What everyone knows
This is a murder mystery running from Friday dinner to midnight Saturday. You are playing your character all weekend. On Friday, your character attends a dinner party where the host runs a murder mystery game. That game is only one part of the story. Pact members, keep your key card on you until midnight Saturday.
Everyone keeps their own first name. In the story, you are all in your 30s.
The Pact
In August 2012, eight friends shared a bottle of Jeremy's first wine and each put $1,000 into Bitcoin as a joke. It was Coco's idea, and she wrote the rules. Each member received one index card with one numbered word on it. Only Coco ever knew the whole sentence, so only she could have taken everything, and that made people nervous. The fund is now worth $168M and unlocks at midnight on Saturday, November 7. With seven members left, each share is worth $24M.
These are the rules everyone remembers:
- Attendance: Hand in or show your card by midnight.
- Survivor clause: A member who dies before midnight loses their share, and the survivors split it.
- Clause 7: A member proven to have killed another member forfeits their share.
- Clause 8: A member who sells any part of a share forfeits all of it.
- The last night: Every member seals their word on a slip and hands it to the senior member, Mark, who gives them to the Executor in the morning. Coco's joke was that you have to trust someone once.
- Your card is private: Show it to no one unless the Executor asks. The Executor is the Pact's lawyer, Mr. Jinx, whom nobody has seen in years.
Coco
Coco Laurent held the group together. On Saturday, August 9, 2014, the group rented a house at Lake Arrowhead, and she disappeared that night. Searchers never found a body. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning, and the group slowly fell apart over who got rich, who got famous, and who got left behind.
Mark has now invited everyone to his home, Villa Bianca, for a memorial dinner and the unlocking.
Who's who
| Name | Who they are | In the Pact? |
|---|---|---|
| Mark | Your host, owner of Villa Bianca and Domaine Mark wine | Yes |
| Jeremy | Winemaker at the villa, and Coco's closest friend | Yes |
| Neil | Film star, known for Still Water | Yes |
| Rou | Founder of Tidewell, a water-quality sensor company | Yes |
| Mia | State senate candidate | Yes |
| Una | Cardiologist | Yes |
| Frank | Restaurant owner | Yes |
| Stephanie | Frank's wife, who rarely sees this group | No |
| Michele | A writer Mark hired to write a book about Coco | No |