Murder Mystery Game - who's in?

[TanithT]

This is a preliminary poll to see who might be interested in participating in a play by post murder mystery game here on this board. Pick a character, get your dossier of secret information, watch the mystery unfold, and ask the right questions to further your investigation. Make a wrong move, and the killer could strike again.

Folks who enjoy roleplaying games and computer adventure games will like this one, but people with no experience in gaming can also participate - just use your common sense and logic to make good choices for your character, and your best writing skills to describe them.

Once we have a cast of characters, we'll be kicking around the idea of a prize pot. This poll is to determine what era folks would like to see the story unfold in. Cigars will, of course, be a central theme to the plot.

1. Gritty modern era murder mystery. Set in Miami, tropical land of enchantment, cigar factories and crime. Everyone takes cop killers seriously, but when the guy who got capped was just a kid who worked at your cigar club, a young Cuban refugee, the cops just don't seem to be moving as quick as they ought to. Life ain't fair, and you really don't think he was mixed up with the wrong crowd like they said he was. But can you prove it?

2. Wild West saloon filled with strong cigar smoke and tough-talkin' cowboys, belles of the ball, outlaw gunslingers, professional gamblers and of course the town sheriff. Everybody who comes to the saloon is packing not just a six-shooter, but their own personal history, with the town's sheriff and also with one another. So it's no surprise when the sheriff winds up dead. The only question is, who dun it? And with the sheriff dead, who's the law in this town?

3. Space station holodeck bar, with aliens of all imaginable sizes and shapes coming to partake in a rare shipment of prime Terran tobacco, cigars from a bygone era. What happens when the shipment is stolen, the Quaran ambassador killed, and interstellar war threatened? Using your special abilities and senses, can you find enough pieces of the puzzle in time to keep the space station intact?

You can vote for more than one of these options if you choose. Your choices will be visible.