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Murphy's Laws of Sleuth
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Tom Darling
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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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Horace Locke
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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.
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Della Devine
Well-Connected
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Apr-15-2006 00:37
Oh, Man! I hate that one! Worse, it happens on a favor you need for a hunt!
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Trelane Rahl
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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.
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Horace Locke
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Apr-17-2006 11:18
Yeah, that too.
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Elka
Well-Connected
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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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shadowblack
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Apr-19-2006 11:52
1a. When you need money the most your client will turn out to be the guilty one
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knuckles3535
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Apr-21-2006 11:05
Your very smart so you rely on evidence then you get a thread from a female person and a thread from a male person and 2 alibi's on tailor, he clams up after the alibis and you can't persuade him cause your very smart so you bribe him and still gives bad answer!
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kate_walker
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Apr-21-2006 21:28
murphy would be proud of all of you
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Horace Locke
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Apr-25-2006 15:09
Grrr...Elka, you stole my spot as Philosopher Marshall...
I'm very possessive of such things.
Unfortunately Murphy's dead. However, his tradition has been continued in Advanced Murphology books, with laws including:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
And the ultimate pessimism:
Schnatterly's Law
If anything can't go wrong, it will.
It's so encouraging.
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Jullianna
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Apr-25-2006 19:12
You use your "judge of character" skill, it tells you to try and make her bend the rules. You try to bend the rules. Doesn't work. You try everything else and she still clams up. Then you bribe her $350 and it turns out, "No, I don't know anything about this case."
Really makes me angry.
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