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All Hail Bugtopia!
A storytelling game for 5 players
By
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Hannah Shaffer
For Game Chef 2015
What You’ll Need
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5 players (2 Accused, 3 Audience)
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3 printed copies of the game
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Printed bug character cards (
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eb link
) (for the Accused)
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Printed suspicion tally (
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eb link
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the Audience)
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) (for
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3 chairs for the Audience, arranged side by side at the table
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2 chairs for the Accused, arranged side by side, directly across
from the Audience
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A large stack of index cards or small pieces of notepaper
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A pen or pencil for every player
A Quick Introduction
 
(The Audience should read this section aloud to all players, out of
character.)
 
All Hail Bugtopia!
​
a game about bugs on trial for a crime they may
is
or may not have committed. The
​
Accused
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always be two lowly
will
bugs, standing trial for the attempted assassination of the Dragonfly
Captain. The
​
Audience
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always be three mighty dragonflies, acting
will
as judge, jury, and exterminator.
The accused are not allowed to read the rules past this section. The
Audience may read all the rules beforehand or as they play.
At the start of the game, each of the Accused will choose to play as
one of the bugs from the bug character cards. The Accused cannot
choose the same two bugs.
1 
Bug Type
Ants
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are...
Beetles
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are...
Butterflies
​
are...
Honeybees
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are...
Bug Traits
Tireless workers, organized, good-natured.
Hefty brawlers, strong-willed,
temperamental.
Flighty bystanders, fickle, absent-minded.
Grasshoppers
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are... Agile tinkerers, talkers, eccentric.
Devoted servants, protectors, vigilant.
The three players playing the Audience will always be dragonflies.
Dragonflies
​
are...
Democratic judges, model leaders, astute.
The Accused should play to their own bug’s traits, and the Audience
should play to the dragonfly traits, where possible.
Approach this game like reading the script from a play. Italicized
paragraphs should be read aloud (theatrically) by the dragonfly
Audience. Each dragonfly should have a printed copy of the script, and
the dragonfly Audience should decide through body language and
eye contact which dragonfly speaks at which moment in the script.
It’s okay to fumble and to step on each other’s toes a little, but try to
preserve the dignity of these judicial proceedings.
Beginning the Game
 
(The Audience should read this section aloud to all players, out of
character. In-character reading will begin soon!)
2 
All bugs in Bugtopia live under the reign of the Dragonfly Regime. Are
the dragonflies
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cruel
​ ​ ​
or
kind
?
All players (including the dragonfly Audience) must choose their
answers privately. Write
​
“cruel”
​ ​
or
“kind”
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a notecard, fold the
on
notecard into fourths, and keep your card in front of you, where
everyone can see it but not read it. These answers will be revealed at
the end of the game.
Enter the Accused
(Get in character, dragonflies, and remember to alternate between
readers.)
A grave wrongdoing has been committed in Bugtopia; an attempt on
the life of our sovereign leader, the esteemed Dragonfly Captain! Here
today, the Accused will stand before us. As stated in the Dragonfly
Decree, we shall grant them Audience in the name of justice.
May the Accused enter and remain standing!
Thank you, Accused.
Please, clasp your limb parts to your thoraxes. Now, the Bugtopian
national anthem, to be sung aloud by all present:
All hail the great Bugtopia, our home and our first love!
Where dragonflies soar mightily up in the skies above.
And all the bugs across the land are mostly happy too.
Wherever there are problems we don’t make a big to-do.
All may now be seated.
3 
Opening Remarks
On the morning of the 37th of Bugtember, at precisely 9 o’clock, an
explosive device was detonated in the center of the Plaza, mere feet
from where his esteemed Dragonfly Captain was scheduled to deliver
his quarterly address.
By the fortune of fortunes, the Captain had taken ill that day, and had
sent for the Draconian Dragonfly Marching Band to perform in his
absence. The Marching Band was, thankfully, unharmed.
Before us stand the Accused
…​
each Accused by their bug name
(call
and motion to the Accused)
​
.
You the Accused stand trial today because:
1. You were present at the scene of the wrongdoing, and...
2. For reasons that will become clear, your motives are suspect.
Throughout this fair and just trial do you, lesser bugs of Bugtopia,
swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth today,
so help you Bug?
Do you...pinky swear?
Then, let us begin.
The Interrogation
 
(The Audience should read this section aloud to all players, out of
character, including Guidance & Guidelines and Scoring Suspicion.)
 
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