Murder Within Tent – Large group script

The inspector 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:
Andy Field – The owner of the campsite and the one responsible for solving the crime
Efficient in his own peculiar way, Andy Field has an unusual method of solving crimes – he involves everyone!

Doug Latreen – Managing Director
Never without the latest in camping accessories and clothing, Doug Latreen is an immaculate modern camper with a ruthless professional and practical streak.

Tara Pawlin – Newspaper reporter
Undercover and always a dangerous person to give exclusives to, Tara is dressed as an average camper, average that is, if she had a clue what camping was about!

Guy Ropes – Adventure holiday salesperson
Dressed like Indiana Jones without the whip, Guy has an enormous capacity for adventure and a dangerous enthusiasm for anything and everything!

Barbie Kew – Air Stewardess
In excellent shape and bored with wearing an unrevealing uniform at work, Barbie Kew’s off duty dress code is always slightly too young, and very revealing.

Walter Proof – Dentist
Good looking and dressed to impress, Walter Proof is always willing to lend a hand to any tenting damsel in distress that flashes him a winning smile.

Sally Forth – Butcher
Dressed practically and always willing to lend a hand with the cooking, Sally Forth is fun loving and ready for anything.

Additional characters in the 9 cast game:

Billy Canne – One of the rich unemployed
Turned out in designer gear and with designer tent, Billy Canne has wealthy parents and a spoilt attitude.

Peggy Tin – Insurance salesperson
Totally unprepared for the rigours of camping, but very well insured, Peggy Tin has dressed impractically, but looks very very smart in her heels.

Additional characters in the 11 cast game:

Gaz Tove – Librarian
In socks and sandals, polyester, tank top and with wide rimmed spectacles and Brylcreemed hair, Gaz Tove is your typical librarian, even his camping equipment is stored alphabetically!

Honor Slope – Mobile manicurist
Never without her manicure set, Honor Slope is immaculately turned out and only too happy to show off her newly painted toenails.

Additional characters in the 13 cast game:

Lee Key – Web Designer
Used to working from home Lee Key is casual and comfortable in his ancient trainers and ripped jeans.

Polly Bag – Shop Assistant
More used to attending festivals than campsites, Polly Bag dresses in combat pants, has a lot of piercings and some very wild hair, but is a thoroughly lovely and caring person.

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.