Talk:A Study in the Dubious Meiho-sou/@comment-32856683-20190518182721/@comment-32856683-20190518204814

Can I just mention that I'm having a blast here? It might have used up most of my evening, but it was time well spent. I'm also astonished to see so many people knowing Umineko popping out here, unlike two years ago when I invited the crew here to an Umineko crossover gameboard as a way of celebrating the 4th october and ended up moving that one to the Rokkenjima forum in order to get any kind of response. I guess it's just cool seeing people engage with a mystery, even if it's not your own.

@Timeblitz: And I agree with Eris that Isidor remains suspicious. I believe his reasoning was probably to use Salazar to draw attention away from himself, while himself using his detective cred to draw attention away from any actual hints. That's where Holmes is going when he discouraged Tristan from actually solving the case in section 8. Holmes amused reaction to Tristan calling his character a scarecrow, as well as his nudging around straight answers and the advice to aim at the conclusion Tristan wants to have rather than the truth is horribly suspicious.

@Fallenstreet: I guess we will see in the conclusion who of us are in the right. I must say, at the moment I still can't see how Antonio can be the villain. Except... well, there might be a possibility if he's Cortes and Tan tried to kill him instead of the other way around. But it seems I am now too tired to think this possibility through all its conclusions. I only know that this works under assumption that Gabriele then would tried to save Cortes (denying the possibility of her marriage being a sham, but also thinking that this makes it unlikely she would have uncovered the murder attempt if she was not involved and even if she uncovered it, she wouldn't have just swallowed the poison if the killer was an outsider).