I agree! I think White Rose enjoys running the Memory Test games more than my scripted stories. I really enjoy Teresa as the evil assistant as well; she's a good enthusiastic sidekick.
Back when I started the Dr. Squalus experiment series a few years ago, I told White Rose that her character Dr. Squalus is based on the old "Ilsa" movies with Dyanne Thorne, which was based on the Nazi medical experiments. I told her to play the character like Dr. Mengele; very kind and caring one second, and then performing vicious experiments the next, all in the name of science. I then wrote "experiments" that were so ridiculous that they couldn't be taken seriously. The first dozen or so were pretty basic: beautiful young women are stretched out in a standing spreadeagle with electro clamps on the nipples. The doctor comes in and tells the victim... I mean, patient... that they will be used for medical experiments and then the organs will be harvested and sold on the black market for transplant. The patient is given an exam, then electrocuted into unconsciousness, and then wakes up to see a tube coming out of the abdomen to drain fluids into a jar. The patient is shocked again to make sure all of the fluid is collected, and then the patient is hung to death.
I cast White Rose as my evil doctor because of her blonde hair and blues eyes; very Aryan. Pic attached for reference. White Rose plays the character very well, and has made it her own with her personality On more than one occassion, she's written to me about having herself as a victim so that she can enjoy what the other actors enjoy. I did it once, just before Alex disassembled his brick wall set and created a new "gray cell" set, with a storyline that Dr. Squalus was the victim of treachery (which is how she ended up strung up and electrocuted), and had to quickly flee the state university where she was working. Now her experiments are done in an underground lab.
Then I decided to do an experiment based on a real-life experiment of Dr. Stanley Milgram, who created a fake experiment to see if volunteers would actually hurt another person if told to do so by an authority figure. He got the idea from the Nuremburg Trials, when all of the SS camp guards used the defense that they were simply following orders and shouldn't be guilty of war crimes. Was it plausible that an average person would commit evil acts if told to do so? Mood Pictures made 4 films with this same plot, wherein the victim would be caned for mistakes, with a volunteer reading the words and counting the strokes. It's worth a watch for the drama. I changed the format up a bit, using a paddle instead of a cane to keep it humane, but added more words to keep it challenging. I told White Rose I wanted to create a game show atmosphere, and to feel free to be herself within the constraints of being an evil scientist.
I've tested 7 women so far. They have all expressed an interest in coming back and taking it again.
Moreover, actual measurable results have come from each "episode". All of the players show an improvement in their scores on the second attempts, and even more improvements on the third. The leader is Wahlberg, who has taken the test the most, and has the top score of only 1 mistake.
Wahlberg, Anna Luna, and Demonica have taken the test so often that they know the rules of the game by heart. In the attached picture, Anna Luna tries to correct the game play. This is BTS and not on the commercial video.
What I'd really like to know is, have any of the readers on this forum attempted to play the game at home? If so, how did you do?
