[Abe Sargent]

Dramatis Personae:

Amit Patel – You are a senior and on the way to valedictorian. You have been working to be valedictorian all of your high school career. Because of your obsession with classes and grades, you don’t have many friends, nor much time for socialization. Your family is among the richest at Seville High. You are the brother of Sasha Patel.

Sasha Patel – You are a junior. Your stuck-up brother is an asshat. No one likes the guy. You love the hip-hop beats and you hang around clubs when you get chances to sneak in. Your grades are passable and your parents make a metric ton of money, but you prefer your friends don’t know, although of course, they all do. Your father bought a Thunderbird for your 16th birthday. You are the sister of Amit Patel.

Caitlyn O’Conner – You are the school cause célèbre. You are always finding some new topic to make your obsession. The trees are dying! Animal rights! Homelessness! You consider any liberal cause to be the good fight, and you are willing to fight it with articles in the school paper and getting petitions signed. This will sometimes get you in trouble. You are currently dating Claude Clawson.

Claude Clawson – You are a dramatic person. You sometimes wear older style clothing from the 1920’s and 30s. You participate in the school plays but find it painful to be in another’s guise. You sometimes suffer from bouts of depression. You are Caitlyn’s boyfriend and are currently worried about fur coats and the use of furs. The two of you are going to a rally this weekend.

Sarah Dickerson – You are a feminist and a tomboy. You believe that anything a guy can do, a girl can do too. You are the captain of the Girl’s Softball team and you work as a mechanic in your dad’s garage. You have never had a date, and although you think it’s because you intimidate men, frankly, it’s because you look a bit too boyish for most guys to handle. You are teammates with your Vice Captain of the softball team, Hannah Gironi.

Hannah Gironi – You hate school so much. Everybody is so pretentious. They all try to be something because they have to backbone to say to others, Hey, this is me, deal with it! You have totally dealt with it. You are a member of no clique, because you have better things to do with your time. You are the Vice Captain of the Girl’s Softball team, because you are the best pitcher in the Division AA in the state. You like Sarah because at least she doesn’t try too much to be like everyone else.

Bret O’Connell – The local DungeonMaster, Bret would rather spend Prom Night rolling some dice and killing some orcs, rather than going with some icky girl. Bret has a love them/hate them relationship with girls. He fantasies about them from afar, but then never really spends any time with them at school. Dave Bradford is in his D&D group.

Dave Bradford – You are the local fence. You can get anybody anything they want, from cigarettes and porn to prescription drugs and condoms. Although you are a bit of a geek, because of your ability to supply everyone from jock to criminal, and from prep to nerd, you are respected by all. You are in Bret’s D&D group.

Katrina Snyder – You are a fierce lover and player of the Oboe, it is your passion and your life. You spend hours a day tooting your oboe. It is your every moment. You hate performing in front of others. For you, the oboe is about perfection, and you want to perfect your craft. You have few friends, but one of them is Nadia Bloomington, your BFF.

Nadia Bloomington – You are the school poet and artiste. You love to write, draw, and especially, compose poetry. Your verses fill notebooks. You take all of the artistic classes you can and eschew classes like Bio and Chemistry. You are BFF with Katrina Snyder.

Dale Erskind – You are the class bully and you love it. You are not the sharpest tool in the shed, in fact you are in special education. However, you know that where you go, people fear you. You are the strongest person in school. You are smart enough not to pick on the jocks or criminals, they’ll back you into a corner collectively. Instead, you live on nerds and geeks, choir boys and band girls. Your partner is crime is Raymond Drestin.

Raymond Drestin – You have been friends and partner in crime with Dale for years, going back to when you first met in special education class. Like Dale, you love to terrorize students. Unlike Dale, you hate being in special education, and are trying your hardest to get out. You don’t want to be known as stupid forever, and you are just about out of special education, with great grades and hard work.

Roger Sanchez – You are the local superstar cornerback, already getting college scouts to watch you play in games. The team may be 1-4 so far, but you are the highlight of a bad season. You are bright, trying to escape from a home life that is very uncomfortable, so you dedicate yourself to classes and sports. Your grades are great, your sports amazing. Your Physics lab partner is the hottie Stacy Hambrick.

Stacy Hambrick – You are the gifted one. Everything you do is a success. You are able to succeed at classes without trying, you are popular without putting in any effort, and you are successful at yearbook without trying. After that icky Shane dumped you for a college girl, you have set your sights on Roger Sanchez as the perfect boyfriend. You manipulated him into being your lab partner in Physics. Who knows where it will end up?

Vera Cafincelli – You are the daughter of a chef, from a long family of chefs, and want to continue that tradition. You work in your family’s restaurant after school and instead of good grades, you are working on your culinary skills. Your family hires a lot of people as wait staff, hosts, and so forth. One of the people hired is Shane Goodkind.

Shane Goodkind – You are currently employed at Vera’s family restaurant. You are the son of a pastor, and have high expectations upon you from your family and church, but things do not come as easily to you as they do to others, like your ex, Stacy Hambrick. She got everything without trying, you have to try at everything. You are pretty attractive, and the whole Son of a Preacher Man gets you really far with people at school, where you are respected by everyone. You just began dating a college freshman and it’s been marvelous to see a new world outside of high school and its pettiness. Before, you weren’t sure if you even wanted to go to college, but now you are convinced to go, and not just for her sake, but for yours.

Spike Nelson – You are a bit of a child prodigy, and yet you love the counterculture. Sure, you get straight As almost every term, but you also spike your hair, bleach it, and spend time with the counter culture cliques like the Indies or the Emos or the Punks. Your teachers like you because you are well behaved and smart. You are currently dating Walter Czerski.

Walter Czerski – You are the boyfriend of Spike Nelson. You are a good athlete, and you start as a linebacker for the football team, and that gets you a lot of respect and credit among your fellow students. You have to work for your grades, which average Bs, but Spike helps you study, and then she helps you “study.” You play football because it’s a thing to do, but you really don’t care about it. Instead, you take art classes, and love expressing yourself artistically. Some of your paintings are currently on display at a Student Art Festival being held at the Civic Center.