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Please take a few minutes and fill out this questionnaire: note that you aren't registered until we receive this. The game fee ($10 for the Pale Ice and the Black Ice playtest, $20 for Fridays and $25 for Saturdays), covers all game expenses and is payable at the door. 

A Warning

While we will be making every attempt to assure a safe environment during Black Ice, we cannot promise that no-one will accidentally bump into you or that something won't get knocked over onto you. Please be aware that you will be moving through a dark "haunted house" type environment with flashlights, and can hurt yourself or others with sufficient stupidity or bad luck. All players will be required to sign an insurance waiver before playing.

Note that each run of Black Ice will hold 5 to 7 players, it will only be run once per evening, and we have a total of ten scheduled dates. If you do the math, you'll notice that we have half the capacity of the player total for either Meddling Kids or Monster. This means that a) we expect to fill up VERY quickly and b) we really don't have the option of adding more runs. If you want to play, please register quickly.

If you would like to ask us something before registration opens, please feel free to email us at Murder1@FeteFatale.com.

Thanks for your interest!

Dig & Gail Freedman
Fête Fatale Productions

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Age: Teen* 20s 30s 40s A little more

* Under 18 must have verbal and written parental approval.  No-one under 16 will be admitted without special dispensation and advance notice.
Gender: Male Female
We'll contact you via email in most circumstances, unless you specify otherwise here:
Any medical conditions or dietary restrictions we should be aware of?

Pale Ice Registration

This is the "party game" that occurs on Saturday, September 22nd for 30 players, taking place at a ski lodge in the Swiss alps (actually a private home in St. Charles). This is NOT the Whately-style game for 5-7 players--see below for that game.

Cost is $10, payable at the door.
Name anyone else signing up with whom you wish to play:
 

So that we can appropriately cast you, please use 1 to 5 to indicate your level of interest in the following possible character activities/characteristics (1 = "I'd rather not", 5 = "Oh, yeah!").

"Good"--morally upright: 

 1 2 3 4 5

On the "good guys' side", although willing to lie, swindle and murder in cold blood, as the job requires [note--we see Bond, especially in the books, are clearly in this category]: 

 1 2 3 4 5

On the "good guys' side", but leaning towards the immoral: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal sensibilities and values: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Evil but idealistic/amoral: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Evil --sadistic: 

 1 2 3 4 5
 

Member of secret service agency (MI6, CIA, etc.): 

 1 2 3 4 5

Secret service Field operative: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Secret service Headquarters staff: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Member of criminal organization: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal mastermind:

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal--assistant to mastermind:

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal--middle management:

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal--Persons of Hench:

 1 2 3 4 5

Criminal--Own agenda:

 1 2 3 4 5

Double agent ("good guy" really working for "bad guys"):

 1 2 3 4 5

Double agent ("bad guy" really working for "good guys"):

 1 2 3 4 5

Loose cannon: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Neutral agent (working with/selling to both sides): 

 1 2 3 4 5

Scientist--working for "good guys": 

 1 2 3 4 5

Scientist--working for "bad guys" enthusiastically/cluelessly: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Scientist--working for "bad guys" under duress: 

 1 2 3 4 5
 

"Bond Girl":

 1 2 3 4 5

Socialite/playboy: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Philanthropy (and politics/rivalries associated with philanthropic endeavours):

 1 2 3 4 5
 

Auction--bidding: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Auctioneer: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Casino games--playing: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Casino games--running: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Romance: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Angst: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Family relationships--positive: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Family relationships--negative: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Theft: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Espionage: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Coercion and dealing in bad faith: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Murder--in game: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Murder--in background: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Murder victim: 

 1 2 3 4 5
 
Is there any particular character from the Bond books/movies that you are dying to play?  
Do you have any costuming in mind that you'd like us to take into consideration when casting you for this game?  
 

If You Are Registering for Both Games
Since there are 30 characters in Pale Ice, but only 5-7 in Black Ice, obviously not all Pale Ice characters will be included in Black Ice. For example, since the goal in Black Ice is to Foil The Evil Mastermind(s)' Nefarious Plot, few if any of the criminal or social butterfly characters from Pale Ice will be possible to play in Black Ice.

