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on November 8, 2021
Chapter: Blood Hand: A Lucas & Cadugan Mystery
Characters: Cadugan, Captain Lilianne Carruthers, Lucas Greyfort
Location: Abbey of St. Aldwin the Skilled

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Discussion (37) ¬

  1. Jonathan in Mississippi
    November 8, 2021, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Lucas, Cadugan, thank you for your time, you’re free to go home now.

    • t!
      November 9, 2021, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      Oh?

      Surely you don’t believe there are no more surprises forthcoming?

      t!

  2. someone
    November 8, 2021, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Interesting. So now the questions are:
    – how was Taurenil actually killed?
    – what was the rope-cutter trying to do by making the harpsichord fall?
    – are Taurenil’s murderer and the harpsichord rope-cutter really the same person?

    • Aaron
      November 11, 2021, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

      On the final one – unlikely.

  3. Nikary Flare
    November 8, 2021, 3:21 am | # | Reply

    So… when they said "Taurenil was murdered, crushed by a falling harpsichord", they meant "was murdered and then crushed by a falling harpsichord", not "was murdered by a falling harpsichord".

    I’m gonna guess then that it made autopsy more difficult to perform.

    • creatinsanivity
      November 8, 2021, 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. It is a clever idea to murder someone in a more inconspicuous manner and then hide it by flattening the body in an "accident". In this case though, it seems that it was not inconspicuous enough AND the "accident" didn’t actually look like an accident.

      Either very shoddy work or two independent assasination attempts. Or something even better.

  4. Morgan Champion
    November 8, 2021, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    So we have at least two murderers. How very Agatha Christie-esque!

  5. David Nuttall
    November 8, 2021, 4:41 am | # | Reply

    So, if you provide fatal injuries to somebody that is already dead, is it still murder?

    • Alan Richmon
      November 8, 2021, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      Yes, if you killed previally that somebody.

      Death in Paradise S4Ep7 She was murdered twice

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4440278/?ref_=ttep_ep7

    • Oldarmourer
      November 9, 2021, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

      It’s called ‘visiting an indignity on a corpse’
      They gotcha before or after the fact 😉

    • Oldarmourer
      November 9, 2021, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

      It’s called ‘visiting an indignity on a corpse’
      Usually added in with murder charges if there was any disturbance of the body ‘just in case’, there’s always something that can get a conviction…or more likely today, to be plea-bargained away.

      • Oldarmourer
        November 9, 2021, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

        Had to look it up just to be sure I wasn’t misquoting the Law 😉

        182 Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who

        (a) neglects, without lawful excuse, to perform any duty that is imposed on him by law or that he undertakes with reference to the burial of a dead human body or human remains, or

        (b) improperly or indecently interferes with or offers any indignity to a dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not.

  6. Michael Brown
    November 8, 2021, 5:04 am | # | Reply

    Less murder-y, more corpse desecration-y.

  7. Xero
    November 8, 2021, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    Oh then for Sure mama Bloodhand DEFINATLY didn’t do it then if she is gonna kill you shed want you to know it

  8. MDF
    November 8, 2021, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Yay! Just noticed the new update.

    Agree with other people here that Mrs Bloodhand is more of the "front stabber/kill you to your face" type.

    Someone must have *really* had feelings for Taurenil if they had to do it twice. Hate, jealousy, who knows?

    Had to go back and look at the start of the strip…was wondering why no one did the clerical form of interrogation Speak with Dead, etc., but then remembered:

    1) This isn’t a 1:1 correlation D&D strip.
    2) No one wants a five-minute mystery.
    3) With much of the magic/deities gone from the world, it would be a use/waste of power no one probably wants to do–even if they potentially could.

    Was also shocked that this arc is 46 strips now, and had forgot about Rich’s new experimental style at the beginning of it.

    Can’t wait for the next one–this has been a good story.

    • Jonathan in Mississippi
      November 8, 2021, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      Read from the arrival the abby, I think only an hour or two has passed. At this point, the captain really does have things in hand and Lucas and Caudigan are not adding anything to the investigation beside some political protocol.

