The victim has no split personalities.
I refuse. You have to corner me with a blue first Detective Mage! I’ll play more lax with the others but not with you!
Ohoho, are you serious?
Solid memes.
Someone left a knife glued to the ceiling of the room at some point before the victim went to sleep. It was calculated to fall down sometime during the night.
Too vague. Let me toss some leaves at you, see if you can weave a path through them!
Who did this?
How did they enter his room?
When did they enter his room?
The victim was stabbed through an accident.
The victim had the knife in their room and accidently stabbed themselves without noticing.
The victim was stabbed through Trap X, that is some sort of setup that made the knife move and stab the victim without being used by a person directly.
The victim fell unconscious in their room while holding the knife and the knife fell and stabbed them.
The knife found its way into the room through sheer coincidence and the victim accidently stabbed themselves without noticing. Or the knife stabbed the victim when it entered the room.
The culprit was someone who throws knives around for shits and giggles and one of them happened to get into the victim’s room somehow and stabbed the victim.
I did try to mess with that coded banner text, but there seems to be no shift cypher. (Thought it might be a shift of three.)
Surprised that someone else considered the “Watase --> Root Double” connection too, lol. I wouldn’t necessarily say that that Watase is “cool”, though. If we still consider roots, though…
3 is the square root of 9, cubic root of 27 (the 3 might be the degree of the root). The —
holy fucking shit
ahem
Although the door was “opened” for the medics, that does not require that the door be unlocked personally by the victim! The fourth time the door was unlocked being “as mentioned above” does not refer to the door being open for the medics to come in in the aftermath of the stabbing! The victim locked/unlocked the door for the fourth time before the door was opened for the medics!
D unlocked the door with their extra key for the culprit to enter the room after the victim turned in for the night and locked the door! After the culprit stabbed the victim in the leg, the culprit exited the room and D locked the door behind them!
Nobody else knew that the victim normally woke before daybreak! Hence, no one questioned him waking up after sunrise! Some trivial circumstance kept the victim from using the phone to call medics before daybreak, such as the phone being out of battery or the victim falling back into unconsciousness due to the wound! This is the truth behind the belated call for help!
There is a hole or other method of transportation in the door or in the room that let the attacker stab the victim by dropping or throwing the knife from outside the room!
More shotgunning.
Any of A through F are the culprit.
Any of the staff members is the culprit.
The culprit entered the room during any timespan where it was not locked.
The culprit had an extra key (either because they are a staff member or because they are D, or because D gave them the key) and entered the room at some point. Any point in time works.
The knife was not in the knife drawer when D got the knife.
I guess I can pursue this.
Who? One of the employees.
How? They accompanied the victim when he unlocked the door.
When? When the victim dropped his stuff there earlier in the day.
The victim rigged a trap to stab himself through the leg while he was unconscious.
The victim was stabbed with intent. It was not an accident that they were stabbed!
Be more specific. Can you describe this trap to me?
Too vague! So vague! So infinitely vague!
The culprit is not one of the members of staff (of the boat).
There! I’ve narrowed it down for you.
Who is the culprit? Keep it specific.
The victim did not consciously set up any kind of device to do as you just described.
When the victim unlocked the door for the first time he was the only one who passed through the doorway until he locked it for the first time.
I refuse. There is no point in attempting this if the basic concept that the red truth eliminates the problem of “I have no idea where to even begin reasoning, I don’t have nearly enough information to go off of.” If you do not accept a Devil’s Proof, pierce it with red. If there is anyone who should get more specific, it is you. Not I.
I permit you the ability to construct multiple blues to incriminate multiple people. They must be separate blues however.
Will that do?
for (letter a : [A,F]) construct blue statement a is the culprit.
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The door started out unlocked, or was accidentally left unlocked by staff at some point. This leaves room for someone to enter the room and do what I described during a different time frame than when the victim dropped his stuff there.
A staff member noticed the error and locked it back up before the victim got to their room after this.
The attacker hid himself in the victim’s luggage mentioned in this red:
The victim only locked and unlocked the door 4 times on the cruise so far, twice to place his stuff in his room, once to go in to go to sleep and once to open it again as mentioned above.
And when the victim came in to turn in for the night, before he could lock the door, the attacker knocked him unconscious, stab him, and used D’s stolen key to lock the door.
A has never accessed the knife drawer in their life.
C and E went to bed at 23:00 and did not wake up until after the stabbing occurred.
A and D have never entered the victim’s room.
B and F have never touched the knife in their lives.
The victim was stabbed by someone in the same room as them at the time.
The stabbing occurred after 24:00 of the first day of the cruise.
The victim locked his door for the second time at 22:30.
Excluding members of staff there were 7 people on the ship at 24:00.
Clarification:
A to F refers to the employees who are clients on the cruise.
The staff refers to the boat staff.
There is more than one ‘culprit’
?
But what if the knife was outside the knife drawer and A took it from there?
But what if the stabbing occurred before 23:00, or they were sleepwalking?
But what if the stabbing occurred outside the victim’s room in a different room?
But what if they were wearing gloves, so they technically ‘did not touch’ the knife?
See two quotes above.
The stabbing occurred inside the victim’s room.
The victim, C and E do not sleepwalk
Alright then Karifean. Stitch it together. How did this crime occur? How do you tie together your surviving blues. Weave me a truly epic tale, and expose my folly!