A man is dead.

A party is held in his honor.

Everyone has a motive.

Everyone is a suspect.

Tonight I attended my first Murder Mystery party. I highly recommend this to any group that wants to commit and have a great time. I went in with no expectations and it ended up being one of the most fun things I've done!



A group of my friends decided that we should attempt this idea. My friend, Erika, took the lead and made this night epic. We dressed the part. I, myself, was a man named Cy who's uncle had just been killed. We each received a packet of information about our motivations and objectives for the night and had to make choices based on those things.

My Cy was an aspiring business man who looked out for his family, was ambitious if a little dim, and had a slight Boston accent. My girl, Kitty, was played by my friend Marguerite, and let me tell you! We were a damn fine couple.

Everyone was committed to having a good time and not taking it too seriously. Though two of our female characters did get into quite a shouting match, it was all in fun. They were laughing as much as screaming insults at each other. It didn't matter if we broke character or went off track for a bit. None of us had done this before, there was no pressure to make this Oscar worthy.

Still, many performances were quite spectacular.

As this was a bar setting, we had drinks and bite sized foods (lots of potatoes!!).

And partway through the night there was another murder. The drama!!!

We all were given money to make bribes and solicit information to help us figure out who done it. I'm not very good at swindling, so I did not win the  prize for fattest wallet of the night. That's okay though, since I did receive an award.


Best performance of the night!! I'm very proud of that. Seems like my life choices aren't completely off. I think my surprise, completely unscripted proposal is what sold it. It was not written anywhere that my character was thinking about or going to propose, but I had a lovely ring sitting at home and I brought it with me in case the mood struck. Well. . .


You can see how that turned out.

We ended the night with the murderer brought to justice, after only one person guessed them correctly. All of us want to do this again. So maybe something diabolical is still lingering in the air around here.

Until the next time. . .