# Maniac on the loose (part deux)..A game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800 "2003-10-22T00:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/81 "2003-10-27T19:40:33Z")
I think we’ve lost a few people somewhere around the house. I go to the parlor to search for them. ---
**Author:** ![Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Age_Quod_Agis)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/82 "2003-10-27T23:38:29Z")
Entering his 4th day of sitting in the dark, **AQA** is starting to look – and smell – like Tom Hanks in “Castaway.” He starts to wonder if there really is a murderer at all, or whether **Simple Dreamer** and **Jimmy Chitwood** were just the victims of unfortunate, freak accidents. If so, waiting for another murder is a little like waiting for lightning to strike the same place thrice. Therefore, I accuse **Thor** and/or **Benjamin Franklin**. In other words, sitting in the dark with no food, water, or human contact hasn’t caused me to start talking to volleyballs yet . . . but that’s probably just because there aren’t any volleyballs nearby. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/83 "2003-10-28T02:48:50Z")
Wow, for a house with a maniac on a murderous rampage, it sure is quiet in here… ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/84 "2003-10-28T03:19:41Z")
**Blackeyes** , finds himself in the billiards room. “Neat, pool!” he exclaims as he begins to play. But when grabbed some balls to play from that side ball-carrying thing on the table he pushes on a lever he didn’t know existed and the floor below him (and the billiards table) flips over really fast and finishes with another billiards table where the old one stood and **Blackeye** in another room, with the old billiards table on the ceiling. Falling five feet, **Blackeyes** lands on his rump. “Argh, my ass-bones!” he shouts. He stands up and looks around. What a strange, eerie, and quiet room he finds himself in now… ---
**Author:** ![Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Age_Quod_Agis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/85 "2003-10-28T03:45:53Z")
> [@](#): > > _Simple Dreamer:_ > Wow, for a house with a maniac on a murderous rampage, it sure is quiet in here… . . . perhaps _too_ quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/86 "2003-10-28T04:38:52Z")
Thanks God my above post only sent in once. I must’ve hit refresh at least a dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/87 "2003-10-28T05:51:25Z")
Wandering the house with her carton of ice cream, **Kat** opens an unmarked door. It’s a normal-looking linen closet, except that there’s another door in the back wall. She opens that door, and there’s a strange, eerie, quiet room behind it. With **Blackeyes** standing in the middle of the room, rubbing his butt. “Oops, sorry. Didn’t mean to interrupt anything.” **Kat** closes both doors and then continues down the hall to what looks like a music room, with a piano and a floor harp and a drum set. “Cool.” She taps the cymbal with a fingernail. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/88 "2003-10-28T06:04:07Z")
**Hot Buttered Toast** looks around, and heads to the dark and gloomy library, where a killer might be lying in wait to, say, stab somebody to death. Or kill someone. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/89 "2003-10-28T12:41:32Z")
**Cynical Dreamer** heads out to the hot tub to try and relax a bit. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/90 "2003-10-28T12:50:29Z")
Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? Are we dead yet? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/91 "2003-10-28T14:10:34Z")
I’ll get in the hottub with Cynical Dreamer. Maybe Simple Dreamer killed Jimmy then committed suicide. That is why there are no more killings. ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/92 "2003-10-28T18:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny Bravo \* > \*\*Angry that she wouldn’t take off her shirt, **Johnny Bravo** accuses **Maureen** of the murder. \*\* You are half right. The rest of you are wrong. ~smiles~ I apologize for the delay, your lovely hostess has fallen ill and for the past two days has done little more than sleep fitfully…perhaps the killer slipped something into my cherry coke… (No, there was not a clue in that.) ~J ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/93 "2003-10-29T03:09:26Z")
Hope you’re feeling better Jaade. So, is anyone gonna die anytime soon? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/94 "2003-10-29T20:17:28Z")
While sitting in the hot tub with Cynical Dreamer I notice that there is an electric space heater plugged in near the tub. (jsut a bupm while waiting for someone to be bumped off) ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/95 "2003-10-29T21:46:37Z")
“Hey, **Zebra** , our towels aren’t too close to that heater are they?” **Cynical Dreamer** questioned while wondering where everyone went to… including the killer. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/96 "2003-10-29T23:17:51Z")
**C-Dreamer** No they are fine but I hope that doesn’t fall off that shelf and into the tub. Is your swimsuit transparent or non-existant? Does this champange taste funny to you? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/97 "2003-10-29T23:24:08Z")
I think the latest murder victem was this thread. 😛 **Jaade** , hope you get to feeling better. Bump this when you’re back and feelin’ like a killin’ ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/98 "2003-10-30T04:00:41Z")
“Hey, what? Who was… huh?” said Blackeyes after the visitor came and went. He had no idea where she came from or what door that was. So he decided to feel around in the dark and found a small, dark tunnel that went someplace. So he went in and started to wander. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/99 "2003-10-30T12:49:25Z")
Whispering to Zebra,“I have a secret… I don’t see dead people.” ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800/100 "2003-10-30T15:21:41Z")
Well, I didn’t find any people in the parlor. Though I did find a whole bunch of embarrassing material that says more about our gracious host than I ever wanted to know. Treacle! My word! And _forks_ with the tea service! How uncouth! I’m shocked! And are these _sugar packets_?? I… I… I’m speechless! In a daze, I wander out of the parlor and up the hall, paying no attention to my surroundings. What? You were expecting something dirty? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maniac-on-the-loose-part-deux-a-game/208800.md?page=6)