I’m gonna have to sleep for the night, so I hope I wake up to see a wall of blues in the morning.
@Restkastel might handle the game in my place while I sleep. (KEYWORD: “might”), so he might respond to your blues for you.
Anyway, I still have that red blanket from Crimson, so I’m gonna snuggle up around about now… see you in the morning…
That is not a response to Funya’s blue though! We know the incident is after midnight. Your reds do not contradict his blue!
And okay guys. We know the culprit was never employed as a member of staff on the ship. We know it wasn’t any of the employees, we know it wasn’t self harm. So does that leave only the X theory? Can anyone compile a list of all the reds said so far? Because phone is a bitch when it comes to reading reds.
It’s been summed up before but it is literally impossible for anyone accounted for on the boat to be the culprit at this point.
And I’m back.
…are my eyes deceiving me or is it looking like my mystery assassin X theory was actually possibly correct? And all the time I argued in favour of it, I was sure that it was a mere flight of fancy. I shouldn’t have given up on you so soon, mystery assassin X. I hope you can forgive me.
Anyhow, regarding possible culprits, anyone who’s ever been boat staff can’t be the culprit. While I dislike the vagueness of “The six employees are not the culprit.”, I’m inclined to trust that there’s no willing deception there, so A, B, C, D, E and F can be ruled out. The victim can hardly be the culprit since it was directly stated in red that the victim was stabbed by another person holding the knife. This leaves mystery assassin X, unless there is a fundamental misunderstanding or oversight somewhere.
Regarding mystery assassin X, relevant reds seem to be…
Should one come up with a theory that has mystery assassin X as the culprit, they should first consult all these reds to see if it checks out.
I will be a bit busy today so I can’t participate as much as yesterday, but I guess I can throw out some off-the-top-of-my-head blues and see if anything sticks.
The cruise that is currently happening has never been specified as an official company holiday. We know that this cruise happens biyearly and that official company cruises happen biyearly, but it could be that they do an official holiday on even years and an unofficial holiday on odd years, for example. If this cruise is not official, the boarding restrictions no longer apply, and there’s room for mystery assassin X.
@Wonderlander already mentioned that the following red isn’t quite enough, but I’ll make it an official blue.
It is possible for a person who boarded the ship before midnight to not be on the boat during midnight and return later. Perhaps the boat was anchored on place and mystery assassin X, who had boarded when the boat left the harbor, was taking a swim. Perhaps he had changed boats mid-cruise and was currently on some other boat. Mystery assassin X could later return to the boat, since the boarding restrictions only apply to number of people, not the number of times boarded. A person who has boarded the ship once can board it as many times as they want.
What is up with this crazy fixation on only confirming the number of people on the ship at specific points in time.
Anyways, since I hate loose ends being left. @Restkastel Confirming Definition: “The six employees” refers to A, B, C, D, E and F.
I mean, if one of A through F had been the culprit this almost could’ve been considered mystery instead of anti-mystery so I can’t say I’m too surprised.
(Any keyboard shortcuts for changing color? Entering the code for every paragraph by hand can get tedious.)
The cruise ship has a lifeboat. X, who boarded the ship on a previous official company cruise, hid in the lifeboat as it was situated on the cruise ship. After departure, X lowered the lifeboat so as to not be noticed and was thus not on the boat at 24:00. The victim of the stabbing, V, was ill that night. D made sure the door was open for V in case he needed immediate medical attention, so he unlocked the door after realizing V had locked it for the night. X, seizing this opportunity, climbed back aboard the vessel during the night and, finding D’s door open, stabbed him with a knife he got from the kitchen. Due to the fever-induced state he was in, V was then unable to form the thought of calling for help. After going into sleep and waking up after sunrise, he called for medics using his cell phone on the table beside his bed.
Clarification via red requested: “Locking/unlocking” refers only to the act of unlocking or locking a door and then returning it to its previous state. As the victim only locked/unlocked the door 4 times, the victim has interacted with the locking mechanism only 8 times throughout the gameboard.
By the way, I want to call attention to this red: [quote=“pictoshark, post:181, topic:1102”]
there were only 7 people on the boat at midnight.
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Clarification requested: All instances of the word “The boat” refers to the seafaring vessel the victim and the employees were presiding.
Also, without the words “staff aside”, this red truth implies that no staff was on the boat at midnight. What could that mean?
In the original red he was referring to, the words “Excluding members of the staff” were in red. The red saying there’s only seven people is a truncated form of a more complete red, so I wouldn’t take it as a confirmation that the staff are robots.
Also I previously interpreted “locked/unlocked the door 4 times” as “operated on the lock four times”, with “operating on the lock” meaning “either locking it or unlocking it”. I think I requested I be corrected if I was wrong, and I was not corrected.
Aaah, never mind that then, that doesn’t work out. Thanks.
edit: Wait a sec…
If we interpret it as such…
Then someone must have operated the lock between the first and second instances, and the third and fourth instances.
Third time -> Locks door to sleep
Then second time -> Unlocks door to put stuff in
Then first time-> Locks door to put stuff in (makes no sense )
The door started the cruise as locked. The first time the victim, V, used the door; he unlocked the door. Someone locked his door (for whichever reason, such as a prank by D) before he locked/unlocked the door a second time, so the victim unlocked the door again to put stuff in his room. That makes two. The third time was to lock the door before going to sleep. D unlocked the door to V’s room after that, and locked the door after X went into the room and stabbed V.
