The Silver Beetle Swing: A 1920's Gangster RP Interest Thread

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An Interest and Planning Thread


"Laaaaadies and Gentlemen, Fellah and Dames, we are proud to be welcoming youse to the new and Imm-proved Silver Beetle Club! We know there were some, eh, unfortunate happenstances, as they say, at the old place, but this is a new year and a new Beetle! And we promise ya, this party is gonna be somethin' youse'll never forget."

Several years ago I ran a short-lived game called The Silver Beetle Blues, a murder mystery surrounding the bootleggers, gangsters and general ne'r-do-wells of the Silver Beetle speakeasy. It didn't last very long, but I don't think anyone hated it, so I figured I'd see if I should dust off the ol' GM hat and give it another shot.

This will NOT be a reboot of the original plotline (Geminex's character was the traitor in that game, in case anyone wondered how it was supposed to end), but will be a different story set several years after the events of the first. In that first game, a songstress from the speakeasy was murdered and the blame was pinned on her employer, gang boss and club owner Arthur MacCauley. New players are welcome, past players may reprise their characters if they so desire.

As the RP section isn't as active these days, I'm not sure if this will be another Mafia-style mystery wherein one of the players is secretly a traitor, or if the mystery will surround something else. I have a few plot points sketched out but want to gauge interest before I get too involved. The last time around, I PM'd roles and hints to individual players, which they could share or keep to themselves. These ranged from the seemingly incriminating ("You recognise the car the body was found in. Art had one just like it. He reported it stolen the day the victim disappeared.") to the mildly suspicious ("You handle Arthur's accounts. You suspect someone is skimming money off the side.") to the oddball ("You read somewhere that people who play stringed instruments like guitars develop callouses on the fingertips of their left hand.") I'll probably do that again this time around, depending on how the plot ends up going.

Any interested parties?