Welcome to the Galaxy Cauldron's 5th Anniversary Roleplay Murder Mystery Game: Murder at the Ravenwood Masquerade Ball, brought to you by   Sailor Jupiter and www.MyMysteryparty.com. 

In this game you will be taking on the role of a member of the Bloodworth Falls community and attend the Masquerade Ball at the Ravenwood Castle; as the title of this game suggests, at some point one random player will be murdered, and it will be up to the party guests to figure out who did it, and why. Throughout the game, some players will receive clues and hints via PM to help them figure out just what went on here, and help solve this case before it's too late!

Rules

1. The Galaxy Cauldron Roleplaying Rules are in Effect - Be familiar with general rules, especially so far as powerplaying, godmodding, and metagaming are concerned. 
   
2. Activity Rule: Players MUST be active in this game! Each player gets their own set of clues and hints and evidence and if you sign up and don't participate, you screw everyone else over. Don't sign up if you can't dedicate at least 30 minutes a day to play!
   

Additional Notes: 

• At this point even Jupiter and I don't know who the victim and culprit will be - it's all hidden in the cards that we haven't read, so please don't get mad if it randomly turns out to be you XD When the victim dies, they are not out of the game. They can still play - they just have to speak like a ghoooost. 
  
• You will not be claiming a character when you sign up - you don't get to pick a character, one will be assigned to you via PM before the game begins. This is to further keep the victim and culprit hidden among our players! 
  
• Communication between characters is a primary factor in gameplay. That's right, prepare to gossip in character to keep ahead of the curve in this one. 
  

Helpful Hints on How to Play a Mystery Party wrote:

You’ve been assigned a character and you’ve come to the party dressed in the most awesome costume and have been told to play your role. Now what?

The mystery is separated into three main rounds of party play. During the party, you will receive an envelope that contains the clues necessary for your character for the round. The clues for the characters at the party provide everything that you need to solve the mystery. However, during the investigation segment of the game, you will need to ask the right questions and pay close attention to everyone’s clues to get the whole picture of what has happened.

In each of your clue cards, there will be some information that you can reveal in casual conversation with other guests. It is just like real life! You can elect to have some of those clues as information that you should be ‘asked’ by other guests in order to reveal. You can hide the truth but do not lie and make up clues. This could alter the mystery for the other guests. Some of the information in your clue cards might be for actions to perform during certain rounds or it might give you personal information to explain to you how your character feels about certain issues involving other characters or situations. This personal information is given to you to enable you to act as the real character. As in real life, each character should know a little more about their character above the rest of the group. Therefore, these types of clues do not need to be revealed to the other guests - unless you want to tell your secrets! Don’t worry, others will figure your secrets out on their own in later rounds if it is vital to the mystery.

Just as with any normal dinner party, most of the party play will involve mingling with the other characters and finding out about each other's characters and the clues you all have received. As the game progresses, you should have quite a bit of information to filter through to figure out the motive and whodunit! Read your clue cards thoroughly and take your time discussing issues with other guests. Make sure you speak to all guests in each round. Any guests that you feel might be hiding something - make sure to ask him or her loads of questions! You will be asked to submit a guess of ‘whodunit’ and why they did it at the end of round two. Watch out...YOU could even be the murderer and won’t know it until the end. Therefore, if you feel you are the guilty party by the end of Round Two – by all means, accuse yourself!

From this point forward, you are to remain in character until the mystery is solved. If you are playing a ‘hypocritical police officer,’ then that is who you are until the end! Undoubtedly, your host cast you into a character that you are comfortable playing. Some characters are designed to be played more reserved than other characters. Feel free to play your role in any manner that you feel comfortable. Embellish your character’s personality if you would like. However, if you are feeling more reserved tonight, you can opt to allow the other guests to approach you or you can simply listen in on others’ conversations to get your information.

How Sign-Up Round will Work

• Sign up starts TODAY, JULY 10th, and will end on JULY 15th. 
  --To sign up, reply to this thread! Then chill. or get hyped. Scratch chill - get hyped. This is going to be fun XD
  
• On July 15th, roles will start to be sent out via PM.
  --In your Role PM, you will receive both your role (i.e. your character, with a description and background ((and a super simple header name-tag to be posted at the top of each of your in-game posts))) and a pre-game task.
  ----These 'tasks' typically involve contacting other players via PM to share a pre-game message. While it is not vital to the game, it's fun and helps you get in your characters head, so do it XD 
  ----Players are not required to respond to the pre-game message - i.e., if My character sent Your character a pre-game message, you do not need to reply; just read through to get an idea of the relationship between our characters! It helps set the stage.
  
• On July 16, the Game Thread will be posted.
  --Once you sent out your pre-game messages, check in to that thread, in character, by arriving to the Masquerade Ball.
  ----Further instructions will be given at that time.
  

Players - 18 Spots Available

1. Sailor Uranus - Deadbee Cyan
   
2. Sailor Jupiter - Drew Golden 
   
3. Cosmos-hime - Logan Plum 
   
4. Sailor Mars - Reese Cerulean
   
5. ? - Omari Black
   
6. Sailor Neptune - Madison Scarlet 
   
7. Sailor Zelda - Finn Burgundy 
   
8. Sailor Pluto - Wolfe Indigo
   
9. ? - Riley White
   
10. Sportsnutd - Pram Peach 
    
11. Kai - Peyton Pewter 
    
12. Sailor Saturn - Ashton Jade 
    
13. Aurae - Avery Lemon 
    
14. ? - Gary Gray
    
15. ? - Freddie Fuchsia
    

Count me in!

Signing up.

Woo! Sign me up please! <3

This looks awesome, I'm in!

Meeee the butler did it

Sounds fun! I've never RP before in my life but I'd like to try so
Count me in!

I'm in!

I'd like to join.

im in please.

I want to try this out so I'm in.

EDIT: Hang on. When does the game actually start? Because I'm gonna be in London July 14-19th (gonna see the Harry Potter play and all that).

Important dates are in the first post!

Adding names to the list now!

Sailor Uranus wrote:

Important dates are in the first post!

Adding names to the list now!

Ah, sorry Kyra - I didn't see the 16th, only the 15th. I think I'm gonna have to sit this out then because I'm gonna be busy in London so there'd be two days where I couldn't post 

in!

Me please!

Recorded up to here! 

:< I'm sorry you can't join us, Jupiter Rose!

We have five spots remaining!

I'd love to play, please~ ♥

Sailor Uranus wrote:

YOUR MASK THOUGH

I'm sorry do you have a problem with my mask? ;D

Can I assume that if all spots are filled before the signup deadline, we'll start early?

Can I still join?

^sign ups end on the 15th, so I don't see why not.

XD Thanks, Cosmos

I can field all questions!

((^^ And you're added in, EK!))

Tomorrow is the last day to sign up!

Last day to sign up! 
XD participants, watch your inboxes tonight and tomorrow!

Roles are being sent out! Still a few spots left if anyone wants to nab them now.

All roles and headers have been sent out (except Pluto's. Sorry Plu!). Please let me know if there are any errors, or if you haven't received yours!

I want to sign up !

Sign me back up!