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The GENTLE ART OF MURDER

ORIGAMIand

The GENTLE ART OF MURDER

TO THE ORGANISER

POINTS ON HOW TO RUN THE GAME

INTRODUCTION

There is a large amount of information for you to read below and even though some of the instructions may seem fairly obvious, I have tried to spoon feed you with everything you need to do, so that hopefully nothing is left to chance.

You the Organiser will, unfortunately have to know what the plot is all about but this should only add to the enjoyment of your evening.

Basically the game is set at an Origami Convention in a fictitious hotel and is themed towards the world of origami. The game is divided into 2 halves, with an interval in between and a murder being committed in each half. At the end of the game everybody submits their theories to you, the Organiser, after which you hand out either a Certificate of Outstanding Achievement or a Certificate of Complete Ineptitude.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. First of all, find out who wishes to attend the game and then give them an invitation card along with a copy of the 'Murder Mystery Rules' sheet and their character description for the First Half only. (Please note that only 1 sheet of invitation cards and Murder Mystery Rule Sheets have been provided - you will have to print off extra copies to suit the number of people attending the game.) How you choose who receives which character is up to you but remember it's a fun occasion so choose wisely and wittily, Some people are referred to in other people's character description, so a space has been left in their description for you to fill in the names of those people playing those characters. It will be useful for you to be a character as will be explained in paragraph number 7 and I strongly recommend that you choose to be the Caterer as this will enable the sequence of events in paragraph number 9 to be acted more convincingly. However i would also suggest that you don't choose to be the Lorry Loader nor the Lorry Driver as these are the victims on the night and it is important that you are alive and kicking when they die, as you will need to organise a few things while they are lying dead on the floor. You don't have to be a character if you don't want to, but it will certainly make the game run smoother if you do! I have found that the game lasts from 2 1/2 to 3 hours, so this should give you a fair idea of what starting time you wish to write on the invitation cards.

2. The scene of the Murder/Mystery is to take place at the fictitious Grand Hotel during an Origami Convention where there is an exhibition being held entitled 'Origami and the Gentle Art of Murder'. To enable everybody to unwind at the end of the day a fancy dress disco has been arranged during which the Murder/Mystery scenario will be played out. I have stated in the 'Murder/Mystery Rules sheet the theme of the fancy dress is to be chosen by you eg. cartoon characters, school days etc. so please remember to tell everybody what your chosen theme is, perhaps by stating it on the invitation cards.

3. In order for you to determine which characters are necessary to the plot I've provided a list entitled 'Importance of a Character's Role', to show which ones are important and what characters to use, if you only have a certain number of people attending. You may find that some people may back out before the evening starts and again you can use this list to determine what affect it has on the evening and whether you have to assign someone else their character.

4. Although not necessary to the running of the game you may wish to photocopy everybody's character description in case somebody loses their own copy.

5. If the game is to be held in somebody's house then before the game starts, find out and agree with the host, if appropriate, as to which parts of the venue are out of bounds as for one thing you don't want anybody wandering of willy-nilly and also it's important that everybody stays near to each other so they get a fair chance of observing what goes on (1 or 2 ground floor rooms of a house will do nicely). Also, even though I have stated on the invitation card that people should bring their own pen and paper it may be wise for you to bring some spare sets just in case somebody forgets.

6. On the actual occasion, light snacks must be provided as this is crucial to the murder of one of the victims -see paragraph number 9.

7- After everybody has arrived (hopefully!) you must assemble everyone together and tell them the information contained within the sheet entitled 'First Half Information'. This will now start the game off and prompt everybody to begin mingling and quizzing everybody else. As the game progresses you must now be the judge of when you think the First Half should end. This is where it will be wise for you to adopt a character as it will give you a better picture of how long it's taking people to obtain, as well as to divulge their information (on my experience normally 1 to 1/2 hours). When you think that half of the people present have obtained all the information that they're going to obtain (usually indicated by these people not really mingling) then you must end the First Half. However, before you do this you must set into motion one 'small' event ie. the first murder

TO THE ORGANISER (Cont .. )


(a) a book of raffle tickets obtainable at most good stationery's which you must hand over to the Lorry Driver at the start of the evening.

(b) a small container in which the Lorry Driver places the duplicate raffle tickets once they have been folded. You will have to secretly discuss with the Lorry Driver what the container you have chosen looks like and where it can be located. I suggest using a small bowl and placing it by the table lamp (see below).

(c) a prize for the raffle. Even though the raffle doesn't actually take place, due to the fact the Lorry Driver dies before he/she has a chance to call out the winning number, you might like to consider giving the raffle prize to the overall winner of the night (see paragraph number 11). I have actually stated in the Lorry Driver's description that the raffle prize is a bottle of wine. Obviously, if you want to provide something different to this, then please remember to delete the reference to the bottle of wine in the Lorry Driver's description and replace it with your alternative raffle prize.

(d) a small table lamp, whose location you must secretly discuss with the Lorry Driver at the start of the evening. Please leave the table lamp unplugged and in a 'switched on' mode so that the lamp lights up as soon as it is plugged in.

In order to set the first murder in motion you must secretly discuss with the Lorry Driver a signal, which will indicate to him/her that he/she must set their sequence of events into motion. As you will see in the Lorry Driver's description this signal must be given 5 minutes before you want the First Half to end.

The Lorry Driver should then die of electrocution, at which point you will have to step in and inform everybody that this is the end of the First Half and they can now tuck into the refreshments provided.

8. At the start of the interval you must hand out to everyone their respective Second Half character descriptions and inform them to soak it in as much as possible.

9. Also during the interval, you must set into motion the second murder of the night. The victim this time, is the Lorry Loader and it may be wise at this point to read this character's description………. Having now read through it you will realise that you will have to make some sandwiches that do not contain any butter or margarine in them as part of the overall refreshments that should be provided during the interval. These butterless sandwiches should be kept away or even hidden from everybody else and then secretly handed over to the Lorry Loader during the interval. How you do this is up to you, but please remember to tell the Lorry Loader the way in which you are going to hand over the sandwiches to him/her, either the day before the evening starts or right at the beginning of it.

