A little nugget of anti-mystery [GAME 4] [SOLVED]

[pictoshark]

B stole a kitchen knife on a previous company cruise over 5 years ago and used that to commit the murder.

B used a key he stole over 5 years ago to commit the stabbing. This key was eventually replaced with the one under D’s ownership.

If this were a fragment of mystery that might have been the answer. I would have bowed. Admitted defeat. Congratulated you all.

Unfortunately, this is an anti-mystery!

No Dine!
No Knox!
No Fair!

In other words, it is not a mystery!

But it happens!
It always happens!
#Let it happen.

The Kitchen Knives have switched types since then. B has never stolen one of the knives in his life.

Nay, that red is too kind. Let’s see here…

B and F have never possessed any of the knives of the type that was stabbed into the victim even temporarily. Because a dinner with tough meat that requires such a knife has never been served by sheer coincidence all of the times they have been on this cruise.

How’s that?

[midsummer]

Not a single person has died as a result of this incident.

(…)

And it could be amusing to see you attempt to revise this.

…Challenge accepted.

The assassin removed one of the employees by throwing him off the boat. However, this did not kill him - they’re still floating around in the ocean, or if they were lucky, they were rescued by someone. Regarding the second victim, the assassin stabbed him in the leg, which woke up his target. They struggled, and the victim was either thrown or decided to escape through the window. Like the first victim of the assassin, they’re not dead… yet, at least.

Also, something that caught my attention before that I forgot was this curious line:

Witches have the ability to call people to give required testimony.

Does this mean we can ask for the characters of this story to give us more information about the case? In that case, I have testimony I wanted to request. I would like the medics who entered the room to provide first aid to describe two things - the bloodstains on the scene (was there a trail of blood from the bed to the door, was the bed soaked in blood or was there just a tiny amount of it, was there blood anywhere else that they saw) and the wound on the victim (where exactly was it on the leg, opinion on why the victim didn’t bleed out if he had the wound for longer than a few minutes, was the wound serious enough to kill him without first aid, how long he would’ve lasted if it was fatal…). Sure, testimony from the victim would be valuable as well, but that can wait. If this testimony thing indeed is what I thought it was.

[Antra]

I knew that Anti-Mystery sign would came back to haunt us…

So, you’re saying that B and F don’t even know the knife used in the stabbing even exist?

[pictoshark]

First your request:

Does this mean we can ask for the characters of this story to give us more information about the case? In that case, I have testimony I wanted to request.

Well you can, but you’d need my permission as Territory Lord first. And I’m nooooooot going to grant it. Maybe if you appeal to @Restkastel’s compassion? Kuhuhuhuhu…

Onto your blue:

The assassin removed one of the employees by throwing him off the boat. However, this did not kill him - they’re still floating around in the ocean, or if they were lucky, they were rescued by someone. Regarding the second victim, the assassin stabbed him in the leg, which woke up his target. They struggled, and the victim was either thrown or decided to escape through the window. Like the first victim of the assassin, they’re not dead… yet, at least.

I will revise a previous red. And crush you!

Earlier I said that aside from boat staff there were only 7 people on the boat at midnight.

I will now confirm their identities. At midnight the non-staff members on the boat were A, B, C, D, E, F and the victim.

What will you do now, Middle Suuuuuuuuuuuummer??

Kyhahahaha!

[midsummer]

At midnight the non-staff members on the boat were A, B, C, D, E, F and the victim.

…The assassin arrived on the boat only after midnight. Perhaps he entered from a separate boat, or parachuted from the sky.

[pictoshark]

…The assassin arrived on the boat only after midnight. Perhaps he entered from a separate boat, or parachuted from the sky.

In this entire gameboard, No-one has set foot on this boat who was not on the boat as it set off from the harbor when the boat on the first day.

[Antra]

Someone call a exorcist, I think Beato has possessed Picto.

[Restkastel]

Maybe if you appeal to @Restkastel’s compassion?

-insert laughter here-

I have a compassion rating of 1. Good luck with that.

[midsummer]

We can do this all day.

No-one has set foot on this boat who was not on the boat as it set off from the harbor when the boat on the first day.

The assassin was there when the boat left the harbor on the first day - that is, the first day of the first cruise, not this one.

Alternatively, The assassin was there on the boat when the boat left the harbor on the first day of this cruise. However, he left the boat immediately afterwards

…But I suppose this is getting a bit pointless. Then again, it’s an anti-mystery, so all is fair. You could always just deny the existence of a third party assassin who is not among A, B, C, D, E or F and isn’t the victim.

[Antra]

I wonder if there’s anything to be gained from reading the (EP5 spoilers) Anti-Mystery vs Anti-Fantasy Tip…

[pictoshark]

Someone call a exorcist, I think Beato has possessed Picto.

What do you meeeeeeeeeeeeean, @Antra? This is my normal personaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaality!

The excitement of a gameboard. The tea boiling through my body. It brings out my true self! I hope all of you are prepared! My gameboard is sharp as a diamond saw. And it spins at RPMs you couldn’t even begin to measure.

Your dull shoddy blues are going to need to be stronger than that!

