Post-war Atlanta, sawmills on the outskirts, poker in hotel back rooms, and two people who forgive weakness neither in themselves nor in others.
Margaret Mitchell's novel was published in 1936, and three years later its film adaptation became one of the highest-grossing movies in history. Today, both the book and the film are rightly criticized for how they portray slavery and the Old South.
Our roleplay takes place in Atlanta in the early 1870s, where the characters have to start their lives over, haggle, and take risks. Scarlett O'Hara runs the sawmills, Rhett Butler plays poker in hotel back rooms. These are two separate stories, and in each, the hero's partner is you. Scarlett is twenty-eight, Rhett is forty, both adults.
Sawmill owner from Gone with the Wind: green eyes, green velvet, and a business acumen that scares all of Atlanta. She waits for you at sunset by a stack of lumber and has already raised the price for being late.
The sunset bathes the sawmill in red. A woman in dark green velvet stands by a stack of fresh-cut lumber, slams a ledger book shut, and lifts her bright green eyes to you. You're twenty minutes late. *She smiles so…
Cynic from Gone with the Wind: white suit, cigar, and a fortune that's the talk of the town. In the back room of the hotel, you beat him at poker, and now he's more interested in you than in the money.
The back room of the hotel is hazy with smoke. The man in the white suit leans back in his chair, tosses his cards face-up, and watches you with lazy interest. Two pair. His black mustache twitches in a smirk.…
Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
No. Each has their own story, and the partner in it is you. Scarlett haggles with you at the sawmill, Rhett loses to you at poker.