Kasimir

If no one's challenging you to a Trainer Battle, then it's certainly you!

You know, the last time I picked a character name in that vein, I accidentally named my character Irish for rectum :/ Be funnier if their roles reversed @Araris Valerian ICYMI.

Only a breath away from Ahriman? Is this an omen?

In the hopes of making Araris RP as the Aracle, I'm going to break the pattern and sign up with an A name >:) Aurel Kourakis is a new member of the SPF, and looking to take on an actual case for the first time.

Your pen, your choice!

Hmm. Two questions: 1. If you sniff it very lightly in a well-ventilated area, does anything smell off? 2. No white specks or fuzz? 3. What happens if you cap the bottle and shake it gently. More or less specks? My current take is that it looks like dye separation rather than SITB but again, comfort level issues - if you aren't remotely willing to take the risk, definitely just throw it out. If not, I'd say dedicate a pen to it just in case so in the absolute worst case, you won't have cross-contamination, and then take it from there. Edited to add: Sorry, I should clarify I've experienced this with Kyo-no-oto Aonibi and Diamine Eau de Nil. In the case of Eau de Nil, it's very obvious sedimentation and it reduces with shaking. Shaking doesn't fix the Aonibi issue but I've been using it in a beater Jinhao that's been dedicated to the ink with zero issues. (Beater for cross-contamination worries.) No mould, no smell, no fuzz on the pen and it's been months.

What kind of bits? If it's mould, kill it with fire. If the ink is shedding pigment, that's less of an issue.

Thank the Force, I can go play Wrath without guilt now Similar, but 'Religious Worship' now makes sense to me though I see why it threw us off. Religious Worship - victim was praying not to die in the Highstorm, or just praying because Highstorms are terrifying crem in a hut/shack.

That's my problem right now, yes. The other issue with Fire is it's weird calling it at Noon. I've also got a WMG relating Aimian to Noon over the shadow problem but it's so tenuous I don't feel remotely confident about it. Hoo boy okay crack time: TJ = Enhanced Strength + Portrait. It's a nude painting and uh, something religious...yeah no that's not gonna work.

Why couldn't you have the ritual be in the Cellar or in a Temple? Dakhor monks aren't exactly ostracised or a splinter sect, given they're part of the main religion of Fjorden. Here's another guess, that doesn't fully work but: Wiz = Black Frayn + Grand Robe. The slight twist/problem is that Black Frayn is an addictive drug and a poison, so you'd think that Poisoning/Sickness is the appropriate box, but suppose that Araris had in mind an accidental overdose like the Straff Venture scenario? One of the properties of Black Frayn is it makes the victim feel warm, as though they are burning a metal. Suppose the victim undressed under the influence of Black Frayn prior to passing away? The downside is I can't make sense of the Religious Worship issue in this scenario which makes me feel as though I'm missing something.

I'm not sure it is, and am relooking the religion Evidence clues, but also good to get it swept off the table for real either way. I agree with TJ's acid objection but just don't really feel other options make much sense. Hope springs ever eternal, they say. I do have some yellow Maybes I could probably add back in, but still don't feel the Nakedness is easy to construct a coherent narrative around given what we have. Edited to add: I've been trying to do that, yeah, since I think PoE is basically the main way to go here

If this is right, someone gotta play the Digivolution song.

Sorry man, just felt like info overload rather than highlighting things that jumped out at me Yes and no - the link I provided shows he has thought that way before and part of the FS job is to try to give you a plausible narrative to make sense of the Method and Evidence, but I'd still argue that the Aons are probably not straightforwardly the best answer in this scenario. So I don't really disagree. See? Also, because there's just a nice Sea/Ocean tile that Araris could have used. Yes, because I've played this game IRL donkey years ago and this is an adaptation of the game And as I've indicated earlier, this is constant in this game: From the rule post, emphasis mine. The Oracle chooses the Location tiles, and the Scene tiles are randomly selected. In other words, Location is extremely important (in my view) because it is a deliberate choice on the part of the FS and therefore contains information