Go! Turn your brains. Feel the sparks. Do you have the circuitry necessary to win? @midsummer might be spinning fast enough… Can one of you strike it before him?

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On every one of the official company holidays, which occur every other year, exactly 7 non staff members have boarded the ship.

The culprit has never worked as a member of staff on this ship.

and to pull something from the narrative…

The 7 employees of this company have been on this cruise on this boat, every other year for the last 9 years.

[midsummer]

On every one of the official company holidays, which occur every other year, exactly 7 non staff members have boarded the ship.

The culprit has never worked as a member of staff on this ship.

(…)

The 7 employees of this company have been on this cruise on this boat, every other year for the last 9 years.

Well, then. On one of the previous cruises, one of the company members was pulling double-duty, and was a member of the staff. This means that even though he was on the cruise, there’s room for a bonus assassin in “7 non staff members”. Since the bonus assassin was there when the ship departed that one time, he “has set foot on this boat when it departed from the harbor” and thus could have entered the boat later on during the other cruise in which the stabbing incident happened.

…I’m pretty sure this whole thing is just a distraction to keep me occupied with some frivolous angle that couldn’t be farther from the truth, but gameboards are supposed to be fun and pursuing this possibility amuses me greatly.

[pictoshark]

On one of the previous cruises, one of the company members was pulling double-duty, and was a member of the staff. This means that even though he was on the cruise, there’s room for a bonus assassin in “7 non staff members”. Since the bonus assassin was there when the ship departed, he “has set foot on this boat when it departed from the harbor” and thus could have entered the boat later on during the cruise in which the stabbing incident happened.

None of the employees have ever served as staff on the boat.

[Antra]

Repetition requested: C and E are different people than the person who got stabbed.

[pictoshark]

Repetition requested: C and E are different people than the person who got stabbed.

I’ll grant you that.

C and E are different people than the person who got stabbed.

[midsummer]

The 7 employees of this company have been on this cruise on this boat, every other year for the last 9 years.

That’s probably meant to imply that the seven employees have remained unchanged throughout the 9 years, but as long as it is only an implication, it can be challenged. The assassin participated on a cruise as a member of the company, but he has since left the company. This means they’ve boarded the ship as it leaves once before and are not prevented from entering the boat after midnight to attack the victim in this current cruise.

[Antra]

C or E before 23:00, set up a trap meant to stab the victim after 24:00.

[pictoshark]

The assassin participated on a cruise as a member of the company, but he has since left the company. This means they’ve boarded the ship as it leaves once before and are not prevented from entering the boat after midnight to attack the victim in this current cruise.

Since the official company holidays started no one new has been employed into the company that the victim works at.

Always falling into my traps~

C or E before 23:00, set up a trap meant to stab the victim after 24:00.

Kyahahahahahahahahahaha

The victim was stabbed by another person. And that person was holding the knife!

[midsummer]

What can I say? The traps you lay are just so fun that I can’t help myself. It’s not like we have a time limit, after all, so I can take all the time I want enjoying this scenic path to nowhere.

Speaking of traps, the flaw in that red of yours is way too obvious.

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 that the victim of the stabbing was an employee of the company. Thus, if the assassin is still an employee, seven employees have been on the cruise on the boat every other year for the last 9 years, it just happens that this time one of them, the assassin, wasn’t there from the very beginning, but joined them after the first day had ended.

Or, The holidays became “official” only after the employees of the company had changed.

EDIT: Can’t believe I missed The victim doesn’t work for the design company and thus whether their company has new hires or not has nothing to do with this case.

…But I suppose I’ve overlooked a certain red.

On every one of the official company holidays, which occur every other year, exactly 7 non staff members have boarded the ship.

Since the culprit has never worked as a staff member on the ship, and we know that A, B, C, D, E, F and the victim boarded the ship, it’s impossible for an eight person to board the ship anyway.

…unless the assassin was a staff member but never actually did any work because he was an assassin, thus fulfilling “The culprit never worked as a member of staff on this ship”.

[pictoshark]

Interesting theories…

TOO BAD THEY’RE ABOUT TO BE CARVED TO PIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEECES

It hasn’t been confirmed that the victim of the stabbing was an employee of the company. Thus, if the assassin is still an employee, seven employees have been on the cruise on the boat every other year for the last 9 years, it just happens that this time one of them, the assassin, wasn’t there from the very beginning, but joined them after the first day had ended.

But it has been confirmed to an extent, he was at the very least an employee when he boarded the boat.

Also I think I have to repeat something.

No-one has set foot on this boat who was not on the boat as it set off from the harbor when the boat on the first day.

The first day refers to the first day of this cruise. If someone was not on the boat at that point as the boat left then they did not set foot on the boat at any point during this gameboard (so during this cruise).

The holidays became “official” only after the employees of the company had changed.

The official company holidays have been “official” ever since they began.

Since the culprit has never worked as a staff member on the ship, and we know that A, B, C, D, E, F and the victim boarded the ship, it’s impossible for an eighth person to board the ship anyway.

…unless the assassin was a staff member but never actually did any work because he was an assassin, thus fulfilling “The culprit never worked as a member of staff on this ship”.

The culprit has never been employed as a member of staff on the ship.