Alibit

The Logger Who Vanished

about 3 h 45 min · 4–6 players

The logger Oskar Lind disappeared from the log-driving crew on the Ängermanälven river on the night of 2 November 1953. His axe was found at the log-driving quay, but it was not until May that the body was found in the riverbank at Sand. The log-driving crew, the inheritance after him and an old debt at the general store were left lying in the archive — until someone opened it again. In the district archive in Kramfors lie chests marked with the crew's mark and the number of the day. Two of those who saw something that evening were recorded and died within three years, and their statements contradict the file on two points. Following the forest owner's own journal straight through yields his younger brother instead, and the line that settles the matter stands in four files without anyone reading it as a rule. Five more false trails lie in the chests and are requested: the ground by the stump, which looked like a grave and was the crew's own pier work, two statements about the same midnight and the shadow in the barracks window; the receipt from Sundsvall, whose dating gave the forest owner a journey he had not made, is requested (code 'receipt'), and the shirt in the croft, which looked like blood and was tar, is requested (code 'shirt').

The Logger Who Vanished – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.