A long, detailed and even with two maps introduction, huh? Well mine surely will look lacking now.


October 5th, 2013. It’s past 2:00 AM, and I hate my job. I’ve been getting endless calls since 1:00 AM, but I managed to stall for an hour by driving as slowly as possible. Once I walked into the building, my superiors started grilling me about my delay. Bah, to hell with them. Just let me see the corpse.

It looked like any other hotel room, except it had a normal doorknob instead of an electronic one. Inside, I saw nothing out of the ordinary: A Mexican man lying face down on the floor over a large pool of blood. A decent-sized knife, covered in blood, lay nearby.

The victim was first found by a staff member, as the Mexican had ordered a taco banquet designated to arrive in his room at 12:00. The victim had a stab wound on his chest, and the knife found nearby fit the wound’s shape. The cause of death was assumed to be blood loss. Something’s fishy about the blood, but I’m too damn tired to put my finger on it now.

The staff member claimed the only door in the room was closed and locked, and he had to use his key to open it. After cutting the chain lock, they found the corpse and the second key to the room inside one of the victim’s pockets. The only window was locked, but since the room is on the second floor, leaving through the window might be a little stupid.

The victim was staying in the hotel with some friends, but all of them are missing. One witness claims to have heard the victim arguing with someone else. He says the second person spoke Italian. Another claims it was French, but when pressed, none of the witnesses spoke Italian nor French.

Welp, let's see.

The victim was never dead. The blood is just taco sauce and he locked the door and window behind him, and his hole in the chest was caused by Pectus excavatum.

The victim was very dead.

Erika's seal on George's room wasn't placed until Shannon left the room. When the seal was placed she wasn't inside.

Erika placed the seal on George's door before Shannon entered the room.

The culprit stabbed the victim, and is hiding somewhere in the room.

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Upon the investigation, no person was found hidden inside of the room.

Shannon killed Kanon, therefore not considered a suicide.

Shannon did not kill Kanon!

It was a suicide, the victim stabbed himself.

The victim didn't kill himself.

The culprit shoot Kanon from the outside of the room.

The culprit shot Kanon from outside the room.

The door can be locked from the outside, so the culprit just walked out after stabbing

The only can only be locked from the outside with one of the two keys mentioned in the story. One was found inside of the room and the other one was in the hands of the staff member during the whole duration of the game.

The culprit shoot Kanon through the window. Kanon set the magic circle by himself.

The door only can only be locked from the outside with one of the two keys mentioned in the story. One was found inside of the room and the other one was in the hands of the staff member during the whole duration of the game.

The door can only be locked from the outside with one of the two keys mentioned in the story. One was found inside of the room and the other one was in the hands of the staff member during the whole duration of the game.

The culprit shot Kanon through the window. Kanon set the magic circle by himself.

One of the staff members is the culprit, they opened and locked the door with their key.

The staff key wasn't used to lock the room at any time during the duration of the game.

The window is broken

No window on the guest house was ever broken throughout the game.

Someone planted the key that opened and locked the door in his pocket during the investigation.

The victim's key wasn't planted into the room.

Or about the classic one, then?
The window was removed before killing Kanon, it was placed again once the murder was done.

All windows stayed in their respective places throughout the duration of the game.

It's a double sided lock door, which can be unlocked and locked from both sides.

It is, but then again: The staff key wasn't used to lock the room at any time during the duration of the game.

George closed and locked the window from the inside of the room, then he returned to his room.

So many ways to deny...

George never entered Kanon's room.

The victim was stabbed, the culprit dropped the knife and left the room from the door. As the victim slowly died from blood loss, he locked the door with his key and placed it in his pocket. Then he died.

The victim wasn't wounded the last time he locked the door of his room.

Someone moved and replaced a seal from another door/window into the window inside Kanon's room.

Hmmm... Take this as you see it.
The seal on the window was moved physically, but not replaced from another location, and was never torn.

The culprit escaped through the window, and locked it from the outside as he hanged on to a ledge, then fell and disappeared.

