The Sign of the Fair
Something more bitter than gall found its way to the court's table today: poison. Between remedy and venom runs a thin line, and someone at court crossed it knowingly. On the Chancellery's list stand Onufrie the Executioner, Ban Radu the Silent and Safta the Herbwife; one of these names covers a lie. Rumor walks the deed through every corner: the wharf, the tourney field and the old chapel. Take up the quill, follow the thread of the clues, and set your seal upon the verdict.
Suspects
A quiet man with a loud trade. He keeps a notebook of the last words of every condemned soul.
1.92 m
right-handed
dark eyes
bald
He has never uttered a needless word in his life. Sadly, nor a useful one for investigators.
1.81 m
right-handed
grey eyes
grey hair
She gathers herbs at hours when honest folk sleep. The herbs, she says, speak then.
1.58 m
right-handed
green eyes
greying hair
Locations
the wharf
Moored boats, wet ropes, and goods that prefer to arrive in the fog.
the tourney field
Empty stands outside festival days. An excellent place for meetings that never happened.
the old chapel
Candles, incense, and a silence in which every footstep echoes like a confession.
Open the Grid (below) to solve the case, with the testimonies at hand.
Touch a cell: blank → ✗ (excluded) → ✓ (certain) → blank. Each pair of categories meets exactly once.
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Verdict
The culprit always lies; everyone else tells the truth.
- An honest-faced witness saw it plainly: the suspect with grey hair was at the old chapel.
- An honest-faced witness saw it plainly: the bald suspect was at the tourney field.
- Every scout reports the same about the culprit: the culprit was in the place where goods arrive in the fog.