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A scripted Murder game usually has rounds of play, sometimes called chapters. Each player is given a book with
a character description, and a background. Within the book, there are clues to be hidden and discovered each round.
All clues must be disclosed within the round, and the next round can not start until all the clues have been ferreted out.
There are normally 4-5 rounds of play, with a read out for each character at the end.
Clues are disclosed by each
character reading through their book and talking about what they know about the other characters. The books are
written so that the knowlege of the other characters progresses through the event.
This is the easier version of
Murder Games.
Unscripted Games
Unscripted Games are more free-form than scripted who-dun-its. Each player is given a book with his or her character's
personality and some basic information the character knows. Then, all the players are let loose in a single room, to
mingle and walk around, speaking to whomever they want, in order to discover clues.
While there are no rounds in
an unscripted game, there will be timed events that will effect the storyline.
Unscripted games are more difficult
to keep track of what is happening, as there are normally more people than a scripted game and because the play is free form.
You could play the same unscripted game, with a different character, and have a completely different outcome than the time
before.
One other benefit to an unscripted game, you may be able to bribe your way out of being discovered, since
everyone has a shady past, or other events may occur...
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An Example of a Scripted Character:
Setting: the 1970's, at a Bed and Breakfast, called the Garden Gate Inn. All players are
either a guest or work at the Inn.
Character's Name: River Stone - Female
- Age: 32
- Sandy Blonde hair
- Likes
to fish
Introduction Round: My name is River. I come from San Fransisco. On afternoons
where I am not working, I can be found sitting on the Bay, going after fish. I am came to the Inn, because of the fishing
in this area. Right after breakfast, I normally head straight to the dock, and row out onto the pond, where I spend
the day relaxing in the sunshine. When I am working, I am a free lance photographer.
What you don't want
anyone else to discover: You are actually hiding out here, at the Inn, because your publisher has flubbed your contract
with a travel magazine. And flubbed is right. You were supposed to be getting pictures of whales. Instead,
you were told to infiltrate illegal whaling enterprises and get expose photographs. Which you did. However, you
have upset both the environmental community in addition to the fisherman in the Washington State area. You did so by
speaking to a captain and getting drunk with him at a party, induced a severe hangover in him the next morning.
Unfortunately, he was the captain for an oil rig, and he crashed his boat, spilling oil everywhere. This you were unaware
of, as you boarded a fishing vessel the next day and were incommunicado for a month. You have been named as the Blonde
Bomber in the very public investigation. The oil rig captain claims that you drugged his drink and caused the accident.
You are laying low until the investigation is over with, your publisher paying for the bills.
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The setting includes the murder of the Inn Owner, Rose T. Rellis. What you know about the other players:
Penny Royal has been an employee of Rose for years, but has often been seen sneaking around at night. Forest Ree, a
famous writer, has been walking around the greenhouse quite a bit, when he claims to be in his room, typing away. And,
Marge Oram, the Inn's famous cook, has been seen pulling frozen packages out of the freezer for dinner. Who killed
Rose? And why? And who knows what about you? Over the couse of dinner, the eight of you have decided to
try and put events together, knowing that one of you is the killer. Who was where, and when, and with whom, you wonder....
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