27.10.2023 15:34:17
Melpomene

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What Really Happened to Lilly?

“On that particularly warm October night, the skies were clear and moon-lit as the yacht swayed gently at the end of a peer. Silent music, muffled by the walls, echoed out of the dining room which the murderer had just left behind. One of the doors to the kitchen clicked closed in between, and LillyAnn lifted her half-eaten muffin in a greeting to the peanut munching murderer. The suite bathroom was currently occupied, she explained putting the muffin down, but Blecky should be back soon. So, the murderer stayed to wait a little and stepped closer to exchange a few words with Lilly.

Who knows what the conversation was about? For certain, it was very short, less then a few minutes. Either way, in its midst the murderer was reminded of the bad blood between her and Lilly. Of the contest she had thought of and Lilly had stolen from her. Now it couldn’t be held again for months! No matter what Lilly said about state-only contests…

Perhaps she had been planning to do it all along. Perhaps it was an idea that just popped into her head that exact moment. But while Lilly’s head was turned, the murderer then crumpled up some of the nut crumbs in her hand and sprinkled them on top of the half-eaten muffin on the counter. She had just learned of Lilly’s nut allergy earlier that week, and didn’t think it was that bad probably – but even if it was… Well, this should teach Lilly something in any case.

Then she said that she couldn’t wait any longer. Her turn would come around pretty soon. Maybe between that and then next instead? And, so she slipped out of the kitchen, and left poor LillyAnn to her unfortunate faith. That devious, devious… Audrey Lynn.  

In the following days, when the investigation started, Audrey kept low profile. Her strategy was to blend into the crowd and hope no one paid too much attention to her or put one and two together. She did try to shift some suspicion away from herself and her murder method ever so slightly. She claimed she’d eaten a little bit of everything, and nothing could therefore be wrong with the food at all. She even directed suspicion towards poor Cherri, whose only crimes were acting unbelievable suspicious, losing her scarf, having no clear alibi, and pissing Audrey off during the party. The small detail that her scarf had already been found and taken by Toki before the captain even left the boat seemed a small detail in the face of Cherri’s theatrically unempathetic behavior. Such a great red herring she made indeed…”

Thank you all so much for playing this through! It was so incredible fun reading trough your theories and discoveries. You quite quickly picked up on most of the most important things, and also managed to uncover to others later with ease. There were some fun theories there I didn’t even consider in the planning phase (like the possibility of getting an overdose on pie-poison purely because you eat more pie than anyone else). I’m so glad to have entertained you with this silly game if nothing else <3

This was also kind of a learning experience for me and didn’t go completely as planned. It ended up a little trickier than expected, I think. There were some time zone related shenanigans, which prevented you from finding out about the nature of the board game gang’s alibis properly until much later than intended. Difficult to maneuver many actors. Also, I think I could’ve made the timeline a little clearer for you all, and maybe made this a two-day game instead of three. Should also have been clearer about language describing the body. 

Millions of thanks again also to my PH peers and other actors who dared to do this and followed the script (and it’s alterations) beautifully! It would literally have been impossible to do this alone. I hope you all found this more fun than taxing and enjoyed the experience <3 <3 <3 (At least we got some group pictures out of it, right? :D) 

As for the prizing, I did promise I’d reward active participation and uncovering clues, so here goes. There were no completelu right answers so instead it’s several smaller ones. 150D for discovering a significant clue and 75D for a lesser or partial detail. I went through the conversation and tried my best to see who was the first one to figure out/mention what. 

Alternative “Method”: Cross-Contamination by the Pie-Baker

-         75 D to 「DECADANCE」- Counting Goats... if I can't be yours- for bringing up the possibility of poison in the baked pie

-         150 D to hellgoblin for correctly explaining the sequence of events that could’ve led to the pie being cross-contaminated

Alternative Method: Strangling with a Scarf

-         75 D to DECADANCE」- Counting Goats... if I can't be yours- for finding the suspicious scarf

-         150 D to hellgoblin for finding out who the scarf belongs to

Alternative Method: Poisoning by Medical Expert

-         150 D to stonersiren for making connection between Liz and mentions of poison

-         Others also mentioned poisoning but a little too vaguely

Correct Method: Induced Anaphylaxis

-         150 D to hellgoblin for correctly guessing the set-up and utilization of the fatal nut allergy very early on in the game 

(The fifth method, death by pumpkin carving utensils, didn’t really get brough up. I don’t blame you though. We ran out of time to put out the last incriminating texts to establish that properly, and it is the easiest method to rule out so it got partially cut from the script.) 

Motive: That last piece of pie was mine!

-         150 D to ediblegoats for pointing out the Lilly’s and Lizz’ short fight about the last piece of pumpkin pie

Motive: Music is subjective?

-         150 D to stonersiren for finding Cherri’s disapproval of Lilly’s taste in music and her “threats” afterwards

Motive: You stole my contest idea!

-         150 D to hellgoblin for figuring out Audreys reason for murder, contest envy

Other rewards:

-         75 D to princesspixie for noticing all the “fishy” language (although it was all completely unintentional)

-         75 D Honey Bee for asking excellent questions­

-         150 D to edbilegoats for mentioning the right answer in the final guess aka. a partially right guess