Murder Mystery Party

I warned you that double post day would probably mean I'd disappear for a while, which I did because I'm swamped with work lately. Well my loyal readers, I'm back (though still swamped w/work) for another instance of my ever interesting blog! And there's more good news, this post won't have anything to do with poker, hehe.

Right, ok, let's get started with the story then. Some friends and I were invited to a murder mystery party yesterday evening. What the hell is that you say? Well it's a party, erm, with a few mysteries and erm...mhhh yeah some murder is involved too. Ok, in case that wasn't clear enough it's a party where everyone is given a character and where a murder has occurred, some role play takes place, some clues are uncovered and at the end you have to find the murderer.

The game takes place in Casablanca in the midst of WWII so everybody had to dress accordingly. That meant men had to wear smart suits and 40's hats and girls had to wear nice dresses and fancy hairdos. Most of the characters are French; the black cat who is the murder victim and who was a very renowned mime artist who in the end turns out to be a Gestapo agent, Monsieur et Madame le Grandbutte, who are the hosts, the former is impotent and his alibi is that he was asleep with his wife at the time of murder while the latter had an affair with practically all the male characters in the game including the black cat with whom she had a daughter raised unknowingly by her current husband and Miss Cherie Boot, a member of the French resistance who turns out to be a guy in a drag. My character was Otto von Pinkelwurst, a German Gestapo agent who hates the French, the mime artists and practically everyone who doesn't sympathize with the Nazis. His backstory is that as a child he was taken to the circus to see the black cat and his performance left him amazed, he went backstage to ask for an autograph but the Black Cat not only refused but he destroyed his autograph book and threatened to kill him. This left him scarred for life and now he's clinically crazy.

As you can imagine, this wide range of characters (I didn't mention all of them, there were maybe 12) led to a very amusing role playing and everyone had a very nice time trying to impersonate their corresponding character. I tried to do a German accent but failed miserably :P

Almost everyone turned up dressed in 40's style, as you can see in the retro pix below, which gave the game an even better atmosphere.

Nalleli, Edgar and Leticia totally gettin' it on 40's style!

Sophie and Danielle; Madame Le Grandbutte and Mme. Cherie Boot, respectively. Party was at James's place, Sophie is his gf and Danielle his sister, forgot to take a picture of him...just as well, he's an ugly mo'fo hehehe

Me and the girls, is that hat cool as hell or what?

All in all it was very nice evening, we got to make something different and after we discovered the murderer we just dedicated ourselves to get pissed! :D

Bye for now.