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Murphy's Laws of Sleuth
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Tom Darling
Tom Darling

Sep-11-2005 06:50

For the cheerfully pessimistic detective!

1. Your client did it.

2. Buying Advanced Thread Analysis means that all threads immediately disappear from the crime scene.

3. The question you need answered most is the one the witness clams up on.

I'm sure more experienced players can add to the list. Care to have a go?

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Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Mar-10-2006 05:36

I've found a new corollary of Murphy's Laws of Sleuth-- it's called the Screw-gee Corollary.

Any time you purchase an advanced analysis skill and immediately try a case on a higher difficulty than attempted before, you will receive one piece of evidence of your new analysis type which will match 9 people out of 9.

*Just bought adv. footprint analysis, jumped from inred. hard to stupen. hard, first case, 1 heavy footprint, 9 people, ALL HEAVY...*

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Mar-11-2006 23:41

This is more like a minor irritation than a full-fledged grrrrr, but when Lock-Picking on your client reveals the same bloody names the intro gave you...or when asking the motive question and the first 8 suspects give you one name and the ninth gives you 6 of the ones you just asked...either of those make me want to run outside and key someone's car just to restore the balance of the universe.

*spies juicy little Honda through the window*

Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Mar-12-2006 00:12

Hey!! get away from my car!
lol, just kidding

Trelane Rahl
Trelane Rahl

Apr-6-2006 06:44

Your client did it and is willing to shoot at you if you get too close to solving it.

Horace Locke
Horace Locke

Apr-14-2006 08:24

As soon as you get Hand-Writing Analysis, the banker will become your PE contact in every city you go to once you do a single favor in each city.

Horace Locke
Horace Locke

Apr-14-2006 19:04

The alibi that all your suspects give you will be for the same person you need to analyze all your evidence.

Della Devine
Della Devine
Well-Connected

Apr-15-2006 00:37

Oh, Man! I hate that one! Worse, it happens on a favor you need for a hunt!

Trelane Rahl
Trelane Rahl

Apr-15-2006 11:15

The alibi that all your suspects give you will be for the same person you need to analyze all your evidence. And it won't be your contact.

Horace Locke
Horace Locke

Apr-17-2006 11:18

Yeah, that too.

Elka
Elka
Well-Connected

Apr-17-2006 19:21

How about getting a contact for a skill you have to buy that you don't have... Like getting the barber in Shanghai and the only hair you've ever analysed is the one growing on the back of your hand.

Luckily though, I eventually got hair analysis, but all dreams of learning a skill from Order of Socrates went bye-bye down the potty hole. Here's to another 3 months of trying to get enough skill points to buy it.

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