I'm mostly thinking about the clothing damage case - I wouldn't personally consider 'clothing got ripped to shreds but still not exactly naked' to be Untidy; I'd be closer to considering it Naked than Untidy. I don't disagree, but it's largely my main suspicion at the moment because of the Nakedness problem. We need a Method (I think) which can cause sufficient clothing damage. I might have been fine with Nightmaw, but Hut/Shack is very much not Wilderness. Fire or an accident with Aon Ehe is possible, as I've begun to question Glow Paste but when I think about it, Dusk or Night feels more intuitive to signal Glow Paste. We could say the Nakedness is not Method-related but actually meant to suggest that the Evidence is an article of clothing, but that limits us to <Mastrell Sash (non-starter for me), Mistcoat, Grand Robe, Uniform.> For Mistcoat, we're looking at JNV, with the closest to accident probably being...Buried Alive? But IDK, that feels more like Suffocation to me. For Grand Robe, we're looking at Wiz, and I think that probably calls for Patji's Finger or Aon Ehe. But most of the dangerous wildlife that are drawn by Patji's Finger are nocturnal, from what I can recall, so I'm not sure Patji's Finger is a good match for noon. Aon Ehe is interesting because on further reflection, starting a fire at Noon is counterintuitive - you'd do so at Dusk/Night. So I lean against that. There's Ragged Cloak with Bookwyrm, but basically all of Bookwyrm's methods are a poor fit to me. For Silho, I feel like we'd maybe have to go with Betrayal, but that makes no sense of the Religious Worship issue. Lifeless Soldier could work, but the Hut/Shack is ??? Why not Battlefield since the Evidence on this hypothesis is Uniform? I will say I come back to Silho quite a bit because of the A'kar's Symbol, which is White Sand-related, and could see the solar/noon connection there for worship. But I'm having difficulty making sense of Silho's methods given the clues. Fair. I did think Noon could rule out (at least) some of the more Night type Evidence/Method options, like Shades (generally more lethal at Night), Nightmaws only go out at Night, Mug of Ale, but that's still eh. What I said above, mostly. I think it rules out some of the weirder Methods and Evidences but don't take it to be key. I think there's what Elan noted in the last run of the game, which was that the victimology itself was accidental (i.e. it wasn't meant to kill that particular victim.) It's worth noting that both runs had the Accident clue, with the first being Booby Trap and the second being Deathants. But that's a bit harder in this context if we're postulating the victim was deliberately selected. Would agree it feels to me that the place the body was found is most likely the place the murder took place. I take the most powerful part of the combination and Method to indicate that anything related to Drowning and Patji Animals should be ruled out. I'd also exclude kill methods that tend to be associated with more urban settings, e.g. Feast-related poisons or Rioting (probably need a mob for this!) Leaning PoE right now, but fair. True. It's where edge cases involving drowning or fire come to mind, but I still feel the problem with Drowning is there's literally an Ocean location card, why not use that? Fire is also still a very tough call at Noon, and easier for Araris to evoke it by selecting Dusk or Night. Mostly what I'd pick Hut/Shack for - Glow Paste largely for the Threnody associations, and the fact it's not very useful in a densely-populated area. But the fact it's Noon makes me reconsider Glow Paste. Edited to add: @Amanuensis - Oh right, and Hidden Message is more a Wild Mass Guess at this point, with my feeling that a Hut/Shack might be 'out of the way' enough on the list of location options to be associated potentially with a Hidden Message. I'm less convinced of this and more trying to explore what it might mean for location to point to Evidence instead, as up to this point I've taken it to be more indicative of Method.

