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Jon Miller
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quote:
Originally posted by Theben
rah needs to die base on general principles. |
I Agree with you
unforunately I am now unable to do anything about it
Jon Miller
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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:36
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1st kill:
GhengisFarb, Cabin 27, 53 times with needlework scissors.
A fragment of a letter:
"Coming to
Olympic"
The first clue is something stupid, because Duke apologized for it in advance.
There were no olympic games in 1925, but there were summer games in Paris in 1924 and the first winter games ever were held in Chamonix (France) the same year. The next summer games were in 1928 in Amsterdam, while the next winter games were the same year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
2nd kill:
Hercules Poirot, strangled and thrown off the side of the ship.
"some wisps of a thin brown material in a pile on the deck"
3rd kill:
(Before the kill, the Egyptian natives were holding a mysterious celebration on the bank of the river. Any significance?)
SnowFire, Cabin 23, 107 times with a ballpoint pen.
"Walking away from the scene of the crime towards the Captain’s meeting in the dining room, the ship’s purser kicked something into the river. It looked like a wet tennis ball, but didn’t roll in a straight line, bumping along over the side of the boat with a white flash."
4th kill:
Joncha was hanging over the rail of the Apolyton outside his cabin. There were no signs that he had been thrashing about, so Theben suggested to his fellow passengers that he had probably been throttled by the rope before he could drown in the waters of the Nile.
"something fell out of the dead man’s pocket onto the deck. It was a very damp piece of card. When Zopp turned it over, he saw that it was a faded Queen of Spades, with “to Peg” written in the top corner."
5th kill:
Passing the open door of cabin number 12, he saw Chaunk under his bed, with a utility screwdriver in his mouth. He had 26 cross-shaped holes and 37 straight holes in his chest. Two screws fixed his right index finger to the floor of his cabin, and a napkin from the dining room was wedged into his mouth so that none of the other passengers could have heard him scream.
Inspector Maigret was sitting on a bar stool enjoying a pastis before his delayed dinner when he noticed a card on the bar. He went to return it to HongHu, who told him that it was not from one of her decks, and it didn’t look like it was from the ship. Looking at it more closely, it bore a picture of what looked like a small ugly man sitting atop a pile of gold. (Jamski thinks it's a leprechaun, I concur.)
6th kill:
Cpt. Nuclear Master hung from his own steering aid, thrown overboard.
Near the scene a bottle of White Horse Scottish Whisky was discovered.
7th kill:
Tuberski, in Cabin 4, stabbed 101 times with a piece of a magnifying glass. His left pinky toe had been severed.
"a piece of paper on the floor. It was an unusual shape, like an almond, or a teardrop, and had a large black mark right at the very edge on the left hand side, about a third of the way up."
8th kill:
Theben, of cabin number 1, hanging over the rail on a rope, strangled by it.
He was wearing a string of jewels nobody has seen before.
9th kill:
ADG, of cabin number 3, stabbed 68 times with a silver fork.
"The fork had been left jabbed in the unfortunate inspector’s stomach. Examining the murder weapon, Jim Rockford announced that it appeared to be the fork equivalent of an apostle spoon, but it was so old that it was difficult to make out what was on it."
10th kill:
Jon Miller, outside cabin number 10, strangled by a rope. M. Maigret discovered a sticking plaster had been stuck over Bulldog’s mouth to keep the napkin there in place.
Things to look for:
Reading through the ten chapters in a row, I haven't come across anything particularly interesting. However, I think that we should be searching patterns and similarities from the stabbing weapons.
Then there are the numbers. I'm going to write them down on a piece of paper and fiddle around with them - I may be obsessing over them, but they have to be there for a reason.
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Guynemer
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My most sincere gratitude to Miss Marple for compiling those clues. Sadly, like my esteemed colleague, I am having a difficult time deciphering them.
The plaster around Drummond's mouth interests me. That would seem to suggest a workman of some sort. Most likely a member of the crew. That means either gjramsey or Geomodder. It seems a first mate would be more likely to use plaster than the purser.
Geomodder gets my vote. The "cabin 10" clue is just too obvious... I really don't think we can expect numerical clues to point to the assigned player numbers.
EDIT: Things are looking quite grim... let us hope that we managed to knock off the stabbing Mafia last round, so we can end this game now with Geomodder.
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duke o' york
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Chapter Eleven - Nihilism
Geomodder collected all those aboard into the dining room once more and they all handed him their votes.
“We suspect the mafia of being, er,… Miss Marple,” he said.
“Well I didn’t vote for Miss Marple,” replied Columbo. “Did anybody else? It’s you, isn’t it Geomodder?”
“N-no. I think there needs to be a recount, it was so close.”
“No need for a recount. I’ve already checked them,” said the ship’s purser.
“But….” The captain’s words were cut short by the arrival of Miss Marple, who had missed the voting, but came at the right time to set this straight. The captain’s body fell to the floor with a heavy thud. Shortly, he was pitched into the water, and the six remaining aboard tucked into their breakfast.
Gjramsey now had a heavy task on his hands. Even more so than running the bar, which had curiously been taking up much of his time; so much that his accounts were not as carefully ordered as they had been before. He now had to steer the boat on top of all of his other duties, though thanks to Nuclear Master’s ingenious rope-guided steering device, he only had to keep an eye on whether there were any bends in the river and whether he would need to change the wheel at all. Jim Rockford offered to help in any way, hoping that he might be of more use than Miss Marple obsessively clearing the deck of any loose coils of rope and broken wine bottles (of which there were far more, to be honest). The purser was grateful for their efforts, as it meant that he could spend more time writing his CV to get a decent job far from this accursed boat.
Before dinner, the purser totally forgot to take a tour of the ship as Geomodder had, and there was some surprise when the Earl of Octavian X failed to arrive on time. Hurrying around to his cabin, number 15, they found him on the floor, stabbed 14 times with an African hunting knife that was stuck upright in his chest. The wounds were quite deep, as might have been expected from this size of knife, and the tip of his left pinkie finger had been cut off. Despite a quick search of the cabin, it was nowhere to be found. They sighed in desperation, and returned to the dining room to consider likely suspects, and to prepare their votes. And to eat whatever gjramsey had prepared them that evening.
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