PLEASE NOTE: this is the FRENCH edition. All files and all player booklets are in French.
FREE · this scenario is offered as the entry point to the series: the shortest, the simplest, and the one that needs the fewest people. If you have never hosted a murder mystery, start here.
LENGTH · 60 to 90 minutes
PLAYERS · 1 host + 2 to 4 players (3 to 5 people in total). The host runs the game and does not play
FORMAT · online (voice chat and a shared document) or around a table. Printable PDF, delivered as a single .zip archive
DIFFICULTY · easy, suitable for a first-time group
LANGUAGE · French
AGE · 15 and up
On a snowy ridge, one of three climbers fell and died. The two who came down are questioned by mountain rescue. On the table lies the radio log kept at base camp. 04:02 — what did the rope leader say? The radio log says "turn back". The climbing notebook, carried down the mountain, says "keep going". One of them is lying.
There is no vote in this game
The story rests on two survivors, so a vote could not decide between them. Instead, the host plays the rescue officer and writes the accident report at the end — a fall, Kanuma's doing, or Kuroki's doing — and that is the ending. Making the other person look guilty is not enough: your own version has to stay consistent with the documents. The story is written for 2 players, and the "Plus de joueurs" file explains how to open it up to 4.
What you get (34 A4 PDF pages + a text file, in one .zip archive)
- Read first — 6 pages, for everyone
- Host script — 7 pages, host only
- Evidence, 8 documents — 4 pages, host only
- Clue sheet — 5 pages, host only
- More players — 3 pages, for everyone
- Two player booklets — 4 and 5 pages
- Virtual tabletop text (TXT)
Also prints on US Letter ("Fit to page"). Nothing to print if you play online. No props, costumes or meal needed.
Content warning
This scenario deals with a death, a mountain accident and the loss of a brother. No injuries, violence or gore are described.
Licence
Streams, videos and let's plays are allowed, including monetised ones. You may host this game for others, free or paid, and print it for your own table. Venues and businesses using it commercially and repeatedly need a separate licence. Please do not claim authorship, redistribute or resell the files, or publish the solution without a warning.
The series
"Bouclage, 23h00" (1 host + 3 to 6 players, 90 to 120 minutes) is also available in French. The rest of the series is in English, with some titles in German, Spanish and Portuguese. Each game stands alone. This work is entirely fictional.
How this game was made
This scenario was written with the help of a language model (Claude, by Anthropic), then read, structured and checked by a human before publication.
