"I know, it certainly has been raining a lot recently."

You are standing idly, making small talk with the owner of the house. He seems pleasant enough, and you think that it was certainly gracious of him to invite all the guests to stay there for the weekend, even though he barely knew many of them. Perhaps he just enjoys the company.

You reply, "At least it isn't freezing rain, I suppose."

He chuckles a bit at the thought, as it's mid-summer and certainly hasn't been cold enough for freezing rain. He then asks, "So how are you?"

You smile back and reply, "Better then you."

You plunge the knife you'd had in your pocket into his chest, aiming for his heart. He looks dumbfounded as he drops to the floor, and gasps "Why?" with wide eyes. You reach down and take hold of the knife.

"Why not?"

You twist the blade as hard as possible, grinning as you feel the tissues within his body giving way to the sharp metal. You take a step back and admire your work, deeply satisfied and amused. You head back to your room upstairs and change into clothes that are a bit less blood-soaked, and almost as soon as you've finished, you hear a bloodcurdling scream from downstairs.

You casually walk out, carrying the bloody clothing with you, and see a few people rushing downstairs ahead of you. As you go to catch up with them, you toss the blood-soaked outfit into the bedroom that EzTerix came out of.

When you enter the room downstairs, you find Roy standing over the body. The other guests are entering from various directions as well, clearly alerted in the same manner as you. You slowly approach the motionless figure while acting surprised and fearful. The knife is still protruding from the owner's chest.

Someone checks his pulse, and confirms that he is dead. You take note of how the red pool is still expanding around the corpse, so it's clear to everyone that the murder was recent. Taking your eyes off the body, you look up at Roy, who has begun looking about the crowd. You follow his eyes and see that all the other guests are now present, consisting of Wing Zero, DavidJCobb, EzTerix, Vi3t-X, Tristana, arkla, Aristocrat, Generalpie, Nasus, rayNimagi, payne, Tempz, and Tuxedo-Templar.

Glancing about the room, you take note of the exits, and try to think back to the quick tour you had earlier to remember where each leads. This room serves as a sort of lobby, and to the south is the entrance hall that leads to the front door. To the east is the dining room, and to the north you can access the sunroom, though it is rather late at night. A staircase on the west side of the room leads up to the second floor.

Now you begin to carefully consider what your next course of action is going to be.

You put your personal knife in your pocket and drop the rope in the process. You pick up your original knife, and put that in your pocket as well.

After a few moments, an anonymous figure enters from the north. He is missing both sleeves of his shirt, which appear to be tied around the bottom half of his face, concealing his identity. He is holding a full bottle of whiskey in each hand. With your gun readied, you say "Goodbye, furniture." Pulling the trigger, a sudden gunshot rings out, and the top of the person's head explodes in a fine bloody mist before their body drops to the floor.

Placing the gun in your pocket and tossing your mask aside, you walk into the southern part of the garage, and move to a panel beside the large retractable door to the south. Pressing a button on it, a loud motorized noise fills the room as the door begins to open. Light pours into the room as the door rises further, and you walk out into the warmth of the morning's first rays of sunlight.

You take in a deep breath, filled with satisfaction, as you make your way to the gate out front. Someone is standing on the other side of the fence, looking at you. There's a car a short ways behind them, idling in the driveway. You run toward the man yelling "Help! Please, we need help!" When you get to the gate, you see the man is dressed in very formal attire. You determine he is likely an attendant of some kind for the owner.

He says to you in a concerned voice, "What happened?!" You reply "Everyone... everyone is..." and then drop to your knees with your face in your hands, feigning tears. You look up to see the man begin to slide a card through an electronic panel on the other side of the gate, but his hand stops as he looks back at you in kind. It seems he's noticed something about you, and you remember the blood on the front of your shirt.

The man tries to back away from the fence, but you quickly thrust your hand through the bars with one hand and draw your original knife with the other, shoving it through the rails and placing the blade hard against his throat. In an emotionless voice, you stare coldly at him and begin to speak.

"As I was saying, everyone is dead, and you'll finish opening this gate unless you want to join them."

His hand, shaking, passes the card through the electronic reader, and the gate starts to open. He looks at you with pleading eyes, and you respond by violently slashing the blade across his face. You smile and say "I didn't like your expression."

As the gate finishes opening, you step through it, and the man lies motionless on the ground beside you. You laugh to yourself a bit at the thought someone would feign death after receiving such a superficial wound, and kneel down behind him, plunging the knife into his heart. He convulses for a moment from shock and pain, then goes limp. You remark to yourself "The knife that started it has now ended it," and let out a victorious laugh.

You get in the car and start backing out of the driveway. You're saddened for a brief moment at leaving all this death behind, but you're certain there will be plenty more in your future. For now, you'll just enjoy your overwhelming sense of victory. You have truly never felt so alive.

All players get 3 actions and 1 movement per turn, in whichever order you want to use them. The actions can consist of anything you could do in real life: search the room, scan adjacent rooms, wield a weapon, kill someone, use various objects to setup a death trap, hide under a bed, start a fire, whatever. Your imagination and the confines of reality are the only limits here.

The movement is simply moving from one room to another. You also have the choice of sprinting, which will allow you to move 2 rooms instead of 1. If you choose to do this, you will not see anything in the room you pass through, and if your second movement is "east" and there ends up being a wall or a closed door there, you will run into it full speed and be knocked unconscious for 1 turn. Sprinting is not advisable unless you know where you're going and you need to get there fast.

When you move without sprinting, you can turn light switches on/off in the room you're leaving or entering as part of your movement. It does not require an action. However, this only works if the light switch is beside the door you're exiting/entering from.

Since you only get 3 actions and 1 movement per turn, you may want to optimize these actions via "if...then" conditions.

For instance, you could say:

-I search the cabinet's drawers.
-If I find a weapon, then I wield it.
-If I find anything useful, then I take it.
-If I don't find anything, then I rip out one of the drawers and carry it.
-If I found a weapon or pulled the drawer out, then I kill Bob with it.

If there is just a gun in the drawer, then the 3 actions will be:

1) Searching the drawer.
2) Wielding the gun.
3) Shooting Bob in the head.

In this way, you can use "if...then" conditions to make sure you're using your 3 actions to their fullest potential.

Note: The exception to this is the Report action, which is free to use. If you have found irrefutable proof that a player is dead, you have the option of "reporting" their death, and it will not cost you an action. This will make their death official, and I will cross them off the player list. If you cannot definitively identify a corpse or otherwise verify a death, then you will be unable to report it.