Approximately 5 minutes before you want the Second Half to begin, you must tell everybody that they have 5 more minutes till the start of this Second Half and you should ask them to assemble themselves into the main playing room/area. This will also be the signal to the Lorry Loader that he/she has 5 more minutes till he/she sets their 'little' sequence of events into motion at the end of which, the Lorry Loader should proceed to die!

Once the Lorry Loader is lying dead on the floor, you must point out to everybody that the Lorry Loader died with a half eaten sandwich remaining in his/her hand and that oddly enough, it did not contain any butter or margarine in it. You can now tell the Lorry Loader to get up, after which you must assemble everybody together and then proceed to read out the sheet entitled 'Second Half Information', which should then prompt everybody to start mingling and quizzing again.

10. Again you must be the judge of when you think the Second Half should end and unlike the First Half it should be when you think everybody has obtained everybody else's information. Five minutes before you want to end the Second Half you must tell everybody that there is 5 more minutes to go and then subsequently end the Second Half 5 minutes later. You should now tell everybody that they should begin to write down their theories as to who dunnit, how and why and hand in their theories to you, whilst reminding them that the more detailed their theory is, the better their chance is of winning.

11. You are now the judge as to who is awarded what certificates. I have no guidelines for this -it is entirely up to you but once you have made your decision, assemble everybody in a group again and proceed to award the certificates and the raffle prize to the winner. If the 'Ineptitude Certificate' was won by a humorous entry why not read it out. Do not forget to fill in the name of the person to be awarded the certificate in the space provided on the actual certificate. After this you can put everybody's mind at rest by reading out 'The Plot' and then tell everyone that that is the end of the game and in the process thank those people concerned for providing the venue and the food (if applicable).

The first victim of the night will be the Lorry Driver and it maybe wise at this point to read through the Lorry Driver's description………. Having now read through it, you will realise that you will have to provide:

TO THE ORGANISER (Cont .. )


RESUMÉ

1. Send out invitation cards, rule sheets and First Half character descriptions.

2, Prepare food for interval including some butterless sandwiches.

3. Obtain raffle tickets, small container, raffle prize (if appropriate) and small table lamp.

4. Assemble everybody together, read out 'First Half Information' sheet

5. Signal Lorry Driver to die 5 minutes before end of First Half

6. Hand out Second Half character description.

7. Secretly give butterless sandwiches to Lorry Loader.

8. Inform everybody that the Second Half is about to begin in 5 minutes time Lorry Loader dies.

9. Inform everybody about the butterless sandwiches,

10. Assemble everybody together, read out 'Second Half Information' sheet.

11. Inform everybody that Second Half is about to end in 5 minutes time.

12. Collect and judge theories.

13. Assemble everybody together and award Certificates,

14. Read out 'The Plot' sheet.

HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD GAME!

MURDER MYSTERY RULES

1. The enclosed character information sheet is your character for the game. Bring it along to the game, as you will need to divulge all of its contents to each player however trivial the information might seem to you.

2. The scene of the game is set at the fictitious Grand Hotel during an Origami Convention, the theme of which is centered around an exhibition entitled 'Origami and the Gentle Art of Murder'. To enable everybody to unwind at the end of the day, a fancy dress disco has been arranged during which the Murder Mystery scenario will be played out. You will be informed by the Organiser as to what the theme of the fancy dress will be (if applicable)

3. You can refer to your sheet as often as you like and conducting your investigation in a conversational manner will help to make the evening flow better. Initially question people on a one-to-one basis using the following question as a starter and go from there!

(a) What job do you do?

You must respond to these questions and freely divulge all of your information, even if it involves or concerns the character you're talking to. A little embellishment of your information is allowed but don't stray to much off the mark!

4. The game will be divided up into 2 halves separated by an interval, during which refreshments will be served. You should then suspend your investigations until the Second Half. You will be given another character information sheet which, one again, you should freely divulge all of it contents to each player once the Second Half has started. You must not discard your information sheet for the First Half as you should still use it if you haven't given out all of its contents or alternatively someone asks you a question about it.

5. The object of the game is to obtain as much information/clues from the other players as possible, to enable you to form your own theories as to whodunnit, how and why. The game should last approximately 3 hours.

HAPPY SLEUTHING!

MURDER MYSTERY RULES

1. The enclosed character information sheet is your character for the game. Bring it along to the game, as you will need to divulge all of its contents to each player however trivial the information might seem to you.

2. The scene of the game is set at the fictitious Grand Hotel during an Origami Convention, the theme of which is centered around an exhibition entitled 'Origami and the Gentle Art of Murder'. To enable everybody to unwind at the end of the day, a fancy dress disco has been arranged during which the Murder Mystery scenario will be played out. You will be informed by the Organiser as to what the theme of the fancy dress will be (if applicable)

3. You can refer to your sheet as often as you like and conducting your investigation in a conversational manner will help to make the evening flow better. Initially question people on a one-to-one basis using the following question as a starter and go from there!

(a) What job do you do?

You must respond to these questions and freely divulge all of your information, even if it involves or concerns the character you're talking to. A little embellishment of your information is allowed but don't stray to much off the mark!

4. The game will be divided up into 2 halves separated by an interval, during which refreshments will be served. You should then suspend your investigations until the Second Half. You will be given another character information sheet which, one again, you should freely divulge all of it contents to each player once the Second Half has started. You must not discard your information sheet for the First Half as you should still use it if you haven't given out all of its contents or alternatively someone asks you a question about it.

5. The object of the game is to obtain as much information/clues from the other players as possible, to enable you to form your own theories as to whodunnit, how and why. The game should last approximately 3 hours.

HAPPY SLEUTHING!

FIRST HALF INFORMATION

The information below is for you, the Organiser, to read out to everybody at the beginning of the game -once you have assembled them in a group.

1. Tell everybody which part of the venue is out of bounds - if any.

2. Tell everybody that both halves of the game will start and finish on your command and there will be an interval in between, lasting approximately .....………….. (insert how long you want it to last) where refreshments will be provided.

3. Tell everybody that at the end of the Second Half they'll be given approximately 20 minutes to form their own theories, which they must hand in to you. The winner will be the one who, in your opinion, gets the closest to discovering whodunnit, how and why and in the most detail for which you'll award a 'Certificate of Outstanding Achievement'. You'll also award a 'Certificate of Complete Ineptitude' for the worst or funniest explanation of whodunnit, how and why.