    • AlyxVixen
      November 8, 2021, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Also if they did have the magic to spare, it still wouldn’t work as they’re in an anti-magic zone.

    • mucat
      November 8, 2021, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      > Agree with other people here that Mrs Bloodhand
      > is more of the "front stabber/kill you to your face" type.

      In my pre-coffee fog, I read that initially as "kill you with your face". Which might be a thing, if you get Maula angry enough.

      "Stop this nonsense at once, Mrs. Bloodhand! If you suspect another player of cheating, then you may present your evidence to the Arbitration Committee like anyone else. And give Taurenil her face back immediately."

    • Aaron
      November 11, 2021, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

      Someone – or more than one.

  9. Oldarmourer
    November 8, 2021, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    Make sure they’re on ice, kill them twice !!
    For those times when you have to absolutely, positively know that they’re dead.
    I wonder how she gnu that ? another loose thread to tie up 😉

  10. AlyxVixen
    November 8, 2021, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

    If I was going to kill Taurenil, I’d steal the book, poison the edges/corners of it with a tasteless ingested poison, return the book before she noticed. Thus she’d poison herself when flicking through the book as most people will lick a finger before flipping a page. Dies of poisoning, which would be obvious since there would be no marks on the body. Dropping a harpsicord on the body would deflect suspicion of the poisonng method as that would have seemed to be the cause of death…

    • creatinsanivity
      November 8, 2021, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      "…as most people will lick a finger before flipping a page"

      I… Huh. I always thought people only did that in the movies? I could swear I’ve never seen someone do that in real life. Or then that’s just one of those things my brain just doesn’t even register seeing.

      Also, feels like something that should have seen a major decline in these last couple of years.

      • Nikary Flare
        November 9, 2021, 5:20 am | # | Reply

        I agree, I never did that either.

    • cassie5squared
      November 10, 2021, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      Not to give away too many spoilers for anyone who hasn’t read it, but there is a poisoning plot in Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay, from the Discworld series. Licking one’s fingers to help turn the page while reading is suggested as one of the methods the poisoner is using.

      Utterly irrelevant here, but the connection did amuse me.

      • creatinsanivity
        November 11, 2021, 6:11 am | # | Reply

        That’s such a great book. It really showed me the potential that golems hold.

    • Aaron
      November 11, 2021, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

      But we don’t have a character that looks like Sean Connery…

  11. THAT bard
    November 8, 2021, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    And in the end it turns out, that the target of the harpsicord was not Taurenil, but her murderer. Only, the person dropping it wasn’t aware of that his/her target carries a dead body, and eventually thought he/she killed Taurenil by accidently hitting her instead of the original target, and now laying low. OR, the person knew she was dead, but has some reason to keep quite about the identity of the (other) murderer.

  12. Yakumo
    November 8, 2021, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

    Okay Carruthers. No nonsense or coy, pick one! I’m not saying they are always mutually exclusive, but c’mon… :/

    • t!
      November 9, 2021, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      Where do you see her being coy?

      t!

  13. Freaktiful
    November 9, 2021, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    oh boy, the plot thickens XD

  14. Mark
    November 9, 2021, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

    I’m sorry. Could someone remind me why harpsichords are routinely suspended from the ceilings of St Aldwin’s?

    I mean… Seriously?

    • Oldarmourer
      November 9, 2021, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

      The 16 ton weight was out for cleaning

    • t!
      November 9, 2021, 7:24 pm | # | Reply

      The answer to THIS
      and many other exciting questions
      in forthcoming episodes… OF…

      t!

    • mucat
      November 9, 2021, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

      OK, smart guy, YOU try suspending one from the floor!

    • T-Chall
      November 10, 2021, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      In the words of Mr. B. Bunny, "Obviously, a music hater."

    • Aaron
      November 11, 2021, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

      I just assumed they were moving it out of a window.

  15. Aaron
    November 11, 2021, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

    This is beginning to sound like "everyone killed" her kind of murder. Or, everyone but the one that is accused.

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