>>5592

Before Natsuhi checked the windows. Since you said that they weren't opened after that point they would need to leave Jessica's room before that.

>>5593
Let's take that as your running theory, then.

To sum up:

The culprit used method X to lock the windows from the outside, and left the room prior to Natsuhi inspecting the windows.

Well, good night, then!

>>5594

Good night. I had fun.


I think you'll deny that theory first thing when we next play though~

Well, once my challenger returns, perhaps she can elaborate, then, on the method of murder. For, Jessica was certainly killed, but gunshots were heard and a knife is present!! However, neither Gohda's kitchen knife, nor gunshots, killed Jessica!!

So my last theory was enough for you? I was just grasping at straws. Or maybe you've just skipped that for now.

As for the murder weapon..... Jessica was killed with rose cutters.

Jessica was stabbed with a knife other than Gohda's.

Jessica was stabbed with a piece from her glass chest set!

But I'm just looking for weapons where the wound in the story could be her cause of death. What if her death was caused by something else and the wound was unrelated? Could you repeat: The wound on Jessica's chest was caused by the weapon that killed her.

>>5601
Naturally, Jessica's wound was caused by the weapon that caused her death.

Naturally, the weapons you described are false. To make it easier on you, the weapon Jessica was killed with was never taken out of the room, and, the weapon she was killed with was hinted at in the story!

Sorry. I was a bit distracted.

I can't see anything else obvious in the story. Figures you wouldn't give a hint like that if it was easy. So it was an indirect hint. And it never left her room.... Hm....

>>5603
Forgive me, I merely liked to play around. In this gameboard, 'weapons' do not kill people. Naturally, that is because people kill people.

A simple trick of wordplay, which of course ran rampant on these boards before!

>>5604

Damn. Does that mean one of the weapons I mentioned killed her? Or that you're asking me for the culprit?

It was Krauss.

You mentioned only 8 living people in the story and at the same time say no more than 9 were there. So It could have even be any person X who wasn't mentioned who killed Jessica.

>>5605
Between Jessica playing chess with Natsuhi, and Natsuhi entering Jessica's room for the last time, Krauss never left his room!! Of course, Krauss's room and Jessica's room are different rooms!

>>5606
Moreover, at this moment, the number of living people on the island is no more than 7.

Krauss is dead. That's why he wasn't around. He was killed in his room as Jessica was killed in hers! Since Jessica and Krauss are dead out of eight people, there is an unknown person X!

>>5608
Even if Krauss was dead, the number of murderers on the island is exactly 1! When Jessica entered her room for the last time, Krauss was still alive!!

>>5609

This will sound like I'm crazy. But: Someone entered Rokkenjima between when Jessica entered her room last then killed Krauss and Jessica.

Or They killed Jessica and Krauss died from a cause that wasn't murder.

>>5610
No one entered or left the island in between the morning of the day Jessica died, and the morning of the day after Jessica died!

>>5611
Moreover, Krauss did not die to a cause that was not murder.

>>5611

The number of people on the island is 9.

Person X waits in Jessica's room then kills her. The number of people is 8. Person X enters Krauss's then is killed by him (murder or self-defence. Now the number is 7.

>>5613
Truly, now? However, the person that killed Jessica is still alive!

>>5614
Moreover, the culprit's name is mentioned in the story. There is no unknown "Person X". Of all named people, only one is the murderer!

And to allay any fears, Natsuhi is innocent!! Indeed, for Natsuhi may well be the only person on the island free of sin!

>>5614

Instead of before, it happened after:
-The number of people on the island is 9.
Person X waits in Jessica's room then kills her.
The number of people is 8.
Person X enters Krauss's room then murders him.
The number is people is now 7.

>>5617
Why are you so eager to discuss Krauss's death, when none such was confirmed? At this point in time, Krauss is alive!

>>5615

I wonder if you're saying they are all accomplices except for Natsuhi. Hmmmm...

Anyway, let me make sure Kinzo is dead. Person X is Kinzo who is still alive.

>>5618

Basically I was thinking I should get the more tricky solutions out of the way before I name someone in the story.

And since with Kinzo alive the number should be 8, he murdered at least two people. The murderer killed more people than just Jessica.

