The Mystery of the Island Mansion

[Karifean]

Nice job @Wonderlander! Now I kinda wish I didn’t just stop thinking, this was definitely a solution I should’ve been able to arrive at eventually myself >_> Oh well, next time.

Goddamnit @ghagler, calling a mangled-body-disguise “looking mangled objectively without any room for doubt” is evil >.< Probably would’ve taken me plenty a while to get over that, even though in hindsight in the very same sentence you still dance around the issue of the body actually being dead or not. Well, I tip my hat. You truly are a worthy twister of the red truth

I won’t question you on the small details; a gentleman knows when he’s been beat.

Now now, it’s good to know when to give up, but we can’t leave while it still feels so woefully incomplete, now can we? What was born from illusions must return to illusions. All of it. In the mystery genre there can be no death unless the detective performs the last rites. No more blue, just plain white. @Wonderlander, you have the honors if you feel so inclined.

[Wonderlander]

But it is unfair to you all if I hog the entire fun all to myself, is it not? I pass my thinking hat to you guys. Please don’t hold back on my account. @Rabla @Karifean @Aspirety.

[ghagler]

Now I kinda wish I didn’t just stop thinking, this was definitely a solution I should’ve been able to arrive at eventually myself >_>

I was honestly surprised you didn’t grab onto that train of thought from refusing to say A was dead, and from some of the small changes I added to the things you asked me to repeat, haha. But as you say, next time! It’s always harder to trick someone the second time around.

Now now, it’s good to know when to give up, but we can’t leave while it still feels so woefully incomplete, now can we? What was born from illusions must return to illusions. All of it. In the mystery genre there can be no death unless the detective performs the last rites.

To be honest, part of me was worried that if I just responded with “But what about this and this and this Red Truth?” that they’d assume those Red Truth contradicted their premise somehow, haha. I’ve had it happen before. But you’re right: let’s wrap this up in-character and beat down this illusion of the Golden Witch!

maybe someone should write up another long-term mystery for us to challenge now that Wonderlander has dominated this one?

Guess we need a new gameboard to play with.

If no one else writes one up in the coming weeks, I’ll probably take a break from my current work to write up a new one; this one was kind of old anyway. Though hopefully we’ll get more writers in here!

[Karifean]

In that case I’ll take you up on that~

Nine people on an island - B through I and the killer
A’s voice through the door - A telephone call from afar
The locked door of the study - Simply locked from within
A mangled corpse on the floor - Our murderer is a good actor
Two visitors take their last breaths - A live corpse can still kill
inside a locked room - Knocking or unlocking, either is chill
And the final tragic deaths - Encountered as they went
though no one could’ve brought about their doom - Besides our unbound murderer friend

And with that you shall be laid to rest. Good times were had.