[OOC: Gotta love games with totally wild mechanics ] Edited to add: Yeah, I wouldn't completely rule out the Aon cases: We're not just looking to get into the mind of a killer, gentlespren. We're looking to get into the mind of one of the most Evil, most dangerous, bus-driving murderers in the whole of the splintered 17thShardsmere! We're trying to understand how Araris Valerian himself thinks; may God have mercy on our souls. Edited to add 2: @Amanuensis Question for you. Suppose the Location question is taken to be Evidence indicative rather than merely Method indicative. Does this change your view of what's possible? I could see Glow Paste or Hidden Message potentially re-entering in such a case.

[OOC: Leaving that to your judgement. I'm definitely tempted to/am considering using mine on that combination today as well. Then again, there might also be value in hearing from Striker early, if only because a Striker read might also help. To be clear, by 'further clarity', am referring to Araris's next clue, since I figure he will probably replace the clue that he notices we are all struggling the most with, so might be In Progress or Clothes. Beyond the new clue, there's probably something to be said about which clue he selects, since that might indicate we are most barking up the wrong tree there.]

Was going to post but waiting for someone - it's my lead option now actually. I have a bunch of yellows (maybes) but Acid is my main green. Jean-Guy muttered to himself and sipped his coffee. No Scene-of-Crime team. What the blazes was Silverlight playing at? What they did know came from the local Silverlight Oracle, who'd called himself the Ja. Back on Scadrial, the investigators would have set up a HQ and begun to work over the various leads. What they had were telepathic messages from the Ja, and Jean-Guy figured if that guy could put thoughts in his head, he could jolly well solve the bloody murder himself. "Fancy Investiture tricks," he muttered, disgruntled. No substitute for the proper hard work of asking the right questions and a good Scene-of-Crime team. Right. He pulled himself together and went over what the Ja had indicated. No point cursing out the kayana Silverlight people. There was a killer somewhere. Victim died completely naked, at noon, in a small hut or shack. Was engaged in religious worship at the time of death, and the victim's death was an accident, or, which Jean-Guy thought was far more likely, was made to look like an accident, which seemed to suggest that they were going to have a right headache trying to charge whoever it was with murder. Not his problem, though. His job was finding the killer in a way that could ensure some form of prosecution. Still, at least if they managed to prove the killer was trying to pass it off as an accident, that was mens rea down, cased closed, your Honour. Far as Jean-Guy was concerned, that sounded pretty good. As good as it got anyway when there was a murder. He sat down and wrote down what he knew in his notebook. A new notebook for each crime, that was the rule. Silverlight was lax, sure, but there was no sense in getting into bad habits. (Assumption 1): LOCATION is significant. [=It is significant that Araris chose Hut/Shack over 23 other options. This should instantly lead us to rule out options that are better suited to the marketplace/town square, to a safehouse, to an arena, the wilderness, or a battlefield. In my view, this removes most drowning-related options immediately. Similar for weapon-related options and Patji.] (Assumption 2): CAUSE of DEATH is significant. [=Araris would not pick a counterintuitive cause of death. Recall that Araris knows the Method and the Evidence selected by the Murderer. His job is to breadcrumb us towards getting it, within the rules of the game. I don't see Araris seeing poison and picking a contrived story with an accident without some factor, e.g. in the Evidence, forcing it. Similarly, I don't see Araris seeing something like a weapon and selecting accident instead of significant injury or bloodloss. The more contrived he gets, the more we struggle to get it.] (Assumption 3): NAKEDNESS should not be taken literally. [=Nakedness is a constrained choice - there are only so many options there, e.g. Bizarre, Neat, Untidy, Elegant, Shabby. I take Nakedness to loosely refer to anything from 'some clothing damage' to 'actually naked.' The fact we didn't get Untidy inclines me towards ruling out any Method that involves a scuffle between the victim and the murderer.] (Assumption 4): RELIGIOUS WORSHIP is a constrained choice. [=Similar reasoning to Assumption 3. I'm not as strong about this because I feel there's a decent chance that Nakedness and Religious Worship could point to the Evidence either being an article of clothing or religious in nature. That being said, again, there are only so many options, e.g. Feast, Trading, Social Visit, Assembly, Entertainment. I think the fact Araris didn't go for those allows us to rule out certain options like poisons (a shoo-in for Feast!) and wooden coins (don't feel as strongly about this but think that's a Trading shoo-in as well.) With these assumptions guiding him, Jean-Guy narrowed down some leads he reckoned should be investigated. Isolated Methods: Most Likely: Acid. Acid might cause clothing damage, though Jean-Guy was pretty sure the corpse