https://curufea.com/ 2026-10-17T16:47:20+00:00 https://curufea.com/ https://curufea.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2018-09-17T08:34:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:start&rev=1537173263&do=diff How to Host a Murder Work in Progress!! Inspirations Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Dracula - Bram Stoker Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Girl Genius - Phil & Kaja Foglio text/html 2018-09-17T08:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter1&rev=1537173032&do=diff Evelyn Abercrombie * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Ward/companion Age: 22 (8 November 1864) Reason for killing the Victim: Kaye knows about her secret and would ruin her marriage to Lionel. Secret that will damn their reputation forever: Severe and expensive drug habit text/html 2018-09-17T08:42:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter1charsheet&rev=1537173766&do=diff Evelyn Abercrombie Character Sheet Introduction Ever since Mumsy and Daddy passed on, after that dreadful business with those nasty strange doggies out on the Moors, Lady Kaye has been the most protective of step mothers a young gal could ask for. Hardly ever has she commented on your academic studies into the Great Poets, and now you are set to marry you own one, true love - the marvellously keen Ducky Bigglesworth - how romantic! text/html 2018-09-17T08:42:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter1intro&rev=1537173757&do=diff Evelyn Abercrombie Introduction Ever since Mumsy and Daddy passed on, after that dreadful business with those nasty strange doggies out on the Moors, Lady Kaye has been the most protective of step mothers a young gal could ask for. Hardly ever has she commented on your academic studies into the Great Poets, and now you are set to marry you own one, true love - the marvellously keen Ducky Bigglesworth - how romantic! text/html 2013-03-28T04:36:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter2&rev=1364445384&do=diff Lionel "Ducky" Bigglesworth * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: affianced to Evelyn Age: 35 (12 December 1851) Reason for killing the Victim: Kaye found out about Belladonna and threatened him to call off the wedding. Secret that will damn their reputation forever text/html 2018-09-17T08:43:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter2charsheet&rev=1537173804&do=diff Lionel Bigglesworth Character Sheet Introduction She is the prettiest wild flower ever to grace the meadows of Farnsworth. Your dearest love, Evelyn the poetess. You will marry her and damn the consequences and damn any who would deny you. Damn them all! text/html 2018-09-17T08:43:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter2intro&rev=1537173798&do=diff Lionel "Ducky" Bigglesworth Introduction She is the prettiest wild flower ever to grace the meadows of Farnsworth. Your dearest love, Evelyn the poetess. You will marry her and damn the consequences and damn any who would deny you. Damn them all! text/html 2018-09-17T08:35:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter3&rev=1537173335&do=diff Ortensia Edwards * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Granddaughter Age: 16 (2 January 1870) Reason for killing the Victim: Secret that will damn their reputation forever: Parents were not killed by a crocodile, but were murdered by her Likely clues to it text/html 2018-09-17T08:44:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter3charsheet&rev=1537173853&do=diff Ortensia Edwards Character Sheet Introduction Life is meant to be lived! Lived by the fullest means necessary, if one is able. Just because one is perhaps the youngest and least responsible of the family does not mean one should not challenge the rules of convention. Pleasure is, after all, its own reward. text/html 2018-09-17T08:44:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter3intro&rev=1537173862&do=diff Ortensia Edwards The world is full of such mess as to make one wan with melancholy. But that is the sign of a quitter and altogether not what a Modern Lady, albeit a young and recently orphaned one, should be contemplating. Better foot forward, and for the good of all (even if they cannot see it themselves) things must be made less messy. Propriety and everything done correctly - that's the ticket. text/html 2018-09-17T08:37:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter4&rev=1537173422&do=diff Uncle Victor Farnsworth * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Brother Age: 48 (17 August 1838) Reason for killing the Victim: Kaye found out about experiments and threatened to cut off his money Secret that will damn their reputation forever: Grave robbing. He has no morals when it comes to Science! text/html 2018-09-17T08:44:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter4charsheet&rev=1537173899&do=diff Victor Farnsworth Character Sheet Introduction Sometimes it's difficult. There are always interruptions, lack of supplies, lack of decent help - but mostly a lack of quiet. The family just doesn't leave you alone enough to study properly. Can't they see the importance of a good book, a decent microscope and a pinch of radium? text/html 2018-09-17T08:44:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter4intro&rev=1537173883&do=diff Uncle Victor Farnsworth Sometimes it's difficult. There are always interruptions, lack of supplies, lack of decent help - but mostly a lack of quiet. The family just doesn't leave you alone enough to study properly. Can't they see the importance of a good book, a decent microscope and a pinch of radium? text/html 2018-09-17T08:37:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter5&rev=1537173468&do=diff Aleister Paul Carter * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Son Age: 32 (19 May 1854) - (21 May 1886) deceased Reason for killing the Victim: Kaye killed him, she was disgraced and enraged by his behaviour after his birthday. Secret that will damn their reputation forever text/html 2018-09-17T08:45:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter5charsheet&rev=1537173941&do=diff