Hey I tried that in Ozaki's game.
The window was never locked from the outside of the room.

George closed and locked the window from the outside of Kanon's room. The bathroom technically isn't inside of any of their rooms!

The lock is inside the room, as well as the seals. George never entered the bathroom.

Same scenario as the door. The culprit stabbed the victim, exited the window, and the victim locked the window as he was bleeding out.

The victim never locked the window during the game.

The seal inside Kanon's room wasn't placed by Erika, even the map doesn't specify it so.

All seals inside the Guest House were placed by Erika.
Just trying to turn the chessboard...
There's no roof! The culprit just climbed out!

The room has a roof. The chain lock isn't very long, either.

Given the position of the seal tape in Kanon's room window, it wouldn't get torn even if the window was open.

Oo...
The seals aren't stretchy, but were placed while the window was open.

The culprit hid inside of the taco cart, and then stabbed the victim, and then he bled out. During the investigation, the cart left and was never investigated.

The culprit didn't hide inside of the taco cart.

Then anyone could have gotten inside Kanon's room through George's room to close and lock the window.

After Shannon entered George's room, they locked it behind them. Erika placed a seal, and was not torn until George heard gunshots and exited the room to meet the group.

Trap X was placed inside the room, where the victim is stabbed and the doors are locked.

Trap X already, seriously? Which kind of trap? Anyway, a trap didn't lock the door.

Kanon locked the window by himself before dying.

Ugh, sorry.
Kanon did not lock the window before dieing!

The knife was shot through the window, the victim bled out, door already locked, then proceeded to lock the window before he died.

The window stayed locked during all of the game.

The window was closed and locked from the outside.

That was close as well.
The window was closed from the outside, but locked from the inside.

The knife was shot through an opening in the room, thus both the locked door and window.

Heh, No knife was shot during the game.

Kanon and Shannon are the same person, therefore every time you have denied something for either Kanon or Shannon you were talking about the personality, and not the human.

Shannon and Kanon are the same person. In this game, they are a costume, a role in other words, not a personality.

A knife was dropped or thrown with force from an opening in the room, not shot.

The knife got into the room through the door.

The window wasn't locked before George and the rest got inside Kanon's room!

Fufufu~ Your so close.
The window was locked before the group, George, Jessica, Battler, Maria, Kumasawa, ever entered the room after the chain was cut.

The victim was stabbed through the opening in the door, he was laying down on the floor and the knife went into his chest, door and window locked.

The victim wasn't stabbed through a opening in the door.

A mechanism was used to lock the window from the inside once the window was closed.

Kahahaha!
A mechanism was used to lock the window outside of the room!

The victim was stabbed through an opening in the window, door and window still locked.

The knife was completely inside of the room when the victim was stabbed.

Someone used a mechanism to lock the window from the outside after the window was closed.

Someone used a mechanism to close the window after the murder. But no killing blow ever came from the window. No one exited or entered through the window.

The knife was pulled with a mechanism from an opening into the victim.

>The culprit shot Kanon through the window. Kanon set the magic circle by himself.
>But no killing blow ever came from the window.

what?

No mechanism was used to stab the victim.
The culprit shot Kanon while being outside of the room

Kanon was not killed by any bullet.

The culprit used the knife to stab the victim, then cut an opening to escape.

Kanon was poisoned in some way. He was shot once he was dead already.

The culprit didn't cut an exit to get out of the room.

The culprit didn't cut an exit to get out of the room.

Kanon was poisoned in some way. He was shot once he was dead already.

Kanon was not poisened in any way, only the corpses outside.

The culprit entered through a board in the door, where the knife came from as well, and escaped through the door after the victim was stabbed.

The door was closed and locked when the staff member tried to deliver the tacos.

As the window was open, the culprit could have killed Kanon in any other way before shooting him.

The victim was not killed through the window in any shape or form.

The door is damaged in some way, offering an entrance to stab even though the door is closed and locked.

The door wouldn't allow a knife to get in while it's closed.

