me instead.

After this, I make a topic with a list of all the cast members and we take our bows. Unbenownst to me, MWIS has closed his account over the ordeal, and everyone hates us. I spend a lot of time defending my pet project, including against a mysterious user named Ace-something, which obviously was MWIS himself.

MWIS eventually kept closing and re-opening his account, and eventually returned. He thought I toyed with his emotions, I thought he was a drama queen, we didn't speak again for a year and eventually become the best of e-buddies.