Hamlet's confrontation with Gertrude isn't violent. It nearly is; you feel guilty, but don't intervene. Hamlet storms out. You know better how to deal with him and tell Claudius, who has him taken care of. You and your family live the rest of your lives relatively peacefully.\n\nCURTAIN.

Hamlet, thinking you're Claudius, kills you. First time you try to help someone in your doddering old life, and you die for it. Your children don't fare well either.\n\nCURTAIN.

Ophelia is distraught over how unbalanced Hamlet has been acting.\n\n[[Comfort her.|5a]]\n[[Talk at length about how she has driven him love-mad.|5b]]\n

Claudius rolls his eyes at you as if to call you a doddering old fool.\n\n[[Next scene.|2]]

Claudius pats you on the shoulder consolingly, as he would a friend.\n\n[[Next scene.|2]]

King Claudius asks if your son Laertes has your permission to leave to France.\n\n[["Yes."|1a]]\n[["He hath, my lord..."|1b]]

You and your daughter Ophelia say goodbye to Laertes.\n\n[["Goodbye."|3a]]\n[[Give too much and varied advice so he cannot process it.|3b]]

Hearing "to thine own self be true" in the middle of your doddering, he is noticably self-conscious. How does one even do that?\n\n[[Next scene.|6]]

After watching a confrontation between Ophelia and Hamlet that you set up, you do the same with Hamlet and his mother. He nearly got violent with Ophelia; you feel a bit guilty. The same thing is happening with Gertrude.\n\n[[Keep quiet.|8a]]\n[["Help!"|8b]]

Polonius\nor\nIs Brevity the Soul of Wit?

Stephen Fruchtman

He goes eagerly.\n\n[[Next scene.|6]]

She is initially taken aback, but quickly warms up to you. You feel like father and daughter.\n\n[[Next scene.|7]]

Her eye twitches as if to say "My brother has left me alone with only a doddering old man for emotional support," but she says nothing.\n\n[[Next scene.|7]]