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Player A and Player B each play a character that they have developed. They determine (or are given) a circumstance in which their characters might encounter each other. They play out a scene that illustrates particular traits, perspectives, and characteristics of each of their characters.

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Pick five physical status behaviors. Shoot a two-minute dating profile video for a character, embodying the status behaviors.

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Players each take a playing card without looking at it and put it on their forehead so others can see it. Players then assume characters and mingle with one another as they would at a reunion. Everyone tries to determine their positional status by how others engage with them. After mingling for a while, without looking at their cards, players line up from low (Ace) to high (King). Then players look at their cards to see how well status was communicated.

Topics
a character’s personal power, reflected through body language and speech patterns

See Status

Topics
the hierarchical position a character holds in relation to other characters

See Status

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Players mingle and chat as though they were at a party. While conversing, they secretly endow each other as either silly, sexy or stinky.

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