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Aug-25-2011 09:05

Have you just had your best day of Sleuthing ever? Solved your first AI case? Got your last contact? Picked up your first treasure? Found a spoon? Finally got into the Prince's Palace?*

This is the place to share the joy, have a 'woot' or two and be congratulated by your fellow Sleuths.

Or maybe you've just had to pay Shady enough cash to finance a small war. Or reached screaming point with the tailor in Delhi. Or been pirated twice in a row. Or fallen into a trap three times running. You can share the woe, too, and we'll commiserate. We've probably been there too.

Me? I'm just happy that after two days' worth of 'south of the race track' I've finally got out of Shanghai :)

(* If you don't get the references, never mind. You could ask someone. Or you could just wait and see what the world of Sleuth brings you further down the line...)

Feb-27-2012 15:15

Well thank you :) I'd whizzed over to London before I had a chance to call in on you - but my that jacuzzi sounds heavenly. Will certainly pay a visit when back in NYC.

Feb-28-2012 10:02

Summer, not to revisit the subject of Delhi if it still be a sore one. Please forgive me and read no further!

Congrats on youor escape and rapid jump to London. But if you can stand it ....

**** Delhi ****

The clue states the co-conspirator is south of the detective shop The bartender is clearly NOT south, but on a par. Can you feel the logic?

Feb-28-2012 11:03

My first villain hunt - still on it and after my elevent case today, I make an accusation and what do I find?

Dear Marcellus Hruby has escaped to Shangai, and I cannot solve the remaining case!

Doh. I wish I knew about that beforehand.

Feb-28-2012 11:14

Never mind Eden, that has happened to everyone at some time. Just think - you might have been left with 3 cases over and needing 4 to travel to the next city! But Shanghai will be your 3rd city - no? You are progressing well on your first ever AVH - well done :)

@Peter. Are you trying to say women can't read maps ? Actually I debated that point (the exact location of the Bartender) with a few other detectives and we couldn't decide if he was exactly level with, or just south of, the detective shop. In fact, Riza was sure that the Bartender was actually north of the detective shop. But the general consensus was that I needed one more clue. As it turned out ...I didn't. There was a strange logic to it but I'm not telling :)

(P.S. Nice to see you back again!)

Feb-28-2012 12:11

3 unsolvable cases - gonna have to quote Kurtz on that:

"Oh the horror! The horror!" Seriously, that's a very nice way of putting it, Summer. I might have had 3 cases left, indeed. I think I'd be banging my head on the keyboard(old Syn, lol) if that were to happen so I'd better shut up :))

And thanks for the encouraging words. I had no idea how first AVH's can go in general.

Mar-18-2012 10:32

Oh this thread is gonna make me weep.

I made 3 fa's lol. I deserved this. I absolutely deserved to rot in hell. Gilbert deserted me.

400k xp deserted me.

12 skill points deserted me. (-8 now boohoo)

And all my contacts waved goodbye, it was so touchy as we were running towards each other in slow motion, and crying "oh no" like it came from a cd player with dying batteries.

Gilbert, I am going to find you!

Geez, what a day!

Mar-18-2012 10:52

My condolences, Eden. At least you aren't required to get a face lift and new name any longer! I'm sure your agency mates will speed up your recovery and you'll be back to your old self soon.

Mar-18-2012 10:54

Oh no Eden. What an awful day for you. I suppose it reinforces the lesson that if you have acquired 2 false accusations then you should get rid of them right away no matter what - even if it means selling everything, borrowing $$ - whatever it takes.

But don't despair - you can come back from this. The most frustrating things, of course, will be regaining contacts and having to put AVHs on hold for a while.

Btw who is Gilbert?

Mar-18-2012 11:01

As we say around here! Never guess! Always better to quit cases than get an FA and have the scary risk of losing all that stuff mentioned.

Sorry Eden :( That's not fun, but you can start again at least and can get back to your old self. Just put your cases in the files for help from agency mates. :)

Mar-18-2012 15:28

Oh, I do not guess. I guessed once or twice in this game(as Eden) and did so early in the game where I already had an FA and wanted to clean the record.

I know why I keep doing these mistakes but I cannot prevent them. For example: this time I had 11 suspects but I thought I had 10, thinking I already visited the fortune teller anyway. I finish cases too quickly, sometimes, and my memory fails me(meaning, what I remember is actually what I did in the previous game)
So, I won't check things because I am damn sure I checked them anyway. I try to remind myself that I am inclined to do that, but sometimes I forget to do that, too. Because checking things has never been my habit. In real life, I mean. That's my problem.

I think I was automatically booted from the agency the second I got retired. I son't want to trouble Queen with my presence. She's put up with this 3 times before. She'd probably pay for this, too. I don't want that to happen again.

I was waiting to finish the hunt, I was going to sell my prizes except the peacock and clean my record without having to borrow agency's money again.

Gilbert used to be my peacock, btw.