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  • So did you just die when you found out you won the contest?

  • Yes, I died.

  • And now I'm in heaven!

  • Hey, where's two plus one?

  • Oh, we do separate LARPs.

  • It works for us.

  • Did everyone here win the contest?

  • No, just Linda and Nancy.

  • The rest of us have the honor of paying a lot of money

  • for this experience.

  • [gasps] Look!

  • Someone's coming!

  • Esteemed paying guests and contest winners,

  • I welcome you to Winthorp Manor.

  • My name is Mr. Perkins.

  • And I am the master of ceremonies.

  • Do we have any experienced LARPers in the group?

  • Right here.

  • My name's Artie.

  • I've done the Star Wars LARP, the Tolkien LARP, the World

  • According to Garp LARP.

  • OK, so then you know that while you're here,

  • you will be randomly assigned characters.

  • You will sleep in the room of your character--

  • [gasps]

  • --eat the food they ate--

  • Mmm.

  • --and wear their clothes.

  • [gasps] I can't believe this.

  • [gasps] William the Under-butler.

  • Oh, we love William.

  • I'll be the best William I can be, with a keen sense of duty.

  • And I'm deaf in my right ear starting now.

  • Oliver the Footman.

  • What?

  • Oh, uh, Oliver the Footman.

  • Oh, oh, hello, Oliver.

  • Oh, I'm so nervous.

  • OK, here it goes.

  • OK.

  • [gasps]

  • Wow, Nancy, Mrs. Winthorp.

  • Good for you.

  • I can't believe it.

  • Come on, Linda.

  • Let's see how you get to be?

  • OK, here I go.

  • Iris, Mrs. Winthorp's maid.

  • Goody!

  • We'll be working together.

  • Well, I won't be working.

  • You will, for me.

  • But we'll be together.

  • Yay!

  • Agh, I'm friggin' Mr. Winthrop.

  • Score.

  • Would all the upstairs characters

  • please get into the auto.

  • Is another car coming for us?

  • [chuckles] An automobile is a luxury.

  • Most servants go their entire lives

  • without riding in an auto.

  • Right, right, right, sure.

  • The long walk will allow us to talk about current events.

  • Did you hear about those crazy Wright brothers?

  • They're calling it an aeroplane.

  • More like the wrong brothers, am I right, Footman Oliver?

  • Oh, god.

  • How's your syphilis?

  • Um, uh, that's clearing up.

So did you just die when you found out you won the contest?

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