#murder mystery vibes

[sp0o0kylights]

I can see Eddie getting really into one of those dinner murder mystery parties for Hellfire and not expecting Steve and Robin to be into it, only to find out that they both *committed.*

Like they've got outfits and fake accents and everything, and Eddie's delighted, but also they're outshining him.

Bonus: halfway through the night they swap characters, outfits and all, so Steve's in a swanky dress with pearls and Robin's in a tux.

They do not acknowledge that they swapped and absolutely refuse to break character, and it is 300% not a plot to hit on their respective crushes no matter what Dustin says.

(Max repeatedly calls out that they brought two outfits bc theres no way Robin fit into Steve's tux.

She is ignored , on grounds that Steve's dress is showing a heck of a lot of thigh and it being Robin's dress is 100% his excuse for it)

[meandtheveggies]

murder mystery season

[z-bot]

I deeply appreciate Ryan and Shane being such Wife Guys™ that they can't conceive of, like, even putting out a craigslist ad without their S.O. knowing about it (and subsequently getting in on the heist).

[nevrevrshppn]

Four amazing cozy murder mystery movies to watch on a dark stormy night drinking a cup of tea/coffee/cocoa while under a bunch of blankets for warmth.

[dakotac0le]

ANOTHER CONDI CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST HAS HIT THE TOWERS

[heather--moors]

Make peace with all the women you once were

[mylifeiscomics]

Happy Halloween!

another spooky fic of mine, perfect for a spooky Halloween night! This one’s called “The Absence of Blood”. It’s an AU where Rose is a detective trying to solve a string of murders.

READ HERE

[enlitment]

Tagging @theghostofbean @trz4potttt @chaotic-history @brissot @talcifer-lurks @ptolemaicrevival @marcusagrippa @theromaboo @privateandshamefulvices @starsunderwater to kick things off (no pressure though!)

[untowardgloom]

To tide y’all over until my animatic is done, have these little egg doodles :).

[tennessoui]

Saw you mentioning packing mystery books! Obikin but murder mystery vibes maybe? And hope you enjoy your vacation!

I have a murder mystery Obikin au actually!! who remembers the tag, not me or tumblr probably but it’s an au I want to turn into a short (🤞🏻) fic told from constable ahsoka tano’s pov as she and constable mace windu arrive at a mansion in the countryside to investigate the death of sheev palpatine, who was hosting an intimate dinner party of the night he died. Everyone on the grounds last night is a suspect. In attendance, his young husband now widow Anakin Skywalker; renowned chef Rex Fett; military commander Cody Fett; horse rider and trainer Ayala Secura; liberal up and coming politician Padmé Amidala; Father Obi-Wan Kenobi, the priest who tends to the local flock and lives on the estate’s land; newspaper reporter and investigator Quinlan Vos; butler and housekeeper, Yan Dooku; maid with a secret and vengeful past, Asaj Ventress

everyone’s alibis are thin, and everyone has reason and motive to want Palpatine dead. Windu and Tano’s investigation immediately points to the young widow, Skywalker, who stands to inherit a lot of money from the dearly departed. But Father Kenobi swears—on the Bible no less—that Skywalker could not have killed Palpatine. Because at the time of the murder, they were together. In the chapel. At midnight. Praying.

Just���Praying.

[allthecastlesonclouds]

tell me about drawtectives. what is this little show.

oooooh my god oh my god. they are my guys. so.

drawtectives itself is a youtube series created by julia lepetit on Drawfee. it's an rpg mystery show– s1 is a murder mystery, s2 is just a mystery– that doubles as an art challenges show. she draws all of the backgrounds and npcs and most of the assets (the 'cutscenes', you could call them) and then the team gets together, knowing absolutely nothing besides what julia's asked them to prepare, and does some funky improv to create a very funky storyline.

there are 3 players and one dm; the pcs are rosé, york, and grendan/grenda/grandma/gma, and the Big NPCs are Jancy True (s1/s2) and Eugene Finch (s2) and they're, in their own words, a found family, so. beloved. their backup plan if all their jobs fail is to move out east and open a bookstore. jancy and eugene have fully accepted their titles as mom/ancestral ghost and son despite meeting each other likely once before the drawtectives dragged them together. overall though if i had to summarize, it's a bunch of friends getting together, making a bunch of puns, appreciating julia's art, and laughing together. the vibes are 10/10 so loving. in writing the transcripts i've written (Karina laughs) (Nathan laughs) (All laugh) So Many Times it's just fun.

