Slowly the fuzzy outline of shapes and images makes its way into your mind. You can hear sounds, and eventually you can open your eyes. You continue to stare at the ceiling from quite some time. In a confused daze you look around the room and deduce you are in the hospital room. What had happened? You were running and…

The door to the room open up and in walks a doctor. You recognise him as your old buddy and pal Ozaki. “I know you have a lot of questions but first we’ll need to make sure you are ok.” He states.

He does a generally checkup and confirms that you’ll live at least. You broke a number of bones and ruptured a few organs, but the pain killers seem to be making you oblivious to that.
Ozaki begins to explain what happened.

“The police don’t know exactly how it happened, but the majority of the island is now just a large crater. Witnesses say it was an explosion of some sort."

What he says next shocks you, “Kinjo… you were the only survivor out of all the men who went to investigate. Your team and the Niijima policemen; all of them died. Some of the bodies were mangled by the force of the blast to the point we need the dental records to confirm.”
That leaves you numb. Juichi, Suzuki, Minami, and all of the Niijima policemen. Dead.

Last edited at 14/06/01(Sun)23:31:42

>>15124
It seems that you stopped paying attention and Ozaki left, judging from the sun you have been blanking out for a good few hours when Ozaki returns. You tell him you want to know more.

Ozaki continues to explain that all of the buildings are gone, and no traces of Ushiromiya family or the others said to be on the island were found. The blast destroyed all of the evidence and crime scenes. It takes you awhile to notice, but Ozaki is staring at you.

“The news companies are having a field day with the whole affair. Rumors about Kinzo dabbling in Satanism and dark magic sort of rituals. The point of the matter is… you are the only one who knows anything about what happened there."

Ozaki stands up and looks out of the window. He continues to say, “You are really lucky to have a friend like me, otherwise all the other officers would be interrogating you in your sick bed. Now that being said…"

He pulls out a few pieces of paper and hands them to you. They are Juichi’s drawings of the crime scenes. “You had these in your pockets. They are probably the only physical information left. Maybe these will help.” He sits down beside you again, pulling a chair up and putting his head down and waiting for you to talk.

“You are really unlucky to have me as a friend, unlike the policemen there is nobody to stop me from interrogating you. Well then Kinjo, tell me, what do you recollect?”

"Well, I'll do my best to remember. My group went to Rokkenjima around 12:00 noon. It was raining really hard and we already knew 8 people had been killed, but by the time we got there, 16 of the 18 bodies had been found...

Captain Yamamoto showed me around to each crime scene. The first one, the dining room... The six adults, Krauss, Natsuhi, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolf, and Kyrie, were found dead holding hands across the dining room table. They all had gunshot wounds to the head, and Rudolf and Kyrie, their wounds were in the back of their heads. It was theorized that the culprit stood by the doorway and shot Rudolf and Kyrie. Three unloaded rifles and five master keys were also found on the table. The room was locked when the Niijima officers arrived, so you might call it a closed room mystery.

Oh, also, the door to the dining room had a circle with the number 1 drawn on it. So the second crime scene, the kitchen, it had a circle with the number 2 drawn on it. Inside were Jessica and Kanon, on the kitchen's island, blood everywhere. They were tied by a rope which was attached to the ceiling in some obnoxious way, holding one of the doors shut by their combined weight. I think they were both shot, despite being hung by the rope. The kitchen key was also found in the room as shown in the diagram, and the room was locked, so it's another closed room.

The circle with a 3 on it was on the portrait of Beatrice in the main hallway. Then 4, 5, and 6 were found on the parlor's door. Inside were Rosa, Gohda, and Genji. Again, I'm pretty sure they were... shot... at least, damaged on their heads. I remember finding some bags in the trash can nearby, as if the culprit used them to keep blood off themselves when killing. The key to the garden shed was found locked inside the parlor... and when we went to the garden shed, we found the key to the parlor locked inside of it. We also found on the shutter door the number 7 and inside, the body of George, hanging from a rope. However, he was definitely shot, in the chest... But there was something strange about the shape of the blood spatter underneath him. So those are also two closed rooms.

