Episode 5

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22nd Apr 2022

Lonely TTRPG EP 5 - A Weekend in the Country by Lari Assmuth

A Weekend in the Country is a solo TTRPG built on the Wretched and Alone system. You play a detective who was invited to the manor of Lord Adler. After a contentious dinner, you awake the next morning to find Lord Adler dead! Using a quick wit, a little luck, and a deck of cards, you determine the suspects and make your accusations. Will you find the killer before they get away?

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Transcript
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Hello, and welcome to lonely TTR PG the solo play

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and review TT RPG podcast.

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This week, we're going to be playing a weekend in the country, a murder mystery

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for one or more players by Lari Assmuth.

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Now weekend in the country is based off of the wretched and alone system.

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we played that with the wretched.

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So kind of excited for how this is gonna go.

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So starting off, we have a couple quotes at the beginning of the book.

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate

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systematically and truly all that comes under the observation in life.

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By Marcus Auerelius.

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And from Agatha Christie, unless you're a good at guessing it's

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not much use being a detective.

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So some very apropos quotes to get you in the mind for a murder mystery.

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[silly suspense music].

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So before we get into this, I'd like to thank you all for

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listening to lonely TTR BG.

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Uh, at the end, if you like this, please go ahead and, give us a, like,

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give us a review, , on any of your favorite podcasting sites or on YouTube.

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And go ahead and drop us a follow.

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If you want to see more content, , we are doing this every week.

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This is kind of our thing.

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So the facts, as we know them, you are a renowned, private detective and stories

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of your exploits are widely shared , your sharp, observant, and likable.

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You move with equal ease in the finest soirees and in back alley

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pubs, you are a master of getting people to open up and talk to you.

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This weekend, you have been invited to the country house of Lord Adler,

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retired Colonel of the Imperial yeomanry Calvary to enjoy relaxed getaway with the

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Lord's family and a few close friends.

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Dinner passes pleasantly enough, but early in the morning, you

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were awakened by a maid's screams.

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Lord Adler has been found dead murdered in his own bedroom.

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So taking a look at this, we have a handful of suspects.

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We have lady Adler, the younger wife, lady Blakely, and amateur artists, then

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childhood friend of lady Adler, Lord Entwhistle, who is accompanied by his

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mother, the widow lady Entwhistle, , who's late husband served with Lord

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Adler until he was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged.

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And Mr.

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Cooper, Lord others valet a young man with ambitions beyond his station.

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[silly suspense music].

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So which one of these is the murderer and that is what we need to find out.

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And that is what we are going to find out.

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As soon as we set up the board.

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So first to start off, I'm just going to make sure that

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I have a list of my suspects.

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Now to play, we're going to need a standard deck of cards with

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no jokers, a six sided dice and preferably a tumbling block tower.

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I do not have a tumbling block tower, so we're going to use some variant

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rules, on that, , if we play as a solo game, , play with a journal, make an audio

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video, which is what we're are doing.

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Uh, welcome.

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And during the game, we're going to be investigating the other's country

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house, talking to guests, servants, and gathering clues about what happened.

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, and find out who the murderer is, , if we're playing with a block tower,

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it represents time running out.

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If the tower falls to murder or strikes again, killing

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one of the remaining suspects

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for safety, death, murder, suicide, jealousy, and sex are all themes

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that may be encountered in this game.

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, while the game is written in the same cozy crime genre as Agatha,

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Christie, or murder, she wrote it is still important that you're

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mindful of boundaries while playing.

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Take care of yourself.

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You come up against any topics that look a little too much for

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you, then go ahead and skip it.

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Move right along.

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All right.

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So to set up the game, we need to pick out the four cards representing the suspects.

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And these are going to go on the table face up.

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Where are you going to shuffle the rest of the deck deal it into

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five different decks face down.

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, and those are going to represent the study, the bedrooms, the attic, the

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servant's quarter and the kitchen.

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, if we're using the tower set up the tower somewhere in your play area,

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you can play without the tower.

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In which point you ignore any rules for drawing or what happens.

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So since I don't have a tower, we don't have to worry about that.

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But if I did have a tower, if I was playing with a tower

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again, the tower falling means the murderer has struck again.

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So we have a lot of setup to do

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so first things first, we got to get rid of the jokers.

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We need the queen of spades for lady Blakely.

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For Lord Entwhistle.

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He is the king of diamonds.

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And we got the Jack of clubs for Mr.

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Cooper

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and now we are going to deal the deck into.

