I’m working on another project for my thesis portfolio. I’m doing a ‘whodunit’ story. What I need is some crazy stuff for the witches of the story to be interrupted with when they’re creating their brew. I have the basis of the story.
Utilizing the LOCK story writing system I’ve devised the following short story writeup with Ginger. I’m gonna call this “Who bumbled the brew?”
The detective/sleuth is a journalist/librarian who hired the witches to make her a love potion. She wears very conservative clothing, thick black rimmed glasses and has lots of freckles. Make her a redhead. (add a hint of a mouse tail?)
She is threatening to go to the board of magic about the bumble of the brew if the witches do not come clean with their story.
We open up to the story to the three witches, Hilda, Ursa and Agnes, arguing amongst each other about who bumbled the brew. Each accusing each other of messing up the potion. The journalist taps her foot until she’s had enough of the constant bickering and then yells for the room to come to order. At this point she asks each witch what they were doing before, during and after the brew of the potion.
Each story is told slightly different and the cat is in different location or doing a different action. The witches interrupt one another to impart their “That’s not right! You did…” about the story to introduce even more conflict. Also the witches do get interrupted which takes their attention away from the cauldron. They are constantly bickering about the mouse that keeps on showing up and who’s turn it was to get rid of it.
We do see the cat chasing the mouse/rat around each of the scenes.
The detective takes each of the stories and derives clues from them. (also include the clues of the mouse tale and questions the whereabout of the mouse in the end)
**This is where the reader can choose whodunit based on the clues**
[Edit: If the player chooses the wrong person then we review the clues again until they choose the correct player. If they do get frustrated then we can give them the chance to see who bumbled the brew after they guess incorrectly the second or third time]
The witches all look at one another and then surmised that the mouse was caught and taken care of by the cat. They then look at the detective who is standing by the cauldron and points down into it to show the skeleton of the mouse.
“Ladies, I do believe I know who bumbled the brew,” said the detective smugly, “it was the cat who added the extra squeak to this potion”
**I’m wondering if I need to bring up the board of magic again or just keep it at the final phrase. Though if the person does not guess it was the cat and mouse then I guess the board of magic can be brought into the end of the story**