4. Tell everybody that out of necessity their character information is brief, so request them not to ask too many 'deep' questions to other players. If a question can't be answered then just reply 'It is an irrelevant question'. They should also reveal everything in their character information sheet however trivial it might seem to them.

5. Tell everybody that the murderer or murderers do not know who he/she or they are, so tell them not to rule anybody out, including themselves.

6. Tell everybody that, at the moment there is no background information for them to get started on. They will have to mingle with everybody else to obtain the clues.

7. Ask everybody whether they have any questions. If they don't, they can all start their investigations -now!

SECOND HALF INFORMATION

As for the First Half, the information below is for you, the Organiser to read out to everybody at the beginning of the Second Half - once you have assembled them in a group, that is. You can, if you wish, read out point number 1. word for word.

1. “The 2 victims have not been privy to the plot and they are just as curious as everybody else to find out who murdered them. Luckily, as everybody should have found out by now, we have a Medium amongst our midst, played by the Food Inspector. We are going to draw on his/her powers to enable the 2 victims to comeback to us in their spirit forms and continue playing their characters. The power of the Medium normally lasts 1 hour, so that's how long you've got to continue your investigations".

2. Remind everybody that information from their First Half character description can still be freely given out.

3. Ask everybody whether they have any questions. If they don't, they can all start their investigations -now!

IMPORTANCE OF A CHARACTER'S ROLE

The list below will fell you the importance of a characters' role in the plot It works like this - if, for instance, you only have 12 people wishing to attend, then by referring to the list below, you must delete the characters of the Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

You may come across a situation where somebody has had to back out at the fast minute throwing you in a minor panic. However don't despair as some 'spare' characters have been purposefully thrown in for just such an event, these being the Investigative Journalist, Rock Group Guitarist, Secretary, Taxi Driver, Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner (A 'spare' character is one which does not have any relevance to the plot, so if one of these characters is unable to attend the evening, you don't have to do anything).

If for instance the Food Inspector, (which is one of the first 8 characters and therefore important to the plot - see List below) was unable to attend, then you must inform any one of the people holding a 'spare' character that he/she is no longer that character and that he/she will now become the Food Inspector instead. Please remember to deliver the Food Inspectors' character description to the new Food Inspector before the game starts - if this is possible.

THE LIST

If 16 people attend you don't have to delete anybody.

If 15 people attend you delete the Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 14 people attend you delete the Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 13 people attend you delete the Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 12 people attend you delete the Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 11 people attend you delete the Taxi Driver, Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 10 people attend you delete the Secretary, Taxi Driver, Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 9 people attend you delete the Rock Group Guitarist, Secretary, Taxi Driver, Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

It 8 people attend you delete the Investigative Journalist, Rock Group Guitarist, Secretary, Taxi Driver, Auctioneer, Charity Worker, Shopkeeper and Pizza TakeAway Owner

If 7 people or less attend the evening it cannot be held as the first 8 characters ie Caterer, Lorry Driver, Lorry Loader, Managing Director, Stick Controller, Food Inspector, Newspaper Sales Assistant and the Book Shop Owner are all important to the plot.

THE PLOT

The plot is all about LSD being unwittingly smuggled in by ……………………….. the Lorry Driver, (insert Lorry Driver's name) in the form of LSD impregnated origami paper. Once in the country back from Amsterdam, the LSD is collected at the haulage firm Freight2Go by ...…………………………… the Managing Director (insert Managing Director's name), who always arrived at the firm in the black Mercedes.

The Managing Director, a former murderer him/herself, carried out both of the murders for the following reasons. The Lorry Driver was murdered by electrocution for stealing some of the Managing Director's drugs. Because the Managing Director detests being 'ripped off', he/she dished out the harshest punishment he/she could administer, not only to silence the Lorry Driver and stop him/her from reporting the drug smuggling to the police, but also to prevent him/herself from being 'ripped off again. The Managing Director chose death by electrocution because he/she had learnt about basic electronics from ..............………………. the Stock Controller (insert Stock Controller's name) when he/she rewired his/her house for him/her, where at the same time, he/she also learnt about the Lorry Driver's bad eyesight.

When it transpired that the person assigned to do the raffle had been taken ill, the Managing Director asked the Lorry Driver to run the raffle instead. The Managing Director tampered with the table lamp, knowing full well that the Lorry Driver would need more light, when reading out the raffle tickets. The Lorry Driver turned the lamp on and was thus electrocuted.

.…………………............, the Lorry Loader (insert Lorry Loader's name) was poisoned because the Managing Director found out at the party that he/she had held last week to celebrate the opening of his/her new office in Berlin, that the police were near to solving the case of his/her drug trafficking. He/She obtained his/her knowledge of poisons from his/her days on the pharmacy course, which he/she had attended at the same time as …………………………… the Food Inspector (insert Food Inspector's name). He/She also found out that the Lorry Loader was actually an undercover policeman/woman investigating this case and that he/she also had an unusual habit of eating sandwiches without any butter or margarine in them.

Being in the same Origami Club as the Lorry Loader, the Managing Director knew that he/she was going to be at the Convention because both of them had discussed as to how much they were looking forward to it, The Managing Director poisoned the butterless sandwiches, knowing full well that these would be reserved for the Lorry Loader. The Lorry Loader was murdered, to buy some time for the Managing Director to arrange for him/her to jet off to Rio de Janeiro in a few days time, instead of the year he/she had been planning on, and so set up a new jet set life for him/herself financed by the drug money from the innocent looking LSD impregnated origami paper!!

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Please divulge all of this information to each and every person.

Your information for the First Half is as follows:

1. You work as an Auctioneer for a small family run business that mostly deals in house clearances. Business has not been good lately as you have noticed that the prices the goods are fetching these days are now lower than they were 1 year ago. In fact most of the Auctioneers in your local area have made this observation. They have blamed it on a group of dealers who appear to have banded together with an arrangement where they will not bid against each other on items that each dealer nominates before the actual bidding begins.

The practice is outlawed as it reduces the commission auction houses receive. You have already exchanged heated comments with those dealers you suspect are involved in this arrangement but they deny any such involvement. You and the group of other local Auctioneers are pretty certain that the dealers are operating such a system and you are resolved to sort the problem out one way or the other, either by words or physical violence.