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Five piles face down.

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So now we have to label these.

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So we have these study.

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We have the study, we have the bedroom.

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We have the attic, the servants quarters,

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and the kitchen.

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So each turn of the game is going to represent some time collecting clues and

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interviewing suspects and eye witnesses.

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, during each turn, you will do the following.

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You're going to choose a location and draw a card.

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You're going to roll a D six and pull that many blocks from the tower.

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We're not going to be doing that.

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, then we're going to check the.

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, that we found in the clue journal and make a note of where we found it.

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And then we're going to decide whether we want to make an

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accusation or keep looking.

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So j'accuse or no hot new game.

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Oh shoot.

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The next section is called j'accuse

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so j'accuse, the goal of the game it's collect enough clues to build a waterproof

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case against one of the suspects.

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, you do this by collecting cards to build the best possible five card

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poker hand, and then making an accusation against one of the suspects.

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When you make an accusation, you must choose five cards from your

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hand and build a theory of what happened that utilizes all the

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clues that correspond to the cards.

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In the hand, that hand must contain at least one card to the same suit

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as the suspect card that you are accusing , if your hand wins, the

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suspect you accused was indeed guilty.

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Go on to denunment.

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If the suspect's hands wins.

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They turn out to have an ironclad, alibi, or other solid defense, , detail why

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they couldn't possibly be the killer and then turn the suspect card upside down.

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They can no longer be accused.

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Then continue to play as normal.

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All right.

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And then looking at the rest of these, , we seem to have

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a lot of, , card description.

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So every card is going to have its own description.

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So hearts, are passion and love spades are going to represent misery and

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misfortune diamonds, money and fortune and clubs violence already like the

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theming actually picking theming that goes with the, , that goes with the suit.

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We need to remember this energy for the end, though.

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, at the end of the game, when one of the following things

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happen, the game comes to an end.

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. You make an accusation and your poker hand wins the defending hand, all

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suspects, but one have been turned face down either because they have been able

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to defend themselves, , while defending against the accusation or because they

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have been killed when the tower fallen.

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If you make an accusation and it is correct, you have found the

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killer, make sure you document all the clues in your hand.

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, when you confront the suspect, the, with these irrefutable

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facts, they cave and confess.

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You hand them over to the local police and congratulate yourself on another

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solved case if all suspects, but one have been discounted or murdered, the

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real killer has alluded your grasp.

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Describe how they managed to taunt you when you realize they have

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made good their escape, perhaps our paths will cross again.

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All right.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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So.

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Again, , we're going to go to a location.

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We're going to draw a card.

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And based on that card, we are going to attempt to build a

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theory of who killed Lord Adler.

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All right.

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So let's go ahead and start in the study.

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After all Lord Adler there spent most of his time there.

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So.

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Let's go ahead and flip that over.

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And we got a club.

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All right.

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So the eight of clubs represents a small, but lethal wound, easily

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missed on casual observations , so we definitely find the wound.

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, we found his body in the study and looking at it.

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We find the small wound, , seems to be hidden in the folds of his neck

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after all, you know, what happens to soldiers when they stopped being

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soldiers, they tend to get rather large.

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I say this as a soldier, getting large, I'm allowed to it's my people.

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, So based on that, we're going to go ahead and head to the bedroom and

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attempt to find something in the bedroom

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, that might give us a little more

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. Another club.

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All right.

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This time, the queen, , when you arrived at the house, You recall,

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you saw Lord Adler's valet Mr.

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Cooper in a heated discussion with one of the other guests.

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Who was it?

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Well, I'm not sure yet.

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I do remember the discussion.

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I do remember the fight.

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Look like a fight.

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I didn't get a good look because Mr.

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Cooper was blocking them, but let's see what we find in the attic after

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all, we're starting to put some pieces together and the attic is going to be the

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ideal place to try and hide something.

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The ten of spades.

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All right.

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So a second story window has been forced open from the outside.

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That is impressive.

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, they climbed up to force, open a window from the outside.

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Good for them.

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, with this in mind, let us see what these servants have to say about this and

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let's head to the servants quarters and what are the servants have to tell us?

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They have to tell us a tale of passion with a heart, the seven of hearts, and

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that passion argument overheard through a wall, or though no words can be made out.

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, it seems like it was just outside the kitchen.

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And based on that location, this sounds like it would be

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in the right spot for the.

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arguement Mr.

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Cooper was having with his, , with his person.

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So let's head to the kitchen and see if we can find any clues in the kitchen as

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to what this argument was about or who Mr.

