by macadmin | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog, Characters
David Olson is the media mogul Chetwyn Glyde’s saturnine right hand man and fixer.
It’s said that Olson is a man who knows where the bodies are buried. More than that – he helped dig the graves. And … he was reportedly responsible for some of the deaths too.
No-one knows where David Olson comes from, or who is family is. There’s stories of his being adopted and brought up by a Norwegian family in Brooklyn. Others say he was a street kid running the numbers when he stumbled into Chetwyn Glyde’s path. Still others say he comes from a Boston Brahman family but – as a result of a scandal at Yale – was forced to conceal his identity.
Whatever the truth, it is clear he is coldly efficient in all he undertakes, and strikingly loyal to Chetwyn Glyde.
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David Olson is a NonPlayer Character in Murder at Christmas. This means that she will be written by Mel Mason, who is running the game.
You can learn more about other characters here.
Murder at Christmas is an online email game that will run over (approximately) the Twelve Days of Christmas – from December 21st 2016 until January 6th 2017. There are eight writers, working collaboratively (see the Rules of the Game). Regular updates will be posted on the website, with links that you can follow on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so that people can follow the story, root for their favourite characters, and keep up with the twists and turns of the plot.
Followers can also apply to join the Gossip mailing list,where they can discuss the game with the writers!
by macadmin | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog, Characters
Jack Adler II is heir apparent and European representative of his oil mining family. He’s over in Europe to make business ties, expand his own knowledge and potentially find a wife.
Jack is a playboy, ladies man and man of means. His family’s wealth has funded his lifestyle and as first son he’s obviously heir apparent. He’s charming, but a touch rough given an education wholly centred in his native country so he lacks some of the finesse of his European counterparts. No doubt one of the reasons for his visit.
He’s charming, and engaging and handsome with a sylph-like face, clipped moustache, wavy brown hair that is swept back but always kept neat, and the most brilliant blue eyes. Always with a ready smile to his lips too. In short, he’s a large character who lives the same way.
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Jack Adler II is a Player Character in Murder at Christmas, created and written by C Mckinnell.
You can learn more about other characters here.
Murder at Christmas is an online email game that will run over (approximately) the Twelve Days of Christmas – from December 21st 2016 until January 6th 2017. There are eight writers, working collaboratively (see the Rules of the Game). Regular updates will be posted on the website, with links that you can follow on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so that people can follow the story, root for their favourite characters, and keep up with the twists and turns of the plot.
Followers can also apply to join the Gossip mailing list,where they can discuss the game with the writers!
by macadmin | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog, Characters
Nellie Nolan, played by Anna Sten
Born Hedwig Pumpenfeldt in 1897, she originally came from a small village on the German/Czech border. She arrived in New York in 1912, aged fifteen, and shortly thereafter began to make a career for herself as Nellie Nolan in the kind of musical theatre where prettiness and lavish charms were more highly regarded than musical talent.
She attracted attention, particularly a young admirer called Nathan Beauregard Rees, who was regarded as an up and coming young architect, a scion of a wealthy Bostonian family. However, he was killed in an automobile accident in 1920; it was very soon after his death that Nellie Nolan became known in society as the mistress of Chetwyn Glyde.
She subsequently played a number of roles in a series of Hollywood movies, but without the recognition that she and Chetwyn Glyde (who has invested heavily in these movies) feels that she deserves.
She is known to have an uncertain temper (which some have attributed to reliance on alcohol) and is known not to be on good terms with Chetwyn’s daughter.
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Nellie Nolan is a NonPlayer Character in Murder at Christmas. This means that she will be written by Mel Mason, who is running the game.
You can learn more about other characters here.
Murder at Christmas is an online email game that will run over (approximately) the Twelve Days of Christmas – from December 21st 2016 until January 6th 2017. There are eight writers, working collaboratively (see the Rules of the Game). Regular updates will be posted on the website, with links that you can follow on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so that people can follow the story, root for their favourite characters, and keep up with the twists and turns of the plot.
Followers can also apply to join the Gossip mailing list,where they can discuss the game with the writers!
by macadmin | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Characters
Count Vasily Dolgorukov, played by John Barrymore
The Count is a Russian exile. Fabulously wealthy in Imperial Russia (by his own account), all that was left behind when, as a young army officer, he was forced to flee from the Communists.
His adventures in the intervening years have seen him in Paris, Monte Carlo, Kenya, Macau and Shanghai. There are rumours about his activities – he is said to have fought two duels (and emerged the winner each time), seduced women (and, according to some, men too) in four different continents, ruled an Indian kingdom, crossed the Himalayas to the hidden land of Tibet, acted as a consultant on Russian Imperial culture to several major Hollywood directors, won and lost three fortunes in as many nights on the gaming tables … to be on first name terms with princes and dictators … and with the leading gangsters in five American cities. He is an inveterate gambler.
What he is doing in this comparative backwater in the Zittau mountains is less clear … although it may have something to do with those lost fortunes.
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Count Vasily Dolgorukov is a NonPlayer Character in Murder at Christmas. This means that she will be written by Mel Mason, who is running the game.
You can learn more about other characters here.
Murder at Christmas is an online email game that will run over (approximately) the Twelve Days of Christmas – from December 21st 2016 until January 6th 2017. There are eight writers, working collaboratively (see the Rules of the Game). Regular updates will be posted on the website, with links that you can follow on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so that people can follow the story, root for their favourite characters, and keep up with the twists and turns of the plot.
Followers can also apply to join the Gossip mailing list,where they can discuss the game with the writers!
by macadmin | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog, Characters
Franz von Essen, played by Helmut Dantine
Franz von Essen is the young scion of a noble German family, who have a long tradition of service in the diplomatic service. Von Essen is something of a protege of Joachim von Ribbentrop. Originally under the protection of Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, Director of the Policy Department at the Foreign Office, von Essen has become associated with the more aggressive foreign policy being pursued by von Robbentrop, who is understood to be in line for promotion to Foreign Minister of the Reich.
Franz von Essen is young, charming and cosmopolitan. He spent some years at school in England, and travelled in the United States, for which he holds considerable affection, before returning and settling down to work in the Foreign Ministry, with frequent trips abroad on diplomatic missions.
Another thing that interrupts his working life is the fact that he is an Olympic level skiier; in the winter he is frequently to be seen on the slopes at major competitions. He competed in the Alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany, where he narrowly missed winning a bronze medal.
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Franz von Essen is a NonPlayer Character in Murder at Christmas. This means that she will be written by Mel Mason, who is running the game.
You can learn more about other characters here.
Murder at Christmas is an online email game that will run over (approximately) the Twelve Days of Christmas – from December 21st 2016 until January 6th 2017. There are eight writers, working collaboratively (see the Rules of the Game). Regular updates will be posted on the website, with links that you can follow on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so that people can follow the story, root for their favourite characters, and keep up with the twists and turns of the plot.
Followers can also apply to join the Gossip mailing list,where they can discuss the game with the writers!
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