2. In an attempt to supplement your income you have invented an origami board game called ‘Ori-game-i’, based on how quickly a player can fold an origami model. You have submitted the idea to a toy and games invention broker called ‘R-U Game’, who liked the idea and then wanted some money up front to develop and promote it. That was a year ago and nothing has happened since. You have sent many letters and emails to the company to try and establish what is going on, but to no avail, as all the letters and emails have gone unanswered.

AUCTIONEER

Your information for the Second Half is as follows.

1. In your spare time, you are a member of a local group campaigning against the amount of heavy lorries that use the side streets in your local town as shortcuts to the various industrial estates dotted around the town. The group is called PAL which stands for People Against Lorries and your main bugbear is that these lorries are not only disturbing the relative peace and quiet of the side streets but also undermining the foundations of adjacent properties due to the fact that the streets were not designed to take such traffic. You have noticed that the main culprits hail from a haulage company called ‘Freight2Go’ and as a consequence of this observation you have concentrated your campaign on these drivers in particular.

So far you have written to your local government without any results so now your local group is preparing to raise the stakes and physically confront the lorry drivers themselves in the hope that this tactic will convince the lorry drivers to use the roads that were actually designed for them to use.

2. You drive a blue Calibra

BOOK SHOP OWNER



1. You own a second hand bookshop called Bookworm, in which you are the proud owner of the largest selection of second hand origami books nationwide. Trade is brisk at the moment, not only from people buying books but also from people selling books to you. One of the things you enjoy about people approaching you with their own books to sell, is that you still get a buzz when you find a first edition origami book amongst them. You must tell everybody present at the Convention that you get a bit unscrupulous at these times and normally only pay the going rate, usually reserved for more common books. You don't normally sell these books in your shop, as you usually keep them for a collection of first edition origami books that you have built up, of which you have approximately 200.

2. On Thursday while you were in your shop working, your house was burgled and the only things stolen were 20 of your most treasured first edition origami books. You have already reported the theft to the police who have informed you there have been similar crimes reported around the area and that they are now chasing up a few leads.

BOOK SHOP OWNER

Your information for the Second Half is as follows.

1. Before graduating to owning your second hand book shop, you did in fact own a shop in the red light district of Amsterdam, selling pornographic magazines. You carried on doing this up until approximately 6 months ago, when you became tired of being involved in the seedier of life, so you decided to move over to this country to set up your 'Bookworm' shop.

2. When working in Amsterdam, you always respected the confidentiality and identity of your customers, although you can now reveal that because the Lorry Driver (played by……………………………………………….) is dead, he/she was in fact one of your more regular customers.

3. You drive a black Mercedes.

CATERER



1. You are the owner of a 'silver service' catering firm that is extremely busy at the moment. It is your firm that is providing the catering service for the origami Convention, although it is just the food and not the 'silver service' you are supplying.

2. You have a penchant for old first edition origami books and, at the moment have amassed a collection of roughly 100 or so books, some rare and some not You are always on the look out for more of these type of books and have recently found that the market has dried up a bit so you haven't been able to acquire any books for some time now -'well not by legal means anyway'. Could you please say this last sentence that is in bold, word for word. If anybody asks you as to what these illegal means are, just say that you cannot elaborate anymore and you have really said too much already.)

NOTE: For information only. To assist you with your information for the Second Half please ensure that you meet up with the Managing Director (played by ……………………..……..), in the early part of the First Half.

CATERER

Your information for the Second Half is as follows:

1. Last week you provided the catering for a party held by the Managing Director at his/her house. You had to cater for approximately 30 people in which you supplied a salad buffet style meal. As the Managing Director knows you through the world of origami, he/she came over to chat to you and you remember him/her taking a deep interest in your job. One of the things you remember from the conversation you had with him/her, was that he/she asked you whether there was anybody present at his/her party who you had had to accommodate for because of a peculiar eating habit. The only person you could think of was the Lorry Loader, (played by ……………………..) who requested to have some sandwiches made without any butter or margarine in them. Because the Lorry Loader is here at the Convention you have had to accommodate for his/her particular eating habit again.

2. You also noticed at the party, that the Managing Director was taking a deep interest in the cases in which the invited members of the police force were involved in. You noticed that he/she was interested in one case in particular, in which you overheard a policeman stating, that they suspected a major drug trafficking ring was operating out of a commercial haulage company called Freight2Go, which they reckoned they had nearly solved. The Managing Director also enquired as to who was working on the case and you were surprised to learn that the Lorry Loader (played by ……………………….) was working under cover on the case for the police force at the haulage firm.

3. You drive a black Mercedes

CHARITY WORKER



1. You are unemployed at the moment and fill your time up by volunteering for a Cancer Research charity. However you do have some interviews coming up for some jobs in the field of Marketing. This has been your chosen career choice until you were made redundant from your job as Marketing Director for a toy and games invention broker called ‘R-U Game’

,2. You were made redundant two months ago when the owner of the firm ‘R-U Game’ just upped and vanished. His

disappearance was highly suspicious as he left without a trace, taking with him all the money from the firm. There was a lot of unfinished game and toy ideas when he disappeared but sadly no money to push them forward. You are owed 2 months salary, which you’re unlikely to receive, now that the firm no longer exists. If you ever see your former boss again, you are likely to wring his neck for all the unpaid salaries he owes.

CHARITY WORKER


1. As mentioned in the First Half, you volunteer for a Cancer Research charity in which you have become involved in a group of like minded people that collects money for the organisation. You became involved with this group via a friend of a friend and have been helping them out for the past 3 weeks now. You group collects money on a door to door basis and so far have been to 6 different big towns. All the monies collected goes immediately to a person known only as Mr ‘K’, who appears to be the leader of this group.

However, you have seen an article in a local newspaper about bogus charity collectors and have noted there is a reward for information leading to their arrest. You are a bit suspicious of the group you are working for at the moment, as yo would have thought that the towns you have already visited, would have had a local Cancer Research group quite capable and willing to do the work you already do.

