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Yes, it was a very mysterious story. Very well done! |
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01-08-2013, 08:25 AM | #347 | |
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01-08-2013, 09:09 AM | #348 |
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I was suspicious of Ravenne as well. For a moment I though of a conspiracy between her and Pooh. Or maybe her on her own in a rage over mods making such a mess for her to take care of everywhere. That was the bright - as I saw it then - idea I had AFTER submitting my entry. I was a bit upset that I thought of that too late... The more I thought about it, the more sense Ravenne as the killer made.
Well, at least I'm in the drawing now, but I'm very rarely lucky in lotteries. I'm just thrilled I figured it out! |
01-08-2013, 09:26 AM | #349 |
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But there is one thing I don't quite get. Was it planned well in advance or was it murder-while-you-go? Was the wine dreams gave pdurrant poinsoned from the start (i.e. poisoned even before the story started and dreams found it in the wine cellar), or did pooh poison the punch after episode 2? Or wasn't it poisoned at all? Did pdurrant get drowned after all?
The same with the cookies? Were the sprinkles poisoned before dreams used them, or were the cookies poisoned after pilotbob died? I'm asking because if pooh didn't think of murder before chapter 1, how do we account for the dying ant in the kitchen? The sprinkles couldn't have peen poisoned at all when dreams baked the cookies - the poison must have been put on the cookies afterwards I think I can account for the doors - after all it isn't too hard to lock/unlock the front door when you're inside the house. And I guess that the library door had the same lock as e.g. poohs own door, which we heard him lock in chapter 2. |
01-08-2013, 09:46 AM | #350 |
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AHA! I was right! I guess this darn head cold didn't impair my cognitive functions as much as I thought.
Time to resurrect Dreams, unless she's permantly gone Goth from the trauma, and restart the "Chicken" thread to catch us a murderer. (Dr Drib can come back as a zombie - I'm sure he'd like that) |
01-08-2013, 09:54 AM | #351 |
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They should have listened to me from the beginning. So many lives senselessly wasted. I say we eat him now.
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01-08-2013, 10:01 AM | #352 |
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I don't believe anyone guessed me as the killer, even after I posted this to suggest how I might have pulled it off even after my apparent decapitation.
It just goes to show that you all think I'm the one person on the Moderation Team who's too nice to be a murderer. "He was a quiet man." |
01-08-2013, 10:07 AM | #353 | |
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At that time, I was sure he was drinking the green beverage. I don't know if that will help you make more sense of that. |
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01-08-2013, 10:17 AM | #354 |
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01-08-2013, 10:36 AM | #355 |
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Yay! I correctly identified both murderer and motive!
I suspected poohbear_nc right off the bat since there was no proof of the microwaved chicken's identity. And there was no "gift" in Pooh's stocking at the end. Initially, I thought the murderer could have been Ravenne, so once all the episodes were posted, I read the entire story again. She had an alibi for the last two murders since she was away from the house with Marc_liest and mtravellerh, so that left Pooh as my sole suspect. It was fun to read the episodes each day, and I thought the story was very well written! Good job! |
01-08-2013, 10:47 AM | #356 |
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Thanks for the story!
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01-08-2013, 11:19 AM | #357 |
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Thanks again for the wonderful mystery. I am happy to report that I actually guessed right and for the right reasons. I amaze myself
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01-08-2013, 11:21 AM | #358 |
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Even I figured this one out, as did most of those who entered. And although I love whodunits, I'm not much for solving them.
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01-08-2013, 11:24 AM | #359 |
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Perhaps some competitors dismissed Pooh as being too obvious a suspect. But you're right, over 50% of the entries correctly named poohbear_nc as the villain (Boo! Hiss!), so I think the difficulty was about right.
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**"I couldn't get past" Oh my, I definitely can't type properly when being tired I wanted then to add that the murders happened because poohbear_nc was bullied, but I wasn't sure if "bully" applies to one doing it (my first idea) or to the one to whom it's done. I could have come with "he's a victim" but I couldn't think straight at that time. And you? What were your submissions? |
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