week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



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[inthebones]

...I would be able to open the door of the safe quite easily under normal circumstances, but. I suppose that's why I'm 'deadweight' this week.

[Off to the library, then.]

It simply looked like it could be opened by a key? Nothing more to it?

[obsideo]

There was a key, yeah. Nothing else.

[Off to the library!]

[inthebones]

[Since it was already dramatically revealed yesterday, Susan will simply glance at the spot where the portrait had been before pulling out the book to open the secret room.]

Why don't you go ahead and try those first? The rest of the keys are in here.

[obsideo]

Sure.

[She'll try the keys in the lock.]

[productions]

[No luck.]

[inthebones]

[Susan sighs slightly and returns with a great deal of keys. She has had the foresight to store a bowl in the secret room in advance.]

...I really don't think they intend us to try every last one of these, but...

Where else would we have access to keys?

[obsideo]

Maybe we can narrow it down before trying somehow?

[productions]

[Good idea. The lock itself is very small, and would appear to fit a key much smaller than the majority of the keys in the drawer, which mostly look like the smoking room key.]

[inthebones]

I suppose we can rule out the key to the smoking room. One down, many to go.

[Susan sighs and examines the lock.]

It does appear as if many of these are too large. Perhaps this will go a bit more quickly than I thought. ...Still, I can't believe this is the third time I've done this in a week. I suppose I'm making up for a lifetime of never having to use these.

[Deep sighing is all Susan manages for a bit before -- ]

...

Do you think this vault was accessible to the Mastermind?

[obsideo]

It's possible. Though...the diary made it sound like whatever was in the vault was being kept there to hide it from someone, didn't it? At least...he talked about not wanting anything found before he was ready.

[inthebones]

...True.

[Susan continues to try keys that look possible, discarding the ones that don't work.]

I suppose it can't be as easy as the Mastermind's room key or desk key doubling as the key to this vault.

[She'll dig hers out anyway just to see if they could possibly fit.]

[productions]

[It doesn't look as though either will fit.]

[obsideo]

[She will help Susan try keys.]

[inthebones]

...Never mind.

[Says Susan as she wearily passes Marlow part of the bowl.]

If we're going to be stuck here, perhaps we should think about that code. ...Even if it doesn't open the safe, I doubt it's irrelevant.

[obsideo]

I don't know what it could mean. But you're right. Maybe it has to do that that weird message in blood? Even though...that would be a weird coincidence. Or maybe it's the dates in his journal entries, spelling out a secret message?

But with that code, it seems like there are several letters to the same number, so that would be hard to work out.

[productions]

[After a while, one of the keys clicks in the lock.]

[inthebones]

I suppose it might only make sense when we see whatever's inside here.

We had a sort of cypher before as a riddle, although it was a shift in the alphabet. The dates are mostly 1919, which would get us...

AIAI
KSKS
U-U-

Or some combination like... ASKS. It doesn't really seem quite ri --

[click]

Oh! I think this one worked!

[Susan betrays actual excitement for a moment if only because she's spared another three hours of trying keys. She'll carefully turn it fully and try to open the door.]

[productions]

[Inside is a shallow safe. Several ornamental guns and knives are stored here, including a place where one seems to be missing.

There is also a smaller lock-box, in the back, also old-fashioned. It has 5 different sliding dials where numbers, from 0 to 9, must slide into place.]

[obsideo]

Well. That answers that mystery.

[She looks at the guns to see if they look like the one that killed Doris, and then looks at the lockbox dial.]

[inthebones]

...Time to work on the code now, I suppose.

[A slight pause.]

To have opened this safe and removed a gonne, someone would have needed to have had the keys to open the drawer with the keys in the secret room, though. Annie, Rapture, and I have them at the moment, I believe.

...Unless the Mastermind cheated.

[obsideo]

Yeah, there could be another key.

Okay, what does the journal tell us could be the code? Do you think it's something in that riddle we were given? Maybe some kind of dessert?

[inthebones]

...Flans?

[Suddenly any five letter dessert she may have ever heard of escapes her mind.]

...

Doris?

[obsideo]

...I had the same thought. Couldn't hurt to try.

[She plugs in 45899.]

[productions]

[It works. The door creaks open...]

[inthebones]

[Susan won't even say anything as the lock clicks. She simply waits with bated breath as Felicia unveils the mystery...]