itself would be in poor condition. Perhaps this was why Silverlight lacked a Scene-of-Crime team. Maybe: Aon Daa, Kandra Digestive Acids, Aon Ehe, Soulcasting, Steelrunning, Hemalurgic Spike, Highstorm, Fire, Aon Tia, Aimian, Essence Marks, Enhanced Strength, Midnight Essence, Lifeless Soldier, Mistwraith, Bloodsealing Of these, Jean-Guy hesitated on including the Aons, or Soulcasting, or Steelrunning, or Essence Marks. Midnight Essence and Lifeless felt like edge cases, but Jean-Guy couldn't really see a Lifeless-caused death, however accidental, taking place in a hut or a shack. Anything else that was remotely Invested seemed better classed as supernatural, rather than an accident. He'd tried similar restrictions to locate the key piece of evidence, but discovered there were just too many possibilities. Significantly, the known MOs were restricted to the following individuals: Jacob (Xino - Aon Daa, Kandra Digestive Acids), Jango (Wiz - Aon Ehe), Jariel (Striker - Acid), Jerome (Sart - Soulcasting), Jatrim (Mat - Steelrunning, Hemalurgic Spike, Highstorm), J'aman (Aman - Fire), Jello (Archer - Aon Tia), JJ (TJ - Aimian, Essence Marks, Enhanced Strength), Just Judge Jehoshaphat (Fifth - Midnight Essence), Jaculiferous Jack (Silho - Lifeless Soldier, Mistwraith), and Jorazh (Alpha - Bloodsealing.) The more Jean-Guy thought about it, he really wasn't sure. Methods such as Essence Marks seemed to be most intuitively supernatural, and yet he could plausibly imagine them being passed off as accidents. And he could not determine if that truly contravened Assumption 2; as a result, he left them in, despite indicating his uncertainty and his preference to focus on non-supernatural methods. Theoretically, the Ja should probably have realised there was some element of confusion there and accounted for it, which might be a strike against the notion of supernatural methods. Tabulating them against the results from evidence that could be classed as manmade, and restricting his table to only those he felt were fairly probable guesses, Jean-Guy scribbled: Assassin Method Key Evidence Xino Kandra Digestive Acids Horseshoes, False Beard Striker Acid Shu-Korath Pendant Mat Hemalurgic Spike, Highstorm Discarded Weapon Aman Fire Aluminium Ingots, Fancy Dress TJ Aimian, Enhanced Strength Musical Instrument, Wig Fifth Midnight Essence Wooden Coins, Aluminium Hat Silho Lifeless Soldier, Mistwraith Handkerchief, Uniform, Water Bottle, A'kar's Symbol The issue was, as far as Jean-Guy could tell, the combination of clues so far pointed towards Jariel (Striker.) Acid, as J'aman had pointed out, seemed to partly address some of their concerns, and the Shu-Korath pendant as evidence might explain why the victim had been found dead in the middle of religious worship. There were reasons Jean-Guy could give to discount a decent chunk of his table: Horsehoes and the False Beard were certainly manmade but gelled poorly with the idea of being in the middle of religious worship. This suggested there was a better fit somewhere. There wasn't really a clear connection between that element and Kandra Digestive Acids, either. For this reason, he was not so willing to suspect Jacob (Xino.) He felt that while the victim could have died to a Hemalurgic Spiking gone wrong, or to a Highstorm, the Discarded Weapon was a strange clue. To be sure, the rest of Jatrim's (Mat's) evidence items all appeared to be manmade apart from an atium bead, but they also better fit a Feast than religious worship. Fire was a method that appeared rather promising, but suffered from similar problems: the Aluminium Ingots pointed to Trading, while the Fancy Dress pointed to a Social Visit or a Feast, in Jean-Guy's eyes. An Aimian or Enhanced Strength might also have accidentally done for the victim, but the Musical Instrument was better placed for Entertainment or a Feast, and similarly for a Wig. It was just barely possible the Aluminium Hat might fit with a Religious ritual, but Wooden Coins seemed closer to a Social Visit, Entertainment, or Trading, and Jean-Guy reckoned he would favour an Assembly for the Aluminium Hat. No one was kayana enough to worship with aluminium, surely. Not even on Silverlight. Jean-Guy associated Lifeless Soldier and Mistwraith murders with other locations: battlefields and slums. A hut or a shack was a strange place. The evidence items too, with the exception of A'kar's Symbol, which was religious, appeared better suited for a Social Visit or a Feast. So yeah. That's where I am at right now. [OOC: Yes yes, hold your pants, Mr Ja Sir, I know, I am not making an Accusation right now, I am just laying out my case/thoughts ] Edited to add: [OOC: As I've indicated in Jean-Guy's thoughts, I'm in two minds about those. I can in general see them being passed off as accidents, but also feel that Araris has a more direct category for those, i.e. Supernatural cause of death. That being said, I could see something like edge cases like being killed by Midnight Essence, or Aon Tia dumping the victim someplace else. I'm leaning no for now until there's further clarity on the situation. I will say that I feel it is fairly clear in a number of cases that there are probably other reasons to discount them, e.g. Dakhor Ritual should've had Temple as the location - combined with Religious Worship, we would've gotten it off the bat. ]

