It seems there was a slight misunderstanding. Or you’re just trying to deflect.
Every employee was intended to board the ship before “the official boarding time of the holiday” for some purpose. A number of reds use the wording “the intended time” to supposedly prevent employees from boarding the ship before the boarding time, but if the employees were intended to board the ship before the holiday began, they would’ve “boarded at the intended time” without boarding the ship during the holiday.
There doesn’t seem to be many openings left for an eighth person to be on the ship. Perhaps the truth does lie elsewhere.
Every other year, two official company holidays take place. One of them is the week-long cruise, one is something different. Mystery person X boarded the ship during one of those other company holidays (along with six other people). He then stayed on the boat until the current holiday cruise.
Let’s get even more desperate.
One of the employees has a split personality. Their other personality is not considered an employee. While this other personality was in control, they boarded the ship before the holiday began. Then their personality switched back. This way, having already been on the ship, that employee is not among the seven people who board the ship for the holiday, leaving an opportunity for an eighth person to board.
Actually, let’s cut the middle man and get straight to the point.
One of the six employees or a boat staff member has a split personality that is the culprit who stabbed the victim.
I would consider the first two do not count as blue truths as they do not propose a theory to further the mystery, instead they are simply things that would be confirming definitions. Please reword them if you wish to use them.
All words synonymous to boat are referring to the same vessel in all previous red truths. There are no exceptions.
All methods of entering the boat fall under boarding or being smuggled on. There are no exceptions.
Nobody stopped being employed by the company while they were on the boat by any means besides death. There are no exceptions.
Picto will address Midsummers.
Hihihi! I see your blades coming for my board @midsummer! They’re getting so close!
Or at least that’s what you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!
Your blues may look like straight-balls certain to smash the vase they seem to be flying towards but they actually all have horrific spin, the kind that sends them drastically off course.
Allow me to prove that!
[quote=“midsummer, post:222, topic:1102”]
Every employee was intended to board the ship before “the official boarding time of the holiday” for some purpose. A number of reds use the wording “the intended time” to supposedly prevent employees from boarding the ship before the boarding time, but if the employees were intended to board the ship before the holiday began, they would’ve “boarded at the intended time” without boarding the ship during the holiday.[/quote]
The employees were intended to board the ship at “the official boarding time of the holiday”.
[quote=“midsummer, post:223, topic:1102”]
Every other year, two official company holidays take place. One of them is the week-long cruise, one is something different. Mystery person X boarded the ship during one of those other company holidays (along with six other people). He then stayed on the boat until the current holiday cruise. [/quote]
There is no more than one official company holiday in any given span of two years.
[quote=“midsummer, post:223, topic:1102”]
One of the employees has a split personality. Their other personality is not considered an employee. While this other personality was in control, they boarded the ship before the holiday began. Then their personality switched back. This way, having already been on the ship, that employee is not among the seven people who board the ship for the holiday, leaving an opportunity for an eighth person to board.
Actually, let’s cut the middle man and get straight to the point.
One of the six employees or a boat staff member has a split personality that is the culprit who stabbed the victim. [/quote]
Not a single person with a split personality is relevant to the outcome of this case.
Oh my, it seems I have to drop the mystery assassin X theory again. How regrettable. Here’s some reasoning.
An employee couldn’t have waited on the boat longer by becoming a non-employee and then regaining their status because
The culprit can’t have done this trick either since
To summarize, the seven employees have always attended the holiday, and have always boarded the boat during the holiday, meaning they are the seven people who board the ship every holiday for the past nine years. The only way an eighth person could get in is by having boarded the ship in advance.
However,
This means that unless there’s wordplay, an eighth person would’ve had to board the ship during the boarding time of a holiday in the past six years. However, seven employees have boarded the ship during all those holidays, unless my reasoning is wrong. Therefore it is impossible for a mystery assassin X to be on the ship, unless…
The above reds refer to some specific person X confined to a particular set of conditions specified in the blues they were a response to, and not “any eighth non-staff person on the ship”. As such, they do not prevent a person from boarding between the holidays.
"If X boarded the ship during one of the official company holidays then he did so within the last 6 years" actually means this: “If X boarded the ship during one of the official company holidays, he also boarded the ship within the last six years”. Furthermore, for “If this unknown person X does exist then he boarded the boat during the boarding time of one the company’s official company holidays” to be fulfilled, X just has to board the ship once in the past. Thus, it is possible for X to board the ship on a holiday more than nine years ago, leave the ship and board at any time between holidays during the last six years, and stay on the boat until the current holiday.
The possibility of an employee or a mystery person X spawning onto the boat without boarding it seems pretty impossible without violating Knox’ 4th. I’ve thought of all kinds of stuff involving split personalities or loss of identity or amnesia or stuff like that, but they’ve either been shut down or I haven’t been able to make a theory that doesn’t violate pre-existing reds.
I have to get going now, so I’ll come back to examine this reasoning for loopholes at a later time. I think there may have been some loopholes already disproven in red that I can’t include here due to time constraints. I encourage anyone else to go through those reds as well and think of a way to get someone onto the boat without being struck down by any of them.
**Your theory is waaaaaaaaaay off! That is to say that every red containing person X is referring to the idea of a non employee of the company non-staff person of interest to this incident.**
Okay then, I guess I’ll cut off that theory as well~
X has never boarded the ship during one of the official company holidays without it being within the last 6 years.
X has never boarded the ship without it being during one of the company’s official company holidays.
…X boarded the ship as a staff member and then suffered complete loss of identity due to some circumstances, perhaps brain damage. This means they essentially became a new person who has never been a staff member. This way there could be an eighth person on the boat who never boarded it because they began existing already on the boat.
You seem to still have some fight left in you. How… unexpected.
Well then, @midsummer.
Shall we dance?
No radical personality changes are relevant to the final solution of this game!
Why, of course I still have fight left in me. The truth hasn’t been brought to light yet, after all.
"This cruise on this boat" is arranged more than once every two years! One year, at least one of the 7 employees participated on the cruise at a different time than the official holiday. This left a spot open for mystery assassin X during the proper holiday of that year!
I must hand out my congratulations to @midsummer for felling my mystery so efficiently. Truly a tale worth telling.
I will allow him to say his bit, and then ask my fellow host @Restkastel if he has any objections.
Is there nothing left to discuss about what exactly took place inside the boat? I haven’t followed everyone’s blues all the time, so if someone came up with a definitive conclusion, I haven’t seen it yet.
Also, damn it, I managed to suggest like every single possible alternative for how an eighth person could be on the boat before the correct one. I was so close to giving up.
I have no fight left in me. A gentleman knows when to accept defeat.
Very well. It was a worthy battle. I’m not sure if I could’ve continued much longer - all that slashing around with countless blades of blue has left me quite exhausted. I will be enjoying an extended period of rest now that this merciless clash is over.
Thank you for setting up a fine board for us, @pictoshark. It was indeed brutal, but with so many people slashing away at it, it was bound to fall eventually.
However…
But the boat only travels the seas on a biyearly basis. This was stated in the narrative!
How do you answer this~?
Is this what pure evil looks like…?
This means the boat only travels on every other year, but can do the cruise any amount of times on the years it does travel.
The number of times it does the cruise are the same as the number of times it travels the seas.
Perhaps I should’ve made a better pick for my co host…
I’ve never seen such malice.