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Cooper, might've been arguing.

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The four of spades.

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So we have the silhouette of a person spotted prowling in the garden at night.

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so based on this, all right.

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Based on this.

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We have ourselves an argument occurring outside between Mr.

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Cooper and somebody else, a mysterious figure, prowling the

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grounds at night, climbing up to the second floor, forcing open a window

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in order to deal a small wound.

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, so with hearts, clubs and spades, I can accuse lady Adler, lady Blakely, or Mr.

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Cooper.

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Now

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I don't like my hand.

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I only have a queen high.

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Remember the whole point is for a poker hand, but, but this is like stud rules.

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This isn't a.

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This isn't Texas Hold'em rules.

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So the math is all different.

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, queen high may not be that bad.

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, . Of course, with my luck, they are going to get themselves a low pair.

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However, we're going to find out right now, who should I accuse?

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Who should I accuse?

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Who was it?

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Who was proudly to ground?

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I am going to say that.

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, I remember the flash of red hair underneath a hat, the

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same red hair as lady Adler.

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, that lady Adler was the one who was arguing with Mr.

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Cooper.

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, very passionate argument, a very passionate argument.

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And.

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I seem to recall Mr.

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Cooper being angry at lady Adler, that she was not willing to run away with him.

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She wanted to maintain her marriage, even though she was

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married to a much older husband.

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So Mr.

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Cooper, Mr.

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Cooper, sir, you.

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were prowling around in the dark.

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You were the one who climbed up to the second story and it was you who

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opened that window into the study, sneaking up behind Lord Adler and

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stabbing him in the folds of his neck.

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Very crafty Mr.

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Cooper, but j'accuse!.

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So now we need to build Mr.

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Cooper's case.

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So we need to draw from every deck in order to,

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Build his case and.

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. I lost dammit.

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I didn't lose.

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It's just Mr.

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Cooper is not the suspect.

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All right.

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He pulled himself the ACE of spades.

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, so looking at this, we have the ACE of spades, Jack of spades nine and

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three of diamonds and nine of clubs.

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ACE of spades lady Blakely tries to warn you off the case, implying she can

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make your life difficult if you don't.

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, so lately, , lady Blakely is the one who's involved here, , as well as lady

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Blakley's chauffer Anthony confides that his employer can be difficult.

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He tells you an anecdote of when she fired her previous chauffeur for petty reasons.

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, we combine that with the nine and three of diamonds, which is a ledger with

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suspicious recurring, some paid out every month when unfamiliar name and a

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small hidden tin box containing cocaine, [silly suspense music], and the nine

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of clubs a blow delivered in anger.

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This is Mr.

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Cooper's defense.

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Mr.

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Cooper was trying to warn lady Adler of lady Blakely, her friend.

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. He was trying to war, lady Adler.

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That's what the argument was for.

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, that Lord Adler seem to be in some type of dealing with lady Adler, , that Mr.

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Cooper had found a small tin of cocaine and that he had discovered some.

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Unknown payments.

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It seems that, , Lord Adler had a little bit of a habit.

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, he needed that nose candy.

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All right.

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He was into those fine white ladies.

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And I mean, the cocaine on that.

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, and unfortunately what we assumed, what we assumed was a small wound to conceal,

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, it appears to be more of an angry blow.

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So upon further evaluation, It would not have even been Mr.

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Cooper , , because our theory was around Mr.

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Cooper being delicate, and this was not a delicate below.

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So unfortunately all these cards are going to go to

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the discard pile.

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, . And Mr.

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Cooper, congratulations.

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You are not the murderer.

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We're going to flip his card over.

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. We will have to continue on.

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We will have to find out who the murderer is.

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We will have to find the new one, not the new one, the, the correct suspect,

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. So we're going to return to the study.

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We're going to return to the scene of.

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The crime.

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Ooh.

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And we are you going to get ourselves the king of hearts?

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So I'm going to go ahead and take that king of hearts, and I'm going

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to replace that four of spades.

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So the king of hearts, what does the king of hearts tell us?

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, I found it a little strange that Lord Adler would invite me for the weekend.

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I didn't really know him that well, but now I do remember something

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at the bottom of my invitation.

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He had written a personal greeting.

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It seems that Lord Adler was nervous and concerned for his

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safety, especially surrounding

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these mysterious, payments especially surrounding his habit.

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, apparently he was concerned for his safety and he was looking

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for someone to look out for him.

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Poor Lord Adler.

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You know what j'accuse!