You are going to contact the Cancer Research Headquarters.to see whether the group you are working for are bona fide or not. If they aren’t, you are going to infiltrate the gang a little deeper to see what information you can obtain, then approach the police with this information and then hopefully collect the reward that was mentioned in the newspaper.

2.. You drive a brown Ka

FOOD INSPECTOR



1. Up until 3 years ago, you used to work as a trainee Pharmacist but decided you were not cut out for the job, as you had great difficulty in remembering not only the names of all the drugs, but in which quantities they should be administered before they would become potentially lethal. After leaving the field of pharmacy you then decided to embark on a career as a Food Inspector and have only recently graduated from a trainee to a fully fledged Food Inspector. Coincidentally one of the people present at the Convention used to be on the same Pharmacy course as you. That person is the Managing Director (played by ………………………………….) and although you did not get to know him/her well, you understand that he pulled out of Pharmacy due to the fact that there was a more lucrative job on offer selling security devices.

2. On Friday, while you were out at work, your house was burgled and the only things stolen were some rare first edition origami books including the much sought after 'Origami 4' by Robert Harbin. These books were bequeathed to you in your grandmother's will 2 years ago. Not only are the books valuable, but they also have a lot of sentimental value and for these reasons, you tell everybody present at the Convention, that if you ever get your hands on the culprit, he/she is a dead person.

3. Two years ago your grandmother died and during your period of bereavement you discovered that you had the abilities of a Medium. You are now a member of the Society for Psychical Research and in your spare time, you occasionally hold séances through which, you have now earned the reputation as a respected Medium.

NOTE. This is for your information only. Your ability as a Medium will be used at some time during the Convention - we won't say when, as that will reveal part of the scenario. Don't worry through, you don't have to do anything like raising your arms or making spooky noises, as the Organiser at a certain point in the evening will give a little speech to everybody and tell them that your powers as a Medium will be drawn upon for the rest of the occasion.

FOOD INSPECTOR


1. As a Food Inspector, you are working in collaboration with other Food Inspectors from the local area to investigate claims that cheap foreign meat is being sold off in the country as quality home reared meat. So far, your investigations are centering on a local meat wholesalers firm. You know that this illegal business is a very lucrative one and you tell everybody present at the Convention that you suspect that, if any one of the persons involved in the 'rip off' knew they were being investigated, by you, you reckon they would have no hesitation in using one of their meat hooks on you.

2. You skill as a Medium has been put to practical use before on 2 previous occasions when the police force came to you as their last resort to investigate 2 unsolved murders. In both cases the murderer was found and sent to jail. As your powers will be used tonight, you hope to maintain this 100% record and so make the police force more aware of the role that a Medium can play in the detection of unsolved crimes.

3. You drive a blue Peugeot 406.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST



1. You are an investigative journalist that works for a major national newspaper. One of the investigations you are working on involves the illegal trade in the advertising and selling of cheap foreign meat by masquerading it as quality home reared meat. You only began this investigation 2 days ago when you received a tip off in a letter, from someone who unfortunately wished to remain anonymous. At the moment, you have only had time to follow a hunch of yours, which is to discover whether quality home reared meat is being sold off cheaply in other areas of the country. To this end, you have rung up several of your friends, who work in other local newspapers and to your amazement have already found 3 newspapers where such meat is being advertised at very cheap prices.

2. One of your passions in your spare time is origami and you have been toying around with an idea called an 'Origami Tree'. Basically it is a way you have devised up to raise money for charity by inviting people to pay to guess the number of dollar bill folded models that will be hung from a small tree. You reckon on folding about 450 of them but this number could drastically change depending on how bored or enthusiastic you get at folding all of them. The person who guesses the exact quantity of models will win all of the models hung from the tree. What they do with the dollar bill models after that is up to them. It is your aim that this could become the centrepiece attraction for the next Origami Convention, which you will then use as the springboard to promote this idea around the world.

NOTE. This is for your information only. To assist you with your information for the second half, please ensure that you meet up with the Lorry Driver (played by ………………………………………………).

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST


1. You are also working on another investigation at the moment that involves drug trafficking. Statistics, which you have obtained from the police force show there has been an increase of drug pushing on the streets nationwide. You tell everybody at the Convention that your first real breakthrough came, when you met up with and persuaded the Lorry Driver to be interviewed on the subject. Unfortunately, now that he/she has died, you can no longer pursue this avenue of investigation, although being a journalist with no scruples, his/her untimely death will probably add some spice to your story, if you can prove it was drugs related.

2. You drive a brown Nissan Micra.

LORRYDRIVER



1. You have been working as a long distance lorry driver for approximately a year now for a haulage firm called Freight2Go and you are the best mate of the Stock Controller (played by …………………………..) who also works at the same place as you do. Your job is to mainly transport goods from various firms in Amsterdam, Holland back to Freight2Go ready for distribution nationwide.

2. You are a big fan of the Beatles and constantly play their music on your journeys abroad. Whenever you get the chance, you try to attend as many of the Beatle tribute band performances as possible.

3. About 6 months ago, you accidentally discovered to your shock and horror that you were being unwittingly used as a 'pawn' to transport LSD into the country. The LSD, you deduced was being impregnated into the origami paper that you transported by the box load from Amsterdam. Because you hadn't been told about this and also because you are so incensed with the idea of being used as a 'pawn' in the drug smuggling trade, you decided to get your own back on them by secretly siphoning off some of the origami packs yourself and selling them on for your own financial gain.

NOTE: For information only. You have been assigned the task of giving out raffle tickets to each and every person on the night. The Organiser will give you a book of raffle tickets at the start of the evening and you must tell everybody, as you hand out the tickets, that there is to be a free prize draw at the end of the First Half for which you will be drawing out the winning ticket, where the first prize will be a bottle of wine.

