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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 5257454" data-attributes="member: 13855">Crimes:If you need a crime on the fly, consider: The fallen chandelier or sandbag, the slip on the catwalk, the malfunctioning special effect, the half-cut-through board or rope, dust wiped away, a shoe scuff (for the cop to figure out), the original dulled weapon “misplaced” backstage and the fight master’s real one taken up, the crystal goblet that wasn’t there before the rehearsal, the whispers of a curse...DMs should look at this section as a guideline rather than a recipe. Respond to how your players are doing in this environment.0. The Method Actor begins hiding easily-found liquor bottles throughout the theater, hoping the Avuncular Drunk gets rid of himself.• Can be discovered by a search check, especially after he falls off the wagon.• 1 or 3. Murder of the Avuncular Drunk: Falls down stairs, due to a shove while liquored up on the catwalk. Killing advances career of Jardin or killed because he’s taking too long to drink himself out of the part, if the PC stops him.• If he’s second, he’s been drinking more heavily in mourning for the Aging Battle Axe, so it looks like an accident. It throws suspicion on the Impressario, on the Lech whom he drunkenly and publicly embarrassed for his lack of manhood during a stage fight rehearsal, and, perhaps, on the Ingenue (if people put together the relationship with Edwin, or if there’s an embarrassing scene on stage). Who doesn’t want the unreliable lead replaced by his understudy?• Extra bottles indicate malice aforethought, physical evidence leads to murder, re-examining physical evidence eventually indicates prior accident was murder, footprint moves investigation away from HBA.• 1 or 3. Murder of Aging Battle Axe : Midway through rehearsals, killed by falling sandbag DSL to advance career of Bina after the PC’s gone. Declared an accident by people at theater, but the cop takes his time with the body and the scene.• Murdered first because any number of understudies, Ingenue, Avuncular Drunk, Impressario, Ghost, and the PC could have wanted her dead. Also throws suspicion towards those who hate the PC too, as it could have been the PC, especially since the PC was sick that day of rehearsal, resting her voice.• Can be discovered as murder by checking the ropes themselves. Could guess motive from the Bore, Bina, and conversation. Couldn’t prove anything, however, without slipping the murderer an elixir of love and a kickin’ Diplomacy check to get him to recruit the PC. Confession likely thrown out in court under these circumstances.1. Blackmail of the Gnome Impressario: Method Actor next finds out about the HBA-Impressario connection, he’ll start blackmailing the Impressario to cast his people, threatening to tell his other investors of his true financial position or to inform to the HBA about how badly rehearsals are going. He’d offer himself as the solution to the HBA, never realizing the danger or admitting the possibility of being wrong about his acolytes.• If he’s feeling pressure from the PC’s suspicion, he’ll kill the Impressario later hoping to push attention on the HBA.• Can be uncovered through gathering info in underworld and figuring out precarious finances, increasing desperation for show to go on, guessing that understudies had some help from watching them, speaking with dead on the Lech, or intimidating it out of the Impressario.• 4. Murder of the Letch : Killed due to blackmailing, but also advances Edwin’s career. He saw the Method Actor hiding liquor in the Avuncular Drunk’s room while he was returning from spying on the Ingenue and Edwin. Tried to blackmail the Method actor for some lovin’ from the extras. He was expecting a girl to visit him when he died. Has cost of throwing suspicion on to the Ingenue, which the Method Actor doesn’t want. Suspects include every woman who ever met him, and the Impressario.• Could be murdered on stage in a sneak preview after the original dulled weapon is “misplaced” backstage and a real one is used by the Bore, who really does kill him on stage. It’s the performance of the Lech’s life. Killing in this way also aids the Bore, who may become a better actor due to the trauma of the experience.• Hidden passage indicates forbidden knowledge, Speak with Dead details attempted blackmail, lack of an extra who was going to meet him indicates premeditated murder. Find the missing weapon!• Murder of Child Impersonator: Strangled hastily for what he saw. Use if the PC still isn’t getting it.• Murder of Janis the Gossip: Falling axe from wall mount kills her for what she heard. Use if the PC really isn’t getting it.</blockquote>

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