>>5619
Naturally, Kinzo has died already! What other way for Natsuhi to become head? And he died of a natural cause.

>>5621
Unfortunately, Kinzo is dead, and so that theory does not have any basis!

>>5622

Glad we got that out of the way. Kumasawa or Kanon is the culprit. Either one could have been heading back from Jessica's balcony. Then they ran into Natsuhi.

Kumasawa is evil, shes cleaning too much.

>>5624

Obviously cleaning up the scene of her crime! There is no other reason to clean.

>>5624
>>5625
What are you talking about, how could you doubt this face, ohoho~

>>5626

I'm watching you.

>>5623
So you believe Kumasawa climbed out of the window, at her age? Despite being together with Shannon, who left the room after Kumasawa did?

And for Kanon, would his dirty shoes not have stained the balcony if he left through the window? At the time Jessica was murdered, Kanon's shoes were definitely muddy, after all!!

>>5628

Perhaps not. But that reminds me. Are Kanon and Shannon two people in your mystery?

About Kanon. Kanon wasn't wearing his shoes the whole time. He could have easily taken them off I think.

>>5629
Truly?

>>5630

>>5631
I yield.

>>5632

Is that really it? I think you have something up your sleeve.

>>5633
The only things I could present would be wordplay tricks to obscure the truth, or tricks that had no evidence presented in writing. I abhor such lowly tricks and shall not stoop so low to use them.

>>5634

So the truth is that Kanon murdered Jessica. Took his shoes off so he wouldn't muddy the balcony, and closed the window from the outside, but also from the inside? In a manner similar to what I said with a tool being inside.

Was the motive formed when Jessica was saying there is no man in her heart?

>>5636
The motive? We're talking about someone who thinks (s)he's a Witch, a female servant and said servant's 'little brother' at the same time. Forgive me if I accord the DID meido little mental stability.

>>5637

I think that's reasonable. I don't quite know the details behind all his/her DID business. But then I have to agree he/she doesn't seem stable. At all.

Thanks for presenting me with your game and taking the effort to change it to an Umineko base. It might sound a bit shallow of me to say so, but I probably wouldn't find it as fun without that setting! Good game.

>>5638
Had this been the "old age" of gameboards, I would've been able to declare that Kanon never entered Jessica's bedroom until after Genji broke down the door, and Kanon is not Shannon, and Shannon is not Kanon, and the murder weapon was never taken out of the room, but the murder weapon is not in Jessica's room. Notably, after stabbing Jessica, the murderer never touched the murder weapon again!

But those would be mean wordplay incidents that I dislike using.

>>5639

Hmmm... all of those seem to be tricks his/her DID except the two weapon/room ones. Not sure what to think about those.

You also gave me the mystery around the weapon even though I was tricked with your wordplay there. Thanks for being merciful.

>>5640
That was just to mess about a bit. I don't like relying on a trick of just red to keep a closed room closed.

The weapon part is solvable by Shannon took the weapon out. Since Kanon is the murderer, Shannon is innocent.

Congrats, on solving your first gameboard, Eva-Ange.

>>5641

Ah I get it. And yeah - I know how to view word play. I grateful for that!

>>5642

I actually solved one other gameboard (someone challenged me on msn). But thanks! And by the way. Are you just Rubilax or should I know you by another name?

The gameboard I played on msn was still pretty tricky but the GM held off on word play too. Glad I came when that sort of thing is going out of style!

I've mainly used "Black Witch Rosa," but I've used, "Amy Demon of Familiars." "Mira Witch of Destruction."

>>5645

Thanks for clearing that up. Names can get confusing to me around here.

Not helping the issue by using several names myself already.

>>5643
Mysteries are more fun when they get solved. That's the point of a mystery. The very first game I viewed had a Kanon that was neither alive nor dead, but rather undead - it was jiggery pokery of the lowest level.

>>5647
I wonder how many GM's here feel that way Lili. I do, I want my games to be solved, but I wonder how many others here want that when they start a game.

>>5646
I probably won't use "Amy" anymore at least not until I finish my second fanep. "Mira" I probably won't use again until I start up my next game. I'll probably use Rubilax or Rosa mainly, so hopefully it won't be too confusing.

How silly, I would never go without shoes around a mansion.