THE DRAWING HAS CHANGED.

THE NEW FACE MAY BE DEAD BEFORE SUNRISE.

Ten years ago, seventeen-year-old Mara Vale discovered her guardian murdered beneath an unfinished charcoal portrait.

She remembers entering the house at 9:07 p.m.

She remembers kneeling beside the body at 9:50 p.m.

The forty-three minutes between those moments are gone.

Now a revised version of the drawing has arrived. One of its previously blank figures possesses a newly rendered face—and that face belongs to someone still alive.

For the moment.

The Last Drawing is a complete, GM-less psychological crime investigation for one investigator or a cooperative group of up to six players.

Examine altered drawings. Compare witness testimony. Reconstruct Mara’s missing time. Separate concealed personal secrets from evidence of murder. Build a behavioral profile and commit to your final accusation before opening the sealed solution.

You have one case, one night, and forty-three missing minutes standing between the killer and the next victim.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Examine an original and altered charcoal drawing
• Investigate a ten-year-old unsolved murder
• Compare crime-scene records and witness statements
• Detect contradictions hidden inside seemingly reliable evidence
• Rank and reevaluate suspects
• Construct a behavioral profile
• Rebuild forty-three missing minutes
• Identify staged evidence
• Decide whether Mara is innocent, manipulated, complicit, or responsible
• Submit a formal accusation
• Open the sealed solution and audit every major clue

DESIGNED FOR ONE NIGHT

Players: 1–6
Playing time: Approximately 2–3 hours
Preparation: None
Game master: Not required
Dice: Not required
Internet or app: Not required

Play directly from a screen or print the investigation for an evidence-file experience.

You need only:

• The investigation PDF
• A pen or pencil
• Optional note paper
• Someone willing to distrust every confident answer

SOLO OR COOPERATIVE PLAY

Investigate alone and preserve your private theories, or assemble a group and divide the work among:

• Lead Investigator
• Evidence Examiner
• Behavioral Profiler
• Timeline Analyst
• Witness Analyst
• Case Recorder

All investigators must ultimately agree upon one final accusation.

A FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY

The solution does not depend on random chance, inaccessible specialist knowledge, or evidence withheld until the ending.

Everything needed to solve the case appears inside the investigation.

The question is whether you will recognize what the drawing has been showing you.

THE HINT SYSTEM

A three-stage hint system allows investigators to control how much assistance they receive:

1. A gentle redirection
2. The documents that should be compared
3. The decisive contradiction—without naming the offender

Using a hint does not prevent you from completing or solving the investigation.

INCLUDED IN THE DOWNLOAD

• Complete screen-readable investigation PDF
• Printer-friendly investigation PDF
• Quick-Start Guide
• Evidence and testimony files
• Altered-drawing comparison materials
• Suspect dossiers
• Behavioral-profile worksheet
• Forty-three-minute timeline
• Contradiction tracker
• Final accusation form
• Three-stage hint system
• Sealed solution
• Annotated fair-play clue audit
• Investigator performance classifications
• Cooperative investigation-night guide

CONTENT ADVISORY

This fictional investigation contains murder, grief, memory disturbance, psychological manipulation, institutional misconduct, implied danger, and descriptions of a non-graphic crime scene.

It does not require players to disclose or write about their own traumatic experiences.

PART OF THE BROWN WOLF ONE-NIGHT INVESTIGATIONS

Complete, self-contained mysteries designed to be opened, investigated, and solved in a single evening.

Every case includes a full resolution. No additional book, app, subscription, or game system is required.

Published by Brown Wolf Publishing