If you are registering for both games, let us know how important it is to you that you play the same character in both games:
I strongly prefer playing the same character in both games, even if that means that I can't get many of my preferences for Pale Ice.
I'd prefer playing the same character in both games, but not at the expense of my preferences for Pale Ice.
I don't care whether or not I play the same character in both games.

Please note that it is entirely possible to play in either game without playing in both.
 

Black Ice Registration

This is the Whately-style game for 5-7 players, taking place every weekend in October and early November. 

Cost is $20 for Fridays and $25 for Saturdays ($10 for the playtest run on 10/5)
 

We encourage you to coordinate your preferred play date with your friends before you register, so that we can spend our time on devising devious devices instead of verifying groups' schedules ("Dick wants to play on Friday with Jane, but Jane wants to play on Saturday with Spot, while Spot's got a dog show that weekend and wants to play with Dick and Jane the following weekend.").

* Note: The run scheduled for October 5th will be a playtest run. This is a form of dress rehearsal. The first run with real people helps us fine-tune the game (the phrase "guinea pigs" comes to mind). 

 
Date 1st Choice 2nd choice 3rd choice 4th choice No preference but available Can't attend
Playtest*: Friday, October 5th
Saturday, October 6th
Friday, October 12th
Saturday, October 13th
Friday, October 19th
Saturday, October 20th
Friday, October 26th
Saturday, October 27th
Friday, November 2nd
Saturday, November 3rd
Does it matter which date you play? Are any dates out of the question? 
Are you interested in being part of the cast (i.e., playing a bit part that the characters run into) for any runs? If so, which of the play dates are you available?

So that we can appropriately cast you, please use 1 to 5 to indicate your level of interest in the following possible activities 
(1 = "I'd rather not", 5 = "Oh, yeah!"). 

Crack shot: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Martial arts: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Gadgets: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Dodging bullets/knives/grenades/torpedoes/speeding vehicles: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Puzzles/decoding: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Scientist/technobabble: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Demolitions: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Defusing bombs: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Caught in death traps: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Romance: 

 1 2 3 4 5

Angst: 

 1 2 3 4 5
 

Depending on the answers to the following questions, your run may or may not include a traitor--someone working against the team as the team tries to foil the Evil Mastermind(s)' Nefarious Plan.

Having a traitor in the team would add excitement and tension.
Having a traitor in the team doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
Having a traitor in the team would add undesirable elements to the game.

I personally would not want to be a traitor on my team.
I personally don't have a preference whether I'm a traitor on my team.
I personally would greatly enjoy being a traitor on my team, even if it means they gun me down or lock me up if I'm unmasked [an NPC role will be provided if this occurs]. 

 
For female players only: 

Over the years, Bond Girls have been everything from dingbats (Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun) to helpless bits of fluff/damsels in distress (Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights and Lupe Lamora in License to Kill) to nuclear scientists (Dr. Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough) to secret agents (Jinx in Die Another Day) to cackling evil seductive assassins (Xenia Onatopp in Goldeneye). 

Just as traitors are an optional element to this game, so are helpless females. If you want to play a damsel in distress, please check here:

[Note that you should not ask for the demolitions expert, etc., if you want to play a helpless female.] The rest of the dramatic range of competent Bond Girls is largely a matter of attitude.
 

Do you specifically NOT want to crawl through small spaces? (No spots smaller than 60" in circumference. Note that not all characters will have reason to crawl into every crevice.)
Don't make me crawl.  Crawling is fine.

 
Anything else we should know?
Bonus essay question:
Why NOT stir your martini?
Bonus essay question:
Please describe the features you would install in your Evil Mastermind's Lair; in particular the details of any Death Traps.
 
(Required!) I understand that I will sign a waiver at the game and that Dig and Gail cannot guarantee that no accidents will happen during the game. I am mature enough to deal with that, and I am over eighteen or have the approval of a parent.  
Yes