I admit, I am thinking Fire My main issue with air-powered crossbow and the reason I ruled most of the weapon cases out is I could definitely see an accidental weapons discharge leading to death, but feel this is the sort of case where you select a location like: SAFEHOUSE, ROOFTOPS, ARENA, BATTLEFIELD, and severe injury, loss of blood, or just anything but accident as cause of death. I feel as though it's not a mistake to give a significant amount of evidential weight to the Location clue because Araris made a choice out of twenty options there, which in my view makes it more intentional and far less 'best of a bad lot' than anything else on the table. I am ruling in Survivor's Necklace though. Recognise I'm naysaying a lot right now but am still working on my PoE spreadsheet. Same but given the options are basically just Neat, Untidy (suggests a scuffle!), Elegant, Shabby, Bizarre, Naked, I'm choosing to read this as a granularity issue and assuming that any kill method that leads to clothing damage (e.g. Nightmaw) might explain 'Naked.' Oh right, that was another reason I ruled out some precision weapons like crossbow - didn't feel they could cause enough clothing damage to explain the nakedness. My brain is currently on weird stuff like Aon Tia. Edited to add: I hard-ruled out Burned Alive At Stake - felt this is a straightforward Town Square / Marketplace location choice. Edited to add 2: Mea culpa - twenty four choices rather than twenty. My point stands though.

Put this the other way. You are Araris. You win with the Village. Why would you pick Hut/Shack over Temple/Monastery knowing that Religious Worship + Temple should point to Dakhor Ritual? I'd almost argue that this is reason to presume that he's hinting the answer isn't Dakhor Ritual for Method. Edited to add: Treat 'to point to' as 'a reasonable player would probably associate with.' Since it's essentially sophisticated charades, what Araris doesn't pick should be just as indicative as what he does. Edited to add 2: But again. You are Araris. You win with the Village. Why not simply select 'Sickness/Poisoning', which is more direct? Sure, the Village would have a few bad leads because of all the poisons, but that's arguably closer than 'Accident.' Edited to add 3: FWIW, Sickness/Poisoning + Feast feels like a pretty good hint that it's Poison-type Methods rather than Sickness-type Methods so I feel that the fact he didn't go in those directions is pretty indicative too.

