Let's Play MYSTERIUM

**Let's Play MYSTERIUM** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*Achievement unlocked: Worst Team Ever!*"
―Jon
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "bustin' makes us feel good".
* Can our psychic seers *peer through the veil of the unknown to catch a crooked killer using supernatural sleuthing*?
* This is a gentle, beautiful co-operative game of deliberation and quiet consideration. So naturally it descends almost immediately into screaming, accusation and chaos. Welcome to Board Game Club. Man, this one is just full of stuff...
* The Adam and Laurie dance starts literally with the hellos, today. Adam: "nearly forgot your name there, Laurie." Laurie: "I'm here *every* week."
* Expecting solemn and dignified from a group including Jon and Rosie? Nice optimism.
* Apparently this is a re-start - there's some disagreement about whose fault that is, but the fact that Adam's ghost is now in hell is apparently a hint.
* Sullivan's assessment: "Jon, who loves to accuse people of working against him, even in co-op games. Laurie, who loves to antagonise Jon. Rosie, agent of chaos. And me, the Bertie Wooster of the group."
* Rosie: "Thank boo."
* Jon: "... the pigs... it's the fucking fuzz ... it's the rozzers."
* Jon: "Doctors kill people, famously."
* How much is it killing Adam not to speak? He *is* a very chatty ghost. Hell is facilitating admin- actually, that tracks.
* Jon: "There is a weak link here and it's right down in the pits of Tartarus."
* A team game does depend on its weakest player and if Laurie doesn't actually want to solve Adam's murder because, well, reasons - that's going to make it a bit of a challenge.
* Rosie's logic is not always like our earth logic.
* If you had to keep an octopus, you would keep it in a bathtub.
* 10 minutes in, the screeching and gesticulating has begun. Seances are normally more chill than this.
* Jon: "We're on the same team, Rosie! I'll see *you* in hell!"
* Sullivan would be a great detective if the murder victims would just hand him cards explaining their deaths.
* Jon's unravelling. Laurie reminds him there's no traitor in this game, but he rejects that roundly.
* Laurie: "Jon would unravel in an empty room, on his own ... In a sensory deprivation tank, Jon Gracey would find something to unravel about."
* Laurie's two cards look crypty - oh no, wait, it's two spooky things wanting to go for a bath together. If he doesn't choose bathroom he's a fucking idiot.
* JOKE OF THE DAY! hellevator music.
* Adam's lip fakery is very disturbing.
* Rosie's cross with Laurie again. He's a bitch, a moron and a bloody idiot. Rosie's listening to no contradictions.
* We're all on the same team, which Jon is going to kill. Again, co-op game.
* Horses have 4 legs, stools have 4 legs - it must be the stool. The stool has 3 legs. Ah well, whatever.
* Sullivan: "It's weak, but I like it".
* Laurie may be being ever so slightly stubborn. Adam: "Laurie, you have chosen poorly." Sullivan: "yes, of course you fucking have!"
* Adam: "Good old, reliable, emotionally stable Jon Gracey".
* Rosie: "Morons Unite!" Sullivan: "Everyone's morons, none of us are on the... " Laurie: "WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM ROSIE!"
* Adam: "I miss hell."
* Singalonga NRB: 'Morons Unite!'
* Laurie wants a new ghost. The current one is just jealous, although maybe not a complete idiot. He possibly sucks shit which is a strange and stupid way to die. Surely you'd stop doing that once you started to feel strange?
* Sullivan to Laurie: "You are the worst moron in Morons Unite!" He's the moron that all the other morons look down on.
* Rosie is furious.
* Adam's family or Addams family?
* In the end, we come right down to the wire, of course.
* Sullivan's instinct screams 'hammer' at all times.
* Adam looks like he may implode. This must actually be killing him.
* Adam: "You got it right! We're all happy!" And yet...
* Nobody can believe we made it to the endgame.
* Laurie: "How stressed *are* you, Adam?" Adam's wincing every time anyone picks up a card. Because they're all morons.
* Rosie's having an actual stress response - she's asked for shouting rather than comfort. Bizarrely it works. Adam: "Jesus, what a glimpse into your psychological makeup!" Apparently drama school is a hellish place of criticism and negative reinforcement.
* Adam and Sullivan are boyfriends. "You get to look at all of these Sully. You're such a clever boy. You're *my* clever boy." He's top of the class at moron school.
* Laurie to Sullivan: "You're the prom king at Moron High!" Laurie was busy getting high behind the bike sheds.
* Laurie to Jon: "You are kind. You are strong. You are important." Jon finds this level of comfort worse when Laurie doesn't mean it. Adding 'you're a piece of shit' seems to help.
* Overconfident Jon is always reliable.
* Time for Sullivan to graduate to Moron University.
* Laurie and Rosie are forming a splinter group - Morons International.
* You know what, they *are* morons. Not one of them got the right answer. I think they might be blaming Adam.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Laurie - Adam is in (presumably COVID-related) isolation.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* Talking heads this episode.