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j'accuse, lady Blakely, who seems to have a temper about her firing her

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chauffeur that we learned from Mr.

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Cooper, , who based on Mr.

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Cooper's alibi lady Blakely seems to have the most likely of motive and.

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, most likely of opportunity.

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, now lady Blakeley, obviously wasn't

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, the Prowler turned out to be nobody.

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It turned out to be Mr.

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Cooper, attempting to find out what was going on.

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In order to find this drop, but we know it.

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Wasn't Mr.

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Cooper.

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So lady Blakely, what is your alibi?

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Not as good.

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Not good.

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Not good enough.

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Not good.

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enough ah,

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I really need to play to a pair or something.

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, there's a reason why I stopped playing poker.

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All right.

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So lady Blakely got herself, a pair, a small pair, but she has a pair.

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And that's all that she needs.

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So, , we got the Jack of diamonds, two spade, seven of spades,

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two of hearts, three of hearts.

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So for the Jack of diamonds, , the maid delivers a sealed envelope

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container to generate sum money.

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, along with a note from Lord Adler, if you'd gotten this,

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it means I've met my demise.

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I hope it will cover expenses to find the culprit.

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So we were correct.

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Adler was concerned about his safety.

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He had already made plans and provisions.

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I don't know how that helps in lady Blakely's case.

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Let's see what the spades give her a rumor of betrayal and a

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series of badly veiled insults.

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Hm.

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So a rumor of betrayal.

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A series of insult.

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Ooh,

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lady Blakely was there for her friend, lady Adler.

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There were rumors that Lord Adler was stepping out.

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A lady Blakely was not the one involved with the cocaine and the payments.

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, it seems that Lord Adler's, , appetites ran a large, according to rumors

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and that those appetites included more than just the cocaine, but also

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maybe the others type of fine white lady, the fine white lady of the

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evening, and he just needed a little something to help stay awake for this.

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, accusations what's he didn't seem to

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make several remarks, , much to the distress of lady Adler and lady Blakely.

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, what else in hearts do we have two and three secret love letters and a

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stolen kiss scene from a distance?

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It seems that lady Blakely and lady Adler were

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closer than just friends as the two responded in the garden and their letters

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to each other found tragic that tragic that they couldn't remain together.

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But all of this points to lady Blakely as while certainly wanting

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Lord Adler dead.

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She is not the one responsible as she was seen running to the garden that

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night to go meet with her secret lover.

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The lady Adler.

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So lady Blakely, congratulations.

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You are no longer a suspect.

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I, I am doing really poorly at this now.

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since we've discovered some stuff.

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, let's head back down to the servants we've heard some nasty rumors.

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Let's see if their servants have any more information on these rumors.

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, Hm.

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So four of diamonds, four of diamonds.

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, we're gonna use that four of diamonds.

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We're going to cover up the seven of hearts.

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so we no longer have the impassioned argument overheard through a wall because

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we already determined that was Mr.

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Cooper and lady Adler.

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And we ruled Mr.

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Cooper out from being the culprit so we no longer need that card.

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, we are going to, once again, uncover the four of spades, the silhouette of

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a person's spotted prowling in the garden and nights, , was lady Blakely.

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The only one out.

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the four of diamonds, which we just drew is going to be an overheard rumor that

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one of the suspects is deep in debt.

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, , we're going to get rid of the eight of clubs and we're going

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to keep the king of hearts.

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So, , we no longer have any evidence of the wound.

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Which is fine, which is fine because we have someone who is deep in debt,

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deep in debt with dark silhouettes, prowling through the gardens,

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breaking into second story windows from the outside.

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And having arguments out in public and who else was in the argument with Mr.

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Cooper, but lady Adler, lady Adler j'acusse!

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J'acusse your husband, puts you into great debt.

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His infidelities and his rumors and his habits, his naughty habits.

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So Ms.

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Adler, may I call you Ms.

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Sadler now a widow Adler.

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So widow Adler, did you do it?

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Will my pair of fours hold up.

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, probably not.

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I have not held, it's a pair though.

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It's a pair.

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It going to be the first pair, right?

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, and of course she gets a pair of tens.

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Of course she gets a pair of tens.

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Uh, so lady Adler was not the, , was not the subject.

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So that is a 10 of hearts, 10 of diamonds.

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So, and so 10 of diamonds is a friendly card game that suddenly turns.

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10 of hearts is a woman's nightgown somewhere.

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It shouldn't be.

