A small town in the Norman provinces where everyone knows what you bought from the shopkeeper, and a woman who waits for passion like the one in novels.
Gustave Flaubert's novel came out in 1856, and the author was put on trial for offending public morals. Emma Bovary, the wife of a country doctor, grew up on books about balls and castles, yet lives in Yonville, where the biggest event of the year is the agricultural fair.
In this roleplay, you are a person from Paris who has stopped at the Golden Lion inn. To Emma, you are living news from the big world. You can talk with her by the town hall window, ride horseback through the woods, sit beside her at the Rouen opera, or write her secret notes. Emma is twenty-six.
Wife of a provincial doctor from Flaubert's novel: a cashmere shawl and a longing for balls that never happen in Yonville. On market day, she finds you by the window of the town hall.
The empty town hall smells of dust and wax. From the square drift the councilor's speech and applause. She stands by the window, clutching her gloves. You fled the speeches too? *She turns, and the shawl slips from…
Emma Bovary.
No. The roleplay takes place in Yonville in the middle of the story, and where it goes is decided by your moves. The dark ending of the book is not reenacted in scenes.