A satisfied player writes…
2007-10-17A Dirty Secrets player writes:
There’s one scene in particular I would like to talk about. The opening scene with Lucy (who was at this point a non-character) and the investigator. In it, Lucy describes the murder victim and how she was murdered, going into a fair amount of detail, including a blatant rip-off of, or, if one is generous, an homage to, Chinatown, all of which sets up a lot of the action to come.
It was a great opening scene in terms of serving the purpose of opening scenes (laying lots of clues to be followed up on in the middle part of the story).
Later, Lucy is now a character, and it turns out that the murder victim is actually a suicide victim and that Lucy helped cover it up. But, in the opening scene Lucy said it was a murder victim, and spoke about the murder in a very CSI manner, giving out lots of details.
Meaning, in the opening scene, Lucy was lying through her teeth. But the really amazing part is, in that opening scene, the two advisors, the investigator, the investigator’s player, and the narrator, all thought she was telling the truth.
Now the opening scene is incredible because it not only set up action, but it also had a character who was deeply involved in everything, up to and including the investigator’s back story, lying big time and nobody knew it.
I can’t think of another system that would make that happen.