Welcome to Blandings Castle!

A tale of pigs, aunts, romance, Drones and imposters set in the world of the leisured upper classes. Come to Blandings for the Shropshire Midsummer Fete!

Midsummer Mischief is set in P.G. Wodehouse's absurd world of England's leisured upper class in the 1920's or thereabouts. This is not the real world. This is a place where people shout "Wot ho!" and "You bounder!" and even "That's just not cricket!".

One should always try a clever scheme, even if it might go embarrassingly wrong. Reputation is more important than anything, unless you're old and rich. Pigs are a vast, nay limitless source of conversational interest. Come join us in Lord Emsworth's old country estate of Blandings for a ridiculous weekend of gaffes, laughs, and pigs. It'll be a dashed good time!

A word of warning: this is not the real world. Here follows some useful (and not-so-useful) starting points:

1. It is always hay-harvest weather in England: 54 holes of golf a day, or a swim before breakfast in the lake, morning in the hammocks under the cedars, tea on the lawn, and coffee on the terrace after dinner.

2. Money is something you should inherit, get monthly as an allowance from your uncle, or win at the races.

3. Small dogs bite your ankles.

4. Babies are hideously ugly.

5. Young boys are fiends.

6. Aunts are harridans.

7. Butlers have port in their pantries.

8. All decent-sized country houses have cellars, coal-sheds and potting sheds for locking people in.

9. Most handsome men have feet of clay.

10. No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl.

11. Blandings Castle is traditionally infested with impostors.

12. Men and girls in love think only of marriage.

13. Rose gardens turn a girl's thoughts to romance.

14. A bedroom scene is either when you discover that someone has made you an apple-pie bed, or when one or more people come and search your room for policemen's helmets or miscreants hiding under your bed.

15. All married couples have separate bedrooms.

16. It is every young man's duty to steal policemen's helmets.

1920s/30s costuming is recommended for atmosphere, but not required. Character sheets will be two pages and there will be about three pages of other information.

Welcome to Blandings Castle!

Midsummer Mischief is set in P.G. Wodehouse's absurd world of England's leisured upper class in the 1920's or thereabouts. This is not the real world. This is a place where people shout "Wot ho!" and "You bounder!" and even "That's just not cricket!"

One should always try a clever scheme, even if it might go embarrassingly wrong. Reputation is more important than anything, unless you're old and rich. Pigs are a vast, nay limitless source of conversational interest. Come join us in Lord Emsworth's old country estate of Blandings for a ridiculous weekend of gaffes, laughs, and pigs. It'll be a dashed good time!

A word of warning: this is not the real world. Here follows some useful (and not-so-useful) starting points:

- It is always hay-harvest weather in England: 54 holes of golf a day, or a swim before breakfast in the lake, morning in the hammocks under the cedars, tea on the lawn, and coffee on the terrace after dinner.

- Money is something you should inherit, get monthly as an allowance from your uncle, or win at the races.

- Small dogs bite your ankles.

- Babies are hideously ugly.

- Young boys are fiends.

- Aunts are harridans.

- Butlers have port in their pantries.

- All decent-sized country houses have cellars, coal-sheds and potting sheds for locking people in.

- Most handsome men have feet of clay.

- No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl.

- Blandings Castle is traditionally infested with impostors.

- Men and girls in love think only of marriage.

- Rose gardens turn a girl's thoughts to romance.

- A bedroom scene is either when you discover that someone has made you an apple-pie bed, or when one or more people come and search your room for policemen's helmets or miscreants hiding under your bed.

- All married couples have separate bedrooms.

- It is every young man's duty to steal policemen's helmets.

1920s/30s costuming is recommended for atmosphere, but not required. Character sheets will be two pages and there will be about three pages of other information.

**A note:** This game is traditional in its gender roles, but we have made most player spots neutral to allow some women to play sporting young chappies who steal policemen's helmets, and some men to play starry-eyed poetesses in love. Our casting survey will query your preference for what gender you want to play in more detail. We anticipate being able to accommodate everyone, but there's a very small risk that if you're inflexible about being cross-cast, _we may not be able to find a role for you._ We ran this at Festival of the LARPs this year without it being a problem, however.

Replays are welcome!

Welcome to Blandings Castle!

Midsummer Mischief is set in P.G. Wodehouse's absurd world of England's leisured upper class in the 1920's or thereabouts. This is not the real world. This is a place where people shoutl "Wot ho!" and "You bounder!" and even "That's just not cricket!". This is a world where: All young men and women are ninnies, all aunts are harridans, all older people are eccentric, and all children are horrible.

Imposters and mistaken identity are the normal course of things. Money is something you inherit, get monthly as an allowance from your uncle, or win at the races. All decent-sized country houses have cellars, coal-sheds and potting sheds for locking people in. No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a young woman. Young men and ladies in love think only of marriage, and all married couples have separate bedrooms.

One should always try a clever scheme, even if it might go embarassingly wrong. Reputation is more important than anything, unless you're old and rich. Pigs are a vast, nay limitless source of conversational interest. Come join us in Lord Emsworth's old country estate of Blandings for a ridiculous weekend of gaffes, laughs, and pigs. It'll be a dashed good time!