dramatispersonae

ROOM 5

[You enter a pleasant sitting room: there are nine plush comfy chairs in a semi-circle in front of a crackling fireplace, and a table set with various finger-foods and two carafes, one of water and one of wine. It'd be a very nice room ... if not for the dummy lying facedown on the floor with a giant butcher knife sticking out of its back and a little bottle by one of its hands, marked with a tiny skull and crossbones. There's a hangman's noose around its neck, though the other end looks rather frayed.

The pleasant voice of a woman -- not the persona -- begins to speak:]

Hello and welcome. I wish it could have been under better circumstances, but today has some interesting circumstances. As you can see, my good associate, Mister X, has met an unfortunate end. I've reason to believe it might be one of you! Shall we see if I'm right?

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You certainly seem to be on the side of our mysterious murderer, friend! Could there be more to this story?

Maybe I'm just tired of getting sticking my nose in someone else's business.

Understandable, understandable. These things are hard on us all.

If you're going to solve it then hurry up and get it over with.

Working on it, friend!

I'm not your friend.

At the moment, we are all friends, either in the pursuit of justice or in the pursuit of getting this over with so we can go home and eat dinner.

Look, the justice has been done. Can't we all just go home and eat?

Unsolved murders are terrible for the digestion!

That sounds like a personal problem to me.

A universal problem, perhaps.

I'm pretty certain that it's just you.

Perhaps if you can sleep so soundly under the weight of a murder the truth is that you want the murderer to go free...? Now, who would want that sort of thing?

Are you going to play that game? If you want your murderer, it's the wolf.

A bold claim! And your evidence?

He's the only one who knew the deceased.

Or perhaps the only one who will admit to it...? We would not be attending his party if we were not at least passingly acquainted!

This wasn't the work of a passing acquaintance.

And yet, here we all are, with only the barest of knowledge of the deceased's habits or personality!

Except for the wolf.

You raise a convincing argument...

Because it's the right one.

Confident! Of course, we must ask ourselves if the wolf had the means and opportunity.

As much as anyone else here, don't you think?

Perhaps, perhaps! He doesn't seem the murdering type to me, of course, but I've been wrong before.

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