Fall Contest - Q & A Thread - Page 10

dsvick · 11-04-2010, 12:23 PM

Does solving this in any way require knowledge of any of the suspects preferred or customary avatars?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-04-2010, 12:28 PM

Hmm... the avatars themselves as clues! What a fiendishly delicious idea! Someone write that one down for the next mystery.

poohbear_nc · 11-04-2010, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dsvick

Does solving this in any way require knowledge of any of the suspects preferred or customary avatars?

maybe ... maybe not ... depends on who [or whom] you currently suspect .... now ... which may change .... there's still a week to go you know ....

[remember .... there's always the power of the lucky totally random guess ... or maybe a random killer ... always the hardest to detect ...]

Does this help?

ShortNCuddlyAm · 11-04-2010, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Yes - you can solve this mystery even if you are not personally familiar with the MR members I've used as characters, or the stories I've told about them.

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

maybe ... maybe not ... depends on who [or whom] you currently suspect .... now ... which may change .... there's still a week to go you know ....

You're contradicting yourself there, little chicken

dsvick · 11-04-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

Hmm... the avatars themselves as clues! What a fiendishly delicious idea! Someone write that one down for the next mystery.

I only brought it up because of the cat hairs and there being several folks around here who habitually use a cat as an avatar, not the least of which was the suspect Zelda just interviewed.

I guess the question comes down to who/what is being interviewed. For example, when Zelda talked to Nekokami was she talking to a cat-shaped avatar or a human being with a strange name?

I'm thinking person since SneakySnake helped Zelda with her "hands". Which means the cat hair (and how did she know it was cat hair) in the parlor is from an as yet introduced actual cat. Or perhaps some people will be themselves (ie people) while others will be their avatars, and some we'll be left guessing at.

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

maybe ... maybe not ... depends on who [or whom] you currently suspect .... now ... which may change .... there's still a week to go you know ....

[remember .... there's always the power of the lucky totally random guess ... or maybe a random killer ... always the hardest to detect ...]

Does this help?

No. Not at all. Please stop trying now.

GeoffC · 11-04-2010, 02:10 PM

It's elementarily so obvious who the culprit isn't, is it not? surely you can see that obvious clue that is so obvious it has a big neon sign attached to a hand pointing right on the culprit who is not, obviously, so far at this moment in time totally and utterly not the one upon whom the finger or hand of blame shall be pointed at this time -- we await further clues of a somewhat subtle nature in order to ascertain the culprit who is not the culprit or thereof as the case may be....according to the design of this devious plot....

Chocolate anybody?

Steven Lyle Jordan · 11-04-2010, 02:37 PM

I think you've had quite enough. Yah.

poohbear_nc · 11-04-2010, 02:39 PM

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You're contradicting yourself there, little chicken

I have to - it's on page 202 of my authorial handbook: "How to Mystify and Entertain the Masses with Bloody Murder"

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No. Not at all. Please stop trying now.

I don't mean to be trying. Not at all.

Just trying to answer questions in a helpful manner.

KarenH · 11-04-2010, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

It's elementarily so obvious who the culprit isn't, is it not? surely you can see that obvious clue that is so obvious it has a big neon sign attached to a hand pointing right on the culprit who is not, obviously, so far at this moment in time totally and utterly not the one upon whom the finger or hand of blame shall be pointed at this time -- we await further clues of a somewhat subtle nature in order to ascertain the culprit who is not the culprit or thereof as the case may be....according to the design of this devious plot....

Chocolate anybody?

Yes, please! If this mystery hadn't already given me a headache, this post definitely would have done the job!

bjones6416 · 11-04-2010, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by KarenH

Yes, please! If this mystery hadn't already given me a headache, this post definitely would have done the job!

Wait!! Don't take any chocolate from him! He might be the...

Cough, Cough

Sorry, there's a lot of cat hair floating around in here...

poohbear_nc · 11-04-2010, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by bjones6416

Wait!! Don't take any chocolate from him! He might be the...

Cough, Cough

Sorry, there's a lot of cat hair floating around in here...

Hmmmmm .... has the murderer escaped into the lounge? Eh?
Come on! Cough it up! The truth!

dsvick · 11-04-2010, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

It's elementarily so obvious who the culprit isn't, is it not? surely you can see that obvious clue that is so obvious it has a big neon sign attached to a hand pointing right on the culprit who is not, obviously, so far at this moment in time totally and utterly not the one upon whom the finger or hand of blame shall be pointed at this time -- we await further clues of a somewhat subtle nature in order to ascertain the culprit who is not the culprit or thereof as the case may be....according to the design of this devious plot....

Chocolate anybody?

Says the cat who may or may not have left incriminating evidence floating in what may or not be a pool of melted ice cream under and around what may or may not be another dead pshrynk.

desertgrandma · 11-04-2010, 04:12 PM

'sigh.

I may as well just shoot an arrow and hope it hits the guilty party for as much clue as I have right now!

Bilbo1967 · 11-04-2010, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

'sigh.

I may as well just shoot an arrow and hope it hits the guilty party for as much clue as I have right now!

Do you often fire arrows at people?

Was it you perchance

desertgrandma · 11-04-2010, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Do you often fire arrows at people?

Was it you perchance

No........usually I use my stick.

Maybe that would work.......just start turning in a circle and swinging at anything that moves.....SOMEONE has to be hit!

Of course it isn't me!!! Kindly, blue-haired, cookie baking grandmothers never do the deed, don't you read mysteries?

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11-04-2010, 12:23 PM	#136
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	Does solving this in any way require knowledge of any of the suspects preferred or customary avatars?

11-04-2010, 12:28 PM	#137
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Hmm... the avatars themselves as clues! What a fiendishly delicious idea! Someone write that one down for the next mystery.

11-04-2010, 02:10 PM	#141
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	It's elementarily so obvious who the culprit isn't, is it not? surely you can see that obvious clue that is so obvious it has a big neon sign attached to a hand pointing right on the culprit who is not, obviously, so far at this moment in time totally and utterly not the one upon whom the finger or hand of blame shall be pointed at this time -- we await further clues of a somewhat subtle nature in order to ascertain the culprit who is not the culprit or thereof as the case may be....according to the design of this devious plot.... Chocolate anybody?

11-04-2010, 02:37 PM	#142
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	I think you've had quite enough. Yah.

11-04-2010, 04:12 PM	#148
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	'sigh. I may as well just shoot an arrow and hope it hits the guilty party for as much clue as I have right now!