Victim V was simply not aware of the time before contacting the medics! As V’s regular waking time can still be night, so V not being aware that the sun had risen before he woke up has no effect on the time he contacted the medics!
The wording of the blue you posted before still feels kinda vague to me, so I hope you don’t mind if I make a more explicit version out of it.
On a previous cruise, all seven members of the company boarded the ship. However, at the end of that cruise, one of them never left the ship. This means that when seven non-staff members boarded the boat for the current cruise, mystery assassin X could’ve boarded the ship, with all seven company employees still being on the cruise.
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
The current cruise is an official company holiday.[quote=“midsummer, post:186, topic:1102”]
It is possible for a person who boarded the ship before midnight to not be on the boat during midnight and return later. Perhaps the boat was anchored on place and mystery assassin X, who had boarded when the boat left the harbor, was taking a swim. Perhaps he had changed boats mid-cruise and was currently on some other boat. Mystery assassin X could later return to the boat, since the boarding restrictions only apply to number of people, not the number of times boarded. A person who has boarded the ship once can board it as many times as they want.
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No comment.[quote=“Karifean, post:187, topic:1102”]
Anyways, since I hate loose ends being left. @Restkastel Confirming Definition: “The six employees” refers to A, B, C, D, E and F.
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The man was as busy as me last night so I’ll take this one.
The six employees" refers to A, B, C, D, E and F.[quote=“Funyarinpa, post:188, topic:1102”]
Clarification requested: All instances of the word “The boat” refers to the seafaring vessel the victim and the employees were presiding.
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All instances of the word “boat” used by me and Restkastel refer to the seafaring vessel the victim and the employees were on for the duration of the incident.
D did not aid the culprit.
None of the employees have stayed on the boat for longer than twice the duration of the cruise.
You can’t shake me off that easily, Witch of Nuggets.
Less than two weeks before the holiday cruise began, one of the employees had already boarded the ship. Perhaps they drove the ship to the harbor from which the cruise took off. This person didn’t leave the ship when it was waiting for the passengers of the cruise, and thus did not board the ship at the time when the ship left the harbor. This allows mystery assassin X to board the ship for the cruise.
Alternatively, during a prior holiday cruise, one of the employees had boarded the ship a couple of days before the cruise began, which allowed mystery assassin X to board the ship during the boarding time of the holiday cruise. Mystery assassin X then stayed on board the ship for years until the fateful cruise of legstabbery happened.
Huhuhu, I like that!
Clarification requested: “D did not aid the culprit.” means that none of the actions taken by D in this incident have helped the culprit proceed with the stabbing in any manner.
The door’s lock was intended to unlock itself after a set amount of time passes after locking the door. It was designed to be so. The culprit, X, is the one who designed the lock, hence why the lock had that trait and why X was aware of it. X got on the boat by hiding in a lifeboat located on the cruise. X disengaged the lifeboat from the cruise ship before midnight, hence why he was not among those “on the cruise ship” at midnight. X then climbed back up on the ship. X retrieved the kitchen knife from the drawer and went to victim V’s door, waited for the door to unlock itself, went in and stabbed V. V’s feverish state due to being ill the night before rendered him unable to call for help using his phone until after sunrise. If V was not ill, then V is paralyzed from the waist down, so he also did not feel getting stabbed and that is why he only called for medics after he woke up.
P.S: also awaiting a response to this post: [quote=“Funyarinpa, post:188, topic:1102”]
The cruise ship has a lifeboat…
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Please can that not become my new nickname…
Not a single employee has ever boarded the ship early!
How did he board the boat, when only 7 non staff members have boarded the boat on each official company holiday, and yet if he boarded it he did so on an official company holiday?
Okay, Witch of Nuggets. Whatever you say.
Mystery assassin X used to be an employee, and boarded the ship for a holiday cruise. His employment status changed before he left the boat, which means the above red doesn’t restrict him from staying on the boat until the current cruise.
One of the six employees or the victim boarded the ship early, but they were not an employee of the company at that time. They became an employee only after their early boarding, but before the cruise itself began.
If there is an eight non staff person X on the boat then they were never an employee of the company.
Since the official company holidays started no one new has been employed into the company that the victim works at.
It hasn’t been confirmed the victim still works at the design company. Whether the company he works for now hasn’t employed anyone new has no bearing on the design company if he doesn’t work there anymore.
the victim’s “room” is actually a big boat that has a (trap)door and which is connected to the cruise ship. between midnight and until after the stabbing, the boat was on the water alongside the cruise ship. This is when the culprit infiltrated the victim’s room: There was a period of time in which the victim’s room was not on the boat!
That’s a really creative idea, but unfortunately, the narrative says…
If the stabbing happened on the boat, and the stabber was in the same room as the victim, the stabber must’ve been in the boat, no?
…though I suppose it could be that two stabbings happened, and the one mentioned earlier in the narrative is not the legstabbing. This isn’t contradicted by any reds, I think. So, let me make a more general blue:
The stabbing did not happen on the boat. The victim’s room was not on the boat. This way, most anyone could’ve committed the stabbing. The victim left the boat after midnight and returned to “his room”, which was the real scene of the crime.