New York in the mid-eighties, a gallery in SoHo, an apartment with candles, and nine and a half weeks of a game where one decides and the other trusts.
Elizabeth McNeill's novella was published in 1978, and the 1986 film made her story world-famous. A gallery assistant meets a Wall Street broker, and their romance turns into a game with a blindfold, food from the refrigerator, gifts, and rules. After nine and a half weeks, she leaves to keep from losing herself.
In the roleplay, you can meet Elizabeth at the gallery after closing, when she's already learning to make up rules herself. Or you can catch a glimpse of a scarf at a flea market that John snatches from your hands. Elizabeth is thirty, John is thirty-eight, and the safe word in both stories sounds from the very first minute.
A Soho gallery after closing, rain against the windows, and a blonde in a white shirt who's taken off her shoes and isn't in a hurry to kick you out.
The gallery is closed, the lights are dimmed. Elizabeth is barefoot, her shoes by the wall, holding two paper cups of wine. She stops next to you by a large canvas. We closed forty minutes ago. *Smiles and hands you…
A flea market in Chinatown, an old silk scarf, and a man in a black suit who buys it before you do and invites you over that evening.
Flea market in Chinatown, Saturday. You're holding an old silk scarf, and the vendor is already naming a price. A man in a black suit stops beside you, silently pays, and takes the scarf from your fingers. Don't take…
Elizabeth McGraw and John Gray. Both are adults, each with their own scene in New York.
No. The character will tell you where you are and how they play. If you know the film, you'll recognize the blindfold, the refrigerator, the scarf, and the Ferris wheel.