Aleister Paul Carter Character Sheet Introduction Life is meant to be lived! Lived by the fullest means necessary, if one is able. Just because one is perhaps the youngest and least responsible of the family does not mean one should not challenge the rules of convention. Pleasure is, after all, its own reward. text/html 2018-09-17T08:45:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter5intro&rev=1537173926&do=diff Aleister Paul Carter Life is meant to be lived! Lived by the fullest means necessary, if one is able. Just because one is perhaps the youngest and least responsible of the family does not mean one should not challenge the rules of convention. Pleasure is, after all, its own reward. text/html 2018-09-17T08:38:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter6&rev=1537173531&do=diff Melancolia Q. Carter * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Daughter Age: 28/34 (9 October 1852) - (3 November 1880) deceased Reason for killing the Victim: Kaye found out and tried many times to kill her Secret that will damn their reputation forever text/html 2018-09-17T08:46:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter6charsheet&rev=1537173985&do=diff Melancolia Q. Carter Character Sheet Introduction People are boring and stupid. They call you a modernist or even a suffragette whenever you express sentiments that differentiate you from a doormat or a woman of loose virtue. If it were possible you would be a female mortician, just because your lack of interest in personal interaction makes you an ideal candidate for working with the dead. text/html 2018-09-17T08:46:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter6intro&rev=1537173971&do=diff Melancolia Q. Carter People are boring and stupid. They call you a modernist or even a suffragette whenever you express sentiments that differentiate you from a doormat or a woman of loose virtue. If it were possible you would be a female mortician, just because your lack of interest in personal interaction makes you an ideal candidate for working with the dead. text/html 2018-09-17T08:39:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter7&rev=1537173599&do=diff Cain Dolour * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Farmhand / Gardener Age: 55 (13 July 1831) Reason for killing the Victim: Doesn't want to kill Kaye Secret that will damn their reputation forever: Murdered the victim's husband (his brother) in order to woo the widow text/html 2018-09-17T08:46:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter7intro&rev=1537174007&do=diff Cain Dolour Those rich city-folk don't know the first thing about scranlettin' a furrow - never havin' to cletter the dishes with a thorn twig in their lives, and no mistake. You don't take to their fanciful ways and tiny teacups. They be ignorant of nature and its ways - and the doom that lies on the manor for all, but they knew of it. text/html 2018-09-17T08:31:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter8&rev=1537173098&do=diff Sister Gwyneth Mallorie * Introduction * Character Sheet "Relationship to Victim: Local sister at the nunnery for the Order of the Bleeding Heart Age: 35 (21 August 1851) Reason for killing the Victim: Doesn't want to kill her, except in self defence possibly. Secret that will damn their reputation forever text/html 2018-09-17T08:47:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter8intro&rev=1537174028&do=diff Sister Gwyneth Mallorie If it weren't for those sinners out there, the world would be a jolly good place, wouldn't it? But what goes around comes around, and if someone is naughty it always comes back to haunt them when they least expect it. Occasionally you have found it necessary to remind folk of the straight and narrow, in a friendly way of course. You don't like it when imminent eternal damnation in the firey pits of hell upsets people and makes them depressed. text/html 2018-09-17T08:40:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghcharacter9&rev=1537173652&do=diff Jeeves "Relationship to Victim: Butler Reason for killing the Victim: Secret that will damn their reputation forever: Likely clues to it: Minor secret that will be inconvenient: Likely clues to it: How they would have killed the Victim: Likely clues to it text/html 2018-09-17T08:41:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghclues&rev=1537173714&do=diff Other Clues * The rifle from the Crimean War taken from the trophy room (murder weapon) * The hauntings around the manor up until the seance (everyone who lives there notices). * The klikushestvo doll taken from the trophy room (allows Randolph to possess the murderer in the seance) text/html 2018-09-17T08:41:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghothers&rev=1537173662&do=diff Other Characters in the Game Lady Kay Carter Age: 8 March 1836 - died 18 September 1886 (Age 50) Lord Randolph Abraham Carter Age: 7 October 1834 - 2 April 1886 ‎(Age 51)‎ Felicity Edwards (nee Carter) Age: 13 October 1851 - 18 July 1886(Age 34) text/html 2018-09-17T08:41:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghplot&rev=1537173687&do=diff What Actually Happened The Plot Events leading up to the murder- When a young girl, Kaye had a fling with Cain, when his brother came back from the Crimean war. She fell pregnant to Cain, but was swept off her feet by Randolph and as he was more respectable, she married him. Cain took it hard, left the manor for several years, missed the wedding, then came back in disguise with a changed name. text/html 2018-09-17T08:41:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:vgh:vghwill&rev=1537173703&do=diff The Will The Old Will [Last Will and Testament] ---------- "The Last Will & Testament of Lady Kaye Carter Brooke Williams Solicitors St. Martins House, 1 St. Martins Lane, York" LAST WILL OF LADY KAYE CARTER I, Lady Kaye Carter [name of testator], a resident of Yorkshire, England, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and above the age of twenty four (24) years, and not being actuated by any duress, menace, fraud, mistake, or undue influence, do make, publish, and declare this to …