Alibit

The Saltery on Kållskär

about 4 h · 4–6 players

The saltery's owner on Kållskär, Gottfrid Almlöv, was found on 14 September 1911 in the water by the saltery's jetty with a barrel caught in the railing above. The finding was drowning: the man had been drinking, the jetty was slippery and the autumn night dark. The police report was filed in the customs house archive in Härnösand and lay there for eight years. When the file was brought out again the witnesses were dead and their statements were only paper. Following the police report straight through leads to the young rower, who had quarrelled with the master that same afternoon and had his landing net lying under the jetty. Anyone who instead counts the barrels and reads the clock in the customs tower arrives at a different man, and the line that settles the matter looks like pure courtesy in both files. Requested from the steamer Almvik's papers: the logbook for the night (code 'logbook'), the crew list for the same voyage (code 'crew'), the customs station's signal log for the fog (code 'signallog') and the customs station's diary (code 'diary'). From the saltery's and the harbour's papers: the saltery's salt book for September (code 'saltbook'), the ledger at the harbour shop (code 'ledger') and the customs clearance for Almvik's call (code 'clearance'). Further requested are Hilda Styf's recorded testimony (code 'hilda') and the harbour watchman's record (code 'watchman'), the photograph of the barrel mark on the float (code 'barrelmark'), the forensic examiner's statement (code 'neckbone'), the technical investigation (code 'stave'), the profiling (code 'profiling') and the alibi table (code 'alibi'). Five red herrings also lie in the file and are requested: the paraffin lamp on the jetty (code 'lamp'), the clock in the harbour shed (code 'shedclock'), the salt splash in the cottage (code 'splash'), the letter that never came (code 'letter') and the oil rack from the saltery (code 'oilrack').

The Saltery on Kållskär – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.