So when the Kommandant said there were four spies, he was wrong?
Mod: You've already said you won't lie to us, but can the flavor lie to us?
It's possible the Kommandant had (has?) incomplete or faulty intel. Considering how much I love
not getting shot in the face, I'm just going to hold the course until we manage to get 4 spies and then see where the Kommandant goes from there.
Concerning Tir's spy confusion: It is a very interesting observation.
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I'm a bit surprised that no-one has tried to tease apart what the flavor means; I gather it's rather important. I've a theory of what happened to Deathsword, and I'd like to play an episode of
CSI:Nazi Camp for all of you to that end. I hope that you will find my observations interesting: I think it will be difficult to win if we cannot even interpret the events transpiring around us. It might be a bit long, but I think it flows well enough.
Now, Deathsword's death. He was found, throat slit, on the edge of the camp. As I have stated before, I believe he was killed there and left where he fell: There are no indications that the body was moved (tracks in the mud from a dragged corpse), and I cannot see why someone would kill him elsewhere and then dump him on the edge of the camp without attempting to hide the body. Plus, the risks of moving the corpse would be non-trivial: What do you say if a guard catches you dragging a man's corpse through the camp?
Next, there were no signs of a struggle. No tears in the clothes, no defensive wounds, and perhaps most damning there wasn't even in any blood on DS's hands. You would at least expect him to clutch a hand to his throat if he was aware when attacked, yes? But that didn't happen. Considering that there are no obvious signs of trauma to DS's body, this leads me to believe that
Deathsword was likely drugged before his throat was slit.Now, think for a moment. Ask yourself "What drug would someone use to quickly and easily incapacitate a target?" When I asked myself this question, the thing that immediately popped into my head was
Chloroform. And right there, in the intro, is this (bolded for emphasis): "Chloroform is an organic compound with formula CHCl3. It is one of the four chloromethanes.[1] The
colorless, sweet-smelling, dense liquid is a trihalomethane, and is considered somewhat hazardous. Several million tons are produced annually as a precursor to Teflon and refrigerants, but its use for refrigerants is being phased out.[1]"
Do I have your attention yet?
Tolyk claimed that he found a vial of a
colorless, sweet-smelling liquid in Dar's equipment (he said it was something similar to perfume, though why anyone would keep perfume in a vial is beyond me). As Tolyk was a spy we obviously cannot take his claim at face value, but I'm glad he claimed what he did (it was my "a-HA!" moment). It might be that Dar has chloroform. It could also be that Tolyk or one of his co-conspirators has chloroform, and Tolyk could have used this information to fake the inspect/investigation and frame Dar. The one thing of which I am reasonably certain is that some sort of incapacitating drug is involved, and chloroform fits the information given quite well. It makes everything
work: Deathsword either left his tent of his own accord or was coaxed out by a trusted figure. Once on the outskirts of the camp, he was ambushed (either through stealth or treachery) with chloroform, likely a rag over the mouth. While he may have resisted (hence the ruffled shirt, likely the assailant had one hand over DS's mouth and the other around his neck), his struggle would have been futile. Once incapacitated, he was put down and his throat quietly slit to finish the job: The drugs ensure no screams or shouts, no struggle, no marks or blood at all left on the assailant. It makes the entire process so
clean.
TL;DR - I believe that if we can find chloroform or another incapacitating drug, we can likely find DS's killer, though whether it is a vigilante or spy treachery I cannot say.
To that end, I would like to
relay my theory to the Kommandant and request that he dispatch someone to our medical supplies (medical tent?), if possible, to
-Confirm that we are missing no drugs with characteristics similar to chloroform
-Gather information about who, if anyone, was treated with drugs similar to chloroform in the last few days
Day's been extended until Wednesday, so we have a little time.
Thoughts?
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