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Play Cluesyourstory with me on Friday, October 17th at 8pm on the CYS Discord! This Clue-inspired game will feature a CYS-themed board, nine familiar suspects and one gruesome murder. Can you figure who dunnit?

This game will be based on the original Clue game rules, with some added quirks, mystery, and suspense!

There are nine player slots. Please RSVP here with your choice of character. If the roles fill quickly, you will be added to the waitlist in case someone can't play.

Invitations will be sent out the day before! Players will receive a "Cluesyourstory" Suspect profile badge and everyone else who attends will receive a "Cluesyourstory" 2025 profile badge after the game!

See you there!

CHARACTER CHOICES:

Sir Sunshine - RK

Doctor Dreamsicle - Sent

Commander Camo - Cat

Bishop Blue - Tim

Marquess Magenta - Mystic

Reverend Rose - Chris

Auntie Apple - Mizal

Attorney Alabaster - Ace

Vicar Void - Gryphon

WAITLIST:

I chose to be Commander Camo!

Disqualified as you're not 18 and therefore cannot enter the server, sorry kid.

I feel like I'm typecast for somebody else in this lineup, but frankly "Doctor Dreamsicle" sounds like a pimp name and so I assume the role comes with a much better costume, so I'm auditioning for that guy.

 

EDIT: At time of writing Spicynoodle had not yet edited his post

Too lazy to color my answer so I'm gonna sign up as Vicar Void.

I would love to play Reverend Rose! 

I'd like to sign up as Marquess Magenta, please!

I'll take Auntie Apple.

I'll add though that I'd be just as happy just observing the game, and therefore if we run out of spaces I would give up my spot to anyone making a $15 or more donation to Hatter.

I ended up axing the donations. It's my party and I didn't want to make anyone pay anything 🥰

All the characters are premade.

This spot is still for sale to the highest bidder!

I would be interested in joining as Commander Camo!

Can I be Bishop Blue?

Put me on the waitlist! This is a cool idea, but I won't know if I'm free that night until very shortly in advance, so I don't want to take anyone's spot. Thanks for organizing this!

You are now Vicar Void!

I would like to be

Sir Sunshine

You are now Reverend Rose!

This looks so much fun! I wish I could join but that's one of my traveling days (plus all the roles have already been filled up).

Due to some work stuff I most likely won't be able to make it that weekend so I'm going to vacate my spot ahead of time instead of taking a gamble on what state I will be in for games at 2AM.

Okay! Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully you can pop in the stream 🙂

No promises, but I will try. Everything is currently up in the air for the entire rest of October, but I'll try to offload as much work as I can on some college students.

A week out from this, so who (18 or over only please) will be attending just to spectate? I need to know who to send out invites to the day of.

I would like to.

I'd like to turn my spot over to Chris! Hiding one's sexuality through the clergy is a role that fits him much better. :)

Okay, thank you!

Posting the rules here for easy reference. Let me know if you need any clarification or have questions.

Cluesyourstory Rules

GENERAL RULES

• Each player receives an even amount of WHO, WHAT and WHERE cards. Players mark off their cards on their rumor sheets. Any unmarked WHO, WHAT or WHERE are potential murders, weapons and killing rooms.
• Players play clockwise from their starting squares on the board. The person who can do a shot the quickest goes first.
• Roll two, six-sided die and move horizontally or vertically across the board. Players may NOT move diagonally.
• Move to a doorway square + 1 to enter a room.

RUMORS

• When in a room, you may start a rumor. Your goal is to discover who did it, with what weapon the murderer used and where the murder happened.
• Frame your rumor as, “I believe it was suspect with the weapon in the (room I am in.)”
• Move each rumored player and weapon to the room you are in.
• You MUST be in the room you are rumoring.
• One other player MUST show you a card that disproves your rumor.
• If you are moved into a room by another player, you may stay in that room and start a rumor on your turn.

ACCUSATIONS

• If no other player can disprove your rumor with one of their own rumor cards, you may make an ACCUSATION and open the CONFIDENTIAL file to see if your rumor is correct.
• If your rumor is correct, you win the game!
• If your rumor is incorrect, you lose the game and must do a shot.

CONFIDENTIAL FILE

• The confidential file contains the WHO, WHAT and WHERE cards for the murderer, the weapon used and the location where the murder occurred. Your goal is to discover who dunnit first without being murdered!

INTRIGUE CARDS

• Intrigue cards are collected when a player lands on a tile marked with a question mark or rolled on the dice. These intrigue cards can be used on any following turn.

SKILL CARDS

• Each player receives a special skill card for their character.
• The player may use their skill card at any point during their turn during the game.
• Skill cards can only be used once per game.

SPECTATOR CARDS

• Three times per game, the spectators may choose to use one of their SPECTATOR cards on every player.

MURDERER

• One player is the MURDERER.
• The murderer’s goal is not to discover who dunnit, but to eliminate the rest of the players before they can deduce who did dunnit.
• The murderer can choose to murder one person at the end of every round (every player goes once.)
• The murderer can only murder a player who is in a room.
• The murderer cannot kill someone who is in a room with another person.
• The murderer cannot make an accusation.
• If a player is killed by the murderer, then that player’s who, what and where cards will be revealed to the other players.

The mystery unfolds TOMORROW @8pm EST! If you want to spectate and chat and need a Discord link, let it be known or else! (18+)

The reveal of the rules honestly makes me want Suranna to play again. Maybe actual shots are a little out there, she could get high off of forbidden coffee though.