Yeah but that was a good catch from @Archer. I do wonder if it's the contrastive problem again: not Entertainment, not Assembly, not Trading, not Social Visit, not Feast, so this was the best of bad fits. Not sure. Hut/shack could suggest something more wilderness-related, as Archer I think pointed out. But that doesn't seem to gel very well with Religious Worship unless it's something like a small, cult-like thing. I looked at Dakhor Ritual a bit but the more I think about it, the more it doesn't feel quite right, because you'd expect the closer clue in that case to be Temple/Church. But keep in mind something: Cf: In other words, Araris thinks that Hut/Shack is a much better option than: Everything there. Note: Sea/Ocean, Wilderness. I don't think I can emphasise this more. This in my view rules out a lot of the Patji animal-related Methods, as well as Drowning and Dueling, off the top of my head. I am actually more dubious of Archer's insistence on Highstorm now because Wilderness or Fields or anywhere in the open would likely have been more suggestive of Highstorm. FWIW, the fact it is Noon leans me against Shades as well.

To be fair, this is 90% of the game right here I lean towards this a little, if only because it feels like Araris is at the mercy of what the Murderer picks. If the Murderer chooses disconnected Method and Evidence, he has to make the best of it. Hmm. Possible I guess. What's drawing me up is the fact we know it's meant to appear to be an accident in the middle of religious worship. That throws out some of the more exotic animal options, and probably poisons. I guess that theoretically leaves Aons in if only because the other options are worse for that? Also the fact the victim is naked. Really makes me think hypothermia but that's not an option >>

Just imagine what this is like doing it in person... Hael's sort of game though tbh. Don't believe so. But I think narrowing down to possibilities should check for consistency between the two. If there's no player overlaps between your choices, then something has gone wrong. Possible, but if someone blows away a guess, that's a problem. Work in progress on my end, will share conclusions later. Don't feel the visualisations shared this cycle have been particularly helpful so I am experimenting with something on my end. Edited to add: @Anyone / @Araris Valerian / @Devotary of Spontaneity - What's Aon Reod? Am aware of Reo, but feels like a mix between the Reod and Reo? Edited to add 2: Concur with @Ashbringer - likely indicative of Awakening. Helpful in this context because we know Araris selected Manmade over Invested. Feels like the contrastive issue matters here, i.e. the fact Araris felt X fit better than Y. Edited to add 3: Au contraire. Or rather, yes sort of, but my read is that it's explaining what event was going on at the time of the murder - i.e. what was the victim engaged in. The victim died during some sort of event that occurred during religious worship. Problem is that we're down to the contrastive issue again - if Tia was used to transport the victim into the ocean where the victim then drowned, do you consider this Supernatural or Suffocation? I think a fair case could be made for either. I think the key thing to remember is we can't look at the clues in isolation. They have to be taken together.

