Hosting outdoors takes a little more planning than hosting inside. Heat, light and a breeze all get a vote, and they don't wait for the Reveal. A MortalCase murder mystery party for 8 to 20 players runs 2.5–3 hours outdoors just as well as it does indoors, once a few decisions are made early. Here's what to sort before your guests arrive: when to start, what to feed them, and how to keep the clues where you put them.
The clock is the one part of hosting that won't negotiate. Here's where the time goes before anyone is murdered, what to cut first, what to never cut, and how to hand a lively room more investigation without pushing a MortalCase Reveal past the point where people start checking their phones. You'll also get a line for the invitation that tells guests when the game ends and when the evening does, so nobody leaves before the answer.
You can sort and release every piece of evidence while staying as much in the dark as your guests. The whole sort runs on one question, which event releases this, so you never have to ask what a clue proves. Give the released clues one public table, keep the protected documents closed, and know what to do when the room walks past something important. You finish with a setup that protects the Reveal and lets you investigate alongside your guests.
You'll still have a party on the evening you didn't plan for. A guest cancels at 6pm, 1 player talks over everyone, and the schedule slips past the point where anybody is watching the clock. Only a short list of things has to stay intact: the 8 required Primary Characters, the murder order, the evidence, the votes. Everything else can bend. Here's how to cover a missing role, restart a room that has gone quiet, and buy back time without cutting the case in half.
Hosting a MortalCase party outdoors takes more planning than hosting inside, and most of it is unglamorous. This guide covers the parts that decide whether the evening holds together: where the group can stand and still hear each other, how printed material survives an evening outside, what to light and in what order, and the point at which you call it and move everyone in. Work through it once and the night stops depending on the forecast.
The doubts usually arrive faster than the answers, and they're the reason a lot of good guest lists never get a murder mystery. This post walks through the 7 questions customers ask most before they buy, and turns each one into something you can settle in a minute: who needs to read what, how much of it a guest ever has to remember, how you take a character and still run the evening. You'll come out with a list of decisions instead of a list of fears.
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