On Sunday night Brian and I attended a murder mystery dinner called Murder at the Deadwood Saloon. We bid on & won seats to this dinner at an auction to support our church youth on a mission trip to Belize. We thought it would be a fun evening out, doing something new and different... and it was!
If you've not heard of this kind of thing before I will give you my 2 sentence summary: You are assigned a character and brief history, you dress your part and go to the party where you receive $5o0 fake money and written objectives involving some of the other players. During the evening there is a murder (fake, of course) after which you are given more written objectives, one of which is to try to solve the murder.
Brian was Banker Bob and I was his wife Banker Bonnie. We were well to-do couple in the town of Deadwood in 1874. Part of our storyline was that I had arranged for out bank to be held up, in order to get Bob's attention since he only seemed to care about the bank. Bob knew nothing of my involvement in this until the game was over and the outlaw who robbed the bank fessed up... after which I confessed my part. It was fun and interesting and a bit of a challenge to keep all the characters straight. We enjoyed our dinner and seeing the 18 other "players" in costume acting out their parts. In the end, few people solved the crime but we all had fun guessing.
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