Introduction

 

Murder and Mayhem at Cherry Creek Introduction

 

    Sometimes refered to as the Lost Improv, "Murder and Mayhem at Cherry Creek," was the first improvisation writing project to be planned rather than springing out of the whole cloth insanity of the old Poetry Workshop at the now defunct MsN Groups. As near as we can recall, these episodes date from 2004.

    Blind Pete conceived of it and set it up at a web site all its own and then invited writers in rather like a spider hanging an Open for Business sign on its web. Unfortunately, Pete lost his long battle with his sight and went blind before the improv ran its course. Without him, the writers lost interest and the story line ground to a halt. Most people forgot it even existed.

    We stumbled upon it during the migration from MsN Groups to our new home here at Multiply. It's been in packing cases down in the basement. Just recently, an old nag was in the basement and barked her shins on the crates. She started nagging us to open up the boxes and exhibit the work. What she was doing in the basement without the lights on has not been revealed and we have thought it best not to ask.

    Blind Pete's idea was to have his character, The Judge (who hadn't yet appeared in these episodes), be revealed as the evil mastermind behind all the murder and mayhem. Before he could be brought to justice, however, The Judge would die when the steering wheel came off his Lincoln Town Car on a steep and winding mountain road. The final scene was to be Cadlin in his and Scotty's automotive garage. He would reach into his pocket and toss onto the workbench a nut of the type that secures the steering wheel in a Lincoln Town Car. Thus would the tragic murder of Scotty's wife and others be avenged.

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