[PUBLIC EPISODE] HINT!: ep2 "Hate the Player"
As blood pools upon the thick pile of the Boddie Estate's imported rug collection, our players, and the game, are afoot. Bodies on the move in voluminous pants and long, dark secret hallways. Revelations and aspersions fill the air of the mansion like fingers between the keys of a grand piano, like a sky-darkening murmuration of starlings, as our heroes begin to uncover the culprit behind this murder most...fowl.
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HINT! was designed and edited by Kate Sanders at Fortunate Horse
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Comments (53)
I just wanna say that Hint is so tense and the mystery is very engaging.
Been a while since I’ve said it, love you all, you’re a squad of my favorite creators on the planet. Just needs to be periodically said.
Aabria and Lou killing me with the one-two punch of "We all know each other"/"You're not supposed to say that in front of them, we all agreed!!" Is so fucking funny. I'm using that!!!!!!
You mean to tell me that Boddie's library looks straight out of a Bass Pro store?
I don't trust anyone in this house including our PCs - what's up with the spoon? what is really written in the contract Rutherford didn't read before signing? did claw smash the model when she said she did or a different time? how would no one hear that? If Claw knew where her bag was the whole time why sneak around it? Also, did the three PCs disclose the first secret doorway they found or did the other people just witness them bursting out of the kitchen when they were supposed to be in the study???
Also due to so much suspicion, some thoughts - Acting drunk is not too difficult, just because most of the flask is gone doesn't mean Peacock drank it -If all the PCs were together in the lounge, but Boddie was killed earlier or slower (poison), they don't have an alibi for an earlier time -The hallways and ballroom have hard floors, if the murderer had been running etc it would have been heard, no shoes??
I wish I knew about birds!!” from BLeeM! 😂
I've got it. Clearly Thatsa heard an inkling of his old jockey's name all the way from Sedona. The thunder was him running. Of course the horse missed his shot because where those poseable be?
No loose ends!!!
The hunting crows on Long Island bit has added many new phrases (with only the specific intonations used) to my brain 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛ Brennan: “what the fuck are you TALking about” and “oh yeah, we were in th…e HAMPtons” Aabria: “this is why I don’t trust white men! Are you just gonna go shoot normal birds?” and “THANK YOU!” Lou: “at least be like the kings of Europe” and “yeah that sounds about right”
I ship Cass and Claw and I’m incapable of being normal about it
Getting to solve the murder along with the cast with Erika's beautifully sprinkled hints is so much fun! Picking up on the piano details was very satisfying. Shout out Aabriya and Lou for the "you're not supposed to say that in front of them, we all agreed" moment, sent me cackling, great music and sound editing too!
Thank you so much for including one of the best inventions in the 20s! the player piano was a family heirloom of mine and the "it sounds clunky" hint gave me a tingling sense of nostalgia as I remember from deep in the chazm of my memory my grandmother pulling the exact same trick on me as a kid! A single tear formed at that memory and was immediately interrupted my the hilarity of the PCs. Truly thank you.
I love this! I am not familiar with Clue, so for me it’s simply like listening to a dramatisation of some turn of the century murder mystery novel. Reminds me of watching Agatha Christie's Poirot as a kid :)
Let's talk about the Books in the Library. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway was published in 1952. The period appropriate Hemingway novel would have been "The Sun Also Rises" published in 1926. Some other appropriate books: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published 1925; "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'' by Agatha Christie 1926; "Leave It to Psmith" by P. G. Wodehouse 1923; and especially for Claw, "The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook" by Fannie Farmer 1896. What other books might have been in the library?
Moby-Dick!
This is awesome! I imagine people have done this kind of thing before but Erika has sparked some fun board game rpg ideas in my head. Maybe her next one they’ll all be kids in the “Sweets Sovereignty” or high rollers buying up spaces in “Properties.”
The terribly cynical part of my brain thinks it would be really funny for three POC and a white man with Irish heritage to play Catan, in the same way I deeply enjoyed the fact that the very white man in the 1920s ran TOWARDS gunfire. For something cuter and less on the nose (kinda...), RPG Everdell?
“Last time, on CLUE…” 😭
The number of times I get Glass Onion vibes for this campaign with it only being episode 2… Boddie is OFFICIALLY Edward Norton as of 43:27 talking about puns over cyphers
Question for next fireside: how much did it hurt Brennan to pretend he doesn’t know bird facts or what ebullient means? 🤣
Loving the jazz!! So mysterious! So 20s! Jazz age baby!