[OOC: I guess spelling my thoughts out more clearly since I'm no longer on mobile - it works out to me as a bunch of trade-offs. I don't want to oversell how powerful a wrong guess is either - a wrong guess just rules out a specific set of combinations from our possibility matrix, i.e. A + B + C. Suppose someone guesses Archer is the Assassin and he picked as the Method Aon Sheo, with the Footprint being the Key Evidence. If Araris says this is wrong, it could be wrong because: i) Archer isn't the Assassin -> Extremely bad, as the guess is 'cold.' ii) Archer is the Assassin, and both Method and Key Evidence are wrong. -> Could be worse. Lukewarm. iii) Archer is the Assassin, and one of the Method/Key Evidence is wrong, but the other is correct. -> Best case scenario. So being told it's wrong isn't that helpful since we sort of need to know which is the possibility we're working with and they can't really be treated as equipossible (well they can but it's the wrong understanding of probability in this context I would argue.) But it still does help us cross out a set of options. Which means a lot hinges around the combination you choose, which should ideally be well-informed, and this means using the clues, and also failed guesses and I suppose some adjacent/peripheral player reads to help. E.g. if the clues allow us to narrow down to a pool of five different combinations (this is a toy example, I don't really believe we'll be this well off this early) - then ruling out the Archer combination drops us to four different combinations. That's helpful. There's probably a debate we can have about whether it's better for everyone to hold off and make maximally informed guesses on the last cycle. In theory this would allow information maximisation off the clues, but I don't really feel most players will have the bandwidth to cram all that discussion and thinking into the last twenty four hours, much less to make informed guesses about it, and this neglects that wrong guesses are still a little informative. (Also kind of feel this lets the Elims slack off and I'm principally opposed to that ) The tldr; is that there's probably a maximally optimal way to organise this, but I don't favour completely frontloading or backloading this, and think that otherwise, I don't feel there's much reason to hyperorganise who should guess when. Just go with what feels right for you and try to be selective enough about guesses. There's a trade-off between likeliest and most informative IMO. As I said, right now in my current state, I don't really feel like I want to make a C1 guess. Maybe I'll change my mind, maybe not, we'll see. Kind of early to call this.] [OOC: Yes.] Jourth of the Jwilight knew something, Jean-Guy figured. He stepped outside the bazaar for a moment and sighed. It was supposed to be a simple deal, but with the Ja calling out nearly a quarter of the Special Crimes Division and half of Homicide, Jean-Guy wasn't so sure it was 'simple.' Jourth of the Jwilight dealt in death, plain and simple. The more exotic the better. A whole tank of deathants, rare poisons from First of the Sun, and even Hemalurgic constructs that should've been stopped at Scadrian customs, but if there was something Jean-Guy knew, it was this: everyone had their price. And Jourth had her ways. It made him twitchy, when the others browsed her Scadrian collection. Places the CSF were supposed to have kept a tight watch, but didn't. Knowing what he did about Jourth didn't make it better. You made compromises. That was what they always said. Cultivated your informants. Someone like Jourth was a useful friend to have, and the trade wasn't so much in instruments of death as it was in scraps and morsels of information, and a working relationship built over time. They'd'd someone like that, back on Scadrial. The pre-eminent black market dealer in Hemalurgic spikes, sitting down at the table with a Chief Inspector and conversing calmly over tea. Intelligence-led policing, they called it. Bulldrek, Jean-Guy called it. You were supposed to find and arrest the criminals, not come to the table with them. His mobile vibrated in his pocket and he stepped outside to take the call.

[OOC: Will colour later mobile life is hard. 1. The clues are supposed to point us to both since Araris generates them to lead us to the conclusion and is teamed with us. I just generally feel the evidentiary connection is a bit weaker without seeing the clues but we can definitely do both first, since there's a lot more scene tiles to go. 2. IMO, we shouldn't all guess at once because part of the point is using info from a failed guess to try to make more sense of things and clarify more doubts. We don't get this if everyone is guessing last minute, or off the bat. I don't want to hyperorganise that though as it's not fun. Barring any strong or moderate convictions, I will probably personally hold off on at least the first cycle. I'd be wary of low info or outright misleading guesses from the Elims.]

Very weak positive on Sart for this, FWIW, this being Day Zero and chill day for us and all. Not sure 'how do we know the Witness is in the game' really emerges from an Elim perspective, since that's their alternate wincon. Edited to add: Jean-Guy couldn't say he remembered much about the Dakhor. A Sel problem, as far as he was concerned. Still, every world had their own problems with a bunch of people who thought ritualistic human sacrifice was fine if it got them what they wanted. Edited to add 2: [OOC: Felt there's a need to clear this up before we go too far astray - yes, Araris will pick what he feels matches best but I think it's always best to be exhaustive and flag assumptions in order to ensure that a bad assumption doesn't show up, hence having Pistol and Booby Trap as multiple greens, and my sea of yellows. Between the two, I'd take Blood Loss for Pistol (slight eh for Severe Injury if ricochet happens), and lean Accident for Booby Trap.]