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Guynemer
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Someone reboot the duke.
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duke o' york
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Chapter Eight – Nile take the high road
The next round of voting took ages, as the duck had temporarily disappeared from the top of the wheelroom, and the passengers searched in vain for him until he was discovered beneath the bar. Somehow it just wouldn’t have been right to have voted without the duck there to guide them.
When the votes had all been cast (save for the Duc de Pavelles, who was still asleep in the corner), Geomodder made gjramsey count them twice to ensure that everything was above board and that they were certain that the Duc de Pavelles was the guilty man, feigning sleep in order to murder the innocent passengers. Although he was already unconscious, and there wasn’t really any need to beat him around the head to make his swimming more of a challenge, no-one was prepared to tell Miss Marple that, and so the handbag descended again, in what was now something of a tradition aboard the Apolyton. As Pave was no longer a threat to the well-being of the passengers and crew, they settled down to eat with a relish (a special barbecue sauce Jim Rockford had brought with him – “If that doesn’t kill the bugs in any food then nothing will”).
Despite the fact that the murderer had left what appeared to be a tennis ball outside the cabin of his victim and many people were now suspicious of the tennis players, the game went ahead regardless, but the crowd and choice of potential players had thinned significantly. This meant that HongHu, not previously invited to play by the macho types aboard, at last got the opportunity to show her skills and to comprehensively wipe the floor with her opponents. Admittedly, the game was delayed for five minutes as she had to return to her cabin and change from her tennis skirt into a pair of shorts in a fruitless attempt to deter Theben from standing directly behind her end of the court and distracting the opposition.
While the match was being played, Miss Marple and gjramsey toured the deck; he quizzing her about other cruise trips she had taken in the hope of finding out more about his future job prospects, and she glad for someone to talk with, very protective of her handbag and careful to tidy away any loose ropes around the sides of the ship, mindful that someone might fall over them. Their stroll was cut short by the return of the tennis players. Without Zopperoni to row and fetch their balls out of the river, they had eventually run out, and were now wandering around at a loss for an activity. They all went up to the wheelroom to have a go at steering the ship, and to admire the new steering rope that Geomodder had put up to ensure that he need not miss dinner.
The mention of dinner made everyone hungry and so they returned to their cabins to prepare.
When the first guests arrived in the dining room, Geomodder knew that it made sense to tour all of the cabins and ensure that their occupants were safely in the dining room and that his dinner would not be any further delayed by someone wanting to imitate the actions of the wicked Duc. Passing cabin number 1, the largest suite aboard the Apolyton, he saw that the door had been carelessly left open, but that no-one was inside. Closing the door and remembering to warn the occupant to take more careful safety measures in future, he turned around and saw Theben Wallingford’s body hanging over the rail of the ship on a sturdy length of rope. He had been strangled by the rope, and when the other passengers helped the captain to haul him in they discovered something most unusual. The billionaire had a string of jewels around his neck, but none that any of the passengers had seen their fellow travellers wearing before. This caused much confusion among those aboard, and after dinner the captain gave the usual call to cast votes for the mafia before breakfast the next morning.
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Guynemer
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I do hate to vote for such an enchanting creature, but I am forced to agree with my colleague, Mr. Rockford. HongHu has indeed been acting suspiciously. In addition, we can no longer ignore the playing cards often found at the scene of the murders; perhaps this is not an intended frame-up at all, but for once the obvious clues are in fact accurate.
Moreover, a string of jewels found on Wallingford's body would seem to indicate that the murderer is a nobleman or noblewoman. That is indeed a rapidly disappearing species onboard our ship, HongHu and Octavian the only remaining aristocrats.
Though we should be on our toes for clues implicating Octavian--in particular, if those numerical clues could somehow solve to 8 or 80 or something of that nature...
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30-05-2004 04:56
ing, 
ming... 
Actually I find her suspicious since she keeps voting for me. 
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