[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.]
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 -- ]
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Do you think this vault was accessible to the Mastermind?
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.
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.
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.]
[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.]
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.
[Inside, the box is full of papers. Most of what is in there seem to be old photographs, black and white pictures of architecture, cities, cities in rubble, and soldiers. Some of the pictures are of vibrant and cheerful people, but some are clearly scenes of battle. The dates and places on the back give clues what is depicted - March 1915, Paris, December 1915, Chantilly, August 1915, Gorlice, March 1916, Lutsk, 1912, Vilnius, 1915, Vilnius, to name a few.
To the side is an extremely tarnished old medal. On top of it is a folded piece of paper.]
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[She'll try the keys in the lock.]
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...I really don't think they intend us to try every last one of these, but...
Where else would we have access to keys?
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[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 -- ]
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Do you think this vault was accessible to the Mastermind?
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[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.]
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[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.
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But with that code, it seems like there are several letters to the same number, so that would be hard to work out.
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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.]
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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.]
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[She looks at the guns to see if they look like the one that killed Doris, and then looks at the lockbox dial.]
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[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.
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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?
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[Suddenly any five letter dessert she may have ever heard of escapes her mind.]
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Doris?
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[She plugs in 45899.]
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To the side is an extremely tarnished old medal. On top of it is a folded piece of paper.]
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Are we looking for someone who's been in these places, then...?
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