Then, in the guesthouse lobby, Nanjo and Kumasawa were found dead. 8 and 9 were on the door. Their necks had been sliced open, and they died from that. No signs of a struggle or anything in the room, and the key to the lobby was locked inside, another closed room. And in Kinzo's chapel, we found Battler and Shannon, both of them... I think their heads were damaged too. I know there was another rifle found by her body alongside ammo. Inside we found the chapel key, so the chapel was a closed room too. The door also had a 9 on it, and couldn't be opened by a master key, while the guesthouse's room could.

Oh, and in the mansion, I checked out the servant's room. There were five servants that day. Gohda, Genji, Kumasawa, Shannon, and Kanon. Kinzo, the head of the family, wasn't anywhere to be found, but we did find documents suggesting he was already dead and his death was being covered up. And lastly, Rosa's daughter Maria was found dead below the cliffs of Rokkenjima, it's clear she fell to her death. She wrote in a diary, something about Beato following the epitaph, and about her mother's love. And she wrote that Beato was in the chapel with Battler...

...Lastly, our group found Kinzo's hidden gold, underneath the island, and it was all hooked up to a giant bomb, which exploded and... now I'm here. I tried to stop it by drinking vodka but I guess that didn't work, huh?"

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)00:02:39

The room starts to blend into a different color and you find yourself in a familiar place.

-

Alright Kinjo here are the rules for the end game.

You must solve the game with only what you remember and the notes Juichi left you. This being said I did not make this game to be extremely challenging, so you will be allowed unlimited blues for all the howdunits. For the who/why you will get three attempts, and the why is considered a bonus so I won't force you to answer it.

Now unlimited blues really would make it far too easy, so we'll add another factor. You can choose this one.
Either we'll use CRB rules and we must debate within a 5 minutes gap of responding to each other. Or a set time limit, say 1 or 2 hours, to a howdunit. The exact specifications of either are negotiable. Feel free to pick whichever you find most entertaining.

Finally, should you go over any time limit it will be considered your loss, however you may still post blues. The difference will be that anyone else is allowed to start posting at that point too. I will also post some extra information making it much easier for them to comprehend the gameboard and help you as well.

Those are the rules. I'll be waiting for your decision.

Last edited at 14/06/05(Thu)11:14:26

>>15138
"CRB rules work for me. I'm ready when you are."

"Just kidding, let's go the other way. I've got some good theories that'll take more than five minutes to write out."

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)21:42:39

>>15139
Alright then. Let us begin.

First Twilight. The dining room.

I'll give you a red to start off with.
There are only five master keys. The five keys said to be be the master keys are truly said keys.

>>15141
The culprit is... Captain Yamamoto!!!

Lieutenant Yamamoto was Kinzo's superior during World War II. Therefore, Yamamoto's descendant (Captain Yamamoto) would have knowledge of the military base and ten tons of gold underneath Rokkenjima.

Yamamoto sent his men to the island beforehand, secretly killing the Ushiromiya family one by one. The reason I was called over was so that I could investigate and "conclude" a certain truth about the incident, that one of the 18 people was the culprit, rather than Yamamoto's group.

Each closed room can be explained very easily under this theory. After all, the rooms were all broken into once I arrived, so I can't be certain of anything Yamamoto tells me. Yamamoto even admitted taking one of the master keys himself, but that's probably only a cover for when forensics finds his fingerprints on the key, which was obviously used when he went around killing everyone.

Yamamoto also drew the numbers on the doors, trying to make it seem like the murders were all according to Beatrice's epitaph. However, he misread it, as the epitaph is a "map" to finding Kinzo's hidden gold (which Yamamoto already knew about, and thus did not need a map).

The first closed room is simple. Yamamoto and his men killed the six, placed the three rifles on the table, along with four of the master keys. We'll return here in a moment.

Yamamoto then killed the others, in whatever order necessary. He then placed them in various rooms. For the second murder, he used his rope-tying skills from the military to tie up Jessica and Kanon. Then he placed the kitchen key inside and locked it using his master key.

