I'm pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from their drive to work.

Okay, so today is all about the design of murders at Karloff Manor. Okay, so this was codename Polo, is the name of the set.

And from the very beginning, from when we first put it on the schedule, we had this idea of blending some sort of mystery in it.

We had talked about doing a murder mystery forever.

We like doing top-down genres, and murder mystery has a lot of fun trope space in it.

And a murder mystery could be put in multiple places.

The original plan, by the way, was we're going to do a brand new world, a murder mystery

world, a world that optimized murder mysteries, where people were dying left and right, and

they were always solving crimes.

And we like the idea of baking in some puzzles

into it was very cool um way back uh when michael and i were pitching the original weather

light saga um in it in the second in the second block that we had pitched was Mercadia a lot lot

changed but Stark was killed by Volrath and we had a murder mystery plan for a set

we had to figure out who killed Stark in our version it was Tom Garth but Tom Garth

was secretly actually Volerath and you had to figure all that out.

In our version, you didn't know Vol-Rath had snuck aboard.

Part of the murder mystery was figuring out that Vol-Rith was there.

Anyway, so we knew that we wanted to involve this in some way with the murder mystery.

It turns out, we have someone on staff who is a master puzzle builder, Mark Gottlieb,

who has led Minia set.

So the idea for this set was he and I co-led the vision, and then he, along with Andrew Brown,

co-led the set design. So Mark's sort of specialty is the middle part of the process.

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