Plurk paste

So my only feedback is in regards to the lifting test. Basically the idea of the lifting test was that, if a psyche wasn't used, then the killer would have had to use the ladder to carry Lion up and hang them. That of course requires someone to be physically strong, and Clarke was volunteered because she has a similar size build to Lion. Anyone who could lift Clarke could reasonably lift Lion by that train of thought. I think the test was ultimately helpful, and I appreciate Anna for commenting with Terra on it as part of verification, as well as everyone else who chipped in with their physically capable characters.

However, I was surprised that there wasn't really any kind of pre-planned list to show who could lift Lion, or someone similar in size to Lion, in this scenario. Mainly because the solution did involve Terra lifting Lion, as opposed to psyche use. And I know the reasoning was that you didn't know how strong characters were and didn't want to make assumptions, which is fair, but then it falls on players to comment to that test. Not everyone can be around at the trial though, so a list generated by the mods would have been helpful and hold a lot more weight in our deductions.

A solution to this would be to say "ok, so X amount of character are similar in size/shape to Terra, therefore they could also lift Lion the way he did." You therefore take the burden of figuring out "who is strong" and change it to "who has a build/skillset similar to Terra going off the IC profiles." It would have helped us narrow down a large pool of potential culprits if we had such a list to draw from during the process, as mod lists do help us given they cannot by nature have anything misleading for the sake of fairness.

I think looking ahead if there is something involving a character physically doing something to influence a crime, there should be some kind of pre-planned list of characters in game who could reasonably do the same thing. While you don't give us a pool of suspects at the start of the game, there should always be some sense of "who, if not our culprit, could commit this crime" going in the back of the mind when creating these mysteries. That's not to say you volunteer this list to us, as I do think we as players should work for our deductions, but if we test something that is relevant to the solution that there be some kind of listing of other characters who could do the same thing as the culprit did.