Then he shot George and hanged his body in the shed. He placed the parlor key inside and locked it with the shed key. He killed Rosa, Gohda, and Genji, moved them to the parlor, where he disposed of the bags he used and locked the door using his master key.

He also went to the guesthouse, killing Nanjo and Kumasawa with an army knife, and he placed the lobby key inside, locking it with his master key once again.

Lastly, he killed Battler and Shannon, placing the chapel key near her corpse. He then broke down the door and would later claim that it was locked, making the illusion of a closed room. He also made this illusion for the dining room, since after committing all these murders he went back and placed the master key with the other four, pretending that door had also been locked.

And Maria, who tried to escape, was killed by Yamamoto's men who were "searching" for her. If only I had realized it sooner, I could have saved her!

But all of this was a set up, Yamamoto wanted the gold and he wanted the Ushiromiya family out of his way. He wanted me to pin the crime on somebody, and only after I did so did he lead me to the gold's whereabouts. I'm sure he also set up the bomb himself, hiding with his accomplices away safely. That way, he could fake his death and steal all of the gold for himself, while killing the only person who knew the truth, me, in the process.

But his plan failed!!!

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)22:03:59

>>15142
Sadly, None of the policemen ever killed, at least during this game.

Furthermore, None of the policemen created the closed rooms or messed with the crime scene after breaking into the rooms. Any keys they used were put back to where they found them.

Nice try, but no cigar. Oh and just to be clear, one room at a time.

>>15143
The culprit gave Maria the master keys after all the other murders had been committed, and Maria entered the room using it, locked it from the inside, and placed the keys on the table. Maria then hid inside the room until the officers broke in and failed to find her. She then escaped the room by the time I got there.

>>15144
Nobody was hiding in the dining room.

>>15145
Like in Repercussion, I neglected to examine the windows for this room. It's possible the one who brought the keys into the room locked the door from the inside and then escaped via the windows.

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)22:15:06

>>15146
That sure would have sucked, but don't worry.
The windows were closed and locked when the room was discovered.

>>15147
One of the victims placed the keys in the room and died after locking it from the inside.

>>15148
None of the victims locked the room.

>>15151
The people sitting in the chairs are not the victims.

>>15152
The people sitting in the chairs are indeed the victims.

>>15153
There exists a dining room key which can lock the dining room from the outside, and the culprit used that!

>>15154
There is only a single dining room key. It is the one that was discovered in the room.

>>15155
Oh, must've forgotten about that...

There's a hole in the ceiling that the keys were dropped through so that they landed on the table. Conversely, there's a hole in the floor and the keys were thrown upward from the basement!

>>15156
There are no holes to do such a thing. The windows and door are the only passages that the keys could enter in or out of the room.

>>15157
Then there are holes in the door or windows that the keys went through!

>>15158
The doors and windows are intact and have no holes that the keys could enter through.

>>15159
The door was never locked. There were just chairs in front of the door that were destroyed when the police broke in.

>>15160
...Correct. The culprit set it up to block the door and make it seem like the lock had been set. They broke the rest of the chairs so the police wouldn't notice a lone chair in front of the door.

The door was effectively sealed, so while it wasn't locked it also wasn't able to be opened. We'll start the second one once you are ready.

>>15161
Same thing, but a different room. The weights of Kanon and Jessica were holding down the door shut when it wasn't really locked. The culprit locked the one door from the inside and exited using the other, but the force from the door shutting caused the bodies to fall and "lock" the door with their weight.

>>15162
Nice try, but this time both of the doors were locked upon discovery.

>>15163
Okay, fine. These murders happened before the culprit sealed the dining room, so the door was locked from the outside with a master key.

>>15164
Heh, it really was that simple yeah.
The master key was used on the doors before the first room was sealed.

I was hoping the way the first was sealed could distract you, but oh well.

Next one, once you're ready.