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So it would seem that after dinner that a lady Adler and lady Blakely were

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playing a friendly game of cards, when all the feelings and emotions came out.

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Yes, there was a prowling figure, but it always, the lady Blakely as

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she was going off to the garden to.

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Meet with lady Adler as evidenced by the nightgown found outside.

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Oh my goodness.

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Oh, my such scandal for this time period for the modern time.

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Hey you do you girl.

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Unfortunately, unfortunately with lady Adler and lady Blakely being together at

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the time of the murder, that means that we only have one suspect left and as I turn.

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To look at Lord Entwash, to find out why I find nothing but open air.

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He taunts me.

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He has gotten away curse you Lord.

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Entwash, it seems that Lord Entwash, uh correction Entwhistle,

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it seems that Lord Entwhistle.

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Has several side businesses for other type of whistles, wink, wink, wink,

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wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean?

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And with these side businesses, he had ensnared Lord Adler into debt, a

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debt that Lord Adler could not pay.

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And when Lord Adler explained that he could not paid to the Lord Entwhistle

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the Lord Entwhistle, grew angry and.

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I attempted to merely teach Lord Adler a lesson.

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Unfortunately, Lord Adler at his advanced age did not survive.

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If only I had put these pieces together, if only I put

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these pieces together sooner,

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perhaps we might have caught him.

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Perhaps Lord Entwhistle might be behind bars right now.

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Unfortunately he has gotten away and.

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I am embarrassed, but these things happen.

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So that is a weekend in the country.

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So that is a weekend in the country.

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And I just have to say that.

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This was a cute game this was fun.

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I liked that.

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I liked that very Agatha Christie, very Hercules Peroit.

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, I definitely did have that.

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, definitely did have that murder.

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She wrote, feel to it.

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Like you can see all that influence in here.

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This was fun.

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Now, if you're gonna play with more people, , each turn, somebody like

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somebody else takes detective and they try to figure out what the clue might mean.

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, And you know, of course, relatively quick game, we played

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this in what about half hour?

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So fun game, quick game.

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Very cute.

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I really liked it.

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I did, , the various prompts and whatnot.

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They are good.

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Don't get me wrong.

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The problem is when you're coming up with 13 different prompts or

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13 different things, everything doesn't exactly gel together.

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Well, , especially when you end up with multiple suits.

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So when you're designing it, like you almost have to, like, you almost

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have to have every individual motive be its own standalone, but they have

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to work well with the other stuff.

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In case you end up with multiple.

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Hard to say that it did that.

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However, it did work overall.

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Like the game was still fun.

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Like it did work overall.

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It, it didn't take a lot of stretching to get all that stuff to work together.

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, it didn't take a lot and you definitely ended up with plenty of saucy situations

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in there as some of these cards came up.

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, You know, it's one of those, I

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end up in some type of, , I feel like lady Adler is always going to

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end up in some type of an affair.

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, you know, which is fine little cliche, but then again, like the cliche is

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part of the appeal for this game.

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This game.

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Yes, it has the cliches, but that's part of the attraction.

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That's part of why this was fun to play, you know, and the excitement of

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shouting out j'accuse!, as you get ready to, , as you get ready to make your case.

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So all in all great game, , highly recommend that you go check this out.

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, if you want to pick up your own copy, you can find it on.

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Itch.io again, that's a weekend in the country.

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, the website is Lari that's, L a R I dash a S S M U T

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h.itch.io/a week in the country.

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Dashes between all the words.

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, it is $5, , which is very on par for what I've seen for these games.

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, as I play more of these games, I realized that I am pricing myself way

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too low, but no, this is definitely worth, this is definitely worth $5.

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This is definitely worth the little bit of fun that you get to have with it.

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So if you enjoyed this, by all means, go pick up a weekend in the

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country and make sure that when you do you tell her that steel stash sent

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you a, we're trying to grow this.

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We're trying to get some word of mouth, , and let some of these, , let

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some of these indie creators know that someone is out here willing to

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play their games and spread the word.

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So go pick this up.

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Put on your thinking cap, head out to the country Manor and have yourself

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a good time, but watch out for them murderers they're everywhere.

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J'accuse!

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Lonely TTRPG
A Solo Play Podcast
Lonely TTRPG is a show where I play and review solo TTRPGs.

Every other week, we play another solo TTRPG from across the indie community.

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Black Dragon Dungeon Company is a TTRPG podcast. We do weekly actual play podcasts and bi-weekly discussion podcasts where we talk about certain things about the TTRPG world.

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