3512 Dead Reckoning
on April 15, 2022
Happy Easter, Passover, Ramadan, and whatever else you might be celebrating everyone!
I’m going to be in Toronto with my family for the week, so YAFGC will not update until I get back. My apologies, but that’s just how it goes. Have a great weekend and see you soooooon!
-Rich “Beholder King” Morris
He clearly doesn’t know the reason for examining the corpse
Well, he has at least confirmed she isn’t undead.
I wouldn’t have taken Cadugan to be the kind to take *that* opportunity to make a joke. I snorted the water I was drinking up into my nose.
Now, if she happens to get back up this weekend…
Was it a joke? Or the voice of long experience wanting to be *very* sure?
Hmm.. the damage is consistent with her standing up when she got hit by the harpsichord. Clipped her head (the bad crack) Impacted the shoulder breaking the clavicle and arm, and the right ankle snapping from the force as it would have been extended as she attempted to move out of the way.
The Prattroot probably just slowed her reflexes enough to allow the harpsichord to hit her. Then she died from the prattroot poisoning while pinned.
I was hoping for an analysis like this. Sounds very reasonable, and you’ve got my vote.
My initial thought was that it landed on her right side. I find your solution way better. 🙂
However, if that is what really happened, it opens up some possibilities:
1) The prattroot worked slower than the murderer thought it should, and thinking its not doing its job wanted to crash her with the harpsichord.
2) There were more than one people who attemted to kill her, and the one using the harpsichord didn’t know about the poison at all.
3) A combiation of these: one poisoned her, and the other thinking that its not working took the matter into his/her own hand.
Well, after all of the comments about her possibly faking her death or hoping to resurrect have been stricken down, we can now see Taurenil as being an upstanding victim thanks to your analysis.
At least it struck a chord with me.
Never seen a woman so dead.
But we’ve got to verify it legally
To see (to see)
If she (if she)
Is morally, ethically
Spiritually, physically
Positively, absolutely
Undeniably and reliably dead
As Cadugan, I thoroughly examined her
And she’s not only merely dead
She’s really most sincerely dead
Cadugan sure has a knack for coming to the right conclusions.
He didn’t hold a mirror in front of her mouth so there’s still a chance.. 😉
"She’s not dead. She’s just pining for the fjords."
She’s not pining! She’s passed on! This elf is no more! She has ceased to be! She’s expired and gone to meet her maker! Or SOMEONE’S maker; it’s confusing these days! She’s a stiff! Bereft of life, she rests in peace! If you hadn’t stashed her in the wine cellar, she’d be pushing up the daisies! Her metabolic processes are now history! She’s off the twig! She’s kicked the bucket, she’s shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-ELF!!
Thank you, mucat! Bravo! 😀
Nice adaptation to the situation in the comic, too, Mucat. Well done. 🙂
Impressive! *applauds*
Now where’s Lewie when you need to Speak With Dead?
Erm… not in a magically dead abbey?
This made me think of the scene in Princess Bride for some reason
Miracle Max the Wizard: Mostly dead means he’s slightly alive; all dead, well there’s only one thing you can do.
Miracle Max the Wizard: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What’s that?
Miracle Max the Wizard: Search his clothes for loose change, hehe.
Bakes cakes for all the fantastic funny comments. Not as good as Fang FanGirl’s cookies, but a snack while we await her 🙂
Hooray for cakes! And here’s hoping we’ll soon see Fang FanGirl back here again soon!
Unfortunately his post-mortem did not disclose if the injuries were post-mortem or peri-mortem. Part of that can be determined by bleeding around the injuries, lots of bleeding indicates a beating heart, slight bleeding indicates no heartbeat.
I know this because I was dead for a few minutes when the truck hit me and caused a massive lower leg injury. If I had been alive then I would be dead now because of blood loss from the injury, the injury left a scar 8 inches long by 4 wide, with many opened blood vessels. Hail the good timing to be dead until medical aid arrived to cause me to revive as they were scraping me off the street.
Ok, that is great forensic trivia, but what a way to have learnt it!! My brain is still trying to process that…. And not ask tons more questions that i’m sure you get asked each time 😉
and what a fact to give about yourself at those "tell 3 interesting facts about yourself" dealies, but a great one for 2 truths and a lie!
Opus, do you remember the guy from Hitchhiker’s Guide who was spending a year dead for tax purposes? You may be one of the few people in existence who legitimately spent some time dead for medical purposes.
Yes, the concert promoter. I don’t remember his name, I don’t remember my wife and kids’ names half the time and I’ve been married almost 45 years.
Hotblack Desiato. And he wasn’t a promoter, he was the lead for the loudest band in the universe, so loud they did planetary level damage. Restaurant at the End of the Universe, I think.