Your personality to portray:

-deep scruffy voice

-serious, hardly ever smiles or laughs

-always looks at others as if you are wondering if they've done something wrong

-occasionally accuse people of stealing something from you

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Try to stay in character as much as possible, and ham it up as much as you want. 

But the most important thing for you to do is know what's on this page about what you know, what you answer when asked something, so keep your phone close so you can often refer to it!

 

You have been invited to a dinner party by "Batty," the peculiar owner of a spooky manor.  You, along with several diverse individuals from the BAT community, are not actually here for fun or enjoyment, but mostly because you're curious about the other bats.  And you like the food.

 

Below is the information you know.  If you are asked a question and the answer isn't here, just say you don't know.  But if the answer is here, be sure to answer the question with the information here.

 

What You Know:

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*you definitely know that one of the bats is up to no good here tonight, and you need to find out who it is.

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*You received an anonymous bat signal for help yesterday, and after doing some digging, you knew it came from this manor but you don't think it was Batty who sent it.

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*You think there might be a victim tonight, so you really need to pay attention to everyone!

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*Earlier today you saw Brickbat yelling at Batty while in town, so you are surprised he came to this dinner.

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*You are suspicious of everyone.  Always be scanning the room for potential villains to take down.  Use a low gravelly voice when you speak. 

 

*Feel free to question anyone you'd like... about dumb things, like:  holding their fork or knife suspiciously as they eat, , or putting the toilet paper roll on wrong, or not being social enough, or not putting shopping carts away, or not washing their hands when they use the bathroom.

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*Say out of the blue in the beginning:  “Something’s off here… I can feel it in my bat-bones.” looking around at everyone.

 

*Act surprised when you look at Acrobat, and ask where she came from!  You've never seen her before but she also seemed to appear out of thin air.

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*You know that Wombat has done some questionable things lately and you don't trust them at all.

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*You once told Dingbat they should stop talking until they've gone to college a couple of years.  You have no time for uneducated people.

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*Don't let Bat-Horse touch anything of yours, they are not someone you trust.

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*Acrobat is not someone you've met before, ask them lots of questions to get to know them.  They might be up to no good.

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*You hardly pay any attention to Fruit Bat, you have no time or energy for the nonsense that comes from them.

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*Baseball Bat is your friend who has helped you solve a lot of  cases.  You feel like you can always trust them.

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*Combat better not start anything with you tonight, you're not in the mood for their stupid pot stirring.

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*Ask Brickbat what they did all day today.

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*Ask Batty if they have any enemies here at the dinner party.

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*If you feel the need, you can share that you saw Brickbat and Batty arguing earlier today.

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*Ask anyone else questions that arise, especially after someone at your table dies! 

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Before Dessert is served, the following needs to happen

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Now that someone has died, it's your turn to take over as leading the investigation to find out how they died and who killed them!  You are the boss!  Act like the boss, and just take over by doing this:

strike a dramatic pose and say, “A murder… I knew it. The bat-signal was inside my soul all along!”

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Walk around the table and stare down each person trying to find guilt in their face.

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If someone asks if the dead body can be removed from the table, repeat what they say as if it was your original idea.

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After the dead person is removed, say, "Now we question each person here at the table in order to get to the bottom of this."

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Start with Batty, the host of the dinner, then go around the table and ask each person to explain themselves!  One of them is guilty.

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Make sure to share everything you know above that could point the finger at someone else and away from you before everyone guesses who the murderer is!

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​(((everyone will now enjoy dessert, and fill out their papers guessing who they think the murderer is, etc.)))

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DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT UNTIL ALL GUESSES HAVE BEEN TURNED IN​ AT YOUR TABLE!!!

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* When signaled by the announcer, who will say that all the votes have been received, stand up suddenly and say, "I've got it!  I know who the killer is!  It's BRICKBAT!"

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* After you are questioned about brickbat killing himself, Lower your voice dramatically and say:

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"No you fool, Brickbat came here to kill Batty!  Then Brickbat sent the anonymous bat signal thinking it would make me decide not to come to this dinner. But it in fact, it did the opposite!  

Brickbat was too distracted by me being here that he mistakenly took the poisoned food meant for Batty.  

Brickbat died from his own arrogance.  His ego weighed him down, he drowned in his own vanity"

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