Death at the Distillery – Large group script

The inspector/facilitator role is essential for the game to work. He/she facilitates the entire evening.

The other characters can be taken from the audience and briefed before game play starts, OR you can select a group to play your suspects in advance of the night and give them time to get fluent in their roles and answers.

The rest of the guests are fully included in the game as they’ll be asking questions throughout the night.

Essential Cast:

Inspector U.B. McNicked – The policeman sent to solve the crime
Efficient in his own peculiar way, Inspector U.B. McNicked has an unusual method of solving crimes – he involves everyone!

Blast McGrouse – Game Keeper
In well worn deer stalker hat and scruffy tweed jacket, Blast McGrouse is lucky never to have been shot himself, he blends so well into the heather.

Misty Harr – Ferry Director
As director of the ferry company that runs to and from the Far Outer Hebrides, Miss Misty Harr always wears a smart business suit.

Ben Nevis – A key member of the mountain rescue team
In thermals and waterproof gear, Ben Nevis is never without his crampons, walking stick and faithful rope.

Iona Fiddle – Tour boat operator
With binoculars, baseball cap and “Loch Mess Monster Tours” emblazoned across her clothing, Iona Fiddle would be easy to pick out in a crowd.

Mac Theknife – Jazz artist
With or without his saxophone, Mac Theknife is the cool cat of Jazz, dressing totally in black.

Paula Nother – Barmaid
With a short skirt, high heels, fishnet tights and a low cut top to show off all her assets, Paula works hard to please all her regular punters.

Additional characters in the 9 cast game:

Duncan McDonut – Policeman
In or bursting out of his uniform, Duncan likes doing stake outs the best, especially if he’s managed to stop off at the bakers on the way.

Kate Nessglass – Local gift shop owner
In ethnic clothing and smelling of incense, Kate is a little like the gifts she sells in her shop: interesting, but quite useless.

Additional characters in the 11 cast game:

Ian McSlurry – Sewerage worker
As number one in the number two business Ian McSlurry is never far from his oilskins and trusty wrenches.

Eileen Donner – Owner of the local Kebab shop
With apron and fish slice ever to hand, Eileen is always ready to make really fast food.

Additional characters in the 13 cast game:

Phil McCavity – Dentist
In trousers and tunic Phil McCavity takes an interest in everyone’s smiles.

Ena Bannock – Coffee shop owner
Underneath the apron, Ena always dresses to coordinate with her floral tablecloths.

These games require 7-13 cast and involve the rest of the audience by getting them to ask pre-set questions – which are provided to them on paper by the inspector at the start of each round.

They run in a similar way to a dinner party, so are an ideal first choice for novice hosts and acing teams with little or no experience running large scale events.

These games work best as a sit down event with 6-12 tables of guests, with a suspect on each table.

As a rough guide these mysteries take approximately 2-3 hours to complete with a three course meal.

During the game the audience will listen to five short sets of dialogue from the cast and pose pre-scripted questions (which the cast answer with pre-scripted answers). There are three rounds which can be evenly spread throughout the night or, if preferred, the question and answer rounds can be bunched together into one large round.

At the end of the final round the guests are given time to decide who is the murderer, and once the guests have decided who did it, how and why (i.e. the murderer and motive) they will complete the answer sheet and hand it in.

How these games usually run.

Introductory Round: Introductions by the cast and the facilitator “inspector character”.
Rounds 1, 2 and 3: Scripted dialogue from the cast, followed by pre-set questions and answers.
Concluding Statements and solution: conclusions by the cast and denouement from the inspector.

There is one “inspector character” who acts as facilitator during the event and is essential to the cast.

Reducing the cast size will reduce the length of time required to solve the mystery.

We can customise this game.  However, sadly we do have to charge for this service as even minor customisations take between 1-2 hours to process in the office and we need to buy toilet roll and biscuits as much as the next person…

It’s hard to give “ball park” figures for what different customisations would cost however we’ve attempted to HERE.

Remember… if you just need 1 extra person, or 1 less person, why not add in the inspector as your extra guest.  The inspector can usually be male or female as the “for real” inspector can simply invent a new name for themselves.

Some hosts prefer to play the inspector role as it means they can work on the catering while the round plays out amongst their guests.