That Theory

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In less than 24 hours, I’ve forgotten some of the particulars of the solution you came up with. Here’s what I have, with the 9 clues in CAPS (including the three I don’t recall how you included). Thoughts? …

The family is seriously running out of money, a loss that Albert took particularly strongly. The SINGLE DIAMOND EARRING found in the jacuzzi was fake; so, too, most likely, was David’s expensive WATCH THAT WAS NOT KEEPING GOOD TIME.

He also brought along the LADYLIKE PISTOL in case Andrew and Capt. Curly raised problems over not getting paid.

Overwrought, and likely drunk, pacing rapidly back and forth, Albert slipped on the other diamond earring, fell, and smashed his head into one of the EXPENSIVE CRYSTAL VASES on one side of the gangway at the bow of the ship, dying of the wound.

Andrew the butler came upon the scene – perhaps even witnessing it – and, wanting to keep his mistress and their family from seeing it, heaved Albert’s body over the side into the sea, cleaning up the blood and (most of the) broken crystal. That’s the one crime that was committed.

A large COMPUTER DISPLAY OF PHOTOS from Allison’s charitible event activities include occasional shots of Albert, Sara, and even Emily, but none of David. That’s because David never attended: two creative people at loggerheads about aesthetics. As a result, Allison had David dropped from the family party invitation for del Mare.

Alison’s guarded gushing about the LOVE LETTER FROM A YOUNG MILITARY VET she received are just emblematic of how it’s all about her.

(RECEIPTS DOWN THE THROAT)
(PATERNITY TEST)

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Unfortunately you cleared the board in Roll20 so I can’t refer back to it, and I didn’t finish the Miro board because we were running low on time. I think you covered the parts I contributed so I’ll see what @insomn14 and @Margie say about this

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Yeah, I realized my error in clearing the board about 5 minutes after I did it – though I did have a separate list of clues given (and those ungiven) and could reconstruct the nine from that. My real error was not writing it down when we summarized it at the end, or immediately after the game or something. Lesson hopefully learned.

(What happens on a Miss on the Theorize move? The Theory is wrong, and there are ramifications that come from that, possibly dire, when you go to confront the Suspect. On a not-as-good hit, the Theory is correct, but maybe the Suspect pulls a gun on you and escapes … You can always re-Theorize and roll again, but only after the consequences are dealt with.)

Do you think the Miro board as a longer-term way of tracking clues (along with suspects, etc.) and then using it for theorizing is a better way of handling that stuff? I was hoping the clue board on the Roll20 desktop would suffice; it’s a bit clunkier than an actual brainstorming tool, but it also avoids having to tab between screens more. Thoughts are very welcome on this (from all); this is still a learning process.

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Collaboratively organizing connections between things is exactly what Miro is designed to do. I’m fine driving it as a secretary if other people don’t feel like learning another tool. But I do plan on using it next time we Theorize.

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I would definitely want to learn how to use it, too.

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So here’s a really simple board. I created a few notecards on the left, changed their colors, and gave them text indicating what each color means.

Then I duplicated (Control-C, Control-V…) the cards and changed the text.

Clicking on a card shows four dots in the cardinal directions (top, down, left, right). Clicking on these dots and dragging creates arrows to other cards.

You can click on a line connecting cards, then click on “+T” to add a text label to the connection, so I did that.

If we want to support multiple theories on the same board, we first lay out the suspects and clues as cards. Then each person can drag their mouse to select all the cards, then copy and paste them to make a duplicate set.

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