Re: LRP Writing Problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Schwartz) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I'm writing an LRP murder mystery.  The PCs are contestants on a reality
> >series called 'Big Sister'.  After a brief introduction on stage they are
> >ushered into the house.  After they get to know each other during dinner,
> >there is a blackout.  When power is restored, one of the housemates is dead.
> >I need to find a reason why the PCs cannot contact Big Sister and why there
> >is no outside intervention.  (If this were to really happen, one of the
> >production staff would most certainly call the police.)
> 
> Let 'em call. The police won't come, because in fact, the whole town is
> itself a reality tv show a la "The Truman Show" :)
> 
> Or you could use one of the usual tropes, like a bomb wired to go off
> if anyone uses the phones. 
> 
> 
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There are no phones in the house.  In normal circumstances, Big Sister
would be spoken to in the Diary Room.  (The HMs cannot see BS, her
voice simply emerges from loudspeakers.  BS can see and hear the HMs
via the cameras and microphones.)  None of the production staff are in
the house.  The camera runs are cordoned off from the main set, and
for the purposes of this scenario, are inaccessable from the set. 
None of the behind-the-scenes staff are in on the murder, the culprit
is one of the PCs.