Sorry about this, but you are to be the victim on the night. It all happens like this. Towards the end of the First Half, the Organiser will give you a signal, which he/she will discuss with you near the start of the evening. This will mean that in approximately 5 minutes time, you will have to set the following sequence into motion. During those 5 minutes, you should be folding up the raffle tickets and placing them in a small container, the location of which, the Organiser will again have discussed with you near the start of the evening. You must then obtain everybody's attention (most easily achieved with a few sharp claps) and tell them that the raffle is about to take place. You must also tell them that before you draw the winning ticket, you will need a little more light due to a bad eyesight problem you have, in order for you to be able to read the ticket out. You proceed to plug in a small table lamp at the wall, (whose location the Organiser will once again discuss with you near the start of the evening) at which point you will mimic being electrocuted, by still holding onto the plug at the wall and violently screaming and shaking your body. You will then release the plug and fall to the ground dead. The Organiser will then immediately step in and tell everybody that that is the end of the First Half at which point, you can get up and tuck into the refreshments provided.

Don't worry about being dead though and not being able to take part in anymore of the proceedings, because at the start of the Second Half, the Organiser will tell everybody that through the power of a Medium, who will be present on the night (which only you know about at this stage, but who will become known to everybody during the First Half, your spirit form will be resurrected and you will be able to answer questions, as well as ask them.

LORRY DRIVER


1. You only siphoned of the LSD impregnated origami paper on 5 occasions and you thought you had got away with it. The money you were raising from selling the LSD was going to be kept by for when your eyesight eventually failed you and you were no longer able to drive safely, You do not know who killed you, but you suspect that it is someone connected with the drug trafficking trade you were unwittingly involved in, as you didn't do anything else that was illegal and as far as you know, you didn't have any enemies -until now of course!

2. You noticed that the LSD was being brought into the country on 1 in every 10 trips you came back from Amsterdam and that on each occasion you performed this, there was always a black Mercedes parked in the firm's yard which was never there at any other time. You never saw who was driving the Mercedes, but you presume it was Mr Big coming to collect his LSD.

3. Just before you were killed, you had been told that you were going to do a few trips to Berlin. You were looking forward to these trips as it was going to give you a chance to visit some of the more 'seedier' shops in Berlin just like you used to do in Amsterdam.

LORRY LOADER


Your information for the First Half is as follow.

1. You work as a Lorry Loader for a haulage company called 'Freight2Go' and have only been working there for 2 weeks. (Please note that this is the information you tell everybody in the First Half, although in reality you are a police officer working for the Regional Crime Squad, operating under the cover of a Lorry Loader. You will be able to tell everybody this in the Second Half, but for the First half you must under no circumstances reveal that you are an undercover police officer.)

2. You play a lot of sport ie badminton and squash and go weight training 3 times a week. Your fitness was recently borne out in a medical check up you had last week, where the doctor prescribed you as a 'very fit person'.

3. In your spare time, you have just started to indulge in the business of buying and selling antiques. Your parents have been doing this for the past couple of years and they are now teaching you the 'ropes', so that you will be able to continue their business when they retire in about 5 years time. You have had been warned by your parents to watch out for some unscrupulous dealers who will try to fob you off with fake antiques, but you only intend to buy goods at house clearance auctions, where there is a less likelihood of this happening.

NOTE. For your information only. Sorry about this, but you are to be a victim on the night. It all happens like this. During the interval, the Organiser will secretly hand over some sandwiches to you, the method by which he/she proposes to do this will already have been discussed with you prior to the start of the evening. These sandwiches will not contain any butter or margarine in them, which is one of the quirks of your character's personality. However, you should not divulge this to anybody else as another person will be doing this for you.

Towards the end of the interval, the Organiser will tell everybody that they have 5 more minutes till the start of the Second Half, which will be your signal, that in approximately 5 minutes time, you will have to die clutching your throat and making noises akin to being poisoned.

You are actually dying of food poisoning and you must make sure that you die with a half eaten butter less sandwich remaining in your hand, and perform it where the majority of people can see you. Please remain on the floor until the Organiser tells you to get up, as he/she will have to immediately step in and act out a little scene him/herself. Don't worry about being dead though and not being able to take part in anymore of the proceedings because after you die, the Organiser will tell everybody that through the power of a Medium, who will be present on the night, (which only you know about, at this stage, but whose identity will become known to everybody during the First Half) your spirit form will be resurrected and you will be able to answer questions as well as ask them.

LORRY LOADER


1. You noticed that the sandwiches that you had just been eating had a peculiar taste to them, but you still kept on eating them, as you hadn't had a bite all day. You reckon that because you were a very fit person before your death and therefore unlikely to die so suddenly, you have deduced that someone poisoned your sandwiches.

2. You have no idea who killed you, but you suspect that whoever did it might be connected to a case of drug trafficking you were investigating, as you were in fact a police officer working for the Regional Crime Squad operating under the cover of a Lorry Loader.

3, Your investigations centred on a haulage firm called 'Freight2Go', where you noticed that on 1 in every 10 lorry deliveries from Amsterdam, a black Mercedes was always parked in the firm's yard. You have never seen the driver, nor can you remember the registration number, although you have written it down in a note book which you left at the police station. In fact if you had been alive, you were going to check up on the registration number the following day and discover the identity of the mysterious driver.

4. You drive a yellow Skoda.

MANAGING DIRECTOR



1. You are the Managing Director of a company that sells security devices, in which one of your largest regular orders is from the police force. About a year ago, you set up a subsidiary office in Amsterdam, which you visit a couple of times per year. Business is so good in the international security market that you have just opened up another office in Berlin.

2. To celebrate the opening of this office in Berlin, you threw a party last week and amongst the 30 or so invited guests were members of the local police force along with either their husband/wife or one of their friends. One of the guests who came along to your party was the Lorry Loader (played by ...................……………) who attended as an invited friend of one of the members of the local police force.

3. Coincidentally, you also know the Lorry Loader from the Origami Club you both belong to and were both really looking forward to the Origami Convention that both of you are currently attending.

4. You have organised this Convention virtually single handedly and apart from a few minor scares, like having being double booked at the Grand Hotel (where the Convention is taking place), everything else has run smoothly. The only task you had to do tonight was to assign the Lorry Driver (played by …………………………………..) to sell the raffle tickets, as the person who had been asked to do it had fallen ill and was unable to attend the Convention.

MANAGING DIRECTOR


1. When working for your firm, you find that the best customers you deal with are the police force, as all the payments are on time and you are least likely to be ripped off by them, which is something you absolutely detest. If you do find someone ripping you off, you normally give them the harshest treatment you can possibly dish out. In fact only last week, you found out that one of you employees was ripping you off, so you instantly dismissed him and you and you are now taking him to court for every penny he's worth.