Enjoyed the first episode a lot, but after finishing this one I am *all aboard.* The storytelling and performance instincts are just SO GOOD by this point--I'm pretty sure that Erika could DM a great few sessions of Chutes and Ladders with this crew.
Is anyone else getting a vibe that maybe Boddie set this up? What if this is a full Of Mice and Murder twist?
Absolutely yes. However, I’m confused about whether that’s an option in the game mechanics. I don’t think there’s a suicide option in Clue? But, assuming we’re NOT constricted by mechanics, then yes I think Boddie was somehow involved in orchestrating this, though perhaps didn’t intend to die. We could have a Gosford Park situation as well.
“Hate the Player” What a title. The sleuths are so good on picking up on every little detail that I almost feel bad for Erica, keeping them in the dark is no easy task!
I’m very proud of myself for figuring out the piano based on Scarlet’s comments. When she kept asking if people liked her playing I was like she wasn’t playing it was she…
This is great! I wish I didn't feel irritated that it should be "Betty Boddy, nee Pink" since she married Boddy's father (patrilineal surnames and all that!).
Great episode. Just a little confused why they’re so concerned about calling the cops. The ownership & consumption of booze was not illegal it was the buying, selling, & manufacturing. Plus cops especially back then were really easy to bribe by rich socialites.
Because the plot demands that they investigate for themselves
I think Taylor had a lot of fun scoring this one!
So all 3 NPCs killed him separately?
Theory: Peacock poisoned him, Mustard smashed him with the candlestick, and Scarlet shot him
I recognized Puzzle Wording™ the moment Erika read the rhino inscription and had to pause the episode to solve the puzzle before I heard the answer. That was so clever and made me so insanely happy to get right (and then listen to Brennan go through the exact same mental process I did)
Ummm, I feel like I distinctly recall Suzie saying she played the jazz pieces from memory 👀 The name of the song she played is "whatever the sheet music says" is beautifully suspicious I love it
Peacock is sus
I kept wanting someone to ask if she is yoked enough to move a body (which I'm guessing she is, whether or not she did murders)
The bit about the piano is just *chef’s kiss*!!!! Waiting in desperate anticipation for the next episode!!!
Brennan is never beating the bird fact allegations 😂😂
Yessss I love more info and more complications - what a good episode! I am so beyond curious if yall are playing the game with the normal base information so each of the players are going into this with some understanding of what Didn’t Happen or not. Or is this all predicated on only Erika knows what happened and everything else is being discovered via the roleplay?
‘AARGH I WISH I KNEW ABOUT BIRDS’ ‘You’re not supposed to say that in front of them, we all agreed’ So so so so good
Great episode... right up until I remembered you guys are using Artlist.io for this story. I really hope you stop for the next batch of episodes because I really don't want my money going to a company so intent on boosting AI.
I haaaaaate "AI" and will dance on the ashes of the VC money it burned when it collapses as a sector, lord may it be soon, but (personally) how I feel about WBN using Artlist.io depends heavily on how much money they're giving it and which division it's going to. It's hard to know from the credit. There might have been a previously purchased human-made background track over at Fortunate Horse that fit something perfectly. If they're drawing on the generative features they offer (which I really doubt) or making significant ongoing purchases (more likely?) then I totally agree that WBN should reconsider for future seasons.
Simply Divine
When doing last names Nee is to denote maiden name so every time she says Betty Pink nee boddie my brain goes....his parents were related.... and that seems right...oldmoney
I also stumbled over that. Nbd, was just an interesting note
“I WISH I KNEW ABOUT BIRDS” new best BLeeM moment of all time
And that's Spotify deleted, Pocket Casts isn't being shite, so I guess I use that now 🤷♂️
Plum studying at Howard is such a perfect little detail
i lik waking up to find a new ep of teh murders! lolol;lol;lol and i think i knowe he did it but have too go back and relly listen to teh stank and teh nast in taste of lous candies thats going to be slippy in to teh claw!!!! its going deep in teh whorenast if they play that game and throw it then YOU are teh whorenast lolol;llolol;lol its all sooooo much fun and thank for doinug this for us your patrons you ARE awesome every day for me 🤣
Mwha mwhahaha Mwahahahahahaha. I’m feeling very normal about this show. 🕵️🔎
Huzzah!!
Excited!!!!