The gun was set to kill anyone who tried to shot it. The culprit gave Kanon the gun.

The gun fired from outside never entered the room. Kanon was dead before he was shot.

The culprit was poisoned by the food, the knife was only planted there.

The victim wasn't poisoned nor ate any food before being killed. The knife wasn't planted in the room

The gun found inside was the one that killed Kanon.

The gun found inside the room was the same one that shot his corpse, the culprit merely tossed it inside.

The door or window was broken down, culprit entered, and then repaired from the outside with everything locked...

The door or the window weren't repaired by the culprit at any time.

The culprit killed Kanon in any other way before shooting him.

I think I lost due to logic error...

The victim was killed by asphyxiation, but no one ever entered the room.

The door and window were replaced by staff instead.

Neither the door or the window was replaced.

Either suffocated with some kind of gas or just asphyxiated from the outside through the window.

Who.... am I?

As I said, the window was not used in any way shape or form to kill Kanon. Gas was not used, but a solid. The weapon is inside Kanon's room as listed in my introduction.

The culprit and knife were already inside the room when the victim got there and locked it, as well as the key, and locked the door behind them as they left.

And how did the culprit locked the room?
Reference older red.

With a book?

Congratulations anon! A little late though, I know... just wanted to wait until the other match was done. I definitely learned a lot from this, watch out for next time...

THE CURTAIN RISES
The scene frozen in place was slashed by blue, broken into pieces that flew away into the abyss.
All overhead lights turned off, and instead were replaced by a single spotlight pointing at a figure on center stage. There was a long intermission and he couldn't see how much of the audience was left with the light, but perhaps it was for the better…
*Ahem* *Deeply Inhales*

