Alibit

The Poisoning of the Cooper

about 1 h 30 min · 1–4 players

Stockholm, 1590s. In the Stockholm town court book it is written how a woman of German descent and her husband's employer three times tried to take the cooper's life — twice with poison in his food and once with mercury in a butter-fried lamb's brain — before they crushed his head and stabbed him in bed. A real case from the town court's inquest: the same arrest, the same interrogations and the same verdict, all from public records. Everyone in the case has been dead for more than four hundred years. The quarter, the poison and the royal command to torment the condemned before execution are in the town court book; it is from that record the inquest in the room is built.

The Poisoning of the Cooper – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.