Today was the night of the murder mystery at church. I had gotten all of my costume, except for one key part: the space blaster. As I said in some earlier post, I was "Jamie Bond", a government secret agent. In this case, Jamie was a girl name.
After searching endless costume stores, I still needed to obtain a space blaster. My brother and I rode our bikes to "Toys R Us", and searched the reasonable sections of the store for an item of my necessity. Eventually, after scavenging through endless rows of Nerf guns, military action figures, and spaced themed puzzles, we ended up strolling out of the store disappointed. While my brother and I were exiting, we eyed a poster gallery, where various posters of Justin Beiber and Angry Birds lay. We flipped through the selection, and saw an AMAZING Star Wars depiction perfect for the youth room at church. With that, we exited the store satisfied.
By this time we had given up hope of a blaster. Now it was time to find something the would appeal to Jason (my brother); a Super Scope. Let me explain. Earlier, probably during summer, Jason got a Super Nintendo to match his regular Nintendo console. Jason had been getting random games for them, and constantly explored every vintage store possible. During around July or August, we had gotten our German exchange student Niklas. For some reason, Niklas was obsessed with shopping for clothes. At one point, we arrived at a mall that happened to contain one of the cheapest game stores with the best selection.
While Niklas was shopping for pants and stuff, we were looking at SNES games. There were around 9 copies of one game: Super NES Super Scope Six. Say that 32 times fast. Eventually, after negotiating with my dad, Jason managed to receive the game. Unfortunately, to play this epic game, one needs a Super Scope, a bazooka-like gun that is used for the same purpose as the gun in Duck Hunt. Yeah.
Back to the other story. On our journey for a Super Scope (and possibly another epic poster) we entered into a family run shop with stacks of old consoles. Right when we casually strolled in, a red box caught our eye. It couldn't be. No. These don't even exist. They're extinct. Nintendo made too big of a mistake for this to be available this easily. No. This is a dream.
On the other side of the thin glass barrier lie a...a...a Virtual Boy. That wasn't possible.
We ventured out of the store, filled with rainbows and smiles and amazingness, biking over to the church to donate our amazing poster.
We arrived at the destination, where my parents were setting up for the murder mystery tonight. Instead of going down to help them, Jason and I remained upstairs where we hung up our first amazing find and reported our second to the Facebook chat. After that we just listened to David Bowie through the sound system and messed with the eq.
But our journey was not complete yet! There were still places to go to get an object that would make an amazing game playable. Off to: The Swap Meet.
We traveled across the street, where people were packing up their businesses for the day. It was around 3:00, and only the dedicated sellers stayed around for last second sales. We found 3 game stands, all of which had an N64, another console that Jason desperately needs, but none with a Super Scope. Oh well, we looked at a turntable, cool giant speakers, and got to listen/improve our Español.
By the time we got home it was around 5, and the murder mystery started at 6. This was enough time to quickly take a shower and put on my elegant dress, that was really my mom's old Halloween costume. I don't want to get into detail about EXACTLY what I wore.
If you don't know how a murder mystery works, let me explain. There are 3 rounds, and at each you are given background about yourself and other people to find out how they interact with other people. The goal is to find who the murderer was. My role was a secret agent.
At the first round my card explained: "You are not really a secret agent. You are hired assassin, skilled in the art of killing people.". Great. It also said that I didn't have to reply to anyone except my boss. So I ignored "Royal-T", because he had been evil according to everyone else.
Round 2: this round was the murder round. Someone had to die. During this round was when I was told that someone (forget their character's name) was a serial murderer, and had been murdering since they were 15.
The lights went off. A scream. On the ground, the body of Royal T. Immediate suspects. Gather Evidence
Third Round: This was when each player confessed. My guess about the serial killer was wrong, probably completely off. We were forced to read a card, explaining if your character was the murdered, and what they thought of the death. Mine said that I really wasn't a secret agent, and that I was a hired assassin by Royal T to kill Indie Jonas. Oops, should've actually talked to my boss.
The murderer ended up being Indie Jonas, the person that I was supposed to kill later that night...grrr! But after a vote, I ended up catching Indie and reporting her to the police. Yaaay.
All I can say is that my costume was awkward. A guy playing a girl part...next time I should actually choose my part. Yeah.
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