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The Crown Standard at Vikhamn

about 3 h 30 min · 4–6 players

The Crown's assayer Elias Wallin was found on 22 October 1912 in the lake by the Vikhamn shore, with gravel in his boots and his portmanteau still at the inn. The first report was written that same evening and called it an accident: the man had been drinking, the bank was slippery, and he had gone out alone in the dark. Follow the report straight through and you end up with the smith, who sat with him on the last evening, or with the fishing crew, who threatened him over a confiscated weight. But whoever instead reads the comparison book and counts the weights in the trade book arrives at a different man, and the sentence that settles the matter is a single courtesy in his own protocol: he knows a number that stands only in a book no one else has read. Requisitioned: the trade book at the Vikhamn harbour shop (code 'tradebook'), the mill book for the mill by the dam (code 'millbook'), the inn's house book (code 'housebook'), and the seizure document for the confiscated weight (code 'seizure'). Further, the medical examiner's statement on the lungs (code 'lungs'), the technical examination of the mill dam (code 'dam'), the profiling of the weights (code 'weights'), and the alibi table for the evening (code 'times'), as well as the recorded testimony after the maid (code 'maid') and after the mill hand (code 'millhand'). Four red herrings are requisitioned in particular: the threat from the fishing crew (code 'threat'), the lakeweed in the boots (code 'weed'), the clock at the inn (code 'houseclock'), and the note in the portmanteau (code 'note'). A photograph of the jug in the attic office is requisitioned (code 'jug').

The Crown Standard at Vikhamn – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.