Players, you will receive your rumor sheets as a Google Slide via Discord here shortly!

That was fun, nice hanging out.

MHD really should show off the intro video and the actual board here.

Wow, it sure was a blast voicing Sent. Was it hard? Yes. I'm a method actor dedicated to my craft. It took several two liters of flat Pepsi and an obscene amount of raw carrots. The amount of Tylenol I had to consume to achieve a fifth of his autism potential was staggering. It was worth it though. Even now, I have to stay my hand from writing paragraph after entirely too long paragraph of medieval esotericism. Anyway, I had fun screaming. Ta ta

There was speculation you had done some other things for this role. Things that could be painful without the proper use of hydrocarbons or water-based lubricants.

But you did a great job on that, whatever your secret.

This is so impressive MHD!

ACE: PRIVATE DICK

I was at Sheryl's, nursing a cold cup of joe so black it could hide a mortal sin, when I got the news. It'd been a long day; I was down to my last smoke, with the next one already whispering my name, when the waitress came up to me. Pretty little thing named Maddie. She and I went way back.

She handed me a napkin. Red lipstick, conspicuous as a duck at a shooting range, laying it on me: Sent—MURDERED. I could hardly believe my eyes, but I knew it had to be true. The kid still believed the world could deal him a good hand. Guess the house had other plans. I crumpled the napkin and slipped it into my trench coat.

Sent, a small-time operator with a big-time smile. A guy who could charm a coat off a corpse and make you believe it had given it willingly. He'd been my kind of trouble—useful when you needed someone who could grease a lock or loosen a tongue. The city had more saints than it deserved and more sinners than it could count. Sent lived somewhere in the middle, and now he was dead. Probably didn't even know what hit him.

By now the name "Ace, Private Dick" had made the rounds in the dark corners of the street. They knew I was coming. They knew who I was. That's how this town works. News travels fast if you pay it in fear. That wouldn't save 'em, though. Sent was dead, and justice was coming. Not because Sent was some saint, or that he earned it—but because someone had crossed a line you don't cross. Because he was my friend.

I drained the last of the joe and took one more drag before flicking the smoke to the ground and crushing it. Like they did Sent. Like I was gonna do to them. I stepped out into the rain, a name in my pocket and a storm brewing in my gut.

I was coming.

Ace was coming.

-Ace, Private Dick.

A tribute Noir story to Ace and MHD lol (and Petros/voice actors all contributors)

For anyone else it'd be insane how much work went into this, for you it's just your usual though, love how you go above and beyond with this stuff constantly.

(Okay maybe it WAS a lot of effort just to have an excuse to kill Sent...)

I mean, maybe I didn't allow myself to draw the sweet sweet dead Sent image until the rest of the assets were done. . .

Congrats Ace.

Congratulations Ace!

Nicely done MHD! The artwork for this event was top notch! I really loved the video!

This was so much fun! And well done, Ace!

Awesome work on everything, MHD! You are amazingly talented!

This was a lot of fun! Thanks to MHD for hosting--the artwork was all beautiful, and the house rules added several fun twists to the game! Hope to play again!

Congrats to Ace on the victory! (And apologies for repeatedly targeting you lol, but if anything you proved my worries were deserved.)

And congrats to the whole group on the teamwork--y'all made it really difficult to isolate anyone and get to the right room in the home stretch.

THANK YOU, PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS FOR JOINING ME!!

I've been wanting to do a Clue themed CYS game for years now and I'm so glad it now exists. You guys are hilarious. Truly this was an awesome digital party ❤️❤️❤️

Can we do another one again sometime, MHD? This was too fun to just be a one time thing!

Yes! I want to play again before October is over!

That would be so awesome! Hopefully, all of the teething problems will have gone by then (and by teething problems, I mean no one figuring out where they're meant to click...or which character they were).

I'm definitely interested in playing again! (But I'm equally happy to just be a spectator next time since there are others who have yet to experience the game). 

I was on the case... I had the bastard dead to rights... But I was foiled by my own shitty notekeeping...

Congrats to Ace for winning. Thanks for hosting, MHD. Always lots of fun to be a part of these.

Thank you for running this Clues event, MHD! It was simply phenomenal, from the CYS-themed gameplay to the brilliant, detailed artwork on the cards, the rooms and the video. I really enjoyed this. 



Congrats to Ace for winning the game! Gryphon, you were so close to strategically eliminating him. It's funny how they took Ace from the room so that I could be eliminated (and thus incriminating themself because Gryphon obviously knew what they were doing and just isn't the sort of person to get someone killed if they were good, though my 3am brain didn't connect the dots instantly). But if you had killed him instead...

Anyway, this was a fun event and definitely worth ruining my sleep schedule for :)

Actually in that particular case it was two bad options--I would have preferred to maroon & eliminate Ace, but I had Ace's attorney alabaster card in my hand, so he was the only person I could guess and guarantee that no one would have a card to disprove it. That way I could be 100% sure I had the right weapon and room. Which worked, but unfortunately summoned him back to the parlor room, but I couldn't avoid that :(. But yeah it was a risky move since it totally isolated you in the newbie central (Sorry about that!)

It's all in the spirit of the game haha. Now that you mention it, that's a smart move to ask about a card in your hand, I might have to use that technique in the future.

The really cool thing about this is that with the board and other assets and the site she found to run it on we could make it a regular thing. (And maybe I could actually play next time lol.)

I actually have another laptop but it's been with someone else, I think it's about time I get it back because this one's halfway in the grave and seems to be using what's left of its lifespan to troll me.