Murder Mystery Game - who's in?

[TanithT]

Welcome to Coyote Falls, a small town out on the wild frontier not far from the Mexican border, where everything is not quite as it seems. You might have been a resident of this town for some time, part of the local color, or you might be a traveler from afar come to seek your fortune or your refuge. The year is 1906, and the talk of the town is the Great Fire that just destroyed San Francisco and left a quarter million homeless. But there's more to worry about right now in Coyote Falls since the sheriff just turned up dead and nobody knows whodunit. Or for that matter, who's the law in this town. Could it be you?

Read the rules thread carefully, and get ready to draft your characters. You can flesh them out as much as you want, or you can give me a general idea of the kind of character you'd like to play, or you can default to "house character" and I'll hand you a pre-written one.

Looking forward to seeing y'all's creativity!

Also, we need to decide what the prize pot should be. If everyone antes up cigars, we'll have a nice one. House can't win (and neither can anyone who lives with me) but if we do prizes, I'll ante up something suitable for the era of the game.