so there's three pcs. first one we meet is gyorik 'york' rogdul, who's a half-orc come to the city to learn about his mother's culture. he is the character we have by far the most lore for– if I compiled all the lore I had about the Northern Tribes and Wild Trains, I think the document would be multiple pages. he's also illiterate, which was an interesting decision for the english major of the group to make (in other words, York Will Not Be Illiterate For Season Three bc Y'all Cannot Read) and morally gray if you think about it too hard (he killed his own brother) but yknow he's hot so it's okay. they're all hot any crimes committed are okay. he's also aroace (confirmed by the player, which is!! vibes!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME @axolotllee!)

rosé is the Human Rogue and the youngest of the party; her main trait in s1 was Millennial and she Dealt with that. she, in contrast with York, has so little lore we are scraping the barrel. she was a thief, then left everything about that life behind and changed her name to rosé when she went to work for jancy. she lied on her resumé. she knows how to sew; she's sewn Pockets of Holding on most of her clothing. she bonded with a stray cat that lived outside her last apartment. she's three credits short of graduating college. she's, in addition to being a drawtective, jancy's intern, and cried when jancy got her a cupcake. she won't tell her best friends when her birthday is or where she goes to school or what her last name is. that's all we know about her and i love her and she could probably kill someone as she has multiple knives on her person and does not use them. she's bright and funny and can be pretty dark but really does find the humor in it which is. wonderful.

so grendan highforge starts out as The Snobby Rich Boy which. already love the trope something Always Happens To Them if they're a pc. then through s1 they make an offhand comment about a character (faucon, whose name is pronounced 'falco') and how if her name was pronounced that way it'd be grenda. faucon asks how they feel about it. they are caught very off-guard by that and then ask to be called it for the next hour or so. then the next witness calls him gma, and then grandma, and then. yeah she realizes she's genderfluid. and he uses any pronouns and has a full beard and also wears a romper and loves dogs and the player is the Most Experienced TTRPG-er so through maybe using resources a bittt grandma is the most observant character of all of them. he's also a dog walker and a lightweight and does canonically have druidic magic though that was Not Touched On Much and showed up to their first day on the job slightly stoned (they did stop doing that though.) she carries around a box to make the height difference (york is 7'. grendan is 4'. rosé is 6'. you can see the formatting issue) slightly less difficult. she doesn't know how rhinos reproduce but has had a fascination with them since a police chief said one might've committed a crime. i think they could kill someone by talking too much but they don't actually have the strength or dex to do Jack Shit.

and jancy true is the head pi (a great many of the characters are puns and i love it so much) and is there to make sure things get done and clues don't get missed. she has a cochlear implant and uses a cane and solved s1 just by Reading The Paper and hearsay. she solved about half of s2 before Someone Stopped Her. she says hello children to the drawtectives and it is such a fond thing. eugene is. a guy who i love. julia started the show thinking he would be some mysterious character to join them and then made the wonderful improv decision– avoiding having to do npc-npc conversation– of saying 'yeah eugene is spinning a camera on its stand' and rosé just says so gleefully. 'guys. i think he's stupid.' and he became their son. his character is a lot of The Plot of s2 so i don't want to get into it too much but. jancy and eugene my beloved.

they're just. such a family. to quote nathan (grenda's Player) from the s2 talkback: "That's one of my favorite things about this show, is we came in with these vague ideas for characters, and just playing them with each other, they became friends and became better people as a result of knowing each other and solving mysteries. ... Like, we all kind of independently made our characters people that either were distant from their families or, you know, just had tenuous connections to other stuff, and so these are, like, the realest connections they have in their lives."

and then karina (rosé) about 10 seconds later: "Yeah, we love a found family where they bond over just being the worst."

god. them. they're chaotic and loud and feel very real to me. they have excitement and are pretty bad at social cues but they love each other and want to die together because they would hate too much to be separated. i could articulate this better but it's one in the morning and they mean a great deal to me.

[decemberblue]

Just ordered a new cozy mystery for the season!!! 🍁📚🎃

Couldn't resist to this cover 🐻

[mintdawn]

a murder is announced, 1950, agatha christie

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

the "House of the Rising Sun" fucks so hard that I have five different versions of it on my phone and I wrote half a book to it but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation

[witch-from-a-block-of-flats]

"No, my story doesn't have a theme" I say, while unknowingly writing something that is going to be so much theme.

[your-fav-is-a-snake]

charlotte brontë from edgar allan poe’s murder mystery dinner party? :]

Charlotte Brontë from Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party is a Madagascar Ghost Snake!