Mardi Gras!

[changeyourmind]

murder on the henhurst express!

what's up?

Fairy lights and feather garlands adorn the walls of the first floor of Henhurst Hall this evening. Rose Weasley is celebrating Mardi Gras in an unorthodox way: a Murder Mystery Party. In the interest of entertaining as many themes as possible, she's set the entire affair on a fictional train running in 1920's Wizard America, and she strongly encourages everyone to dress up in costume.

visuals!

Cocktails include prohibition-era recipes like the Bee's Knees, Mary Pickford, French 75, and Sidecar. Snack foods are a little more standard party fare, although Rose has set them up with little placards that declare murder-themed names for them (ie, Death by Chocolate Cupcake, as well as the considerably less inspired Mystery Meatballs).

there's been a murder!

An hour into the party, the festivities are interrupted by a GHASTLY SCREAM! It sounded like it came from Willoughby's office, so you better hurry over there! Inside, train conductor Rose has dramatically positioned herself to weep at the feet of the now late Willoughby Sprout, splayed across his desk and murdered by some ne'er-do-well! Just as Rose throws her arms up in despair, wondering how they will ever POSSIBLY solve the terrible crime, her pug dog trots around the desk and plops his butt down, looking very cute in his little Sherlock Holmes get-up.

It's the world-famous dog detective, Detective Inspector Pug, Rose crows. Surely now everyone will be saved!

"What should we do, Detective Inspector?" Rose asks.

"Arf!" Dip says, and immediately begs for the treat he knows he deserves. Rose gives it to him, and then hands you all treats of your own: dossiers about your new train identities. But the murderer is among the group already, and everyone had better be very careful...

cast list!

Professor
Sergeant
Criminal
Artist
Engineer
Occultist
Lounge Singer
Aviator
Antiquarian
Prizefighter
Barrister
Big Game Hunter
Doctor of Medicine
Archaeologist
Governess
Chauffer
Clergyman
Film Star
Union Activist
Photojournalist
Bartender
Gambler
Conductor
Detective

Volunteer A
Volunteer B
Volunteer C
Volunteer D
Volunteer E
Volunteer F
Freddie Weasley
Volunteer H
Marion Bell-Wood
Criswell Trelawney
Lysander Scamander
Valerius Nott
Volunteer M
Volunteer N
Volunteer O
Louis Weasley
Scorpius Malfoy
Volunteer R
Siân Fletcher
Lorcan Scamander
Volunteer U
Corrie Pye
Rose Weasley
Detective Inspector Pug

how this works!

⬥ This is mostly just for silliness, since I couldn't think of a manageable way to run a murder mystery for 30+ characters in the journal format. The goal should just be to write some silly little scenes with your character playing a character.

⬥ Claim your character's role in the story below to be added to the cast list. The Murderer has been randomly selected from the list already! You will be notified if you are the Murderer. Each character role comes with a simple costume piece themed around the profession and a 20-page packet detailing their life and backstory. Nobody could blame you if you don't read this.

⬥ For every ten total tags completed by the characters "in character", I will post a little more of the pre-written murder mystery patter I have prepared as the game continues over the course of the night.

⬥ For added chaos, there's actually nothing stopping you from murdering your scene partner if you feel like they're being suspicious. Rose encourages it, actually! But it does mean you'll also be a murderer afterwards. "Murdering" someone requires you to slap a skull-and-crossbones sticker onto the other person. Rose charmed these to be extra sticky and they're incredibly difficult to remove. Everyone has one!

locations!

⬦ WHAT'S UP?: Let everyone know what your character is up to (and what super cute 1920s costume they're wearing!).

⬦ LOBBY: The building's lobby has been repurposed as a dance floor, and whoever gets the "Lounge Singer" role in the Murder Mystery is given total control over the sound system for the evening (although they don't actually have to sing if they don't want to).

⬦ SPEAKEASY: Briar Longbottom's room has been dressed up to look like a Prohibition Speakeasy, and whoever gets the "Bartender" role in the Murder Mystery is roped into serving cocktails.