>>15165
Easy. This room was also locked with a master key. The parlor key was found locked inside the shed, and the shed's key was locked inside the parlor... So the simplest way is to just lock the parlor with a master key, just like the last one!

>>15166
A master key wasn't used on the shed or the parlor.

>>15167
Nnnn, ...George locked the door with the parlor key from the outside...!!! George had it in his pocket and it fell out when he hanged himself in the shed. He got inside via the window, locked the window from the inside, and then tried to kill himself but died from the gunshot wound instead!

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)23:11:45

>>15168
That was a good laugh.
George didn't kill himself nor did he hang himself. He was murdered.

>>15169
The parlor key fell out of George's pocket, which happened when he was hanged by the culprit. The lack of blood in the rectangular shape means that something was blocking the blood, i.e. a box, or even a gold bar (depending on the size). So the blood got on that object, and that object was then removed from the area. The shed was then locked using the shed key from the outside.

The culprit then went to the parlor and killed the three there. However, it's this room that Maria went back to and placed the key near her mother's corpse, hid, and then escaped unnoticed by the police.

>>15170
George never had the parlor key on his person or in his pockets.

Also nobody hid in either the shed or the parlor.

>>15171
The culprit locked the shed after killing George there and placing the key near him. Then the culprit locked the parlor from the inside, placed the shed key there, and then went out the window and locked it from the outside!

>>15172
Every window in this game is impossible to lock from the outside.

>>15173
Same theory for the shed. Then for the parlor, what if one of the victims locked the door from the inside before dying?

>>15174
None of the victims locked the door from the inside.

>>15175
Then they locked the windows.

>>15176
None of the victims locked the windows.

>>15177
...There are two doors in the parlor. Only one of them was locked! The other was barricaded somehow just like the last two rooms!

>>15178
The doors to the parlor and shed were locked upon discovery.

>>15179
The culprit locked the parlor from the inside and then used some hidden passageway to escape!

>>15180
There is no hidden passageway in the parlor.

>>15181
Clarification.
>None of the victims locked the door from the inside.
This applies for both doors.

>>15182
...None of the victims locked the doors or windows. And the doors and windows were locked. That means someone else must have done it, but no one else was hiding in the room. So that means after they locked it, they left the room. But you can't leave a room that's locked...!!!

One of the *victims* is the culprit, and is thus not a victim, and so that person can lock the room and they can *leave* the room by dying inside of it!!!

>>15183
None of the bodies in either room created either closed room.

>>15184
Maybe one of the windows really wasn't locked and the culprit just left through that?

>>15185
All the windows really were locked.

>>15186
The shed's shutter can be closed without the shed key. The key is just to lock it, but if the shed was never locked then George was actually killed later, and so the parlor key can be used to lock the parlor.

>>15187
The shed was locked upon discovery. The shed cannot be locked without the key.

>>15188
I can still solve the parlor without solving the shed. The culprit killed everyone in the parlor and placed the shed key by Rosa. Then the culprit left the room and locked it with the parlor key.

Last edited at 14/06/02(Mon)23:57:29

>>15190
True. I did say we were taking this one room at a time, so I'll allow it.

The parlor was locked with parlor key after placing the shed key in the room.

We'll stop here for tonight.

>>15191
...Right, so the shed!

The shed door must have already been locked when the culprit placed George's body inside! The culprit entered and exited through the window, which they didn't lock from the outside because it was never locked at all!

>>15195
The window in the shed was locked. In fact it was never opened or unlocked during this game.

There's another way into the shed from the outside, perhaps one of the rectangle things on the sides! The culprit used that to enter/exit the shed without a key!

>>15197
The only entrances/exits into the room is the single window and the door.

>>15198
George was killed before the parlor, but the culprit kept the parlor key until later on, when they simply dropped it through a hole in the ceiling, landing near George!

>>15199
There is no hole in the ceiling to do such a thing.

>>15200
What about a hole in the ground?! Like the suspicious bloodless square near the key itself?!

>>15201
There is no hole in the ground either.

>>15202
Not anymore, because somebody covered it up!

