Building a Mr.E.
There is a special kind of day that I look forward to in the fall and early winter. The day must be overcast and cloudy. It must be chilly, but not freezing. Perhaps a cool 58 or 60 degrees outside. There should be a light mist in the air, perhaps even the slightest of drizzles.
On those days there is mystery in the air.
I own a small company that performs murder mystery weekends.
For years we did them publicly at Deep Creek lake. For financial reasons we always did them in November (that single month comprises their cheaper "off season"). The preparations for these weekend were enormous, involving character scultping and customer interaction months before the event. The customized, interactive weekends fetched a decent penny (in 1999 we were charging upwards of $800 a couple) although, in truth, we could have charged far more. The weekend itself wa exhausting. Multiple murders, multiple characters, hundreds of sub-plots, hundreds of custom-made clues, dozens of planned events. It was an incredible amount of work, but we all loved it.
Unfortunately, the chance to do such monolithic events waned in the past few years, but it has started to pick back up again. We've been asked to test pilot a product we came up with for a single-night mystery. This coming Friday will be out test run at a local Bull Roast. We'll have to see how it goes.
It would be nice to walk out onto a drizzle, cloudy, cold day next month and feel like I am, once again, part of some mystery endeavor instead of remembering parties past.
-Ed
On those days there is mystery in the air.
I own a small company that performs murder mystery weekends.
For years we did them publicly at Deep Creek lake. For financial reasons we always did them in November (that single month comprises their cheaper "off season"). The preparations for these weekend were enormous, involving character scultping and customer interaction months before the event. The customized, interactive weekends fetched a decent penny (in 1999 we were charging upwards of $800 a couple) although, in truth, we could have charged far more. The weekend itself wa exhausting. Multiple murders, multiple characters, hundreds of sub-plots, hundreds of custom-made clues, dozens of planned events. It was an incredible amount of work, but we all loved it.
Unfortunately, the chance to do such monolithic events waned in the past few years, but it has started to pick back up again. We've been asked to test pilot a product we came up with for a single-night mystery. This coming Friday will be out test run at a local Bull Roast. We'll have to see how it goes.
It would be nice to walk out onto a drizzle, cloudy, cold day next month and feel like I am, once again, part of some mystery endeavor instead of remembering parties past.
-Ed
posted by Ed at 12:47 PM
3 Comments:
oy! if you ever want that logo reworked, I'd be happy to. ;)
(hope you don't mind me posting - came to your site via the mom grapevine...)
Monica! That logo has served us well for many, many years. Anyone surfing in over the mom grapevine is more than welcome. 8) Good to hear from you.
-Ed
hey, thanks!
wasn't 100% sure if I should post or not. :)
the Batman GIF is hilarious, BTW. I posted a copy of it over on a comic creators blog of which I'm a member.
It's generated a few comments already — these guys (and I count myself among them) know waaaay too much about the clip, the movie it's from, the actors... listen, it's the call of the comic geeks:
>GROOOONK!<
:)
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