⬦ POKER ROOM: Lucy Weasley's room has been dressed up to look like an illicit high-stakes game of poker is being held in it. Whoever gets the "Gambler" role in the Murder Mystery is politely asked to ante up ten galleons to furnish the pot.

⬦ CAFE: The first floor's common area has been decorated with pretty twinkling fairy lights, and food as well as non-alcoholic drinks can be found here. It's also usually the setting for Rose's over-dramatic Murder Mystery scenes.

⬦ THE MURDER MYSTERY: "Scenes" in the Murder Mystery game can take place in any area, but threads should all be placed here!

⬦ OOC - VOLUNTEERS

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[changeyourmind]

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[changeyourmind]

Disclaimer on Murder updates: I'm working like all night tonight so I might be a hot sec but I will try to get everything up in a somewhat timely manner.

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[fursuiter]

oh my god jj this is so cute

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[ladscience]

THIS IS SO CUTE JJ

i'm about to leave my nice warm office and work my way home so i'll start out with just freddie and decide who else gets to join in when i get home. lmk if anyone wants to do a scene or anything!!! i want to do cute dumb stuff!!

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[hugogogadget]

All the Freddie music scenes are too fucking funny. And unfortunately I’m COMPELLED to tag in as well with something very dumb.

I cannot resist the siren call of Alex character nonsense.

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[corriespondence]

I loooooove

Corrie will 100% be dressing up for this

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[cristrelawney]

:') This is so cute and I'm putting on Clue immediately~

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[highlygrifted]

Ooooh! Good idea!!!

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[humansuit]

AHHHH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU
All of my kids are inevitably here 1 way or another can't wait to solve a murder/do a murder

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[hugogogadget]

Sorry to call you and Ali out like this, but Lorcan and Lysander's back-and-forth in the WHATS UP section is delightful

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[zeropercentfresh]

VERY COOL love a murder party!!

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[terebinthine]

M'EXCITED

Scorpius and Olive are here and my night is free! Can't wait to PLAY.

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[ringhollow]

first character to call scorpius "daddy" gets a pcal event*

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[fursuiter]

shit you know i was trying to find a way to work it into a scene

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[fursuiter]

hey can you pls explain a lil more about the function of The Murder Mystery section? do only threads done in there count toward the comment requirement needed to unlock the next pre-written murder mystery patter, or do you want us to scene in the other sections and then link our threads in the Murder Mystery section when we've reached the required comment count in them?

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[changeyourmind]

Let’s go ahead and just link threads under the murder mystery heading. I just wanted a quick way to check how much had been done without having to read every thread to see if it was murder mystery related, so posting links works

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[ringhollow]

i'm going to try tonight but my internet's being really dumb so if i'm slow, i'm........... slow. sorryyyyy

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[hugogogadget]

JJ this is adorable! I'm late to the game, but Hugo is definitely here.

Lemme know if anybody wants to scene with him! I'll throw up a starter or two regardless, but I can tailor them to a character or a dynamic.

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[changeyourmind]

Yes we must do Rose n Hugo

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[hugogogadget]

Open to murderers and innocents alike!!

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[corriespondence]

Someone should be Corrie's murder-mystery relative. Ruby Templeton is going deeply into debt for her gambling addiction, and is on the verge of losing the family something-or-other. (Jewels? Farm? Quidditch team named the Jewels?? IDK man and neither does she, but she's clearly very bad at cards)

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[ringhollow]

her family jewel farm, which is also the club of the local quid farm team, the jewels

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[fursuiter]

im want threads, gimmegimme

Re: OOC 🥂 QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

[corriespondence]

Corrie keeps forgetting about the mystery, I should have seen this coming, every time she gets to pretend to be someone else she gets super distracted

Re: the crime scene

[corriespondence]

Hey, what does dead Willoughby look like? Is there an obvious/apparent cause of death like a knife or gunshot wound? Blood at the scene or was it pretty clean? Or is that info that will get released with updates?