>>15203
There was never a hole in the ceiling or the ground.

>>15204
You said the shed was locked upon discovery, but the shed could still be entered even when the shutter is locked!

>>15205
When the window and shutter are shut and locked it is impossible for someone to enter or leave the shed.

The shutter can only be locked when it is closed.

Last edited at 14/06/03(Tue)23:22:23

>>15206
George pretended to "hang" himself, but the culprit shot him from outside the shed standing directly in front of the shutter. George had pressed the button inside the shed to close the shutter and so just after he was shot the door closed on its own, and perhaps by some feature installed in the shed it also locked itself.

>>15207
The door must be manually pulled up or down to closed/open it.

You probably would have found something like that if it was there.

>>15208
The culprit shot George through the shutter! When we arrived at the scene it was pulled up, so the bullet hole wasn't visible!

>>15209
The culprit shot George in front of the shed, not while he was inside it. The shutter can only be locked from the outside.

Would have been good if not for how the key would have gotten in with that scenario.

>>15210
Could another key lock the shed? Like the chapel key...?!

>>15211
The garden shed can only be locked by the single garden shed key which was found in the parlor.

>>15212
It's not the key that locks the shed, it's the padlock. The culprit just needs to place a padlock on the shutter and it's locked from the outside!

>>15213
There is no padlock. The lock is built into the middle of the bottom of the shutter.

>>15188
The shed was locked upon discovery, but not at the time of the murder! The culprit just closed the shutter and left the scene of the crime! But Maria came back and locked it later on, after the police had broken into the parlor!

>>15215
Maria did not lock the shed.

>>15216
Then it was someone else!

Kinzo!

Shannon!

Battler!

Nanjo!

Kumasawa!

Yamamoto!!!

>>15217
There was a hole in the side of the shed that the culprit used to get the key into the room!

>>15217
>>15218
I'll take it.

When the door is locked you can push up the side of the shutter and slip something under it.

Keeps people out fine, but keys are another thing altogether. I really should have just said your bullet hole theory was the truth instead, would have been a lot cooler.

Alright guesthouse once you are ready.

>>15219
Nanjo and Kumasawa were killed, the culprit placed the key in the room, and then left and locked the door with a master key.

>>15220
Yep. Really isn't anything special here.
The master key was used to lock the room.

Let's move onto the final room then. The chapel.

Whenever you are ready.

>>15221
The culprit entered the chapel with Battler, locked the door with the key... Then, she killed him, and she shot herself right after!

>>15222
Neither of these were suicides. Both were murdered.

>>15223
Then they shot each other simultaneously.

>>15224
They did not kill each other simultaneously.

>>15225
Oh, the culprit isn't Shannon? Someone else killed her?

The real culprit was hiding in the chapel, killing Battler and Shannon, and this person escaped unnoticed by the police.

>>15226
Nobody was hiding in the chapel.

>>15227
Again, rather than being locked the door was simply barricaded by something and when the police broke it down, it disappeared.

>>15228
When the door was broken down it was closed and locked.

>>15229
Shannon killed Battler, and Shannon was killed by Battler, but not simultaneously. A delayed device was set up to kill her!

>>15230
No delayed device was used to kill. The deaths were instantaneous.

Last edited at 14/06/04(Wed)00:24:26

>>15231
They were shot through the windows.

>>15232
Both were shot from within the chapel.

By a witch of course.

>>15233
The chandelier had guns installed and when activated by the culprit it shot both of them from above!

>>15234
The culprit killed by holding a gun in their own hands and firing.

>>15235
The culprit shot them and then left via the windows.

>>15236
You checked the windows rememeber?
The windows were locked.

>>15237
Yeah I remember... I was just hoping you didn't.

There's some hidden passageway, perhaps from the altar or something that connects outside... It wouldn't be a stretch if Kinzo's chapel also connected with his underground tunnels to the gold room.

>>15238
The only entrances/exits in the room are the windows and single door.

>>15239
The chapel key wasn't actually in the room when the police broke into it. Maria placed it there later...!