2. One of the reasons why you organised the Origami Convention is because some of your models are being shown in the exhibition. You can reveal that you were once a former prisoner who has now reformed, partly due to the efforts of the Newspaper Sales Assistant's (played by …………………………………..) origami voluntary work. You wanted to show off the prisoner's origami models as you felt the Newspaper Sales Assistant's voluntary efforts deserved some attention and recognition, especially with the results it is achieving you being a prime example of a reformed former murderer.

3. You drive a black Mercedes

NEWSPAPER SALES ASSISTANT



1. You are the person responsible for setting up the exhibition, entitled 'Origami and the Gentle Art of Murder' that is being held at the Convention. Its main aim is to introduce people to the voluntary work you pursue with prisoners during your spare time. The exhibition is about the ways in which origami can be used to channel the energies of murderers into more peaceful thoughts and activities and features models that have been made by many, many prisoners. However one display always seems to draw particular attention, as it shows the prisoners first attempts at origami that depicted scenes from famous grizzly acts of murders right up to the prisoner's present project of folding 1000 cranes for the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan.

2. You work as a Sales Assistant for the local newspaper where you live. Your job entails taking down the details of adverts from the general public and also compiling advertisement features spotlighting particular local companies. Considering the fact you work for a local newspaper, you are always surprised when someone from a different part of the country wishes to advertise in the newspaper. The most recent one you remember was from somebody who gave you an out of town address and wanted to place an advert to sell a batch of first edition origami books.

NEWSPAPER SALES ASSISTANT


1. The death of the Lorry Driver (played by ……………………………….) has reminded you of another advert where the advertiser does not come from the local area. This advert has been included in the newspaper for the past 6 months and you remember it distinctly, because they are selling packs of brightly coloured origami paper with the trade name 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. You remember it so well as it is such a strange name to call a pack of origami paper. You do wonder whether the name is a meaning for something else, as in the days of the Beatles, fans used to speculate whether the song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was a reference to the drug LSD, as the initial letters of the key words in the title spelt the word LSD.

2. You drive a brown Toyota Yaris.

PIZZA TAKEAWAY OWNER



1. You are the owner of a pizza takeaway shop whose business is not doing too well at the moment. In fact you had to lay off 2 employees recently because of poor sales.

2. You think one of your former employees has sent you a ‘Nastygami’ greetings card and unbelievably in the same week you have also received one from, you bekieve your former lover. ‘Nastygami’ cards are designed for people who wish to send a message anonymously to someone and tell them how they really feel about them.. They have an origami model on the front of the card that represents a spiteful or biting message on the inside of the card and is sold by a shop called ‘Dead Roses Greeting Cards’.

3. You love your hobby of origami and after receiving 2 ‘Nastygami’ cards in one week, you feel so incensed that the product is giving the hobby a bad name and reputation, that you have decided to start a petition to try and dissuade the seller of this product to stop selling them. In this respect, you have set up a website called www.stopnastygami.com in which you are trying to persuade fellow origami enthusiasts to add their name to the petition.

PIZZA TAKEAWAY OWNER


1. As mentioned in the first half information, your pizza takeaway business is not doing too well. One of the reasons for this is that you advertise your pizzas as being the freshest in town and you believe this policy is being taken advantage of. because lately you have had numerous phone-in orders which subsequently have not been picked up. As your pizzas are supposed to be the freshest in town, your policy is to throw the uncollected pizzas away in the rubbish.

However, you have noticed that the rubbish you chuck away is strewn across the street and the pizzas that you have had to chuck away are missing. You suspect that some people, be them tramps or homeless persons have cottoned on to the idea that they can obtain your pizzas for free by pretending to be a genuine caller and then not picking up their order.

In order to counteract this problem, you now lace each discarded pizza with copious amounts of salt in the hope that the disgusting taste will deter the vagrant or vagrants from repeatedly phoning in with their bogus orders.

2. You drive a red Transit van.

ROCK GROUP GUITARIST



1. You are in a rock group called the 'Screaming Piranhas' and you are the lead guitarist. You got involved in the group by being invited to parties where sex, drugs and rock and roll were on the menu. At one of these parties, you met the band leader and at the time of your introduction the group were looking for a lead guitarist, so they gave you a trial and 'voila' you were given the job.

2. These parties that you have attended are where you have met a lot of influential people from the rock and pop scene. You are normally quite popular at these parties as you openly sell cocaine, although you haven't been caught yet by the police, but for safety's sake and just in case the police do carry out a raid on one of these parties, you always carry a .32 calibre gun on you.

ROCK GROUP GUITARIST


1. Having now spoken to everybody in the room, you can now reveal that you recognise a few people you have met up with, as you have seen them on a few occasions at the parties you attend. However you do not wish to reveal their identities as you understand that a few of them hold responsible jobs although, if the truth be told, you could tell a few stories about these people which you're sure they would not wish others to hear, especially their spouses.

2. Your house was burgled the other day by a strange burglar. Despite having loads of jewellery lying around your house, the only things that were taken were $1 bill notes. You tend to leave these lying around the house haphazardly because it reminds you of the success your group is enjoying at the moment. However you still know how much is roughly lying around the house and you have estimated that the burglar stole $450 in $1 bill notes. You have reported this theft to the police who are looking into this peculiar case.

3. You drive a red Ferrari

SECRETARY



1. You are a poorly paid secretary who works for a TV breakfast magazine show called 'Wake Up TV'. Part of your job is to deal with all of the correspondence that comes from the public including scanning over their ideas for new themed segments on the show. In fact you have developed an idea of your own which you intend to present to the producer of the show tomorrow. It centers around your hobby of origami and would involve minor celebrities coming onto the show and folding an origami model with the help of an origami expert. This model would then be autographed by the celebrity and auctioned off during the show through the public by inviting members of the public to place telephone bids on it. The highest bidder would win and the slot would be called 'Celebrigami' (Celebrity + Origami).

