Murder Mystery TEAM BUILDING GAME: Spies Like Us

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Our tribute to science fiction. Dr. Ernest Terrence Mars (but you can call him E.T.) is a renowned scientist and an expert in the field of alien research. His flu eradication drug will be the talk of the medical world after he completes Phase 2 of the testing. You and your guests are alleged "Phase 2 test subjects". Lucky you! Corporate adaptation: Your company has provided funding or has worked with E.T. Mars to help create this drug.

HOW IT WORKS: **THIS IS IMPORTANT! OUR GAMES ARE PLAYED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY!**

Our games are designed for parties with 20 or more guests. Some of your guests will take part in the mystery as the primary suspects, victim(s), detective and killer. They’ll have full knowledge of the script, which means they’ll know whodunit. It will be their job, as primary suspects, to work AS A TEAM to produce a cohesive (and fun) murder mystery. The rest of your participants will take on the role of a team of detectives and it will be their job to actively solve the case - AS A TEAM (handing in only one solution sheet per team at the end). Essentially, everyone will have a crucial, active part in the mystery.You’ll also give each team of detectives a team project to complete during the course of the mystery (for multi-tasking and problem solving) and you’ll have the option of doing a team change mid-mystery as well.

*PLEASE NOTE: If you don't want your prime suspects to know whodunit you can add a narrator to your game. Have the narrator read the script as if telling a story. Your suspects will need to act out what he or she says. You'll give them their characters descriptions ahead of time but not the script itself. We're slowly adapting all our mystery games to include a "know it all version" and a "narrator version" but we're not there yet. If we have adapted a game you'll see it clearly noted in the description. We have not updated this particular script yet.

For ALL the details on how our games work (including number of players, length of mystery and pre-event prep time) and answers to your most frequently asked questions, please go to How Our Games Are Played.

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THE STORY AND THE CHARACTERS:

YEAR: Modern Day.

STORY: Our tribute to “The X-Files”. Dr. Ernest Terrence Mars is a renowned scientist and an expert in the field of alien research. His flu eradication drug, Tetracyclonine, will be the talk of the medical world after he completes Phase 2 of the testing. You and your guests are Phase 2 test subjects. Lucky you! We'd tell you more, but then we'd have to kill you. Corporate adaptation: Your company has provided funding or has worked with E.T. Mars to help create this drug.

SIX PRIMARY SUSPECTS (these are the folks who will have full knowledge of the mystery; you’ll give them a complete script):

1. Dr. Ernest Terrence Mars (you can call him E.T.): Our renowned scientist. The question you, as a volunteer test subject, may be asking is, do aliens have anything to do with this and should I get out now while I still can?
2. Ana Graham: E.T.'s sexy new assistant. She sure doesn't look like a lab assistant but who are we to judge. E.T. seems quite taken by her.
3. Wanda Frohickey: She's the President of The Roswell Raiders, a group made up of folks who've been abducted and/or probed by aliens one or more times. She knows E.T. Mars is up to no good and desperately wants to shut him down. Wanda and Harry Truman were once engaged until he broke up with her a few weeks ago.
4. Harry Truman: E.T.'s security guard. He's also a former member of The Roswell Raiders, having been probed by aliens at least once. A real geek with big ideas and big plans (read: fantasies) who loves action movies and romance novels.
5. Rocco Rosetti: A test subject. He doesn't appear to be the brightest bulb in the chandelier but then again how smart does one have to be to volunteer themselves as a test subject for an experimental drug?
6. Lila Jones: The new cleaning woman for the compound. We figured we'd mention her - just in case.

SECONDARY SUSPECTS: Remember, EVERYONE will be actively involved in this mystery because it will be their job to solve the case and because you’ll be encouraging them to come in costume and in character.  Use any or all of these secondary suspects if you have “extra” cast members you want to use or if you have some guests who want to take on a character but not take on the full responsibility of a primary suspect.  Give them their secondary suspect instructions (included) and let them run with it. ***FOR LARGE GROUP MYSTERIES (75 OR MORE): I'd definitely suggest you cast your secondary suspects. During the mystery it will be the secondary suspects' "job" to act as general support for the primary suspects. They'll roam the room "gossiping" about the goings-in, quiet the audience down during a main action, answer questions, bring primary suspects to tables for questioning and make sure your guests have seen the physical clues that have been revealed.

1. Ringo Langley (male or female): Works with Harry Truman in security. Think of Harry and Ringo as the Abbott and Costello or Dumb and Dumber of security.
2. Joey Pants (male or female): The Vice President of The Roswell Raiders who is just as fanatical as Wanda is. Wanda is Joey's mentor so Joey enthusiastically agrees with everything Wanda says.
3. Melvin and Mervin Myers (female alternatives: Melvina and Mervina): Twin test subjects who've undergone too many tests. Think of them as E.T.'s Renfields (remember Renfield from the Dracula lore?)- devoted yet not all there assistants or go-fers who are inseparable. Their sole purpose is to please E.T.
4. Jerry Rivera: An undercover reporter for the National Enquirer who has volunteered himself as a test subject. His experiences will be chronicled in a series of articles for them. Jerry is as self-centered as they come. His ego drives everyone nuts in short order. He also has a tendency to narrate the goings-on into a small cassette recorder which also drives everyone nuts. If anyone asks if he's a reporter he'll loudly deny then take them into his confidence and boastfully admit that he is but he's undercover.