“October 4th,1986, sometime in the afternoon when the family arrives, a “mysterious” guest makes an appearance to the family conference named Erika. A standard game in my eyes so far. Shannon/Kanon, who I’ll call Shkanon at times, decides to poison the dinner. To make things short and simple for sake of convenience, Erika manages to catch them in the act. She now has power over Yasu, threatening to reveal their charade to everyone, and detain them until authorities arrive. But the ever-gracious Erika decides to make an ultimatum for her own pleasure, Yasu is to take part in their death that night for a little mystery game and allow the mystery of Rokkenjima to live on forever---or suffer the aforementioned consequences.
Sometime later in the evening with the sunset almost over, the family decides to look at the rose garden one last time before the late typhoon comes in. While this is happening, Erika is placing normal, signed, duct tape seals inside of the guest house on all the windows (Push windows, not sliding) at approximately the same time, except she cheats a little. The seal placed on the window inside of Kanon’s designated room (She placed this from the outside as she never entered the room) and the window at the end of the hall on the second story (where she is at the start of the game) are placed only halfway on the inside window frame, thus when is pushed forward, then tugged back ever so slightly through a gap in the windowsill, the seals then are effectively in place. Once moved again once both sides of the sticky side touch the frames, are torn. Erika also places a role of duct tape, a long rope from the shed, and a long piece of string inside Kanon’s room on the shelf. She then proceeds to lock all the windows except the ones with only half seals, and walks back outside and sees everyone in a state of panic as the adults before them are foaming on the ground.
Erika manages to calm down the survivors, Battler, Shannon, George, Jessica, Maria, Genji, and Kumasawa, and persuades the group it would be best to sleep in the Guest House as it would be beneficial to stick together with rooms only across two hallways. At twilight, everyone huddles in the kitchen of the guest house (with a spare bed of course, which Kumasawa volunteered to sleep on.) During this time, Kanon and Shannon swap roles constantly as they are off to do something important, but as stated earlier, Erika knows the whole story as they dash to the closet, with clothes scattered everywhere in the room.
…Erika in the meantime even disarmed some bomb solving some little puzzle, hid all the guns somewhere in the shed, spoke to Shkanon in great lengths about the plan when they were alone, and knew the existence of Kinzo’s death status is something that doesn’t have to be given second thought. Shkanon was forced to play along on Erika’s terms for better or worse. Night approached, and fate was sealed.
Battler went to bed early in his room as we was exhausted from the shock, and didn’t give second thought if Genji was in the other bed, which he proceeded to lock the door behind him. Genji was on self-instated nightshift anyway, and snoozed off inside his chair on the second floor. Maria also went to bed right away in her and Jessica’s room.
It was approaching midnight, and the rest of the group, Erika, George, Jessica, Kumasawa, and Shannon decided it would be best to sleep soon. At this moment, “Kanon” said he was getting supplies from the Mansion for breakfast in the morning, while Shannon was sitting with the rest of the group in the kitchen. Shannon got up, and said she had to go to the bathroom. She walked through Kanon’s room, and turned the light and fan on inside once inside the bathroom.
The doors for the connected bathroom have a semi-special lock, (but not really, my house even has one.) which can be turned to the lock position while the door is open, and once close is effectively locked. Keeping that in mind, Shannon opens the entrance to George’s room, and locks and closes it while she’s in the bathroom as the lock is on the other side. Shannon proceeds to go into her closet and dresses into Kanon. As one last fleeting scratch on Erika’s power, Kanon draws an occult symbol on his door with some paint on his shelf, dripping red on the carpet next to the door. He exits the room and returns to the kitchen with a defeated face, as he said the kitchen in the mansion was empty to prepare for the fugu fish dinner they had earlier.
The waking group decides to head to bed. As the rest of the group leaves, Kumasawa locks the door for the bedroom/kitchen behind her and goes to sleep. Kanon walks Jessica to her room and exchange a parting good night. Jessica locks the door as Kanon exits, and then she sleeps next to Maria in the night. Erika heads upstairs to her room to briefly rest her eyes, and George heads to his room, and also falls asleep earlier (exhausted from shock) as he assumes Shannon is still in the lit bathroom. Kanon enters his room, proceeding to lock the door and sets the chainlock behind him… all according to Erika’s plan. Kanon transforms into Shannon again. She notices the semi open window, the seal still flapping in the wind below it. She takes the duct tape and rope inside the room on the shelf and follows her orders that Erika gave her early that previous day.
Shannon proceeded to place the long rope halfway on top of the rug on the floor (See the second map) next to the door in Kanon’s room, and put over ten segments of strong duct tape over the rope on the rug to assure durability. She tossed the rest of the rope and duct tape roll out the semi-opened window.
Something like this if you can visualize it top down: door-> ll [ --]-------------ll-- outside
Erika’s eyes flew open in her bed, almost making a shattering sound. She assumes everyone is sleeping with the doors locked behind them. (Her door is special, all the locks are on the outside from some construction error during the building of the Guest House, and so she escapes with a locked door this way from her room.) It’s around 1AM, she places seals on the side of everyone’s door including her own about the same time, all within a minute. Shannon is inside of Kanon’s room at this time, thus not in George’s room at the time the seals are placed.