2. In your spare time you are a keen reader of newspapers and you especially enjoy the articles on jewellery thefts. In fact you are hoping to write a book on jewellery thefts, particularly those where the police have been unable to recover all of the loot, as you think that this will add a bit more sparkle and intrigue to your book. By keeping meticulous records of the robberies, the robbers and when they are due to be released from jail you are usually able to arrange a meeting with them once they come out of jail. You are fascinated by the stories that they have to tell and you sometimes find, that with a bit of persuasion and helped along by a few drinks which you freely supply to them, you are able to obtain a few clues as to where some of the unrecovered loot has been hidden. Of course, when it comes to writing your book you will obviously not reveal this sort of information but nevertheless you still like trying to obtain it, as for you, it all adds to the fascination surrounding a jewellery theft.

SECRETARY


1. You like to go on expensive holidays and next year you intend to take a 3 week holiday to China. You also like to own a lot of jewellery as well, where despite your wages, you always somehow manage to find a bit of spare cash to purchase the odd expensive bracelet or ring to add to your collection.

2. Whenever you go abroad on one of your expensive holidays, you try and visit the museum or building where they keep and display the country's best jewellery. In fact you have become quite an expert in the field of jewellery from around the world, in which you think in a couple of years time, you will be proficient enough to be able to give a few lectures on the subject thus providing you with an extra income.

3. You drive a grey Aston Martin

SHOPKEEPER



1. You are the owner of a shop called ‘Dead Roses Greeting Cards’ that sells alternative greeting cards. The most popular range you have at the moment are an alternative greetings card range, which have an origami model on the front of the card that represents a spiteful or biting message on the inside of the card. The range is called ‘Nastygami’ and is designed for people who wish to send a message anonymously to someone and tell them how they really feel about them - for instance their ex-boss for making them redundant or perhaps an ex-boy or girl friend for a horrible relationship.

2. One of your main hobbies is to collect anything to do with Agatha Christie. At the moment you only have 11 more books to go to complete the full set of novels she wrote.Of these 11, 3 of them are rare and difficult to obtain and quite frankly you don’t tink you’re going to obtain them, unless of course you come by a lot of money. However, it si not beneath you to get involved in a few shady deals in order for you to pursue your book collecting hobby.

SHOPKEEPER


1. In your spare time, you like to compile and organise Murder/Mystery nights for a ‘Singles’ club you belong to. You obtain your ideas from your Agatha Christie books, but now that you have actually witnessed a murder, you are going to try and find some information about the details of the murder circumstances and hopefully use them in your next Murder/Mystery Night. You reckon though that your friends won’t believe you when you tell them that the next Murder/Mystery Night will be based on a murder you actually witnessed.

2. Before you worked as a shopkeeper, you used to own a market stall selling clothes that imitated the designs of the much more expensive designer label range of clothes. However, you were hounded off the market area by your fellow market stall holders because your stall attracted bad company.

3. You drive a black Opal Manta

STOCK CONTROLLER



1. You have been working as a Stock Controller for a haulage firm called Freight2Go for approximately 1 year and before that, you used to be an electrician, until you became redundant. To earn a bit of extra cash, you still do small electrical repair jobs and the most recent one you carried out was for the Managing Director (played by …………………………………), 2 weeks ago. You are the best mate of the Lorry Driver (played by ............………………………..) who works at the same firm as you.

2. While you were rewiring the Managing Director's house, you noticed that he/she seemed to be taking a deep interest in what you were doing as he/she asked you a lot of questions concerning the actual rewiring of his/her house. You answered as many questions as you could - in fact you answered so many that if anything went wrong with your rewiring job, you reckon the Managing Director could actually now repair it him/herself.

3 In between asking you about the rewire of his/her house, you also remember the Managing Director telling you that he/she is unlikely to be staying on in the country for much longer. He/She stated that he/she had been planning to move to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in about 1 years time, but this had been brought forward rather suddenly due to an unexpected development in a business deal that he/she was involved in and he/she was now expecting to be moving out there in approximately a few days time. You questioned him/her further on this, but he/she was rather reluctant to give you any more details, so you dropped the subject.

STOCK CONTROLLER


1. Being a former electrician, you have examined the plug to the offending light and found that it had been tampered with, which draws you to only one conclusion -the Lorry Driver had been electrocuted deliberately.

2. This reminds you of another conversation you had with the Managing Director whilst you were rewiring his/her house. You remember that the Managing Director took a deep interest in your job as a Stock Controller, where once again he/she asked you a lot of questions, particularly concerning the people you worked with. To make the conversation more interesting, you told him/her about some of the peculiarities of your fellow workers including your best mate, the Lorry Driver and his/her problem concerning his/her bad eyesight. You specifically remember telling him/her that he/she always needed a room to be quite bright before he/she could read anything.

3. You drive a black Ford Fiesta.

TAXI DRIVER



1. You are a taxi driver and your line of work allows you to meet all sorts of people from different walks of life which means sometimes you come into contact with some shady characters. You have been threatened on a number of occasions and to this effect, you now travel with an air gun in your car just to be on the safe side.

2. Whilst taxiing people around, you try to dream up different money making ideas. Your most recent one, for which you hope to be paid for, was an idea you submitted to a TV breakfast magazine show called 'Wake Up TV'. The idea would be centred around a segment on the show which you have called 'Famous Folders', where minor celebrities would be invited to fold an origami model, with the help of an expert, after which they would autograph the model. This model would then auctioned off on the show by inviting members of the public to place telephone bids on it.

NOTE. This is for your information only. To assist you with your information for the second half, please ensure that you meet up with the Secretary (played by ………………………………………………).

TAXI DRIVER


1. Your only contact with the police was when you were pulled in on a suspected drug smuggling charge when the police found traces of cocaine on the back seat of your taxi. However, you were able to convince the police that you hadn't been involved on any drug smuggling. In fact the police subsequently discovered that it had been accidentally spilled onto your back seat by some drug smugglers that you happened to be innocently ferrying at the time. The drug smugglers were later caught and in their confession, revealed that they had dropped some cocaine on the back seat of your taxi.

2. You are very suspicious about the fact that the Secretary (who you should have met up with in the First Half) has come up with near enough the same idea as you had for the 'Wake Up TV' show. In fact you are so suspicious, that you think your idea has been stolen and you are going to take the Secretary to court and prove that it was your idea in the first place for the origami slot on the TV show.

3. You drive a yellow Taxi cab

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