Investigations: [Concluded]

[Seon]

Thanks to...Edgar Allen Poe, Utano Shogo, and Ryukishi07 for inspiration

Welcome to the first game of Investigations, a mystery solving game with a twist! Here, you shall play the role of an amateur detective.

As a detective, your job would be, of course, to detect. You will determine how a culprit may have comitted a crime without the help of the incompetant police. You will never have to worry about whodunit or whydunit. You alredy know both! That would be because you are talking with the murderer right now.

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You glance down at the tabloids as you walk near the house of the victim. "Three days ago, after receiving a frantic phone call, an ambulance was dispatched to Ravenfalls county. When the emergency personnel, led by Mrs.Brown, rushed up the stairs, they found Mr. Brown dead of strangulation. The police arrived minutes after. ...despite being protected by a home secuirty system and enjoying living in a neighbourhood in which no crime had occurred in the last 4 years, Mr. Brown was found strangled in his sleep. The terrorized neighbours have expressed their condolences for Mrs. Brown (29) who found the body of her dead husband in her own bed when she woke up, and wish for the hasty arrest of the culprit.

The police have reported that all the doors and windows were locked by the time in which the emergency personnel arrived, and that the home secuirty system was engaged. So far, the police have been unable to find a logical explanation for the crime. However, there are rumours that Mr.Brown was threatened multiple times before his death..."

You sigh and pocket the tabloid. The line "despite being protected by a home secuirty system" bugs you considerably. That, and the fact that the murderer apparently killed the victim right next to his still breathing wife without her noticing.

You look up to examine the house.



It seems to be a two floor house. You know that, as with every other house in the neighbourhood, this house was fitted with an autolock. In addition, the sign saying "Protected by ADT" is pinned to the front lawn. Fat lot of good they did to the house's occupant, you think.

The entire area is cordoned off by yellow secuirty tape. A single man in blue guards the entryway. It seems as if there is no way at all you will be able to search the house yourself.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Objective is "how" it was done, then?

[PershsNhpios]

Bribe the man in blue and make an entrance.

Vote: Seon

[Seon]

Yes. Whodunit and whodunit is irrelevant: you know that the murderer is a killer who kills for the sake of making mysteries.

Ah yes. You MAY move around the character and ask questions and inquiries.

[Askthepizzaguy]

What markings does the victim have on his body?

Specifically, does it look like there are bruises consistent with hands or fingers, markings of that nature, on the victim's body?

Or, does it look like there was an object used for strangulation, such as a rope, cord, or sheet?


Edit: Or wait, I can't examine the body, can I?

[Seon]

You can't but sure. I will answer that question, the murderer used a rope of some kind to strangle his victim. No other bruises exist. But that's the lesser of the mystery here.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I would figure, if the wife is telling the truth, that it was self-strangulation, for reasons I won't get into here. Either he was suicidal or on drugs or what have you.


If not, it would be the wife or someone else still in the house.