Shannon knows it’s time as she heard Erika leave, and ties the string also on the shelf onto the latch lock of the opened window. Still holding onto the string, she enters the bathroom and locks the door behind her--the string still under the crack of the door. Shannon turns off the light and fan inside the room, and then enters George’s room with the string still in hand and under the crack, proceeding to lock the door behind her. (See map of lock placement).
This wakes George up, and Shannon tells him everything. He’s shocked, and can’t go through with the plan. They fight as Shannon prepares the final mystery, placing the key inside a sealed letter. It’s now around 1:30 A.M., the clock inside the upstairs hall chimes the short time, waking Genji up.
TL;DR: IMPORTANT PART OF SOLUTION:
Erika was ready for reaping. She goes outside into the now raging typhoon from the upstairs hallway with the semi open window (exactly like Kanon’s room setup), and climbs down the ledges to the ground. She grabs a single shotgun from the shed, and walks towards George’s and Shannon’s room. She threatens with violence for George and Shannon to follow the plan perfectly from the window; they comply in accordance to her demands.
Shannon and George part one last time, George unlocks the door to the bathroom and Shannon enters, and then closes it behind her in the locked position as she disappears forever, the string still inside George’s hand until the time comes.
Shannon enters Kanon’s room, and then changes into Kanon one last time. He grabs one of the wire hangers inside the closet, and slides it under the locked door, (as the seals were placed on the side of the door.) He proceeds to lay down, his head resting on the door facing the open window, the storm calling him into the skies. His body is directly on top of the carpet. During this time, Erika was fetching a ladder from the shed, and climbed back up to the second floor of the Guest House. Walking down stairs, she notices the placed hanger in the hallway as she instructed. She unravels it into a “U” shape,” and twists it under the door until she grips both sides of the “U” with Kanon’s neck in the middle.
She pulls until Kanon dies from asphyxiation.
(Something like this, imagine a profile of the body: door-> llO/_____ _ _ _ _ _/l\\ outside
Erika whispers under the door with a grin while pulling, “Wire hangers, why? Why?...You live in the most beautiful house on an island and you don't care if your clothes and costumes are stretched out from wire hangers. Hahahahahaha!!”
She begins phase 2 of her plan, and takes the bent wire hanger with her, gun still in the other hand. Erika walks back up the stairs, and then back down the ladder towards the opened window. Pulling the rope still outside placed earlier with all her might, Kanon’s body is dragged towards the window as his body lays upon the moving rug. His feet meet the wall, and the rug and rope slides under him out of the window. She puts the moving carpet aside outside in a dry area. Erika takes a step back, and fires one shot into Kanon, the bullets spraying into his body; in his chest, face, and neck. The blood covered his laceration marks, and the figure was emaciated as Erika preferred. She tossed the gun inside the room landing in his right hand, still smoking, almost like a suicide. Two thunder strikes, almost a miracle, hit the mansion and trees somewhere in the distance, causing extremely loud booms waking everyone up anyway. She also tied the hanger back into shape on the way over, and tossed it on the bed with the rest of the clothes blending in.
Erika pushed the window in slightly, making sure that her hands don’t pass the impenetrable barrier between the windowsill and outside. The air pressure brought the window back, effectively closing and sealing it as the other half of the tape grabbed on to the wall below it. She made her way over to the other room to the right, giving George the death glare through his window to pull the string. He pulled, and the latch lock moved into place, creating the locked room. He pulled a second time to make sure the string broke off of the window’s lock and hid it inside of his room, and then slid the letter with the key with all his might into left hand of Kanon’s shot corpse. She then pulled the tape off the rug oustide and tossed it aside.
Making her way up the ladder with the and into the second floor’s end window, she kicks the ladder out into the bushes below, concealing this mode of transportation with the rug in hand. As she enters, she runs downstairs and slips the rug under Kanon’s door.
She forgot to close the window upstairs! She ran back up, and saw Battler opening his door tearing his seal, continuing to walk down the upstairs hallway. Erika made sure to look busy and mutter something relevant, “The dead… stay dead…” or something to give her purpose to be by the window staring at the corpses outside. She locks the window and “pets the tape down”. Thus begins the description of the introduction as everyone runs out breaking their door seals, and Battler breaks the front door seal when he runs to get a cutter for the chain lock.
…
Although, I was going to say at one point Knox’s 7th applies. “The detective cannot be the culprit.” (But I threw all that away since I realized this is mainly a “How-dunnit.” game)
That’s because Genji was sitting in his chair pretending to read some Agatha Christie in the dark as the real Detective, unmoved with his master key in hand--shocked that Erika was running wet with a carpet and gun about four times, and he was unable to enter the room to completely examine the room by the end of the introduction.
Epilogue:
Erika was arrested thereafter thanks to special agent Genji, and Erika continues to become a controversial star for vigilante justice throughout Japan… as she killed someone who also poisoned a family…. Or something….”
All the actors take a bow, and


THE CURTAIN CLOSES


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Are you a writer or something? That was pretty well made for a first attempt doing something like this.
Hopefully other lurkers might also join the community following your example.