Welcome to Wink Murder. You have been blackmailed by Mr. Jig, whom you have never met, and have been summoned by him to a theatre in New York for reasons unknown. At least one of you has come with the intention of killing him to keep your secret, whatever it is, safe. You find yourselves locked in a theatre with strangers, one of whom you know must be a murderer.

You the players will be completely in the dark throughout this. You don't know who the murderer is. Character sheets won't be published. Everything you and your characters know will be events and details you will experience and discover for yourselves. If you're lucky, you may survive - but everything is down to you.

I'll accept a limited number of players onto this; probably six in total. Each of you will PM me a character sheet, including the reason your character is being blackmailed and a damning piece of evidence, and whether or not you would like to be the murderer. Among the candidates for murderer, I will choose one at random.

Your goal is to work out who the murderer is; that way, you can guarantee, maybe, getting out alive without being arrested. The murderer's goal is for themselves to decide. If you wish to do something in secret, PM me. Since I am non-partisan, I can give other players the relevant information without revealing that you are behind it. Although I won't write much in the IC, I'll be giving you secret information and clues that you may spot for your own use in the IC, mostly by PM.

Ultimately, I won't interfere. I will help guide you to create characters that will work for the setting, but, from there, my intervention will strictly be to keep the plot ticking over and to give you information only I know. I won't ever tell you what to do; that is for you and your character to decide. Every so often, there might be a 'Game Event' that will shake things up a little bit and influence the plot, but, otherwise, you have absolute freedom. Or, in other words, you're totally on your own.

I should stress that this game is not first-come first-served. Because I put a lot of hard work into my games, and do ask a lot from my players, I will only consider going forward with the right cast; in short, people who ‘get’ the game and won’t just drop out. Anything less is unfair to me and unfair to everybody else. Therefore, please do consider seriously whether you’re in this game for the long-haul. It simply isn’t possible to replace players that drop out and a sudden disappearance could kill this off entirely and keep in mind that if you get a spot, the next person might not. The worst thing you can do is half-heartedly send in an application on a whim, deny somebody else a spot, decide you don’t want to/can’t take part after all, and kill the game off by dropping out. This will make me very grumpy.

Just below, you will find three hiders; one shows you what the character sheet looks like; one has the coding so you don’t need to write it all out yourself; and one has some guidance about how to fill it in. If you're a newbie to these boards and I haven't seen you around, you might want to send me a sample passage of text (perhaps whatever it was that your character did that's now their secret?) with your sheet so I can get a feel for you.

Hopefully I haven’t scared you off with the character applications! If you have any questions that aren’t related to character-details, ask away! If not, I think I’ve probably given you all the information you might need. As will always be the case in this, if you're uncertain, please let me know, and I'll do my best to help.

Thanks,

Jig

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