Drank live

[noteablekiller]

Who: whoever
Where: lobby
When: like a half hour after the game starts

[would you like to drink? Codex has an inkling you might like to drink.]

[he has the usual menu out, though the prices have gone up a bit:

All Drinks: 25 points

He has his deck of cards nearby on the table being used as a bar, though, so he is in play.

He speaks into the camera]

If anyone would like to come down to the lobby for drinks while they discuss the game, I'll be here for a few hours.


[Feel free to use an overflow post for the game, reply to Codex's top level (or another members of Baritones if they appear) to buy a drink]

Comments

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Do you even have any worthwhile secrets yet...? Well, either way, I'll be happy to reveal them. Would you prefer to have a try at mine first?

[rootoflove]

All right. May I have a hint, then?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Very well. How about "got to be sure they're dead"?

[rootoflove]

...I assume this has to do with one of the games?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Of course.

[rootoflove]

So you were making sure the victims were dead...?

[oh. oh she can guess this one and she doesn't like it]

You... you didn't...?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[giggles]

Didn't what...?

[rootoflove]

There's only one way to be completely and utterly sure that someone is dead, right...? So you...

[deep breath]

You damaged the bodies in some way that no one could possibly survive.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Correct. Of course, if they really had been dead to start with it would only have been corpse mutilation... unfortunately, they were pretending.

[offers the card: "Once killed five people and sawed their heads off with a kitchen knife."]

[rootoflove]

You call yourself a detective, yet you'd stoop to murder yourself... despicable.

[taking the card though]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Well, I wasn't officially the detective at the time.

[rootoflove]

That doesn't make it any better.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Obviously, since they weren't actually dead, it wasn't a proper mystery in the first place, either.

[rootoflove]

...What do you mean? There can't be fake bodies in a mystery?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

There can be fake bodies, but there must be a real one for it to be a real mystery. Van Dine's 7th. There can be no crime without a corpse.

[rootoflove]

I have no idea what that means.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

It's one of Van Dine's rules of mysteries. There's a library here, have you really not even read that much?

[rootoflove]

I... haven't thought to read about mysteries in particular.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Really...? It might be useful for interpreting your own memories.

[rootoflove]

There's not much to interpret in the only memory I have so far.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Is that so? Well, I'm sure that will change. What was it about?

[rootoflove]

I entered a room and murdered several people.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

...

And you don't think there's anything to interpret?

[rootoflove]

The only mystery there is why I would do such a thing, and I doubt interpretation is going to be enough to provide that answer.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

It's true that you're unlikely to be able to solve it based on one scene. But it would certainly give you more hints than you'd have otherwise.