Host a murder to be exact. Tara fancied doing a host a murder for her birthday,we have a couple that we still haven't done so it was a good opportunity.
It's for eight players, so me, Tara, Gary, Olly, Laura, Ella, Julian & Bev. Tim was here as well though didn't play as he had to get back for Tia. Everyone did really well with costumes as well. The game is in four rounds and each round takes place during a course of the dinner. I wanted to try to be as authentic as possible so found some Roman recipes online.
As a starter we had Roman eggs. That's boiled eggs with a pine nut sauce. Doesn't sound like it would go but it did! The pine nuts soaked in vinegar & sweetened with honey, pepper & celery seeds, bashed to buggery in the food processor and served with boiled eggs (still just a little runny in the middle) and a little salad.
Main was chicken with peppers, an old Roman recipe, basically a casserole of chicken and red, green and yellow peppers cooked nice & slowly so the meat fall off the bone, Tara had Herring with cumin, cheese & oil which worked really well. Pud was changed a little as I did pears poached in red wine, more medieval than Roman I think but as an accompaniment I made a Roman sweet cake with almonds and thyme & cinnamon & honey. Romans liked sweet things so I also made some Muslum which is honeyed wine. Very easy, warm up half a cup of honey & add it to a bottle of white wine. Mix, chill, drink. very nice!
The characters we had were: Tara-Flotilla Submergia, the owner of a large shipping operation, I was Bogus Fortunatus sort of a priest cum soothsayer, Olly was Harangus Adnauseum part politician part philosopher, Gary was Licentius Caesar a ruler of the known world, Rotunda Immaculata was Ella, a Vestal virgin, Julian was Maximus Testosterus a soldier, Laura was Cleptopatra Queen of the Nile & Bev was Mercedes Accelleratti a free spirited type who drove chariots. The murder victim was called Flabious Corpus.
There is an accompanying booklet for each character with some information that you need to bring out during the course of that round during the conversation
and some things about your character that you don't want to mention, but if questioned, you can't lie. Sounds easy. It isn't. This is the forth or fifth host a murder I've taken part in & I haven't got the murderer right yet, during the inevitable chat and banter over dinner, not to mention the wine I usually don't have a clue who done it! No one got it infact, though Gary claims he did as he'd written some thing about every character in case it was them!
It was a great night with much fun and laughter, just love having everyone round the table. A great race the Romans!
It's for eight players, so me, Tara, Gary, Olly, Laura, Ella, Julian & Bev. Tim was here as well though didn't play as he had to get back for Tia. Everyone did really well with costumes as well. The game is in four rounds and each round takes place during a course of the dinner. I wanted to try to be as authentic as possible so found some Roman recipes online.
As a starter we had Roman eggs. That's boiled eggs with a pine nut sauce. Doesn't sound like it would go but it did! The pine nuts soaked in vinegar & sweetened with honey, pepper & celery seeds, bashed to buggery in the food processor and served with boiled eggs (still just a little runny in the middle) and a little salad.
Main was chicken with peppers, an old Roman recipe, basically a casserole of chicken and red, green and yellow peppers cooked nice & slowly so the meat fall off the bone, Tara had Herring with cumin, cheese & oil which worked really well. Pud was changed a little as I did pears poached in red wine, more medieval than Roman I think but as an accompaniment I made a Roman sweet cake with almonds and thyme & cinnamon & honey. Romans liked sweet things so I also made some Muslum which is honeyed wine. Very easy, warm up half a cup of honey & add it to a bottle of white wine. Mix, chill, drink. very nice!
The characters we had were: Tara-Flotilla Submergia, the owner of a large shipping operation, I was Bogus Fortunatus sort of a priest cum soothsayer, Olly was Harangus Adnauseum part politician part philosopher, Gary was Licentius Caesar a ruler of the known world, Rotunda Immaculata was Ella, a Vestal virgin, Julian was Maximus Testosterus a soldier, Laura was Cleptopatra Queen of the Nile & Bev was Mercedes Accelleratti a free spirited type who drove chariots. The murder victim was called Flabious Corpus.
There is an accompanying booklet for each character with some information that you need to bring out during the course of that round during the conversation
It was a great night with much fun and laughter, just love having everyone round the table. A great race the Romans!
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