{"id":250,"date":"2011-01-21T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/happilyeverafter-the-case-of-the-stolen-slipper\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:55:57","slug":"happilyeverafter-the-case-of-the-stolen-slipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/happilyeverafter-the-case-of-the-stolen-slipper\/","title":{"rendered":"HappilyEverAfter: The Case of the Stolen Slipper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another Actual Play write-up from Woody at FAST<\/a>. This one tells the tale of Colin’s HappilyEverAfter game at Archon 2010.<\/p>\n

(As told by Ms. Muffet)<\/p>\n

It was just another day in HappilyEverAfter, the city that puts the \u201csin\u201d in fascination.\u00a0 You could survive if you knew how to play the game; the penalty for not following the rules could result in the kind of dirt nap you don\u2019t wake up from.\u00a0 I\u2019m Ms. Muffet, owner of Twisted Web, Inc., a small detective agency that has a reputation for getting results when you don\u2019t want the buttons involved.\u00a0 I retain a few unique freelancers to keep the overhead low; they work for cash under the table and I save a fist full of dough on health insurance.\u00a0 Like them, I am not without my own curious abilities that come in handy in my line of work.\u00a0 Several years ago when I was just a wee lass, a radioactive spider sat beside me and bit my hand.\u00a0 Too bad I deep-sixed it before I discovered I had gained wall-crawling and web-slinging powers.\u00a0 (The little buggers still give me the heebie-jeebies, though.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So anyway, I was in the middle of an important case of the mystery of the missing scotch bottle, when this classy skirt wandered into my office.\u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t just any dame, either, but Cinderella herself!\u00a0 You remember her, right?\u00a0 Got hitched to Prince Charming awhile back.\u00a0 It seemed her glass slippers were missing and she wanted them found fast and discreetly.\u00a0 Cinderella was in dutch and had a big social event coming up; she needed those slippers.\u00a0 Obviously, she said money was no object (my favorite kind of client) and I told her I\u2019d put my best gumshoes on it and I would oversee the investigation personally.\u00a0 Cinderella suspected Snow White, Charming\u2019s ex-wife.\u00a0 I had my doubts\u2026 too obvious\u2026 but we\u2019d keep her in the mix.\u00a0 I assembled the team:<\/p>\n

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